career advancement - Publications - Faculty & Research

08 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

Women’s Summit Celebrates ‘Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuit’

accelerate the advancement of women leaders who make a difference in the world," Nohria said. Indeed, the anniversary has spawned a survey of several thousand alumnae on work-life balance and a new case study on the female experience... View Details

Keywords: by Katie Koch & Harvard Gazette

07 May 2008
Research & Ideas

The Intellectual History of Harvard Business School

about them (and are very important at the School today) had to make a leap to become a part of this community. They had to leave their comfort zones. They had to abandon the normal methods of career View Details

Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow; Education

06 Aug 2014
Research & Ideas

Climbing Down from the Ivory Tower

community service. In the other 24, the material emphasized career advancement. The campaigns drew two distinct groups of candidates. While the career advancement campaign... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education; Health

16 May 2012
Research & Ideas

Can Decades of Military Overspending be Fixed?

illustrate the complexity of modern weapon systems. The Air Force F-22 is an advanced fighter aircraft that replaces the F-15 as America's front-line, air superiority fighter. Thirty-nine percent of the F-22 aircraft is fabricated with... View Details

Keywords: by J. Ronald Fox; Service

15 Mar 2011
First Look

First Look: March 15

system of expense allocation, and anti-inversion legislation—reflect the intuition that building "strong fences" around the United States advances American interests. This paper examines the interaction of a strong fences policy... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

What Football Firings Teach Managers About Staying Relevant

unique to sports, of course. Based on our surveys with executives from a wide range of fields, the rate at which managers lose relevance has increased dramatically, even over just the last decade. The world is changing faster than ever before; technological View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Evan M.S. Hecht, and Abhijit Naik; Sports

08 Apr 2016
Research & Ideas

How to Hire a Millennial

picturesque suburb. Instead, global workplace surveys portray a generation that yearns for more flexible work arrangements and prioritizes work-life balance over career progression. Millennials want to View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Fuller

29 May 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018

Supplements the (A) case. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/218099-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 418-007 Christine Lagarde The case covers the youth and career trajectory of Christine Lagarde across her time at... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

29 Oct 2020
Research & Ideas

The COVID Gender Gap: Why Fewer Women Are Dying

While all of these countries are part of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and all have high income per capita and advanced health care systems, each was affected differently by the pandemic. The United States,... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health

21 Feb 2012
Research & Ideas

Leadership Program for Women Targets Subtle Promotion Biases

participants in understanding and shaping who they are and who they can become. Anchor participants on their leadership purpose. WLPs redirect the participants away from a single-minded focus on career View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

17 Apr 2013
Research Event

Conference Challenges Gender Conventions

included presentations by Shelley Correll (Stanford University), Pamela Stone (CUNY), and Irene Padavic (Florida State University) and conference cochair Robin Ely. Padavic and Ely discussed why work/family initiatives have failed to View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

27 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

Creating Leaders for Science-Based Businesses

Ph.D. in biology and a former biology professor at Harvard, has also had a 25-year career in drug development and biotech companies, leading both R&D and business functions. She teaches the MBA elective Inventing Breakthroughs and... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Biotechnology; Health

21 Jun 2011
First Look

First Look: June 21

career in investment banking/investment management are associated with exposure drafts perceived as decreasing accounting "reliability"; and FASB members' affiliations with the Democratic Party are associated with proposing... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 Jan 2013
Research & Ideas

Altruistic Capital: Harnessing Your Employees’ Intrinsic Goodwill

campaigns drew two distinct groups of candidates. While the career advancement campaign attracted a group that had more qualifications and was more technically knowledgeable, the community-focused candidates... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

08 Sep 2015
First Look

September 8, 2015

in press Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Compared to Men, Women View Professional Advancement as Equally Attainable, but Less Desirable By: Gino, Francesca, Caroline A. Wilmuth, and Alison... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

11 Apr 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, April 11

forthcoming Journal of Accounting & Economics Career Concerns of Banking Analysts By: Horton, Joanne, George Serafeim, and Shan Wu Abstract—We study how career concerns influence banking analysts'... View Details

08 May 2013
Research & Ideas

A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity

time: from a logic of bias (women presented as victims of unequal treatment), to a logic of underrepresentation (women presented as stuck at lower levels of organizations), to a logic of work-family conflict (women's career View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting

25 Jun 2013
First Look

First Look: June 25

processes to provide managers throughout P&G with direct access to up-to-date data and advanced analytics. In addition, GBS has embedded analysts within the business units to work alongside leaders and managers in driving real-time... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

18 Oct 2010
Lessons from the Classroom

Venture Capital’s Disconnect with Clean Tech

MBA students often fall into one of two categories—those hungry to rush into careers as venture capitalists, and those eager to found a venture-funded start-up. For all of them, Harvard Business School professor Joseph Lassiter has some intriguing advice: Spend a few... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Energy; Utilities; Financial Services

12 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

What Great American Leaders Teach Us

post-doctoral fellows Courtney Purrington and Kim Eric Bettcher. In their working paper, The American CEO in the Twentieth Century: Demography and Career Path, they chronicle the evolution of the CEO title, citing its first official use... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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