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- 01 Dec 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Plugged In
In a career spent investing in innovative startups at Intel, leading National Grid’s innovation and investment operations, and founding a nonpro t dedicated to advancing women and minorities to positions of top corporate leadership, Lisa... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
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Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research
function of customs and norms that intend to keep women from being promiscuous. Using large-scale survey data from more than 100 countries, I test the anthropological theory that a particular form of preindustrial... View Details
- 27 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Hard Work Isn't Enough: How to Find Your Edge
about gender and race or perceptions about age and class. Indeed, vast research shows that certain groups, such as women and African Americans, have a tougher time getting ahead. Yet Huang argues that we can’t let other people’s... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
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By: Mark L. Egan
When considering how households make investment decisions, Professor Egan became intrigued by the question, “What makes a bank ‘special’ when compared to other lending institutions?” Focusing on empirical industrial organization with applications to finance and... View Details
- April 2014
- Article
Who Donates Their Bodies to Science? The Combined Role of Gender and Migration Status Among California Whole-body Donors
By: Asad L. Asad, Michel Anteby and Filiz Garip
The number of human cadavers available for medical research and training, as well as organ transplantation, is limited. Researchers disagree about how to increase the number of whole-body bequeathals, citing a shortage of donations from the one group perceived as most... View Details
Asad, Asad L., Michel Anteby, and Filiz Garip. "Who Donates Their Bodies to Science? The Combined Role of Gender and Migration Status Among California Whole-body Donors." Social Science & Medicine 106 (April 2014): 53–58.
- 2007
- Book
America the Principled: 6 Opportunities for Becoming a Can-Do Nation Once Again
This book draws on the author's multiple research projects and field observations to analyze problems facing the United States in recent years and to create an agenda for renewing American strengths through returning to core American principles—but in new ways suitable... View Details
Keywords: Values and Beliefs; Policy; Leadership; Civil Society or Community; Cooperation; United States
Kanter, Rosabeth M. America the Principled: 6 Opportunities for Becoming a Can-Do Nation Once Again. New York: Crown, 2007.
- June 2024
- Article
The Diversity Heuristic: How Team Demographic Composition Influences Judgments of Team Creativity
By: Devon Proudfoot, Zachariah Berry, Edward H. Chang and Min B. Kay
Despite mixed evidence for the relationship between demographic diversity and creativity, we propose that observers hold a lay belief that demographic diversity increases creativity and apply this lay belief in judgments about teams and their creative work. Across... View Details
Proudfoot, Devon, Zachariah Berry, Edward H. Chang, and Min B. Kay. "The Diversity Heuristic: How Team Demographic Composition Influences Judgments of Team Creativity." Management Science 70, no. 6 (June 2024): 3879–3901.
- 17 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 17, 2009
within the household. We find positive impacts, particularly for women who have below-median decision-making power in the baseline, and we find this leads to a shift towards female-oriented durables goods purchased in the household.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Mar 2018
- Research & Ideas
Feeling Stressed? Try Sniffing Your Romantic Partner's Shirt
Meanwhile, women tend to have a keener sense of smell than men, which is why women were assigned to be the smellers. The sniff test The female participants were randomly assigned to smell one of three... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
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on social media 25 Jun 2024 Research & Ideas Rapport: The Hidden Advantage That Women Managers Bring to Teams by Kara Baskin 11 Jun 2024 In Practice The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2024 by Avery Forman 25 Jun 2024... View Details
- 16 May 2023
- In Practice
After Silicon Valley Bank's Flameout, What's Next for Entrepreneurs?
tightening, the collapse of SVB is yet another reason for investors to be cautious and risk averse. That orientation is a headwind for startupland. Jeffrey Bussgang is a senior lecturer of business administration at HBS and general partner of Flybridge Capital... View Details
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Women’s Leadership Summit - Alumni
institutions, and more. Additional themes included artificial intelligence, DEI initiatives, and career journeys. The diverse audience emphasized the universal nature of the challenges and opportunities facing women in business today,... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
What Makes a Good Leader
things can run smoothly for as long as possible. It's often a judgment call." Name: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration Courses she teaches: Managing Change (MBA elective); Leading Change and Organizational Renewal, View Details
Keywords: Management
- 19 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
The History of Beauty
autonomy beauty companies have to shape ideals. Unilever's current Dove marketing campaign, which uses senior women as models to make the point that one can be beautiful beyond one's 30s, shows that a large company has the power to... View Details
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HBS Health Care Initiative - Blog: Health Supplement
in the United States, at least 50 million women are entering menopause, and a recent survey has shown a majority of them face a lack of care, treatment, and support from their existing providers, and a sense of isolation. What can... View Details
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Career Re-Entry & Flexible Work - Alumni
Fairygodboss Fairygodboss is the largest female career community where highly motivated and authentic women can connect with other career-minded individuals to share real-life experiences and help one another to succeed. The FGB platform... View Details
- 03 Jan 2023
- Book
Confront Workplace Inequity in 2023: Dig Deep, Build Bridges, Take Collective Action
Despite calls for making the workplace more equitable, women, particularly Black women, continue to get the short end of the stick at work. Only 6 percent of the top 3,000 companies in the US are led by a woman. In 2022, only two Black View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- March 2020
- Article
Gender Differences in Communicative Abstraction
By: Priyanka D. Joshi, Cheryl J. Wakslak, Gil Appel and Laura Huang
Drawing on construal level theory, which suggests that experiencing a communicative audience as proximal rather than distal leads speakers to frame messages more concretely, we examine gender difference in linguistic abstraction. In a meta-analysis of prior studies... View Details
Joshi, Priyanka D., Cheryl J. Wakslak, Gil Appel, and Laura Huang. "Gender Differences in Communicative Abstraction." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 118, no. 3 (March 2020): 417–435.
- 07 Mar 2023
- HBS Case
ChatGPT: Did Big Tech Set Up the World for an AI Bias Disaster?
Her Gender Shades project with Joy Buolamwini found that facial recognition services offered by IBM, Microsoft, and other companies misidentified Black women as much as 35 percent of the time while performing nearly perfectly with white... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Burden Legacy
1971, feminist activist and journalist Gloria Steinem spoke to the Harvard Business Women (today’s Women’s Student Association). Boxing champion Muhammad Ali electrified a packed auditorium when he addressed the Harvard College Class of... View Details
Keywords: Linda Kush