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  • 25 Feb 2019
  • Research & Ideas

How Gender Stereotypes Kill a Woman’s Self-Confidence

Women make up more than half of the labor force in the United States and earn almost 60 percent of advanced degrees, yet they bring home less pay and fill fewer seats in the C-suite than men, particularly in male-dominated professions... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • Program

Mergers and Acquisitions

Mergers and Acquisition program is of particular interest to: Senior executives in the C-Suite Directors of public and private companies Board chairs and directors Heads of strategy and corporate development Key executives involved in... View Details
  • 02 Jan 2024
  • Research & Ideas

10 Trends to Watch in 2024

The lightning-fast ascent of generative AI isn’t the only sea change on the horizon for businesses in the new year. The global economy is in flux as war, climate change, trade issues, and infrastructure problems demand attention. Many companies continue to struggle to... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 13 Feb 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Breaking Through the Self-Doubt That Keeps Talented Women from Leading

shows that women account for about 42 percent of the workforce, yet the share of women in senior leadership positions is 32 percent—and at the C-suite level, female representation drops to 25 percent on average. Vaguer job qualifications... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
  • 25 Jan 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Being a Team Player: Why College Athletes Succeed in Business

C-suite roles than their classmates, says Paul Gompers, the Eugene Holman Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, who is one of the study’s co-authors. “It certainly makes sense that that kind of intense... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • Program

Designing and Executing Corporate Revitalization

have significant strategic decision-making responsibility, including CEOs, CFOs, other C-suite executives, division heads, business unit heads, and leaders/senior contributors on strategy teams, as well as general counsels or board... View Details
  • 2018
  • Chapter

The Trust Imperative

By: Richard Edelman, Stephen A. Greyser, E. Bruce Harrison and Tom Martin
CHAPTER SUMMARY: Successful relationships depend on trust—trust between spouses, trust between parent and child, trust between enterprises and their stakeholders. This chapter focuses on the factors that build trust in organizations, as well as the forces that can... View Details
Keywords: Trust; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Communication
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  • Program

The HR-Executive Suite Connection

Summary Top companies manage their human capital as strategically as their financial capital—and bring their human resources leaders into the strategic decision-making process. This HR leadership program prepares you to apply your human capital insights to discussions... View Details
  • 11 Sep 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Why Employers Favor Men

important.” [Image: MachineHeadz] Clarification This article orginally included the sentence: "Women earn about 78 cents on the dollar compared to men." The line has been amended to include attribution. Related Reading: Researchers Prove View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 11 Apr 2023
  • Op-Ed

The First 90 Hours: What New CEOs Should—and Shouldn't—Do to Set the Right Tone

you had learned during the interview process, probe the organization’s strengths and weaknesses, dig into the financials, and assess the bench strength of the existing C-suite executives. Perhaps one or two of those senior leaders were... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
  • Web

Entrepreneurial Management - Faculty & Research

opportunities they face and so increase their contributions and productivity. This is especially true when it comes to a core activity like customer acquisition and retention. But surveys indicate a growing gap between C-Suite leaders and... View Details
  • Web

Podcasts - Managing the Future of Work

discouraging investments in a skilled workforce and prioritizing downsizing, irrespective of efficiency. How changes in management and reporting can realign incentives. Also, C-suite demographics and the impact of AI. Western Governors... View Details
  • 14 Feb 2023
  • Research & Ideas

When a Vacation Isn’t Enough, a Sabbatical Can Recharge Your Life—and Your Career

His research comes at a time when an increasing number of people report being worn out on the job, with 43 percent of middle managers reporting burnout in the US and 70 percent of C-suite workers considering quitting to search for jobs... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 23 May 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Face Value: Do Certain Physical Features Help People Get Ahead?

charisma as a leader’s moral conviction, need for power, and ability to transfer an idealized vision to followers—it’s more than just straight-up beauty. Having it can mean the difference between making it to the C-suite and getting stuck... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
  • 07 Feb 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Digital Transformation: A New Roadmap for Success

value. One participant in China described how "twenty-somethings" joined C-suite meetings to share their perspectives on the opportunities and challenges of various digital projects under consideration. 4. Manage the power dynamics that... View Details
Keywords: by Linda A. Hill, Ann Le Cam, Sunand Menon, and Emily Tedards
  • 17 Jan 2023
  • In Practice

8 Trends to Watch in 2023

As 2023 begins, businesses and employees face an uncertain economy and labor market, as the twin dilemmas of inflation and interest rates weigh on forecasts. Harvard Business School faculty share the top trends that they believe will shape the workplace and markets... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • 15 Feb 2022
  • Book

When Working Harder Doesn’t Work, Time to Reinvent Your Career

want.” And a piece of advice for corporations: Value and hire for wisdom in the C-suite and on boards. Companies should elevate “modern elders” to the highest ranks of companies, Brooks says. As for his first passion, the French horn,... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • 01 Dec 2023
  • News

The Exchange: Help Wanted

Image by John Ritter The path to a job in the C-suite isn’t what it used to be. For many years, companies could lean on financial expertise and industry connections when recruiting candidates, but HBS professors Raffaella Sadun and Joseph Fuller say that so much has... View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • Web

Courses | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

C-Suite (Spring Q3Q4) Associate Professor Benjamin N. Roth; Assistant Professor Natalia Rigol Energy (Fall Q2) Visiting Professor Dustin Tingley Entrepreneurial Solutions (Fall Q2) Professor William Sahlman Field Course: Business of the... View Details
  • 12 May 2021
  • Book

The Hard Truth About Being a CEO

Communicate the importance of connectivity to your team. Make it clear to everyone in the C-suite that you expect openness, honesty, and trusting relationships not only of yourself but also of them—that these are shared requirements. Your... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding