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- August 2010 (Revised December 2016)
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Kaweyan: Female Entrepreneurship and the Past and Future of Afghanistan
By: Geoffrey Jones and Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
Explores the challenges of female entrepreneurship in Afghanistan through the case of Kemeli Sediqi, who built a business under the Taliban, and founded a consultancy in 2004. The case positions Sediqi's experiences against the background of Afghanistan's turbulent... View Details
Keywords: Opportunities; Social Entrepreneurship; Problems and Challenges; Welfare; Gender; Afghanistan
Jones, Geoffrey, and Gayle Tzemach Lemmon. "Kaweyan: Female Entrepreneurship and the Past and Future of Afghanistan." Harvard Business School Case 811-023, August 2010. (Revised December 2016.)
- 15 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
Learning from Mistakes and Leveraging Personal Experiences: Tiffany Kent (MBA 2001)
inner turmoil and a loss of direction. All of which was aggravated by feeling that I lacked a supportive network as one of the few professional women on Wall Street. I realized I had stopped growing. Though I invested in growth companies,... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 02 Jul 2015
- Working Paper Summaries
Mums the Word! Cross-national Effects of Maternal Employment on Gender Inequalities at Work and at Home
Networks as Covers: Evidence from an On-line Social Network
This paper proposes that networks can act as covers which allow actors to participate in markets while maintaining a plausible excuse that they are not. Such covers are most valuable to actors in long-term relationships, as those who are already... View Details
- 28 May 2015
- News
The 24/7 Work Culture’s Toll on Families and Gender Equality
- 01 Nov 2010
- News
The Mental Game of Breast Cancer: Part Two
- 26 Oct 2017
- News
Steinem, Sandberg and Judd on How to End Sex Harassment
- April 2021
- Case
Glass-Shattering Leaders: Jack Rivkin
By: Boris Groysberg and Colleen Ammerman
Jack Rivkin’s innovative approach to hiring, developing, and retaining employees created opportunities for female analysts to thrive at the equity research department he led, and also made the entire department more effective. Rivkin fostered a culture of gender... View Details
Keywords: Gender Inclusivity; Leadership; Organizational Culture; Gender; Talent and Talent Management
Groysberg, Boris, and Colleen Ammerman. "Glass-Shattering Leaders: Jack Rivkin." Harvard Business School Case 421-074, April 2021.
- September 2009
- Article
Spousal Control and Intra-Household Decision Making: An Experimental Study in the Philippines
By: Nava Ashraf
Using an experimental design I elicit causal effects of spousal observability and communication on financial choices of married individuals in the Philippines. Making choices public moves men from putting money into their own account to consumption; communication with... View Details
Keywords: Intra-household; Bargaining; Experiments; Economic Development; Saving; Governance Controls; Decision Choices and Conditions; Personal Finance; Family and Family Relationships; Household; Gender
Ashraf, Nava. "Spousal Control and Intra-Household Decision Making: An Experimental Study in the Philippines." American Economic Review 99, no. 4 (September 2009): 1245–1277. (Online Appendix.)
- January 2009 (Revised March 2011)
- Case
Yoshiko Shinohara and Tempstaff
By: Anthony Mayo, Masako Egawa and Mayuka Yamazaki
The case presents a biographical portrait of Yoshiko Shinohara who founded Tempstaff in 1973, one of the largest temporary staffing agencies in Japan. In addition to chronicling Shinohara's entrepreneurial activities, the case provides contextual background about the... View Details
Mayo, Anthony, Masako Egawa, and Mayuka Yamazaki. "Yoshiko Shinohara and Tempstaff." Harvard Business School Case 409-049, January 2009. (Revised March 2011.)
- 27 Feb 2018
- News
Uber’s culture fixer, Frances Frei, is leaving the company
- 08 Jan 2015
- News
Why Working Mothers Still Aren't Happy
- 15 Dec 2020
- Working Paper Summaries
Biased Sampling of Early Users and the Direction of Startup Innovation
- 17 Sep 2010
- News
Something for the weekend
- 02 May 2014
- Video
Saathi: 2014 New Venture Competition Social Enterprise Track Winner
- 02 Mar 2023
- Video
Perspectives from Capital Creators: Drivers of Disparity
- 22 Nov 2016
- Working Paper Summaries
Explaining the Persistence of Gender Inequality: The Work-Family Narrative as a Social Defense against the 24/7 Work Culture
- April 2022
- Teaching Note
Gender Equality in Business: 100 Years of Progress?
By: Boris Groysberg and Colleen Ammerman
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 422-066, "Gender Equality in Business: 100 Years of Progress?" The case traces the history of women in management from the early 20th to early 21st century through analysis of Harvard Business Review's coverage of women and gender. The... View Details
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Overturning the ACA's Medicaid Expansion Would Likely Decrease Low-Income, Reproductive-Age Women's Healthcare Spending and Utilization
By: Lucy Chen, Richard G. Frank and Haiden A. Huskamp
In late 2020, the Supreme Court began hearing a case challenging the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which led to coverage gains for many low-income, reproductive-age women. To explore potential implications of a full ACA repeal for this population, we examined gains... View Details
Keywords: Medicaid; Women's Health; Health Insurance; Health Care and Treatment; Gender; Insurance; Poverty; Health Industry; United States
Chen, Lucy, Richard G. Frank, and Haiden A. Huskamp. "Overturning the ACA's Medicaid Expansion Would Likely Decrease Low-Income, Reproductive-Age Women's Healthcare Spending and Utilization." Inquiry 57 (2020).