women in tech - Publications - Faculty & Research

22 Feb 2024
Blog Post

It’s Time to Build: Why the MS/MBA Is Right for You!

In 2021, after working in big tech for just over four years, I felt an itch to try something new. I was seeing friends around me leave their more established jobs to pursue... View Details

19 Feb 2007
Research & Ideas

Inexperienced Investors and Market Bubbles

"Past performance is no guarantee of future results." —standard financial disclaimer Neophyte investors—it is believed—play a role in creating asset price bubbles such as the tech collapse a few... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services

November 2021 (Revised November 2023)
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Hitting Home: Amazon and Mary's Place

By: Paul M. Healy, Debora L. Spar and Amy Klopfenstein

In 2020, Amazon, the $386 billion online retail behemoth, built an eight-story shelter for women and families experiencing homelessness on its expanding headquarters in Seattle, Washington. The shelter, operated in partnership with a non-profit organization known as... View Details

Keywords: Business Ethics; Homelessness; Business And Society; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Social Issues; Corporate Accountability; Urban Development; Society; Information Technology; Ethics; Technology Industry; Seattle; United States; North America

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July 2020 (Revised September 2020)
Case

MobSquad

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, William R. Kerr and Susie L. Ma

Irfhan Rawji (MBA 2004) launched MobSquad in October 2018 to help American tech start-ups retain hard-to-find talent, many of whom struggled with U.S. work visa issues, such as software engineers with experience in artificial intelligence, machine learning, or data... View Details

Keywords: Work Visas; H1-B; Business Ventures; Business Startups; Labor; Human Capital; Human Resources; Crisis Management; Employment Industry; Canada; United States

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13 Dec 2021
Research & Ideas

The Unlikely Upside of Mergers: More Diverse Management Teams

workers. Specifically, M&A deals can help women and people of color who are stuck in lower-level positions move up the ladder, according to research by Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Letian... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

20 Mar 2013
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Expatriate Traders in the Treaty Port Communities - A Chronicle of the China Trade

masculine. . . . The men ate and drank a great deal too much.” 51 (The Heards particularly enjoyed good wine.) In general, American women were notably absent from factory life, and if a Westerner got married... View Details

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Dean Datar on the shootings in Atlanta and violence against Asian Americans | About

last year alone. Women, and especially women of color, are disproportionately the victims of these types of violent acts. We cannot look upon these facts with anything other than indignation and horror. The assaults and attacks on... View Details

18 Jan 2023
Blog Post

Career Planning and Development: Interview with Career Coach Wendi Zhang (MBA/MPP 2013)

more. We caught up with Wendi Zhang (MBA/MPP 2013), an HBS career coach with over 15 years of professional experience in high tech - including big tech, startups, and venture capital—to learn more about... View Details

18–19 Feb 2022
Virtual Programming

49th H. Naylor Fitzhugh Conference - RISE UP: BOLSTERING MOMENTUM AROUND BLACK EXCELLENCE

How do we keep the momentum? 2020 proved to be challenging for the Black community in myriad ways, from COVIDs disproportionate impact on Black and Brown communities to the racial reckoning brought on by the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and countless... View Details

26 Jun 2017
News

How Cellophane Changed the Way We Shop for Food

26 Oct 2017
Research Event

In an Era of 'Fake News,' What is the Future of Advertising and Publishing?

conference, Carroll had introduced the audience to the term “Ad Tech Duopoly,” which refers to the current dominant twins of the online advertising environment: Facebook and Google. Both have linked user profiles to search histories View Details

Keywords: by Jen Deaderick; Media & Broadcasting; Journalism & News

Career Coach

Henry Tao

Before HBS, Henry worked in multiple countries, including the US, Germany, Singapore, and China. Having started his career in an operational role at a global company and then later transitioned into... View Details

17 Apr 2013
Research Event

Conference Challenges Gender Conventions

His talk focused on its implications for women in leadership roles, and examined why there aren't more black women leaders, since research has shown that unlike white women,... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

Video

Khalid Al Rumaihi

Khalid Al Rumaihi, Executive Chairman of Amriya group based in Bahrain, discusses the job opportunities and policies for women in the country, highlighting that Bahraini women are highly competent with great work ethic and team spirit. View Details

Career Coach

Yiwei Zhao

Yiwei enjoys helping students explore opportunities in the following industries: Technology (big tech and growth-stage tech), self-driving cars, AI/ML, and consulting; and functions: product operations,... View Details

20 Apr 2015
News

The 5 Strategy Rules of Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs

31 Oct 2019
Blog Post

5 Things on My Mind in the Second Year of the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program

committing with a full-time role. Students chose to spend their summers in a variety of ways. There were many people who worked on their startups continuing their projects from our first-year design class, Technology Venture Immersion.... View Details

Career Coach

Adriann Dolphin

Adriann wants to help students explore roles in the consumer products and tech industries. She can also provide insight into the job experience in consulting, having worked... View Details

14 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

Desktop Search and Revenue Streams

The name of the game in Internet search has always been helping users find what they're looking for as quickly as possible, as precisely as possible. The panelists at the 2005 Cyberposium's "Search Visionary" session at Harvard... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Jette

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