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  • 08 Feb 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Women Negotiating in the New Millenium

a career enhancing opportunity for her, and a successful marketing opportunity for [the company]." The case, Jane's Dilemma, used by Deborah Kolb at the conference, was... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 21 Feb 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Leadership Program for Women Targets Subtle Promotion Biases

wrong? In their article Taking Gender into Account: Theory and Design for Women's Leadership Development Programs, which appeared in the September 2011 issue of the Academy of Management Learning & Education, Ely and coauthors Herminia Ibarra (INSEAD) and View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
  • 16 Feb 2016
  • News

The Political Issues Board Directors Care Most About

  • 27 Nov 2019
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Secrets for Creating a Long-Lasting Brand

Longchamp Luxury Brand?Does an affordable luxury product work against the top-tier brand? L.A. Philharmonic Shows the American Symphony Orchestra Isn’t Dead YetLike many symphony orchestras, the Los Angeles Philharmonic lost touch with younger audiences and sponsors.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail
  • 14 Jan 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Few Women on Boards: Is There a Fix?

anniversary of the first women to enter Harvard Business School's two-year MBA program. Differing Takes On Quotas Last year Groysberg teamed up with researcher Deborah Bell on a comprehensive survey of corporate directors around the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

    Improving the Rhythm of Your Collaboration

    Winner of the annual MIT Sloan Management Review Richard Beckhard Memorial Prize, for the most outstanding MIT SMR article on planned change and organizational development. Chosen by MIT Sloan faculty judges Deborah Ancona, John Van Maanen, and Cyrus... View Details

    • 03 Jan 2019
    • Research & Ideas

    Everyone Knows Innovation is Essential to Business Success—Except Board Directors

    Spencer Stuart, directed by Julie Hembrock Daum; and independent researcher and management consultant Deborah Bell. The team worked for over a year before that to identify board members from more than 60... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • 03 Jun 2015
    • What Do You Think?

    Is the Time Right for Self-Management?

    The more thoughtful of them provide a primer on applying the concept. Deborah Nixon's comment echoed several others when she said the idea has been around a long time in other forms, by other names.... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail
    • 27 Sep 2004
    • Research & Ideas

    How Leaders Build Winning Streaks

    official responsibility for Continental Airlines' decision to keep flying during the power blackout in August 2003, but that decision was foreordained by the actions of all the other people who claimed leadership on the ground, and knew... View Details
    Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
    • 06 Dec 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: Dec. 6

    http://hbr.org/2011/12/the-ordinary-heroes-of-the-taj/ar/1 Taking Gender into Account: Theory and Design for Women's Leadership Development Programs Authors:Robin J. Ely, Herminia Ibarra, and Deborah Kolb... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • September 2021
    • Case

    Posse Foundation: Developing Strong Leaders from Diverse Backgrounds

    By: John J-H Kim, Robin Mendelson and Julia Kelley
    Founded in 1989, Posse Foundation was a nonprofit organization with a mission of developing future leaders who reflected the U.S.’s rich diversity. The organization ran a selective, localized admissions process in 10 U.S. cities to identify outstanding students with... View Details
    Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Education; Higher Education; Decision Making; Demographics; Diversity; Ethnicity; Income; Race; Values and Beliefs; Geography; Geographic Scope; Growth and Development; Leadership; Leading Change; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development Strategy; Mission and Purpose; Partners and Partnerships; Social Enterprise; Nonprofit Organizations; Identity; Social Issues; Wealth and Poverty; Expansion; Education Industry; North and Central America; United States
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    Kim, John J-H, Robin Mendelson, and Julia Kelley. "Posse Foundation: Developing Strong Leaders from Diverse Backgrounds." Harvard Business School Case 322-016, September 2021.
    • September 2013
    • Article

    Women Rising: The Unseen Barriers

    By: Herminia Ibarra, Robin Ely and Deborah Kolb
    Even when CEOs make gender diversity a priority—by setting aspirational goals for the proportion of women in leadership roles, insisting on diverse slates of candidates for senior positions, and developing mentoring and training programs—they are often frustrated by a... View Details
    Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Leadership Development; Working Conditions; Organizational Culture; Gender; Diversity
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    Ibarra, Herminia, Robin Ely, and Deborah Kolb. "Women Rising: The Unseen Barriers." R1309C. Harvard Business Review 91, no. 9 (September 2013): 60–66.
    • 15 Aug 2023
    • News

