Women Executives - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 1997
News

Carla Small

Working mothers may have become commonplace in corporate America, but in business school, student moms are still in a class by themselves. Just ask Carla Small. "I went from being surrounded by other women trying to balance a job and... View Details

Keywords: Linda Goodspeed

01 Feb 1998
News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

new initiatives, including the California Research Center (see the feature in the December 1997 Bulletin), an effort to increase the pool of outstanding women applicants to the MBA Program, and new Executive... View Details

20 Apr 2015
Blog Post

India Conference 2015

startup ecosystem in general in India, as one that is rapidly learning, adapting and surviving. He emphasized the need for a single-minded focus on execution and reacting deftly to succeed in such frontier and nascent businesses. Mr.... View Details

20 Apr 2016
News

Steps to Success

money and take loans out of a common fund and pay it back with interest. For these women who have nothing, this was the first time it was implemented successfully,” she says. Ruhr returned to her native Oregon for family reasons in 2010.... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Oct 1996
News

Lasting Impressions

attitude, and I think it was directly attributable to the presence of minorities and women in the class. They were really pioneers, and I think they made the whole school a more human place." One of those "pioneers," Eve Benton, currently... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

27 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes

protected surroundings of the executive suite. When enacted in service of the work rather than in defense of a self-image, masculine attributes can be a valuable resource. Q: What can women learn from your... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities

01 Dec 2015
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015

(Palgrave Macmillan) Rossetti helps readers understand transition and presents a step-by-step roadmap women can use to make transition positive, optimistic, and approachable throughout their lives. Rossetti was in her mid-forties, a... View Details

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Timeline - Race, Gender & Equity

crime 2,000 Union Army troops arrive in Galveston, Texas to announce an executive decree that freed the 250,000 African American laborers still held in bondage by the Confederacy after the Civil War. The Historical Legacy of Juneteenth... View Details

06 Oct 2015
Blog Post

Henry McGee: From HBO to HBS

in the executive education course The Business of Entertainment, Media, and Sports. Why did you decide to come to HBS as a student? Like many students, I came to HBS in order to change careers. In college I was focused on becoming a... View Details

01 Mar 2014
News

Faculty and Alumni Books for March 2014

most profitable products and customers and demonstrating how, when, and where to apply over twenty distinct improvement tools and techniques. Finally, it discusses how to embed the process and the tools into the ongoing operations of a business. Decide One Thing: The... View Details

26 Apr 2016
First Look

April 26

self-employment. Using the reform to instrument for private-sector labor supply, we find that private-sector labor demand is very elastic, with elasticity estimates ranging between -3.1 and -5.3. Download working paper:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 May 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018

negotiation. Yet unlike professionals such as litigators, journalists, and doctors, who are taught how to ask questions as an essential part of their training, few executives think of questioning as a skill that can be honed—or consider... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

05 Dec 2017
Research & Ideas

What We've Learned from 101 Entrepreneurs in Emerging Markets

video clips our team has created start to be used in classrooms, at HBS and in a few other institutions. These clips are really cool. I taught a class on corporate social responsibility in an executive education course simply using four... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

13 May 2025
News

If I Knew Then

few women were involved, Farrington offers some practical pointers that anyone can use. Deborah Farrington: I would say not everything is going to go the way that you want or the way that you envision. Be prepared for that. You have the... View Details

Keywords: challenges; failure; advice; experience

01 Dec 2007
News

The Wise Men

way of thinking — in harmony with what the disciplines have to teach. — GE Ray Goldberg Ray Goldberg: “One senior faculty member once got up and said, ‘Over my dead body will we ever have women in this School,’ and over his dead body we... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna

13 Jul 2010
First Look

First Look: July 13

design and development firm (and once one of the largest in the business), to help turn it around after a series of crises that had seriously threatened its survival. Pearson has personally invested in the firm, re-organized many aspects of its operations, and has... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

22 Apr 2002
Lessons from the Classroom

Entrepreneurship: It Can Be Taught

entrepreneurial instruction (and inspiration) at HBS and the philosophy that underpins The Entrepreneurial Manager. Highlights from the discussion, moderated by Mike Roberts, executive director of Entrepreneurial Studies, follow. Q: We've... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

01 Dec 2017
News

Ink: Alumni Book Recommendations

combination of passion and perseverance that made high achievers special. In a word, they had grit.” Recommended by Health care executive Daniel Bowles (MBA/MPP 2015) Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss with Tahl Raz Voss on lessons... View Details

01 Jun 2003
News

South Florida and Minnesota Launch Community Programs

Management Assistance Program (MAP), a local nonprofit, to match volunteers with projects. In addition to consulting work, volunteers can mentor a nonprofit executive or serve as a board member. Both Levy and Sanchez of South Florida cite... View Details

Keywords: Alumni groups; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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Disability Pride Month | Baker Library

well as on access to business content to the Harvard University community at large. Dear Younger Me: What 35 Trailblazing Women Wish They'd Known as Girls Dear Younger Me gathers reflections from 35 trailblazing View Details

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