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  • January – February 2011
  • Article

Stop Holding Yourself Back

By: Anne Morriss, Robin J. Ely and Frances X. Frei
After working with hundreds of leaders in a wide variety of organizations and in countries all over the globe, the authors found one very clear pattern: when it comes to meeting their leadership potential, many people unintentionally get in their own way. Five barriers... View Details
Keywords: Transformation; Decision Choices and Conditions; Leadership; Personal Development and Career; Personal Characteristics
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  • May 2003 (Revised March 2006)
  • Case

Carol Fishman Cohen: Professional Career Reentry (A)

By: Myra M. Hart, Robin J. Ely and Susan Wojewoda
Explores the career challenges facing highly successful women who leave the full-time workforce for several years to manage family commitments. Carol Cohen is a 1985 Harvard MBA who has professional line experience in a manufacturing environment, followed by a... View Details
Keywords: Work-Life Balance; Family and Family Relationships
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  • March 2020
  • Article

Explaining the Persistence of Gender Inequality: The Work-family Narrative as a Social Defense Against 24/7 Work Culture

By: Irene Padavic, Robin J. Ely and Erin M. Reid
It is widely accepted that the conflict between women’s family obligations and professional jobs’ long hours lies at the heart of their stalled advancement. Yet research suggests that this “work-family narrative” is incomplete: men also experience it and nevertheless... View Details
Keywords: 24/7 Work Culture; Hegemonic Narrative; Social Defense; Work-family Conflict; Systems-psychodynamic Theory; Work-Life Balance; Personal Development and Career; Gender; Equality and Inequality; Organizational Culture
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  • May 2003 (Revised March 2006)
  • Case

Carol Fishman Cohen: Professional Career Reentry (B)

By: Myra M. Hart, Robin J. Ely and Susan Wojewoda
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Keywords: Work-Life Balance; Family and Family Relationships
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  • 29 May 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Genomics: Can We Start Making Money Now?

Now that scientists have mapped the human gene, can drug makers map a road to unlimited riches? For John Lechleiter, Executive Vice President of Eli Lilly and Company's Pharmaceutical Products and Corporate Development, there remain more... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Jul 2015
  • What Do You Think?

Do Americans Work Too Much and Think About Work Too Little?

while maintaining productivity? Or is this even an issue? Do Americans work too much and think about work too little? What do you think? To Read More: Robin J. Ely and Irene Padavic, Work-Family Conflict Is... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Financial Services
  • 08 Dec 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Why Europe Lags in Pharmaceuticals and Biotech

pharma," said HBS professor Regina Herzlinger, moderating a panel discussion titled "Pharma and Biotech—Where does Europe Stand in the World?" The discussion was held at the conference on November 22. At the start of the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Biotechnology; Health; Pharmaceutical; Technology
  • 18 Apr 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Selling Luxury to Everyone

Luxury is the new essential. Consumers know it and retailers are reaping the bounty. At a "Growth Strategies in the Luxury Goods Industry" panel on April 3 at the HBS Retail and Luxury Goods Conference, moderator Nancy F. Koehn summed it up well. Koehn, the... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette; Consumer Products
  • 17 Dec 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Enterprising Women

business leaders, moderated by HBS professor Myra Hart, at the Harvard Business School Entrepreneurship Conference. Robin Chase said that being a woman did not hinder her ability to start Zipcar, a service... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 12 May 2016
  • Research & Ideas

When Mass Shootings Lead to Looser Gun Restrictions

potential reason that voters and political parties can’t even agree on which laws they should target, and whether to loosen or tighten them,” says Malhotra, the Eli Goldston Professor of Business... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 04 Mar 2014
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Innovation

breakthrough in alarm clock design since the snooze button until entrepreneur Gauri Nanda created Clocky. Her runaway hit has been the inspiration for several cases written by Professor Elie Ofek. Should I... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
  • 26 May 2003
  • Research & Ideas

What Your Competition is Telling You

go unanswered—they're often unasked. Starbucks forces [independents] to stay on their toes, get creative, exploit their advantage of being more nimble.— Bruce Milletto,consultant Randall L. Tobias echoes Beville's sentiments. Before he became chairman and CEO of View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer
  • 23 Mar 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Globalization: Little Impact on the Continent

Growth or Disorder," held at the 5th Annual Africa Business Conference at Harvard Business School on March 8. Harvard Business School Professor Debora Spar, the panel moderator, noted that political borders are more permeable now... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
  • 10 Feb 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Women at Work

"Work/Life Balance: Are We Comfortable with the Choices We Make?" moderated by HBS professor Robin Ely, discussed their work/life decisions and the repercussions of those decisions at the 12th... View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild
  • 25 Mar 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Steer Clear of the Blind Spots That Derail Experiments

unconditional bonus before a project’s start boosted productivity, while another study concluded that those benefits were short-lived. A study by Luca, former HBS doctoral student Duncan Gilchrist, and Deepak Malhotra, the Eli Goldston... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 08 May 2013
  • Research & Ideas

A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity

HBS Professor Robin Ely, is a long-term study of high-wage-earning-potential women, their partners, and their hopes and expectations about career and family. View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting
  • 22 Apr 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Work, Family, Private Life: Why Not All Three?

compromise." Wrapping up the session, moderator Robin Ely, a professor of organizational behavior at HBS, suggested that people focus in their lives on what it is that they want to create, and not... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 20 Apr 2016
  • Research & Ideas

When CEOs Become Activists

issued an executive order on April 13, clarifying the state law and asking the legislature to revisit some of its provisions. The actions of PayPal’s Schulman and other CEOs is an example of a phenomenon that Harvard Business School View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Publishing
  • 13 Apr 2016
  • Research Event

What Does 'Diversity' Really Mean?

business executives who attended the symposium to discuss how to address inequality issues and encourage greater diversity in the workplace. Held on the Harvard Business School campus on March 31 and April 1, the symposium was co-organized by View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 06 Feb 2007
  • First Look

First Look: February 6, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707486 Corporate Venture Capital at Eli Lilly Harvard Business School Case 806-092 Reviews the role of corporate venture capital and its history at View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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