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- April 2022
- Teaching Note
CVS Health: Prescription for Transformation
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Catarina Martinez
In 2021, new CEO Karen Lynch (named the most powerful woman in business) considered the next transformation phase for CVS Health (a Fortune 5 corporate giant). The 2018 acquisition of Aetna insurance brought her to the company as part of its long evolution from a... View Details
Keywords: Health; COVID-19 Pandemic; Primary Care; Leadership; Change Management; Women Executives; Retail; Pharmacy; Pharmacy Benefit Manager; Clinical Trials; Vaccination; Acquisition; Innovation and Invention; Transformation; Retail Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Health Industry; United States
- 30 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Breaking Barriers and Building Community: Get to Know the HBS Women’s Student Association (WSA)
What is the WSA? The WSA, or Women’s Student Association, is a student-led organization at Harvard Business School for anyone who identifies as a woman. We’re the largest student organization on campus. What do we do? Our role is to make the View Details
- Blog
Eight Steps to Board Success for Female Executives
A few years ago, HBS Executive Education unveiled the program Women on Boards: Succeeding as a Corporate Director, designed to introduce executives to the process of joining a corporate board. Since that first session, hundreds of female... View Details
- 23 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sponsorship Programs Could Actually Widen the Gender Gap
by adding a more transactional nature to the relationship” It’s well documented that women are underrepresented in the executive suite. For instance, women have comprised nearly 50 percent of entry-level... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 11 Sep 2017
- News
Why Employers Favor Men
- March 2019
- Case
Wattpad
By: John Deighton and Leora Kornfeld
How to run a platform to match four million writers of stories to 75 million readers? Use data science. Make money by doing deals with television and filmmakers and book publishers. The case describes the challenges of matching readers to stories and of helping writers... View Details
Keywords: Platform Businesses; Creative Industries; Publishing; Data Science; Machine Learning; Collaborative Filtering; Women And Leadership; Managing Data Scientists; Big Data; Recommender Systems; Digital Platforms; Information Technology; Intellectual Property; Analytics and Data Science; Publishing Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Canada; United States; Philippines; Viet Nam; Turkey; Indonesia; Brazil
Deighton, John, and Leora Kornfeld. "Wattpad." Harvard Business School Case 919-413, March 2019.
- 09 Mar 2017
- HBS Seminar
Christine Exley, Harvard Business School
- Jun 20 2023
- Testimonial
Redefine What it Means to be an Exceptional Leader
- 18 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
The Cost of Leaning In
Last summer, Christine Exley polled 200 American adults with a simple yes/no question: Do you think women should negotiate their salaries more often? Seventy percent of respondents answered in the affirmative. She wasn’t surprised by the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 10 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Has #MeToo Changed How Hollywood Hires?
be particularly sympathetic to #MeToo’s call to empower women and are the main driver of the shift to hire more women following the scandal, write Hong Luo and Laurina Zhang, the paper's authors. Luo is the... View Details
- 27 Jul 2020
- Book
Reflection: The Pause That Brings Peace and Productivity
reflection?” In addition, Badaracco interviewed more than 100 managers, ranging from supervisors to CEOs, from 15 countries to learn how busy men and women today find time for reflection. He found that almost all of them do reflect, but... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Jul 2023
- Research & Ideas
STEM Needs More Women. Recruiters Often Keep Them Out
For mid-career STEM professionals looking to advance their skills and careers, certificate programs at elite universities can offer a fast track. And for universities, such programs are an important and growing revenue stream—and a recruitment tool for View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- May 2018
- Supplement
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe – Speech on Womenomics in Japan: Opening Address to the World Assembly of Women, Tokyo, August 28, 2015
By: Boris Groysberg
This video supplement is a lightly edited 2015 speech by Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe in which he describes Womenomics--policies and aspirations to promote greater economic participation by Japan's women, thereby promoting economic growth, greater work/life... View Details
Keywords: Gender Equality; Japan; Leadership; Government-business Relations; Shinzo Abe; Economic Growth; Aging Society; Womenomics; Abenomics; Labor Market Discrimination; Workplace Culture; Women And Leadership; Change Management; Leading Change; Gender; Business and Government Relations; Growth and Development; Employment; Working Conditions
Groysberg, Boris. "Prime Minister Shinzo Abe – Speech on Womenomics in Japan: Opening Address to the World Assembly of Women, Tokyo, August 28, 2015." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 418-722, May 2018.
- January 2018 (Revised June 2018)
- Teaching Note
Womenomics in Japan
By: Boris Groysberg and David Lane
Teaching Note for HBS No. 417-002. View Details
Keywords: Gender Equality; Japan; Leadership; Government-business Relations; Shinzo Abe; Economic Growth; Aging Society; Womenomics; Abenomics; Labor Market Discrimination; Workplace Culture; Women And Leadership; Change Management; Working Conditions; Leading Change; Gender; Business and Government Relations; Growth and Development; Employment; Japan
- 17 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
‘Chick Beer’ for Women? Why Gender Marketing Repels More Than Sells
Chick Beer tried to entice weight-conscious women with the brew’s 97 calories and 3.5 carbs per bottle, “about the same as half of a carrot.” And Clutch, a brand of dryer sheets, encourages men to “grab your manliness,” promising that... View Details
- 2018
- Working Paper
Class Matters: The Role of Social Class and Organizational Sector in High-Achieving Women's Legitimacy Narratives
By: Judith A. Clair, Rachel D. Arnett, Katherine Chen, Beth K. Humberd and Kathleen L. McGinn
While prior research recognizes that women struggle to maintain legitimacy for their successes and that self-narratives play a key role in building such legitimacy, theory provides limited insight into how women build legitimacy through their self-narratives. Our... View Details
Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Gender; Success; Diversity; Perception; Situation or Environment
Clair, Judith A., Rachel D. Arnett, Katherine Chen, Beth K. Humberd, and Kathleen L. McGinn. "Class Matters: The Role of Social Class and Organizational Sector in High-Achieving Women's Legitimacy Narratives." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 18-014, August 2018. (Revised August 2018 for requested resubmission.)
- 18 Apr 2016
- News
The Cost of Leaning-in
- 17 Apr 2013
- Research Event
Conference Challenges Gender Conventions
A recent conference at Harvard Business School addressed the on-the-ground reality of women leaders 50 years after the first women were admitted to the School's two-year MBA Program. And the reality is that... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 13 Dec 2021
- News
The Unlikely Upside of Mergers: More Diverse Management Teams
- May–June 2018
- Article
What Most People Get Wrong about Men and Women: Research Shows the Sexes Aren't So Different
By: Catherine H. Tinsley and Robin J. Ely
Why have women failed to achieve parity with men in the workplace? Contrary to popular belief, it’s not because women prioritize their families over their careers, negotiate poorly, lack confidence, or are too risk averse. Meta-analyses of published studies show that... View Details
Keywords: Working Conditions; Gender; Equality and Inequality; Organizational Culture; Change Management
Tinsley, Catherine H., and Robin J. Ely. "What Most People Get Wrong about Men and Women: Research Shows the Sexes Aren't So Different." Harvard Business Review 96, no. 3 (May–June 2018): 114–121.