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- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Net Positive
At LOVB, designing a “community-up” volleyball ecosystem, from youth teams to a professional league. (photo by Melissa Golden) Volleyball is the number-one sport for girls in the United States by participation, yet unlike soccer and basketball, it hasn’t had an... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
One Degree of Difference
Courtesy Paris Wallace Courtesy Paris Wallace At 70 employees strong, the Boston-based digital company Ovia Health is on the smallish-but-mighty size compared to the rest of the local tech hub. Competing for talent is tough. While those companies contend for candidates... View Details
- 04 Aug 2020
- News
How Business Can Advance Racial Equity
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes In mid-June, weeks after protests against racial injustice spread globally, the Leadership Now Project—founded in 2017 by HBS alumni to fix American democracy—released the Business for Racial Equity Pledge.... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Women at the Top
They came from as far away as Nigeria and as close as Harvard Square, from industries ranging from banking to television. They were entrepreneurs who headed their own companies, senior executives at major corporations, and leaders of nonprofits. For four days last... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 14 Mar 2016
- News
Lord Bilimoria on Why Anybody Can Be an Entrepreneur
- 17 May 2015
- News
Mounting Evidence of Advantages for Children of Working Mothers
- 17 Mar 2014
- News
Programs Help MBA Women Return to Workplace
- 14 Apr 2010
- News
The First African-American MBAs at HBS
Cunningham in 1913-14 and a year later The election of Barack Obama as the first African-American president of the United States had me wondering who the first African-Americans were to earn Harvard MBAs. I thought I’d have to slog through old records to find the... View Details
- 02 Mar 2021
- News
What Black Leaders Bring to the Table
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
The State of the Markets
indices." Technology is a means to that end. Technology, Efficiency And An Aging Population From a macroeconomic perspective, Seifert pointed out, technologically advanced and efficient capital markets will play a key role as countries face a major View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner
- October 2024
- Article
Sampling Bias in Entrepreneurial Experiments
By: Ruiqing Cao, Rembrand Koning and Ramana Nanda
Using data from a prominent online platform for launching new digital products, we document that ‘sampling bias’—defined as the difference between a startup’s target customer base and the actual sample on which early ‘beta tests’ are conducted—has a systematic and... View Details
Cao, Ruiqing, Rembrand Koning, and Ramana Nanda. "Sampling Bias in Entrepreneurial Experiments." Management Science 70, no. 10 (October 2024): 7283–7307.
- December 2022
- Article
The Task Bind: Explaining Gender Differences in Managerial Tasks and Performance
This multi-method study of managers in a grocery chain identifies a novel mechanism by which threats of gender stereotypes undermine women’s ability to be effective managers. I find that women managers face a task bind, a dilemma that managers experience as they try to... View Details
Feldberg, Alexandra C. "The Task Bind: Explaining Gender Differences in Managerial Tasks and Performance." Administrative Science Quarterly 67, no. 4 (December 2022): 1049–1092.
- Article
Extension Request Avoidance Predicts Greater Time Stress Among Women
By: Ashley V. Whillans, Jaewon Yoon, Aurora Turek and Grant E. Donnelly
In nine studies using archival data, surveys, and experiments, we identify a factor that predicts gender differences in time stress and burnout. Across academic and professional settings, women are less likely to ask for more time when working under adjustable... View Details
Whillans, Ashley V., Jaewon Yoon, Aurora Turek, and Grant E. Donnelly. "Extension Request Avoidance Predicts Greater Time Stress Among Women." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118, no. 45 (November 9, 2021).
- 2021
- Working Paper
Diversity and Performance in Entrepreneurial Teams
By: Sophie Calder-Wang, Paul A. Gompers and Kevin Huang
We study the role of diversity and performance in the entrepreneurial teams. We exploit a unique dataset of MBA students who participated in a required course to propose and start a real micro-business that allows us to examine horizontal diversity (i.e., within the... View Details
Calder-Wang, Sophie, Paul A. Gompers, and Kevin Huang. "Diversity and Performance in Entrepreneurial Teams." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 28684, April 2021.
- April 2021
- Case
Glass-Shattering Leaders: Ilene H. Lang
By: Boris Groysberg and Colleen Ammerman
Ilene Lang started her career in technology at a time when the tech sector was new and women had only recently entered the workplace in large numbers. Over the next thirty years, she built a career spanning large and small tech companies, leading global teams and... View Details
Groysberg, Boris, and Colleen Ammerman. "Glass-Shattering Leaders: Ilene H. Lang." Harvard Business School Case 421-070, April 2021.
- May 2020
- Article
Inventor Gender and the Direction of Invention
By: Rembrand Koning, Sampsa Samila and John-Paul Ferguson
We study whether increasing the share of female inventors leads to more biomedical inventions that focus on the needs of women. After accounting for detailed disease-technology, disease-year, and technology-year fixed effects, we find that a 10 percentage point... View Details
Koning, Rembrand, Sampsa Samila, and John-Paul Ferguson. "Inventor Gender and the Direction of Invention." AEA Papers and Proceedings 110 (May 2020): 250–254.
- July 28, 2020
- Article
Economic Vulnerability of Households with Essential Workers
By: Grace McCormack, Christopher Avery, Ariella Kahn-Lang Spitzer and Amitabh Chandra
The label of “essential worker” reflects society’s needs but does not mean that society has compensated those workers for additional risks incurred on the job during the current pandemic. When an essential worker contracts severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus... View Details
McCormack, Grace, Christopher Avery, Ariella Kahn-Lang Spitzer, and Amitabh Chandra. "Economic Vulnerability of Households with Essential Workers." JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association 324, no. 4 (July 28, 2020): 388–390.
- 2016
- Working Paper
Junior Achievement: Training Teenagers for Business Careers after World War II
This article traces the growing popularity of Junior Achievement's "Company Program" in the two decades after World War II. The program provided high school students with the opportunity to form teams and start mini-corporations that would last for most of the school... View Details
- February 2014
- Teaching Note
Leadership in Law: Amy Schulman at DLA Piper
By: Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
This teaching note provides a discussion plan and rich conceptual background for the "Leadership in Law: Amy Schulman at DLA Piper" case. Topics covered include definitions of success, lifespan career development, team leadership, managing professional service firms,... View Details
- 12 Dec 2024
- News
Trailblazers
In 1959, HBS began allowing women who had graduated from the Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration (HRPBA) to apply for admission to the second year of the MBA program. Women were first permitted to enroll in the two-year MBA program in 1963, where they... View Details