    Twelve Alumnae Named to Forbes 50 Over 50

    The third annual 50 Over 50 list, published by Forbes, includes 12 HBS alumnae. Whether self-made entrepreneurs, astronauts, or investors, the recipients are recognized for the variety of ways in which they are all changing the world. Below is a list of those alumnae... View Details
    Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
    • March 2009
    • Case

    Barbara Norris: Leading Change in the General Surgery Unit

    By: Boris Groysberg, Nitin Nohria and Deborah Bell
    Barbara Norris struggles to address the many problems facing her as a recently promoted nurse manager in the General Surgery Unit (GSU) at Eastern Massachusetts University Hospital (EMU). She has inherited a unit with the lowest employee satisfaction scores and highest... View Details
    Keywords: Employee Relationship Management; Leading Change; Service Delivery; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Groups and Teams; Motivation and Incentives; Satisfaction; Health Industry
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    Groysberg, Boris, Nitin Nohria, and Deborah Bell. "Barbara Norris: Leading Change in the General Surgery Unit." Harvard Business School Case 409-090, March 2009.
    • 25 Apr 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    The Importance of Teaming

    will take care of itself. This model focused on the team as an entity, looking largely within the well-defined bounds of a team to explain its performance. Other research, notably conducted by MIT Professor View Details
    Keywords: Re: Amy C. Edmondson
    • 27 Jul 2023
    • Blog Post

    Buy Big, Sell Small

    cofounder of ApnaKlub, a wholesale digital platform that helps kirana owners aggregate their buying power and access credit tools and other services. “These are micro businesses that run on tight margins. If shopkeepers run out of something, they have to travel to a... View Details
    • 2010
    • Chapter

    Women and Leadership: Defining the Challenges

    By: Robin J. Ely and Deborah L. Rhode
    We use the experience of Carly Fiorina as an introduction to the continued challenges faced by women in top leadership roles. Although Fiorina, on becoming CEO of Hewlett Packard in 1999, asserted that "there is not a glass ceiling," her memoir eight years later... View Details
    Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Leadership; Perception; Behavior; Attitudes; Gender
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    Ely, Robin J., and Deborah L. Rhode. "Women and Leadership: Defining the Challenges." Chap. 14 in Handbook of Leadership Theory and Practice, edited by Nitin Nohria and Rakesh Khurana. Harvard Business Press, 2010.
    • September 2006 (Revised November 2006)
    • Supplement

    Cathy Benko: WINning at Deloitte (B)

    By: Kathleen L. McGinn, Deborah M. Kolb and Cailin B. Hammer
    Cathy Benko pulls together a group of Deloitte and Touche's top partners for a weekend discussion of the Initiative for the Retention and Advancement of Women (WIN). Benko, stimulated by the strong reaction by the attending partners, agrees to take on the leadership... View Details
    Keywords: Leading Change; Partners and Partnerships; Agreements and Arrangements; Retention; Gender
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    McGinn, Kathleen L., Deborah M. Kolb, and Cailin B. Hammer. "Cathy Benko: WINning at Deloitte (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 907-027, September 2006. (Revised November 2006.)
    • 2012
    • Working Paper

    An Outside-Inside Evolution in Gender and Professional Work

    By: Lakshmi Ramarajan, Kathleen McGinn and Deborah Kolb
    We study the process by which a professional service firm reshaped its activities and beliefs over nearly two decades as it adapted to shifts in the social discourse regarding gender and work. Analyzing archival data from the firm over eighteen years and... View Details
    Keywords: Professional Service Firms; Social Institutions; Organizational Learning; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Employment; Gender; Society; Service Industry
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    Ramarajan, Lakshmi, Kathleen McGinn, and Deborah Kolb. "An Outside-Inside Evolution in Gender and Professional Work." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 13-051, November 2012. (Work in progress for requested submission, Research in Organizational Behavior.)
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    By: Debora L. Spar

    I'll have a girl, please

    American Public Media [Marketplace], 12 September 2006

    DR. DEBORAH SPAR: "The ability to choose gender is really only the first... View Details

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