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- 15 Nov 2016
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November 15, 2016
is widely accepted that the conflict women experience between family obligations and professional jobs’ long hours lies at the heart of their stalled advancement. Yet research suggests that this “work-family narrative” is partial at best:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 30, 2015
from multiple sources and individual level survey data collected as part of the International Social Survey Programme in 2002 and 2012 from nationally representative samples of men and women in 24 countries in North and South America,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 18
telecommuting, gender-related pay gaps, a household division of labor that still saddles women with a disproportionate share of caretaking chores, and the question of religious expression in the workplace. Read the article:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Advertising Symbiosis: The Key to Viral Videos
about self-image. Two months ago, Unilever's Dove brand uploaded "Dove Real Beauty Sketches," a web-exclusive mini-documentary in which a forensic artist sketches each of several women twice, first based solely on their descriptions of... View Details
- 20 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 20
Limited Companies Act in order to achieve greater representation of women on corporate boards. According to the amendment, all state-owned companies and public limited companies were required to have at least 40% View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?
is to require transparency, to require the quality metrics that we need in order to be good shoppers. If I had stage four breast cancer and were going in a hospital, I need to know how good that hospital is for women like me who are... View Details
- 19 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 19, 2007
launched the highly successful Go Red For Women campaign to help women understand their risk for heart disease. But Go Red became more than a fundraising vehicle. It energized the AHA and its 22 million... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Work 3.0: Redefining Jobs and Companies in the Uber Age
service-marketplaces to guess where their new models fall. Faced with this uncertainty, most entrepreneurs will settle for clarity, and innovation will suffer accordingly as novel middle-ground models are abandoned. That certainly doesn’t do our working men and View Details
- 22 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
Profits and Prophets: The Role of Values in Investment
schools. Top-caliber and forward-thinking management is also a must, she said. For example, are there women in leadership roles at this company? "We are really assessing the quality of management: Are they on the ball, ahead of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 7, 2006
outcome methods don't seem to apply? Performing the research to answer these questions led to the publication of this book. It is based on project records and interviews exploring the experiences of men and women who have managed, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 10, 2009
16-21 Abstract The Dove campaign addressed a common concern that crossed cultural boundaries. Confronted by standard visual stereotypes of beauty in the global media, many young women develop self-image and self-esteem problems. The Dove... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
Who Rises to Power in American Business?
opportunities for women and minorities. While there are no real guarantees, being born as an insider increases the odds and likelihood of success. In our research, we saw education supplanting religion, birthplace, and nationality as a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2020
Nolan. The 5 most-engaging stories on social media How Investors Are Sizing Up Climate Change’s Risks—and Opportunities COVID's Surprising Toll on Careers of Women Scientists How Countries Use Financial Policy to Fight COVID-19 Merck CEO... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Building Communities as Well as Companies
offering nationwide negotiation and representation services to professional athletes. "I didn't have a lifelong desire to be an entrepreneur," said Paula E. Groves (HBS MBA '91), founding partner of Axxon Capital, a venture capital firm targeting View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 31 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 31, 2009
Reassuringly, I also find evidence that, as predicted by the model, the speed of technology diffusion slowed down in Japan during the 1990s and R&D expenditures also stopped growing. Women and Leadership: Defining the Challenges... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers
accuracy of audits. The authors note several reasons why this might be the case: Sociology studies have found that women tend to be better at both perceiving and integrating facts they observe, lending them a greater ability to notice... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 19 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Ground-Floor Opportunities for Retail in India
India's economic growth is an exciting new playing field for the retail industry and for entrepreneurs looking to get in on the ground level, a panel of that country's businessmen agreed. Rising incomes, increased advertising, and a jump in the number of View Details
- 17 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Advice for the New CEO: Talk to Your Employees Early and Often
Hidden Advantage That Women Managers Bring to Teams Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu. Image: Image by HBSWK with asset from AdobeStock/Who is Danny View Details
Keywords: by Ami Albernaz
- 03 Dec 2007
- Research & Ideas
Authenticity over Exaggeration: The New Rule in Advertising
the "consumer" label altogether. It's too limiting. Deighton cites Dove's "Real Beauty" campaign, a multiphase effort with an underlying theme that subverts traditional beauty product messages of aspiration and perfection. In one ad, full-sized, regular-looking View Details
- 16 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
How Companies Managed Risk (and Even Benefitted) in World War Internment Camps
or chemistry in the camp library. In the family camp, some women were even allowed to keep servants. “They had a good time relative to what was happening in other geographies,” says Giacomin. “Eventually, their major problem was boredom.... View Details