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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

12 Apr 2022
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Swiping Right: How Data Helped This Online Dating Site Make More Matches

been hindered by two trouble spots: Women don’t want to make the first move online. On the other hand, men come on stronger, sending an abundance of often fruitless messages. This leads to mixed signals, frustration, and user atrophy.... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin

17 May 2024
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Blending Heritage and Innovation: Lisa Yan (MBA 2025)

name, I ventured into the traditionally male-dominated tech industry. In high school, I joined the FIRST robotics team. In college, I chose to study Electrical and Computer Engineering, even though my dad, an engineer himself, had reservations about View Details

14 Mar 2018
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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

01 Sep 2023
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Solving for Z

With nearly 20 years of experience as a senior human resources executive, Matthew Breitfelder (MBA 2002) has seen a lot of change in the corporate talent space. But what’s happening now looks like a tectonic generational shift. From his perch as global head of human... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; Illustrations by Doug Chayka; Administration of Human Resource Programs; Government

June 2024
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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

Keywords: Diversity; Race; Gender; Groups and Teams; Perception; Creativity

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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

14 Mar 2017
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Business School Case 417-002 Womenomics in Japan This case profiles Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's vigorous attempts to revive Japan's economy, specifically by advocating for a larger role for women in the economy—not as a matter of social... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Mar 2009
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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

19 Apr 2010
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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

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics

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The Caring Company

Future of Work Almost a third of workers—and more senior executives—say their careers have been adversely affected by caregiving obligations. As Joe explains to this episode’s guest host, HBS alum and Care.com CEO Sheila Marcelo, demographic trends and the changing... View Details

March 2020
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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

Keywords: Construal Level Theory; Psychological Distance; Gender; Communication; Leadership

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01 Mar 2019
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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

27 Jan 2020
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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

16 May 2023
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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

Keywords: by Avery Forman; Technology; Financial Services

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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

04 Jan 2024
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Great Heights

focuses on helping mid-career women in the technology industry ascend to the next level. Photos by Michael Hanson When Kostova graduated from HBS, she believed that sexism was largely a relic of previous generations. But it didn’t take... View Details

Keywords: Amy Crawford

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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

07 Mar 2023
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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

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis; Technology

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Building Iconic Brands and Brighter Futures: Interview with Glossier CEO, Kyle Leahy - Recruiting

platform for purpose.” “The beauty industry is a $500 billion industry that's been built to make women feel that they should look a certain way or feel a certain way. We are looking to turn that on its head and give voice to the idea that... View Details

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