workplace diversity - Publications - Faculty & Research

20 Sep 2022
Research & Ideas

How Partisan Politics Play Out in American Boardrooms

and stock exchanges in recent years have championed elevating more women to executive teams, the increase in gender diversity has not altered the political bent of many organizations.” “If you tell somebody you're moving to Texas or... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

15 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

Women Leaders and Organizational Change

way things are, like water to a fish or the air we breathe. What's to notice? What's to change? To make progress on this problem, people must take risks, learn new ways, experiment. The notion that the basic organizing principles that govern View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

17 Jun 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

Excellence Comes From Saying No

capital firm Polaris Partners, and former executive at Pfizer, Schulman has worked in some 90 countries around the world. "The key to creating collaborative teams within diverse environments, is to find strategies that increase the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

17 Oct 2018
Research & Ideas

Pro Basketball Coaches Display Racial Bias When Selecting Lineups

race on people’s behavior. Performance, too, is tricky to gauge objectively. “Most workplaces have a rough measure of productivity, but that is usually biased itself.” The NBA, however, obsessively tracks every action of every player,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Sports

17 Feb 2022
Book

When Employees Feel a Sense of Purpose, Companies Succeed

workers to feel engaged and highly motivated, and they want those workers to muster creativity and diverse perspectives to solve problems. If workers have latitude to express themselves, they’ll feel more inspired and do better work—not... View Details

Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati

31 Jan 2023
Research & Ideas

It’s Not All About Pay: College Grads Want Jobs That ‘Change the World’

almost every society on how much we should allow the private sector to handle prosocial objectives,” says Zhang, who studies workplace culture and social inequality. “What we saw here is that if the private sector engages in that... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

30 Sep 2019
Book

Book Excerpt: Why a Volume on Race, Work, and Leadership

women grew 67 percent between 2007 and 2012, more growth than women-owned businesses as whole saw (Nielsen Report, 2017). In light of these advances, a recent study by Ernst and Young (2017) found that one-third of Americans surveyed said that the corporate focus on... View Details

14 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

Difficulties for Women Bridging Racial, Generational, and Global Divides

symposium, Ely talked about how intersectionality can complicate workplace and societal support systems among women. Would-be support systems often focus solely on the fact that women are women, ignoring the differences among them.... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

13 Apr 2016
Research Event

What Does 'Diversity' Really Mean?

Many male business leaders have the right intentions when it comes to tackling the sticky issue of gender inequality in the workplace. But try as they might to be more sensitive and inclusive with their language, men are quite simply bound to mess up sometimes, said... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

03 Jan 2018
What Do You Think?

In the Wake of #MeToo, Should Corporate Boards Hire Compliance Officers?

were proposed. Paula G commented that "Boards need to become more involved to protect the interests of the owners they must look outside to trusted advisors for compliance." Hughe said, "One way to get compliance is to frame harassment as a View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

17 Apr 2013
Research Event

Conference Challenges Gender Conventions

Cuddy. "We've come a long way. Our current 900-plus first-year students are 40 percent women—our highest percentage ever," said Ely. "And our student body is far more diverse now than it was 50 years ago, not just in gender... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

30 Apr 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019

forthcoming Compensation & Benefits Review The Power of Workplace Rewards: Using Self-Determination Theory to Understand Why Reward Satisfaction Matters for Workers Around the World By: Landry, Anais Thibault, and A.V. Whillans... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

04 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

How Female Stars Succeed in New Jobs

difficult to create good in-house relationships and there were frequent changes of management, respond much as women do—by investing in external networks. Not all but some of their strategies at poorly managed firms resemble the strategies of women. Q: Are you seeing... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

21 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

HBS Research Focuses on Gender Issues and Fixes

business management. Here are recent articles and working papers on faculty research that focus on gender issues in the workplace and offer specific actions that companies can use to address them. We will be highlighting more work in this... View Details

10 Sep 2018
Research & Ideas

Celebrating 'The Men and Women of the Corporation' 40 Years Later

companies. I wanted to learn how to have an impact and shape decisions. I had an opportunity to start doing some projects in a large corporation that became the one I wrote about for the book. Simultaneously, the question of women in the View Details

Keywords: by Robin J. Ely

08 May 2013
Research & Ideas

A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity

A company's internal deliberations and changing beliefs about women in the workplace over the course of two decades, particularly about their role as leaders, is the subject of a recent paper that traces how fundamental societal views can... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting

21 Feb 2012
Research & Ideas

Leadership Program for Women Targets Subtle Promotion Biases

For the last quarter century, many fought hard to overcome gender discrimination in the workplace by raising awareness, strengthening antidiscrimination policies, and encouraging more women to enter the corporate world. At first blush,... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

01 Jun 2021
What Do You Think?

Are Employers Ready for a Flood of 'New' Talent Seeking Work?

you think? Share your thoughts in the comments below. References: Sara Coury, Jess Huang, Ankur Kumar, Sara Prince, Alexis Krivkovich, and Lareina Yee, Women in the Workplace 2020, McKinsey & Leanin.Org, September 30, 2020,... View Details