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- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Shattering Glass
Gender Initiative Director Colleen Ammerman and HBS professor Boris Groysberg ask why. When women made up the majority of college-educated workers in the United States in 2019, why are they still dramatically underrepresented in the ranks... View Details
- October 2022
- Case
Colette Phillips and GetKonnected!: Creating Inclusive Ecosystems
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Amy Chiu and Joyce Kim
Colette Phillips’ marketing firm had just won the City of Boston’s 2nd largest contract in history to a Black-owned company. During the Covid-19 pandemic, Get Konnected!, the networking organization for people of color that she founded 15 years earlier and led to... View Details
Keywords: Diversity; Ecosystem; Inclusion; People Of Color; Network; Racial Bias; Gender Bias; Entrepreneurial Ecosystem; Entrepreneur; Change; Change Barriers; Change Leadership; Community; Innovation; Pandemic; Impact; Systemic Racism; Minority-owned Businesses; Social and Collaborative Networks; Equity; Race; Small Business; Prejudice and Bias; Boston
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, Amy Chiu, and Joyce Kim. "Colette Phillips and GetKonnected!: Creating Inclusive Ecosystems." Harvard Business School Case 323-035, October 2022.
- 18 Jun 2024
- Research & Ideas
What Your Non-Binary Employees Need to Do Their Best Work
When Katherine Coffman presents her research findings about how gender stereotypes shape the behavior of men and women in the workplace, she is often asked: What about non-binary individuals? “People understandably keep asking, ‘What... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- February 2023
- Teaching Note
Colette Phillips and GetKonnected: Creating Inclusive Ecosystems
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 323-035. View Details
Keywords: Diversity; Ecosystem; Inclusion; People Of Color; Network; Racial Bias; Gender Bias; Entrepreneur; Entrepreneurial Ecosystems; Change; Change Barriers; Change Leadership; Community; Innovation; Pandemic; Impact; Systemic Racism; Minority-owned Businesses; Social and Collaborative Networks; Equity; Race; Small Business; Prejudice and Bias; Boston
- 08 Mar 2021
- News
The Long Road Ahead for Women in Corporate India
- 14 Sep 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Google Engineer Deserved to be Fired by the CEO
Google CEO Sundar Pichai. Credit: Steven Zimmerman/Wikipedia Commons Google software engineer James Damore’s ten-page manifesto excoriating his employer for its diversity initiatives incited a major controversy in August about... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 06 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018
Diversity and Firm Performance By: Zhang, Letian Abstract—How does a firm’s gender diversity affect its performance? Existing work has shown conflicting evidence—some finding a... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- Awards
Best Paper Based on a Dissertation, GDO division of AOM
Awarded Best Paper Based on a Dissertation by the Gender and Diversity in Organizations (GDO) Division of the Academy of Management for “Sanctioned Radicals: Comparing Collective Organizing Around Race and Gender Inside Organizations” in 2020. View Details
- 2017
- Performance & Appearance
How Fabulous is too Fabulous? The Masculinity Dilemmas of Daring Dressers at Work
- October 2019
- Case
Harlem Capital: Changing the Face of Entrepreneurship (A)
By: George Serafeim
Jarrid Tingle and Henri Pierre-Jacques had spent the summer between their first and second years of their Harvard Business School MBA program fund raising for their start-up venture capital (VC) firm, Harlem Capital Partners. Harlem Capital was founded upon the... View Details
Keywords: Impact Investing; Gender Bias; Gender Inequality; Minority Representation; Entrepreneurial Finance; Investment Management; Investing; Inequality; Race And Ethnicity; Black Entrepreneurs; Black Inventors; Black Leadership; Venture Investing; Fund Raising; Venture Capital; Entrepreneurship; Diversity; Gender; Race; Equality and Inequality; Equity; Mission and Purpose; Investment Funds; Financial Services Industry; United States
Serafeim, George, and David Freiberg. "Harlem Capital: Changing the Face of Entrepreneurship (A)." Harvard Business School Case 120-040, October 2019.
- 2022
- Working Paper
ESG Performance and Voluntary ESG Disclosure: Mind the (Gender Pay) Gap
By: June Huang and Shirley Lu
We study if firms with better ESG performance are more likely to provide voluntary ESG disclosure, an assumption embedded in many ESG ratings. We focus on gender diversity and proxy for performance using a firm's gender pay gap ("GPG") disclosed under a UK disclosure... View Details
Huang, June, and Shirley Lu. "ESG Performance and Voluntary ESG Disclosure: Mind the (Gender Pay) Gap." SSRN Working Paper Series, No. 3708257, May 2022.
- September 2016 (Revised August 2018)
- Case
State Street—The Development and Growth of SHE
By: Vikram Gandhi
State Street Global Advisors was the investment arm of State Street Corporation, one of the largest custodians and asset managers in the world with over $2.3 trillion in assets under management. Inspired by demand from a large pension fund client for better gender... View Details
Gandhi, Vikram. "State Street—The Development and Growth of SHE." Harvard Business School Case 317-040, September 2016. (Revised August 2018.)
- 31 Oct 2019
- Video
María Emilia Correa
María Emilia Correa, co-founder of Sistema B, a Latin American organization promoting B Corporations and sustainability, discusses the importance of gender diversity on corporate boards and... View Details
- 09 Jul 2020
- Video
Sylvia Escovar
Sylvia Escovar, the President of the Colombia-based oil and gas distribution company Terpel, discusses the challenges she faced as a female executive, and how gender diversity is a huge asset for companies. View Details
- September 2013
- Article
Women Rising: The Unseen Barriers
By: Herminia Ibarra, Robin Ely and Deborah Kolb
Even when CEOs make gender diversity a priority—by setting aspirational goals for the proportion of women in leadership roles, insisting on diverse slates of candidates for senior positions, and developing mentoring and training programs—they are often frustrated by a... View Details
Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Leadership Development; Working Conditions; Organizational Culture; Gender; Diversity
Ibarra, Herminia, Robin Ely, and Deborah Kolb. "Women Rising: The Unseen Barriers." R1309C. Harvard Business Review 91, no. 9 (September 2013): 60–66.
- 13 May 2020
- Video
Cas Coovadia
Cas Coovadia, the long-running Managing Director of the Banking Association South Africa, discusses the reasons for the lack of gender diversity in South African financial services, and calls for deliberate... View Details
- 31 Oct 2013
- News
What Board Directors Really Do in Their Free Time
- Video
Nicolás Jodal
Nicolás Jodal, Co-Founder and CEO of GeneXus, describes how the gender balance in systems engineering has unexpectedly changed over time in Uruguay, while expressing his commitment to diversity as both a foundational aspect and a deliberate business strategy. View Details