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  • January 2013
  • Case

Zappos.com 2009: Clothing, Customer Service, and Company Culture (MM)

By: Frances X. Frei and Robin J. Ely
On July 17, 2009, Zappos.com, a privately-held online retailer of shoes, clothing, and other soft-line retail categories, learned that Amazon.com, a $19 billion multinational online retailer, had won its Board of Directors' approval to offer to merge the two companies.... View Details
Keywords: Customer Relationship Management; Internet and the Web; Mergers and Acquisitions; Organizational Culture; Growth and Development Strategy; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Retail Industry
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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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  • 2016
  • Working Paper

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

By: Irene Padavic, Robin J. Ely and Erin M. Reid
It is widely accepted that the conflict women experience between family obligations and professional jobs’ long hours lies at the heart of their stalled advancement. Yet research suggests that this “work-family narrative” is partial at best: men, too, experience... 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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  • October 2024
  • Article

Racial Inequality in Organizations: A Systems Psychodynamic Perspective

By: Sanaz Mobasseri, William A. Kahn and Robin J. Ely
This paper uses systems psychodynamic concepts to develop theory about the persistence of racial inequality in U.S. organizations and to inform an approach for disrupting it. We treat White men as the dominant group and Black people as the archetypal subordinate group... View Details
Keywords: Equality and Inequality; Race; Prejudice and Bias; Organizational Culture; Gender; Power and Influence; Employees; Attitudes
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  • 31 Dec 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Stories of 2012

Product Published: April 23, 2012 Upgrades to existing product lines make up a huge part of corporate research and development activity, and with every upgrade comes the decision of how to brand it. Harvard Business School marketing View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • Article

Beating the Odds: Leadership Lessons from Senior African-American Women

By: Laura Morgan Roberts, Anthony Mayo, Robin Ely and David Thomas
Any list of top CEOs reveals a stunning lack of diversity. Among the leaders of Fortune 500 companies, for example, just 32 are women, three are African-American, and not one is an African-American woman. What’s going on? The authors studied the careers of the roughly... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Diversity; Race; Gender; Personal Characteristics; Relationships; Success
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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 15 May 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018

So Different By: Tinsley, Catherine H., and Robin J. Ely Abstract—Why have women failed to achieve parity with men in the workplace? Contrary to popular belief, it’s not because women prioritize their... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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