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Why men are better at self-promotion than women

20 Nov 2014
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Rethink What You “Know” About High-Achieving Women

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Advancing Women of Color in Leadership

Summary Advancing Women of Color in Leadership reflects our belief in inclusion—supporting efforts to increase access to equal opportunity in organizations because it is the right thing to do. Demographic diversity also helps... View Details

10 Jan 2017
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A Voice for Women Leaders

Laura Liswood (MBA 1976) is cofounder and secretary general of the Council of Women World Leaders, an international network of current and former female prime ministers and presidents that aims to have impact globally on issues of... View Details

29 Jul 2022
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Will Demand for Women Executives Finally Shrink the Gender Pay Gap?

22 Sep 2017
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State Street’s SHE: Investing in Women Leaders

30 Jun 2021

Women in Industry Series: Investing

Please join faculty member Kristin Mugford as she as she moderates a panel of HBS women making a difference in the investing space. Learn about their experiences and how HBS has played a role in their journeys. View Details

19 Dec 2019
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Why Don’t Women Self-Promote As Much As Men?

13 Jun 2013
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Why Women Should Ask Auto-Repair Shops for Discounts

22 Feb 2022
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Lack of Female Scientists Means Fewer Medical Treatments for Women

03 Oct 2019
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Where Are All the Women in Private Equity?

2008
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Punctuated Identities and the Careers of Professional Women

This paper proposes a punctuated equilibrium model of identity change to explain how professional women's career goals and attitudes can change rapidly and dramatically during mid-career years. Data collected from interviews of 43 women alumni of an elite business... View Details

Keywords: Work-Life Balance; Decision Choices and Conditions; Identity; Personal Development and Career; Gender

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08 Mar 2022
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Women Can’t Go Back to the Pre-Pandemic Status Quo

14 Jan 2013
Research & Ideas

Few Women on Boards: Is There a Fix?

Nobody questions that there's whopping gender imbalance in today's boardrooms, despite ample evidence that it makes financial sense to put women on the board. Companies with female board representation routinely outperform those with no... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

Business Insider's 50 Women Who Are Changing The World

Women are having a bigger impact on our world than ever. In the past year, Facebook COO View Details

March 2002
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Women and Power: Stories From Around the Globe

By: Kathleen L. McGinn, Alexis Lefort and Nicole Nasser

This case uses vignettes and statistics of the broader issue discussed in each vignette to explore some of the ways in which gender is played out in the struggle for power and control. Disenfranchised groups--those not allowed access to critical resources--have little... View Details

Keywords: Equality and Inequality; Gender; Power and Influence

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01 Feb 2002
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Redefining Success: Women & Work.

sugarcoated: balancing the challenges of a demanding career with motherhood. "You've got three choices," Hunt tells her students at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, where she runs the Women and Public Policy Program. "You can go... View Details

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

2021
Working Paper

Who Do We Invent for? Patents by Women Focus More on Women's Health, but Few Women Get to Invent

By: Rembrand Koning, Sampsa Samila and John-Paul Ferguson

Has the increase in female medical researchers led to more medical advances for women? In this paper, we investigate if the gender of inventors shapes their types of inventions. Using data on the universe of U.S. biomedical patents, we find that patents with women... View Details

Keywords: Innovation; Biomedical Research; Innovation and Invention; Diversity; Gender; Research; Health; United States

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