women - Publications - Faculty & Research

Please join Christina Wallace, Senior Lecturer of Business Administration, for a panel discussion as she moderates a panel of HBS women making a difference in the Tech space. Learn about their experiences and how HBS has played a role... View Details

08 Sep 2021

Women in Industry Series: Military

Please join Maura Sullivan, MBA/MPA 2009, as she moderates a panel of HBS women from the Military who are current students and alumni from different branches of service and from various roles within these branches. Learn about their... View Details

2006
Book

Women and Entrepreneurship: Contemporary Classics

By: Candida G. Brush, Nancy M. Carter, Elizabeth J. Gatewood, Patricia G. Greene and Myra M. Hart

Keywords: Gender; Entrepreneurship

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28 Mar 2013
News

Advancing the World's Leading Women

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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14 Jan 2013
News

Few Women on Boards: Is There a Fix?

08 Aug 2011
News

Economics Journal: Women in Local Politics Offer Biggest Benefit

21 Jan 2022
Blog Post

Tipping Point: Investing in the Women of Kenya’s Coffee Farms

supply chain are the unseen farm laborers—most of them women—who tend the coffee trees each day on the hillsides of rural Kenya. Margaret Nyamumbo (MBA 2016) founded Kahawa 1893 in 2017 to shorten the distance between these Kenyan farmers and American coffee drinkers... View Details

22 Jul 2019
News

A Way Forward for Women

From a course comes a movement. When the first Women on Boards (WOB) Executive Education program wrapped up in 2016, the cohort of 67 women from 17 countries, who had studied with HBS faculty how boards... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

16 Dec 2019
Research & Ideas

Taking on the Taboos That Keep Women Out of India's Workforce

In India’s rural villages, social norms dictate that women are to remain in the home, not out and about—and definitely not working. If a woman is seen working outside the home, her neighbors might think she’s a bad mother. They might also... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

06 Sep 2012
News

Indian women now reporting more violent crime, study shows

20 Oct 2017

Women Prospective Student Open House

Jointly sponsored by HBS MBA Admissions and the Women’s Student Association (WSA), this Open House is an opportunity for women to learn more about the student experience and meet a dynamic community of women... View Details

23 Jun 2021
News

One More Way the Startup World Hampers Women Entrepreneurs

28 Feb 2024

Women and the MBA in Japan

Come hear from female alumnae from several of the top MBA programs who will share their experiences and help you consider pursuing the MBA degree. View Details

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Women MBAs in the Workplace

Women Leaders and Organizational Change

Getting More Women in Leadership

Toronto Forté Forum for Women

Houston Forté Forum for Women

Salary negotiation classes teach women how to "push back"

Women in Industry Series: Technology