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  • 19 Jul 2016
  • First Look

July 19, 2016

organizations with widespread crime are treated more leniently compared to senior female perpetrators or compared to senior perpetrators in organizations with isolated cases of crime. These results suggest that agency problems could... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Sep 2004
  • Research & Ideas

IBM Finds Profit in Diversity

understand differences among the groups and find ways to appeal to a broader set of employees and customers," according to HBS professor David A. Thomas. Since then, the number of female executives in the company has grown by 370... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Thomas
  • 15 Oct 2008
  • First Look

First Look: October 15, 2008

Jorge Redmond, CEO of Chocolates El Rey, called a meeting with senior management to discuss the company's growth strategy. A relatively small firm with sales of around $14 million, El Rey produced top quality chocolate made with single... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • August 2021 (Revised November 2021)
  • Case

The NCB Capital Turnaround: Waking the Sleeping Giant

By: Sandra J. Sucher, Gamze Yucaoglu, Shalene Gupta and Fares Khrais
The case opens in 2019, five years after, Sarah Al Suhaimi, CEO of NCB Capital (NCBC), the investment arm of Saudi’s largest bank, NCB, took the helm. Having successfully turned the business to make it the market leader, she was contemplating her next steps as... View Details
Keywords: Turnaround; Investment Banking; Financial Institutions; Change Management; Leadership; Business Model; Strategy; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Management Teams; Asset Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Saudi Arabia
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  • 06 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

mid-2015, the Singapore-based CEO of Choson Exchange Geoffrey See pondered his next move. He had founded Choson Exchange as a non-profit in 2009 to further female entrepreneurship in North Korea by providing... View Details
  • 29 May 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018

February 2018 Journal of Accounting & Economics Bank CEO Materialism: Risk Controls, Culture and Tail Risk By: Bushman, Robert, Robert Davidson, Aiyesha Dey, and Abbie Smith Abstract—We investigate how the prevalence of materialistic... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 23 Jun 2015
  • First Look

First Look: June 23, 2015

Clifford Chance: Women at Work It was October 2013, and global law firm Clifford Chance was coming under fire for the second time in less than a year for reputedly failing to provide a supportive work environment for its female... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Sep 2024
  • HBS Case

McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace

It was a brief dalliance, just a few weeks in length, over text and video only. The end of the affair was nonetheless just the beginning for Stephen Easterbrook, the McDonald’s CEO who went from being hailed as the company’s “savior” by... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman; Food & Beverage
  • 10 Jul 2023
  • In Practice

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2023

Zhang: Time, design, and sci-fi I have just started reading The Coach's Guide for Women Professors by Rena Seltzer. My fabulous female colleagues recommended it to me during conversation about time management. (Who doesn't need more time,... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 30 Oct 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018

incident of misconduct, female advisers are 20% more likely to lose their jobs and 30% less likely to find new jobs relative to male advisers. Females face harsher outcomes despite engaging in misconduct... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 11 Sep 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Why Employers Favor Men

likely to advance to the top of their fields. Women make up just 4.2 percent of CEOs at S&P 500 firms and 19.2 percent of board members. "This discrimination does not appear to be driven by gender-specific stereotypes or animus" The... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 20 Apr 2010
  • First Look

First Look: April 20

postures. But can these postures actually cause power? As predicted, results revealed that posing in high-power (vs. low-power) nonverbal displays caused neuroendocrine and behavioral changes for both male and female participants:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Mar 2014
  • First Look

First Look: March 25

we identify a profound and consistent gender gap in entrepreneur persuasiveness. Investors prefer pitches presented by male entrepreneurs compared with pitches made by female entrepreneurs, even when the content of the pitch is the same.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 May 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018

noncognitive, interpersonal skills during adolescence. Long-run administrative data shows that negotiation training significantly improved educational outcomes over the next three years. The training had greater effects than two alternative treatments (offering girls a... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 13 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: September 13

of the most successful and insightful leaders of our time, the CEOs from companies as diverse as Standard Chartered Bank, Infosys, Nokia, Cummins, IKEA, Tata, and Campbell's Soup. The authors reveal how these leaders from around the world... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 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
  • 29 Jul 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Will Demand for Women Executives Finally Shrink the Gender Pay Gap?

Pressure to increase gender diversity in C-suites is so intense that companies are trying to draw women candidates with higher salary offers, a phenomenon that is closing the gender pay gap among senior executives, research shows. Female... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 17 Oct 2019
  • Research & Ideas

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

to appeal to them." Consumers criticized PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi for suggesting that Doritos might develop lady-friendly chips that are “low crunch” because women “don’t like to crunch too loudly in public”—an idea that never came to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Consumer Products
  • 07 Mar 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Effective Leaders Share the Spotlight with Their Teams

Zou. Including others also boosted retention, according to the research. Employees working with a CEO willing to share credit were significantly less likely to leave the firm the following year. The team found that View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
  • 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
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Energy

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