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- 16 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
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... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Naina Lal Kidwai
will also drive them to India because only India can compete with China on both labor costs and domestic-market potential. Foreign firms will demand access to India and force the country to open up. As India... View Details
- Web
Timeline - Race, Gender & Equity
slaves for life 1676 Bacon's Rebellion 1677 First recorded prosecution against strikers in New York City 1680 Virginia hypersurveillance law enacted: An act for preventing Negroes Insurrections 1773 Laborers protest royal taxation in the... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Africa's Way
government and industry. Participants will discuss programs that the government could employ to help guide industry toward international competitiveness. A session titled "South Africa's Labor Relations"... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
election but the “employer doesn’t have the right to force one.” The reality is that the only thing companies can “force” is the union’s hand. Does the union truly represent a majority of employees, or are authorization cards obtained... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Ask the Expert: How to Build a More Diverse Board
issue as the founder and CEO of the executive search firm Trewstar, which places experienced and accomplished women on corporate boards. She offers her advice here. What tips do you have for senior female executives looking for a... View Details
- 12 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 12
a district-industry predicts a greater share of subsequent entrepreneurs will be female. Moreover, higher female ownership of local businesses in related industries (e.g., those sharing similar labor needs,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Aug 2005
- What Do You Think?
Is There an “Efficient Market” in CEO Compensation?
shareholders into a more active participative role, CEO compensation along with other governance challenges such as agency issues will continue to plague companies." Julie Dotson-Shaffer put it most succinctly: "Every contract... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Profile
Maliha Khan
well: She was young and the only female manager out of 3,500 employees, making it difficult for her to be taken seriously. Changing course in order to lead Maliha's initial plans for a literacy program met stiff resistance. "My... View Details
- 15 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 15
self-made products. Participants saw their amateurish creations—of both utilitarian and hedonic products—as similar in value to the creations of experts and expected others to share their opinions. Our account suggests that View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Mar 2017
- Research & Ideas
What's the Ideal Frequency for a Sales Quota?
More frequent quotas can motivate underperforming sales reps. StockPhoto Personal selling is a key ingredient in making the American economy go. According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, about 10 percent of the View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 29 Jan 2021
- News
Holding Business to Account
competitors had recently been forced to pay a record $108 million to settle a class action suit brought by female employees who had been denied advancement opportunities. Aiyer wanted to know what Albertsons... View Details
- 20 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 20, 2008
from economics and sociology on intra-household bargaining elucidates how negotiations over the allocation of domestic labor at Level 2 influence labor force View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2008
ones; and they need to make it safe and sufficiently simple to participate in the market, as opposed to transacting outside of the market, or having to engage in costly and risky strategic behavior. I'll draw on recent examples of market... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Europe Business Conference Forecasts the Future
Building on the success of last year's inaugural conference, the HBS European Club hosted the second annual Europe Business Conference on the HBS campus November 2-3. The event included some 50 panelists and speakers and drew over 350 View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Alumni Books
Female Vision: Women’s Real Power at Work by Sally Helgesen and Julie Johnson (MBA ’82) (Berrett-Koehler Publishers) Helgesen and Johnson demonstrate that what women perceive in organizations (like interpersonal factors) often goes... View Details
- 06 Sep 2013
- News
More Seats at the Table
boards of Carmax, Inc., and Avatar Holdings, was first named a director when she was 36. In the 20 years since then, she estimates she has participated as a member in more than 200 corporate board meetings. She was almost always the only... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Is Market Capitalism Headed for Trouble?
appropriate to try to understand what major problems might lie ahead for market capitalism. By market capitalism we mean a system where decisions about what to produce and at what price are made by private firms operating in free markets. We wanted to know in what ways... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
Arrival: Forum participants were greeted at Shanghai’s new international airport. Forum: Dean Clark with GLF chair Andrew Yao (MBA ’92); Han Zheng, Shanghai’s Mayor; Wang Mengkui, state development director. Breakout Sessions: Alumni... View Details
- 21 Feb 2012
- Research & Ideas
Leadership Program for Women Targets Subtle Promotion Biases
made up 46.7 percent of the US labor force, and filled more than half of management, professional, and related occupations. If the strategy was to get more women in the workplace and let them naturally ascend to positions of upper... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish