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  • 01 Dec 2013
  • News

Batteries and Chocolates

the gender biases of those who control them, then historically male places will tend to be harder on women and to promote only those women who essentially behave "like men." Conversely, once an organization becomes dominated by women, the... View Details
Keywords: Spar, Debora; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 19 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018

investors, could provide this commitment mechanism. Common ownership of competitors within industries and long-time horizons in ownership of shares are key characteristics for investors that could act as stewards of the commons. Social... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • July 2014
  • Teaching Note

Rebecca S. Halstead: Steadfast Leadership

By: Boris Groysberg and Deborah Bell
The case reviews Rebecca Halstead's career history, detailing how, through her personal attributes, skills, experiences, challenges, and organizational practices she developed into a successful leader and commander in the U.S. Army. The teaching note discusses... View Details
Keywords: Strategy And Leadership; Leadership And Managing People; Working Conditions; Groups and Teams; Competitive Strategy; Personal Development and Career; Organizational Culture; Personal Characteristics; Leadership Style; Gender; Power and Influence
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  • 07 Nov 2017
  • Blog Post

Women and the MBA: 6 Important Aspects of the HBS Program

LEAD this year (Taran Swan at Nickelodeon and Toby Johnson at PepsiCo stick out as particularly memorable). Toby Johnson is a strong female protagonist who is decisive, delegates well, and able to see the big picture - characteristics... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2016
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016

More at www.WineriesOfTheSierraFoothills.com. Gender Balance: When Men Step Up edited by Marie-Christine Maheas (GMP 8, 2010) (Editions Eyrolles) The business leaders interviewed for this book are categorical: View Details
  • 01 Sep 2020
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2020

notions of marriage and parenthood as reproductive technologies increasingly allow for newfangled ways of creating babies? What will happen to our understanding of gender as medical advances enable individuals to transition from one set... View Details
  • 12 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 12, 2007

of 2,437 management earnings forecasts, we document an increase in management earnings forecast precision, management earnings forecast accuracy, and managers' tendency to explain earnings forecasts in 1993-1996 relative to 1983-1986. Given that these forecast View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Oct 2015
  • First Look

October 13, 2015

Social Behavior By: Crockett, Molly J., and Amy Cuddy Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49863 October 2015 Journal of Personality and Social Psychology Men as Cultural Ideals: Cultural Values Moderate View Details
  • 18 Jul 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017

to better connections rather than superior skill. Knowing When to Ask: The Cost of Leaning-in By: Exley, Christine L., Muriel Niederle, and Lise Vesterlund Abstract—Gender differences in the propensity to negotiate are often used to explain the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • July 2019
  • Teaching Note

Arlan Hamilton and Backstage Capital

By: Laura Huang
Teaching Note for HBS No. 419-029. Frustrated by an inability to convince existing venture capital firms to invest in companies led by women, people of color, and LGBT founders, Arlan Hamilton started her own firm, Backstage Capital, in 2015. Hamilton understood the... View Details
Keywords: Black Leadership; LGBTQ; People Of Color; Entrepreneurship; Mission and Purpose; Venture Capital; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Identity; Personal Characteristics; Prejudice and Bias; Social Issues; Diversity; Gender; Race
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  • 15 Mar 2016
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March 15, 2016

Aaron K., and Michael W. Toffel Abstract—Several CEOs are receiving significant media attention for taking public positions on controversial social and environmental issues largely unrelated to their core business, ranging from gay marriage to climate change to View Details
  • 19 Dec 2024
  • News

The Musts of 2024

gender balance in this. He said he will go into a room, a restaurant for example, and he'll look around and he'll say he sees a picture of men just talking to the women in the room and he looks at the women and they're bored as hell and... View Details
  • 18 Sep 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

including voter, state, and election fixed effects, and allowing movers’ behavior to be arbitrarily different, both in levels and average trend, from non-movers’. We find that state characteristics explain about 52% of the observed... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 12 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 12, 2006

gift' behavior. Additionally, we introduce a measure of personality characteristics and compare its specific components with pro-social gift behavior in our experiments. We do not find correlations between actual gift behavior and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • March 2024
  • Case

Katharine Graham: Changing the World

By: Robert Simons and Shirley Sun
This case traces the life of Katharine Graham from housewife to publisher of the Washington Post. Born into a family of wealth, Graham described herself as a “doormat wife” after she married Phil Graham and stayed at home to raise their children. His unexpected death... View Details
Keywords: Mission and Purpose; Values and Beliefs; Power and Influence; Personal Characteristics; Leadership Style; Success; Work-Life Balance; News; Newspapers; Media; Gender; Publishing Industry
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  • 01 Sep 2008
  • News

The Levitt Brand

woman. With this new information, Brandt’s sectionmates immediately changed their original analysis, based on gender assumptions. “Levitt’s summation was, ‘Boys, you’d better wake up now, because there are going to be more and more women... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 18 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 18

  Publications August 2013 Social Science & Medicine Who Donates Their Bodies to Science? The Combined Role of Gender and Migration Status Among California Whole-body Donors By: Asad, Asad L., Michel Anteby, and Filiz Garip... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Dec 2014
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First Look: December 16

Publications December 2014 Management Science When Performance Trumps Gender Bias: Joint Versus Separate Evaluation By: Bohnet, Iris, Alexandra van Geen, and Max Bazerman Abstract—We examine a new intervention to overcome View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 5

the most likely to oppose its increase. Similarly, in the General Social Survey, those above poverty but below median income support redistribution significantly less than their background characteristics would predict. Publisher's link: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 28

characteristics of sustainable companies, and we develop a two-stage model that can help companies develop a culture of innovation, trust, and the ability for transformational change. Read the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne