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  • 19 Apr 2010
  • Research & Ideas

The History of Beauty

comprised the majority in most schools until quite recently, regarded this industry as a feminine domain and rather frivolous, and felt more comfortable writing about software or venture capital than lipstick and face powder. As female... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics
  • March 2024
  • Article

Investigation of Divergent Thinking among Surgeons and Surgeon Trainees in Canada (IDEAS): A Mixed-methods Study

By: Alex Thabane, Tyler McKechnie, Vikram Arora, Goran Calic, Jason W Busse, Ranil Sonnadara and Mohit Bhandari
Objective: To assess the creative potential of surgeons and surgeon trainees, as measured by divergent thinking. The secondary objectives were to identify factors associated with divergent thinking, assess confidence in creative problem-solving and the perceived effect... View Details
Keywords: Creativity; Cognition and Thinking; Surveys; Health Industry
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  • September 2017
  • Case

Christine Lagarde

By: Julie Battilana, Carin-Isabel Knoop, Vanessa Ampelas and Noemie Assenat
The case covers the youth and career trajectory of Christine Lagarde across her time at Baker & McKenzie, as a minister in the government of France and as the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The case highlights the challenges and opportunities she faced... View Details
Keywords: Change; Personal Development and Career; Power and Influence; Leadership; Gender; Leading Change
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  • Profile

Harshini Chengareddty

female partner at a consulting firm trying to navigate her very successful career alongside equally demanding personal commitments. The conversation we had in class, and for many days after, was one of my favorites because while I... View Details
  • Web

Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research

Across a field setting (three entrepreneurial pitch competitions in the United States) and two experiments, we identify a profound and consistent gender gap in entrepreneur persuasiveness. Investors prefer pitches presented by male entrepreneurs compared with pitches... View Details
  • Web

HBS Health Care Initiative - Blog: Health Supplement

and support from their existing providers, and a sense of isolation. What can leaders, entrepreneurs, investors, etc. do to give the female workforce the tools to thrive during this important health journey? [...] Read more 17 Aug 2022... View Details
  • Web

Skydeck - Alumni

from innovators throughout history What It Takes Blackstone’s Stephen Schwarzman (MBA 1972) offers life lessons from his new memoir Your Whole Self Executive coach Amy Jen Su (MBA 1997) plots a holistic path to being the leader you want to be Skydeck Live: The Case for... View Details
  • Profile

Christina Byrd

female in the workplace – there were women at every level of the organization.” In her subsequent work at Uber, Christina shifted from executive to broad-based compensation. “Given the press backlash at the time and large cultural shifts,... View Details
  • 12 Apr 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Swiping Right: How Data Helped This Online Dating Site Make More Matches

birds of a feather flocked together: Matches increased when both parties had comparable desirability. Importantly, there were also heterogenous pairings. When a targeting male was highly desirable but a focal female was average,... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
  • Web

Profiles - MBA

organization dedicated to empowering the next generation of female venture capitalists with over 5,000 members. Being selected as Harvard’s first undergraduate Investment Partner at The MBA Fund has allowed me to gain valuable experience... View Details
  • 10 May 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Who Has Potential? For Many White Men, It’s Often Other White Men

when they slip up? Or are they tearing people down by nit-picking over every misstep? Ely recalls one manager’s efforts to become a better supervisor to a Black female employee who was smart and hard-working, but made a lot of mistakes.... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • Web

Career Re-Entry & Flexible Work - Alumni

Fairygodboss Fairygodboss is the largest female career community where highly motivated and authentic women can connect with other career-minded individuals to share real-life experiences and help one another to succeed. The FGB platform... View Details
  • Web

Diversity and Inclusion - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

or “people like us”). Avoid partisan political comments. Challenging students differentially based on their demographic group For example, disproportionately calling on male students to perform quantitative analyses or female students to... View Details
  • 08 Mar 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Representation Matters: Building Case Studies That Empower Women Leaders

in reinforcing stereotypes, which conflate leadership with masculinity. When the industry or subject of the case is traditionally associated with men and masculinity, the leader-equals-male effect compounds. "A robust body of research has found that seeing or hearing... View Details
Keywords: by Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg
  • 23 Sep 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Men Want Powerful Jobs More Than Women Do

spirited three-year-old son, and is expecting a second child; Brooks just returned to HBS from maternity leave in August. In other words, these are the last people in the world who would try to thwart female ambition with scientific... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • April 2023 (Revised July 2023)
  • Case

Dena Almansoori at e&: Fostering Culture Change at a UAE Telco Transforming to a Global Techco

By: Emily Truelove, Michelle Zhang and Alpana Thapar
Dena Almansoori, the first female and one of the youngest members of the United Arab Emirates-based e&’s leadership team, joined in 2020 just before e& began a strategic transition from being a regional telecommunications company to becoming a global technology... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Culture; Transformation; Technology; Telecommunications; Employee Mobility; Talent; Leading Change; Human Resources; Telecommunications Industry; Technology Industry; Middle East; United Arab Emirates
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  • February 2024
  • Supplement

Dena Almansoori at e&: Fostering Culture Change at a UAE Telco Transforming to a Global Techco

By: Emily Truelove, Michelle Zhang and Alpana Thapar
Dena Almansoori, the first female and one of the youngest members of the United Arab Emirates-based e&’s leadership team, joined in 2020 just before e& began a strategic transition from being a regional telecommunications company to becoming a global technology... View Details
Keywords: Technology; Telecommunications; Employee Mobility; Leading Change; Human Resources; Organizational Culture; Transformation; Talent and Talent Management; Change Management; Employee Relationship Management; Telecommunications Industry; Technology Industry; Middle East; United Arab Emirates
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  • 17 Oct 2019
  • Research & Ideas

‘Chick Beer’ for Women? Why Gender Marketing Repels More Than Sells

specifically because of their shared gender, many female voters balked. Testing for gender backlash To probe when and why identity labels backfire, the research team visited a college campus four months before the 2016 US presidential... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Consumer Products
  • 18 Apr 2016
  • Research & Ideas

The Cost of Leaning In

However, the Forced treatment revealed a different story. Forcing men to negotiate every time was neither harmful nor helpful, the researchers found. But when women workers were forced to always negotiate, there were more instances where they lost from negotiating;... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 30 Mar 2023
  • Blog Post

Breaking Barriers and Building Community: Get to Know the HBS Women’s Student Association (WSA)

and Founding Partner at Imaginary Ventures), and Angela F. Williams (President and CEO of United Way Worldwide) as well as 7 panels and a startup pitch competition. Panel speakers included women execs from big tech, AI startups, medical fields, and NGOs, and View Details