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- 22 Jul 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #7: Turning Waste Heat to Power
– both externally and internally. “My parents arrived in Calgary from Vietnam in 1981. They came with nothing and they influence my leadership style. They are capitalists in the best meaning of the word and I align with their sense of discipline.” She added, “Being... View Details
- 24 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurial Hospital Pioneers New Model
In Bangalore, a state-of-the-art hospital staffed by Western-trained physicians treats anyone suffering from a heart ailment. It accepts patients regardless of caste, class, religion, and perhaps most surprisingly, their ability to pay for treatment. Yet it is solvent,... View Details
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Engineering Meets Advocacy: Driving Innovation in Women’s Health - Blog: Health Supplement
technologies like AI. Some of this stems from systemic challenges like lower reimbursement rates or outdated stigma, but it’s also a pipeline issue. While women dominate the workforce in women’s health as clinicians, operators, and advocates, there are relatively few... View Details
- 27 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 27
to increasing distance between the solver's field of technical expertise and the focal field of the problem. Female solvers—known to be in the "outer circle" of the scientific establishment—performed significantly better than... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Student Conferences Tackle Business Issues
(MBA 1975), president of Women’s World Banking; Rena Clark (MBA 1990), chair and COO of QVS, Inc.; Judith R. Haberkorn (111th AMP), retired president of consumer sales and service at Verizon; Andrea Caren Silbert (MBA 1992), founder and... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
MBA students in their startup endeavors—Kraus says colleagues have frequently asked her for the names of other women founders and CEOs, within the tech industry and beyond. She finally decided to make a list. She identified more than 60... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 31 May 2018
- News
Finding Freedom from Eating Disorders
million people worldwide. Today, Lindsay is the founder of an eating disorder recovery practice in Austin. Here, she speaks with associate editor Jen Flint about what she's learned from her experience—and how that's shaped her approach to... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
JULY 12 The HBS Club of India recently launched an “Alumni in Action” campaign, which highlights stories of members who have led pandemic relief efforts. The first two alumni highlighted are Akshay Navaladi (HBS MBA 2013), founder of... View Details
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
Investors' Tale Lena G. Goldberg and Chad M. CarrHarvard Business School Case 311-078 The competing narratives of the founders of Alantec, Inc. and the venture capitalists who funded the company are explored in the context of Kalashian v.... View Details
- 14 Aug 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018
driven by the large and positive impact of immigration on native men’s employment and occupational standing, which increased the supply of “marriageable men.” We also explore alternative mechanisms—changes in sex ratios, natives’ cultural responses, and displacement... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53003 Harvard Business School Case 717-445 AKB48: Going Global? (A) After a remarkable success in Japan, the producer of the Japanese female singing group AKB48 evaluates market opportunities... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
people? Continue to differentiate itself in a fiercely competitive industry? Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/716408-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 316-070 Kaweyan: Female Entrepreneurship and the Past... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
50 Years & Counting
if an executive is aware and doesn't intervene to make changes in the organization, then we could say this failure to take corrective actions is unethical." For this HKS/HBS study involving some 654 male and female college students,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books
the Beatles, Thomas Alva Edison, Michael Jordan, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, the founders of Infosys, author Amish, and others have used rejections as a pivot to swing their careers and businesses around. Parameswaran brings his decades of... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 19 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54599 When Gender Discrimination Is Not About Gender By: Coffman, Katherine B., Christine L. Exley, and Muriel Niederle Abstract—We use an experiment to show that employers prefer to hire male over View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
shepherded a multinational corporation to record earnings. A fascinating and engaging memoir from one of America’s leading female executives, Why Should Guys Have All the Fun? is an inspiring and uplifting true story of how an ordinary... View Details
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Women Can Get More Venture Capital
and what kind of deals they made. When we talked with female partners, the anecdotal evidence was mixed. They said, "We don't think we see any more business plans from women entrepreneurs than our male colleagues. But, we as a firm... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
- 20 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 20
aimed at increasing female labor force participation to compensate for Japan's aging population, reforms of the electric power sector directed at reducing electricity costs, and efforts designed to promote the "health and longevity... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
elected as a state legislator encourages the subsequent political participation of women, using a regression discontinuity design on constituency level data from India. We find that female incumbents are more likely than male incumbents... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
going to change momentum behind off-shoring.” Back to top She·sesh·un (noun) When female employment numbers were disproportionately affected in the early months of the pandemic, media were quick to run with a new term: shecession. To... View Details