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- 09 Jul 2024
- News
On Balance
Mary Wooldridge (MBA 1994) has encountered gender discrimination in the workplace. “I think it’d be hard to find a woman in any workplace who didn’t have personal experiences of it,” she says. As director of Australia’s Workplace Gender Equality Agency, Wooldridge, who... View Details
- 11 Oct 2022
- News
On Balance
to do the same work as her. “I think it’d be hard to find a woman in any workplace who didn’t have personal experiences of gender discrimination,” she observes. The knowledge that women across Australia have endured similar—and often far... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 12 May 2022
- News
Onboarding
to all the national security agencies, if they want it. We’re a whole different group of business people. And so we help on things that are not in the hard core of national security, but are in things like finance, like HR. JH: Can you... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Case Study: A Place at the Table
time. In September 1963, eight female students enrolled in the Class of 1965, alongside 676 men. The School has come a long way toward gender equity since then, with women making up 41 percent of the Class of 2015. But a recent case study... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
with a successful entrepreneurial track record and a Boston address. “I am a tech CEO.” With so few women in leadership roles in the information technology sector and a dramatic gender imbalance throughout the field, Kraus’s title is more... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Leveraging Female Talent
experience gave me more of an emotional connection. I told my wife that I couldn't remember anything that bothered or interested me as much. But I had no skills as a gender scholar. She said, "Well, maybe you should take a look at this... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Making Progress on Strategic Priorities
longitudinal studies, to address complex problems. US Competitiveness Project: The Young American Leaders Program was launched in 2015 to put US competitiveness research into action by bringing together small groups of high-potential leaders from View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Alumni Books
Compare this with the American saying “the squeaky wheel gets the grease,” and it’s clear that different cultures teach different values, which often translate into distinct ways of doing business. In... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
50 Years & Counting
curiosity about men and women as negotiators. "In general, people believe there are gendered differences in the way men and women operate in workplace settings," says McGinn, the Cahners-Rabb Professor of... View Details
- 24 Oct 2018
- News
Exploring the Future of Work for Women
Clubs News Clubs News The HBS Club of India recently hosted its first conference devoted to exploring gender issues in the workplace of the future. The Future of Work: Accelerating Gender Parity Conference,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Ask the Expert: How to Build a More Diverse Board
Recent studies have found that gender diversity in the corporate boardroom can enhance dialogue, curb excessive risk-taking, and boost both performance and share price. And yet, women still hold only about 19 percent of S&P 500 company... View Details
- 31 Oct 2018
- News
Pitching In for Female Leaders
positions. “Those of us who are very passionate about achieving gender equality know that empowering women is only part of the solution. And true parity can only be reached if those decision-makers at the top also buy in and understand... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Batteries and Chocolates
workplace dominated by men to one run almost entirely by women. As I've skidded from one end of the gendered-workplace spectrum to the other, I've become convinced that organizations dominated by women are different from those dominated... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Arunma Oteh (MBA 1990)
different ethnic groups in the country’s north, along with Indian, Chinese, European, and American expats. “My early exposure to people from diverse backgrounds is probably the reason I enjoy such environments,” says Oteh, who served for... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
of her early career. But pitching Venture Kits opened her eyes. “It was the first time I realized that it is really different for women.” “We should stop talking about this as a gender gap and start talking... View Details
- 02 Sep 2021
- News
Elevating Ethiopian Entrepreneurs
who was raised in Ethiopia and understands the market quite well. And so through her, we're able to access women entrepreneurs and women CEOs that we want to work with. “Our prime minister recently achieved gender parity of close to 50%... View Details
- 17 Apr 2019
- News
Give It to Me Straight
really confront gender and justice at work. But I think in order to solve the problem, we've got to break these respect wreckers down and just take each one in turn because all of these problems demand View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
In a year like no other, it makes sense that a handful of new words would pop up—and familiar terms would find a different spin and resonance. We asked HBS alumni and faculty to give their take on a few that will continue to make some... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
with comical tales are perceptive looks at things as different as family Christmas rituals, and the impact of 40 years of communism on society. When Climate Change Hits Home by Diogo Castro Freire (MBA 2012) (Amazon Digital Services LLC)... View Details
- 19 Feb 2021
- News
A Playbook for Progress
corporate America for many, many years. What do you think it takes to actually achieve inclusive leadership? What should be different now? Bonita: This was a moment I think for all leaders, there was so much that was going on last year in... View Details