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- 16 Dec 2019
- Research & Ideas
Taking on the Taboos That Keep Women Out of India's Workforce
powerful. Despite numerous advances in the Indian economy, reduced birth rates, higher levels of female education, and other promising signals (this year saw the highest-ever number of women elected to Indian Parliament) the number of... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 25 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Beauty Entrepreneur Madam Walker
by nearly 1,000 female sales agents across the country. How did Walker journey from the cotton fields to the status of an enterprising businesswoman, perhaps even the first self-made African American millionaire in the United States? Her... View Details
- 30 Apr 2020
- Book
Fighting Climate Change Requires a New Capitalism
Rebecca Henderson spent her young adult years living two lives. At work, she preached the risks of resisting change to MBA students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, drawing on lessons she learned while watching factories close as a management consultant.... View Details
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50 Years of Women in MBA
two-year MBA Program at Harvard. Read More HBS Working Knowledge: Gender FEATURED STORIES mar 2013 hbs bulletin Opening the Door Regina Herzlinger charted the course for HBS's tenured female faculty. Read the article. mar 2013 hbs... View Details
- Web
Marketing Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Narayandas. Ayelet Israeli : Finalist for the 2024 Erin Anderson Award for Emerging Female Marketing Scholar and Mentor from the American Marketing Association Foundation. Das Narayandas : Winner of the 2024 Case Centre Outstanding Case... View Details
- 28 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Racism and Digital Design: How Online Platforms Can Thwart Discrimination
for that occupation as a whole. If 30 percent of data scientists are women, then a recruiter searching for data scientists would see 30 percent female candidates in search results. Think like a choice-architect. The principles of choice... View Details
- 16 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
Why Technology Alone Can't Solve AI's Bias Problem
high was never truly equitable. The actual percentage of female candidates on the site, about 42 percent, was never proportionately represented in the top rankings. Can incentives help? For that reason, the paper’s authors say,... View Details
- 13 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
Should Men’s Products Fear a Woman’s Touch?
women." Hence brands like Broga (yoga for bros) and Powerful Yogurt ("the first yogurt for men," according to its website). Brand managers also must consider the effect of expanding a historically male-centric brand to include View Details
- 17 Feb 2022
- Book
When Employees Feel a Sense of Purpose, Companies Succeed
worth living, while others took the opportunity to divulge very personal information. In one case, a female employee shocked her colleagues by relating that she had breast cancer and had been having treatments for months. On that... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
- 13 Dec 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Unlikely Upside of Mergers: More Diverse Management Teams
States, Zhang found that purchased companies added nearly 15 percent more minority managers and 4 percent more female managers to their ranks than unacquired companies during the same period. "When the old ways are not working, we need to... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- Web
AASU50 - Alumni
Clayton Nelson, MBA 2014 Benjamin Tagoe, MBA 2015 Chukudi Melvin Ike, MBA 2016 Ifedayo Kuye, MBA 2016 AASU50 Materials (login required) Professor Linda Hill, the first black female professor at HBS, leads a class in a scene from the... View Details
- 12 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
The Many Languages of Medicine to Impact Care Delivery
increasing the participation of diverse voices in the health care technology space. To address top of the funnel barriers in attracting diverse talent, we formed the DIH fellowship, which has sent a number of Black, Latinx, and female... View Details
- 06 Oct 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters
as the pandemic drags on and well into the recovery period. The pandemic gives university leaders a chance to examine whether the differences between male and female researchers should play a bigger role. To learn more, read COVID's... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 May 2023
- News
India's New Money Managers
finance piece was completely missing," says Gupta. "So for two years, I went to his office and I worked on our personal portfolios." As she pursued finance in college and as a profession in India, Gupta realized that inexperience in personal finance was common among... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 31 May 2023
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2023
joy that working on Trikafta has given me.” My hero: “Barbara McClintock discovered what’s referred to as ‘jumping genes.’ She has commented how that discovery was enabled by her different outlook as a female scientist. I’m selfishly... View Details
- 23 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sponsorship Programs Could Actually Widen the Gender Gap
payment—but this proved true only among male participants. And in terms of the choice to compete, sponsorship had the most dramatic effect among the men who performed the worst on the math problem exercise. In other words, sponsorship served to boost the confidence of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 04 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Schmoozing with the Boss Helps Men Get Promoted
male employees were earning 13 percent more than male employees who had female managers. In contrast, women progressed in their careers the same way regardless of whether they had a male or female manager.... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- Web
Kristin W. Mugford | About
roles and became the first female partner in the firm's history. Kristin helped start Bain Capital Credit (founded as Sankaty Advisors), and prior to her retirement was responsible for the oversight of their high yield investments and a... View Details
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
Thai Lee, MBA 1985
Purchases Software House 1993 Appointed Board of Trustees, Amherst College; first female president, Society of the Alumni 2011 SHI International opens new headquarters and cloud computing data center 2012 SHI International ranks 104 in... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
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Kiran Gandhi
sexuality in pop culture. Many of my own understandings of gender roles were constructed by pop culture when I was a child. For example, I remember wondering why female characters had to be rescued all the time. Why can’t Jasmine be the... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment/Media