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- 06 Sep 2013
- News
More Seats at the Table
offices in April of 2012. In June, the company named its first female director, the company's chief operating officer, HBS alumna Sheryl Sandberg (MBA 1995). Facebook has since also added Susan Desmond-Hellmann, chancellor at the... View Details
- Fast Answer
Workplace Diversity: Data Sources
includes links to the Working Mother, National Association of Female Executives, and Diversity Inc. rankings. Additional Resources Baker Library Research Support Search for additional Fast Answers that are relevant to your... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Avon CEO Jung on Leadership
the issue of women and leadership roles, Jung, who is frequently named as one of the most powerful and influential females in business, said, “I think in the next five to ten years there is going to be an unbelievable change in the... View Details
- 27 Aug 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Guts, Gall, and Good Luck: What It Takes To Be An Entrepreneur
Tips for Finding the Right Job at a Startup Finding a job at a startup is not the same process as hunting employment at an established business. The Amazing Life of One of America’s Earliest Black, Female Entrepreneurs Though not everyone... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Entrepreneurship | MBA
# 1 program for Companies Founded, Capital Raised, Female Founders, and Number of Founders 50 % of alumni create at least one venture in a quest to change the world 14 % of the Class of 2024 started their own business directly after... View Details
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Simone Leigh Sentinel (Mami Wata) 2020-21 | About
art to investigate the intersection of cultures and geographies, and to explore ideas about the female body, race, beauty, and community. Originally commissioned for the exhibition Prospect.5 in New Orleans, Leigh’s 2020-21 bronze... View Details
- 18–20 May 2018
- Reunions
MBA 2017 ONE-YEAR REUNION
Technology. Moderated by Amy Bernstein, Editor of HBR and Nicole Torres, Associate Editor of HBR Spangler Auditorium Jessie Tisch, MBA 2007 shares the career choices she made soon after HBS, entering public service, balancing career and life, all within the context of... View Details
- 04 Sep 2001
- Lessons from the Classroom
Getting Back on Course
(HBS MBA '81) had been getting together every year since graduation for a long weekend with ten of her female classmates. She observed that most of her friends dropped out of the workforce at some point in their post-HBS lives. Welsh... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Unexpected Link Between Cadavers and Careers
dental assistant would be more likely to sign up for cadaver donation with his spouse than a married female firefighter would with hers. The findings indicate that donation program directors may want to target possible donors by sending... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Marjorie M.T. Yang (MBA '76)
Dubbed by Fortune as one of the most powerful businesswomen in the world, Margie Yang is proud to be part of an ever-growing number of Asian-born female executives and entrepreneurs. But she prefers to put the spotlight on The Esquel... View Details
- 30 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Driving Social Impact Through Consumer Behavior: Nonprofit to Finance to Retail with Nicole Krantz (MBA 2022)
retail space checked two major boxes. However, it was the ethos of the company and what they stood for that had Krantz clicking submit on her internship application. “In addition to being one of our vendor partners at S’well, Dick’s Sporting Goods had recently... View Details
Keywords: Retail
- Web
Diversity on Boards - Alumni
HBR. By: J. Yo-Jud Cheng, Boris Groysberg and Paul M. Healy Gender Diversity at the Board Level Can Mean Innovation Success January 2020, Article MIT Sloan Management By: J. Yo-Jud Cheng and Boris Groysberg New Venture Milestones and the First View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Feedback
top 10 percent of all schools in NYC. The key to building a pipeline of women pursuing STEM careers is to start early. Through high-quality education and early exposure to science...we can transform the next generation of female and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Notes from W50
presenters. (See www.alumni.hbs.edu/women50 for a full list of speakers, as well as photos and videos from the events.) Professor Robin Ely, senior associate dean for Culture and Community, unveiled the early results of her survey of some 6,500 HBS alumni, which found... View Details
- 11 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now
shared #MeToo stories of abuse after Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein was accused of sexual assault in October 2017. “With the Weinstein story, a dam broke,” says Colleen Ammerman, director of Harvard Business School’s Gender Initiative, which supports research to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 08 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity
example, the media also project solutions: that companies should educate employees about biases and be held legally and reputationally responsible for treating men and women equally. Likewise underrepresentation: When the issue is a lack of View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Sister Soldier
The Daughters of Kobani, Lemmon introduces readers to Kurdish female fighters who helped lead the defeat of ISIS in northeastern Syria. “The story is not just about war,” Lemmon says on a Zoom call from her home. “It’s also about these... View Details
- 10 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
COVID's Surprising Toll on Careers of Women Scientists
sufficient child care, “it's the same as having your lab shut down.” The disparity for women with young children could be because inadequate systems don’t allow female scientists to do their jobs at the same intensity as their male... View Details
- 19 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Analyzing Institutions to Solve Big Problems
New South Wales. Local Construction of a Global Standard: Foreign Share Ownership and Workplace Gender Diversity in Japan explains that historically, the Japanese corporate structure has made it difficult for women to enter into high-power positions. It then suggests... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel & Anna Secino
- 02 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
Do Online Dating Platforms Help Those Who Need Them Most?
showed that older, shorter, and relatively overweight men tended to view more profiles than their younger, taller, slimmer counterparts. With the female sample, tall women were the ones who tended to view the most profiles. (In the... View Details