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- 26 Oct 2018
- Blog Post
Making the Switch from Finance to Fitness
Being a young Nigerian female on a highly quantitative desk was already unconventional, but I was also joining the firm with an untraditional background as a liberal arts major with previous experiences in media. Nevertheless, I was still... View Details
- 10 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Little Understood Problem Confronting Diverse Workplaces
white female tutor asked a black student about her hair weave. Often, these attempts led to higher engagement and a feeling of closeness that benefited the relationship. Other times, the result was a sense of estrangement. In discussing... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 05 Jul 2021
- What Do You Think?
Do Companies Really Need Chief Experience Officers to Know Their Customers?
2000, Gartner, gartner.com. Summing up last month's column Last month’s column raised questions about the challenges and opportunities associated with the wave of talent, much of it female and minority, getting ready to re-enter the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
and female founders—a time of day more compatible with family schedules than the typical evening and weekend offerings. It has also organized a volunteer group of investors, mentors, and advisors for weekly “office hours” to review pitch... View Details
- 08 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Hunt for Talent on Digital Platforms, Not in Resume Piles
particularly less experienced ones, may be competing with a whole set of workers beyond those who applied directly. And, just like the resume studies that showed discrimination, this approach might cause firms to overlook female or Black... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
innovative solutions, especially Black female knowledge workers. We found that 42 percent of Gen Z Black women are “the first to know when something new or cutting-edge is released.” The gap with the other races was almost two-to-one. Jim... View Details
- 04 Jun 2018
- What Do You Think?
Are There Conditions Under Which Directors Should Consider Hiring a CEO Fired Elsewhere for Inappropriate Behavior?
over for partner and left the firm. “He, the protected rainmaker, went on to make sexual advances to many other female associates and 15 years later is still employed in a cushy job at the firm.” Assuming that this situation is not unique... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 04 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Diversity Boosts Profits in Venture Capital Firms
controlled experiment.” Looking at the financial performance of those firms, they determined that having at least one woman in a VC fund improved performance by approximately 10 percent. That is, while the median venture capital fund return is around 14 to 15 percent,... View Details
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Organizational Behavior Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Organizational Behavior Overview Faculty Curriculum Seminars & Conferences Awards & Honors Doctoral Students 2025 Linda A. Hill : Named to Inc. 2025 Female Founders 500 List. 2024 Summer R. Jackson : Runner-up for the 2024 Administrative... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Debunking Teenagers: 200 Research-Based Parenting Strategies to Help Your Adolescent Successfully Navigate the “Tempteen” Years By Daphne Adler (MBA 2004) Independently Published Why are teenagers constantly tempted to behave... View Details
- 13 Apr 2021
- Book
How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations
an inner circle where all decisions got made, and despite the fact that I reported to him, I was not part of that in- formal decision-making body. I was the only female on the executive team, and he made a point of including me in public... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 06 May 2021
- HBS Case
How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups
said women don’t support other women. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong." When Tuchman was bootstrapping funds for Caribu’s early days, she drew on friends, as many entrepreneurs do, but for favors rather than money. She pitched a story about Caribu to a View Details
Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
bob.” (The Deep Blue Good-By, 1964) “This was not some pretty little girl, coyly flirtatious, delicately stimulated. This was the mature female of the species, vivid, handsome and strong, demanding that all the life and need within her be... View Details
- 10 May 2020
- Blog Post
Let’s Hear it For the Moms – The Incredible Balancing Act of Student Mothers
in banking while being a top analyst, being pregnant, and applying to business school! I was the youngest woman to ever have a child in banking at age 24. I learned a lot about my own aspirations and what kind of mother and citizen I want to be. Summer Internship:... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
to name the building Madikizela, in honor of the late South African political activist Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, a symbol of Black female resilience.) The upper floors will contain well-appointed rentals, whose target market includes... View Details
- 23 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Prove C-Suite Gender Gap—but Can’t Explain It
Here’s some bad news and some worse news for women who aspire to the executive suite. The bad news is that there’s a huge gender gap in top corporate positions, both in terms of the number of female executives and how much money they make... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 15 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Does a Social Startup Decide to Commercialize? It May Depend on the Founder's Gender
how does the founder of a social venture decide to create a hybrid rather than a traditional charity? New research suggests the decision has a lot to do with the founder’s gender. "in communities where female leadership of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 18 Oct 2016
- News
Leading the Way for Women Entrepreneurs
Birchbox, a beauty product subscription box service that has grown to more than 1 million subscribers. “We started raising funds and suddenly we were in rooms where there were no people who looked like us,” said Barna, now the first View Details
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2014 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
University of Illinois Value Threat: How Concerns With Being Seen as a Valued Group Member Affect Women's Preference For Female Candidates Leah D. Sheppard , Sauder School of Business at University of British Columbia Prescriptions for... View Details
- 06 Sep 2016
- News
The Solution That Doesn’t Get Discussed About How to Get More Women On Corporate Boards
boardroom, so this article is not a discussion about why to add female directors. The focus here is on a solution to the slow pace of women joining corporate boards. In 2016, women occupy only 19.9% of S&P 500 boards, a modest step up... View Details