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  • 22 Apr 2017
  • News

Survey Roundup: Gender Disparity on Boardroom Diversity

  • Research Summary

Wonder Women: Sex, Power, and the Quest for Perfection

By: Debora L. Spar

In this book, Spar explores how American women’s lives have—and have not—changed over the past fifty years. Armed with reams of new research, she details how women struggled for power and instead got stuck in an endless quest for perfection. The challenges... View Details

  • April 2021
  • Case

Glass-Shattering Leaders: Barbara Hackman Franklin

By: Boris Groysberg and Colleen Ammerman
Barbara Hackman Franklin was one of the first women to earn an MBA from Harvard Business School. She went on to break barriers in the private and public sectors, rising to leadership positions in business and government. In the 1970s, she led a successful White House... View Details
Keywords: Glass Ceiling; Leadership; Gender; Power and Influence
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  • 04 Oct 2017
  • News

Researchers Combat Gender and Racial Bias in Artificial Intelligence

  • 02 Apr 2019
  • News

Do Men Know More About Salaries?

  • 02 May 2016
  • News

Trump Plays the Man’s Card

  • 21 Nov 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

Path-Breakers: How Does Women’s Political Participation Respond to Electoral Success?

Keywords: by Sonia Bhalotra, Irma Clots-Figueras & Lakshmi Iyer
  • 25 Apr 2014
  • Video

Sheila Marcelo - Making A Difference

  • 17 Apr 2017
  • HBS Seminar

Victoria Brescoll, Yale School of Management

  • 08 Mar 2010
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Successful Negotiation

non-negotiable partner? How can women negotiate past gender stereotypes? How Is Negotiation Evolving? The New Deal: Negotiauctions Whether negotiating to purchase a company or a house, dealmaking is becoming more complex. Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 25 Apr 2014
  • Video

Madelyn Miller - Making A Difference

  • February 1990 (Revised March 1990)
  • Case

Quantum Semiconductor, Inc.

By: Janice H. Hammond and Roy D. Shapiro
Quantum is faced with a difficult ethical dilemma--industry studies provide evidence that chemicals used in semiconductor manufacturing may cause women working in fabrication cleanrooms to suffer a higher likelihood of spontaneous abortions. The possibility of other... View Details
Keywords: Safety; Prejudice and Bias; Law; Equality and Inequality; Cost; Production; Ethics; Health; Gender; Semiconductor Industry
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  • April 2025
  • Article

Gender and Preferences for Performance Feedback

By: Katherine Baldiga Coffman and David Klinowski
Across multiple studies, we investigate whether there are gender differences in preferences for receiving performance feedback. We vary many features of the feedback context: whether the performance task is a cognitive test or a mock interview, whether the feedback is... View Details
Keywords: Feedback; Gender; Cognition and Thinking; Motivation and Incentives; Behavior
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  • September 2024
  • Article

Gender Gaps: Back and Here to Stay? Evidence from Skilled Ugandan Workers During COVID-19

By: Livia Alfonsi, Mary Namubiru and Sara Spaziani
We investigate gender disparities in the effect of COVID-19 on the labor market outcomes of skilled Ugandan workers. Leveraging a high-frequency panel dataset, we find that the lockdowns imposed in Uganda reduced employment by 69% for women and by 45% for men,... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19; Wage Gap; Gender; Equality and Inequality; Employment; Wages; Uganda
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  • September 2011
  • Article

Taking Gender into Account: Theory and Design for Women's Leadership Development Programs

By: Robin J. Ely, Herminia Ibarra and Deborah Kolb
We conceptualize leadership development as identity work and show how subtle forms of gender bias in the culture and in organizations interfere with the identity work of women leaders. Based on this insight, we revisit traditional approaches to standard leadership... View Details
Keywords: Programs; Prejudice and Bias; Leadership Development; Identity; Organizational Culture; Gender
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    Taking Gender Into Account

    We conceptualize leadership development as identity work and show how subtle forms of gender bias in the culture and in organizations interfere with the identity work of women leaders. Based on this insight, we revisit traditional approaches to standard leadership... View Details

    • Video

    Gabriela Cabrera

    Gabriela Cabrera, President of Manos del Uruguay, emphasizes the non-profit’s focus on providing education and employment opportunities for women in rural Uruguayan regions. View Details
    • 26 Jan 2016
    • First Look

    January 26, 2016

    women candidates. This decline is most pronounced in states with entrenched gender bias and in male-headed parties, suggesting an intensification of barriers against women in these areas. Similar results for... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 20 Mar 2018
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018

    Harvard Business Review Beating the Odds: Leadership Lessons from Senior African-American Women By: Roberts, Laura Morgan, Anthony Mayo, Robin Ely, and David Thomas Abstract—Any list of top CEOs reveals a stunning lack of diversity. Among... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 01 Nov 2022
    • Cold Call Podcast

    Marie Curie: A Case Study in Breaking Barriers

    Keywords: Re: Robert Simons