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  • April 2, 2013
  • Article

Has the Glass Ceiling Been Shattered for Women Leading Major Companies?

By: Regina E. Herzlinger
With all the talk recently about the need for women to "lean in," the phrase that has gained instant currency with the publication of Sheryl Sandberg's book about how women should act more aggressively in pursuing their careers, it is worth asking: Has the glass... View Details
Keywords: Women And Leadership; Women; Glass Ceiling; Leadership; Personal Development and Career; Gender
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  • 2021
  • Book

Glass Half-Broken: Shattering the Barriers That Still Hold Women Back at Work

By: Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg
Why does the gender gap persist and how can we close it? For years women have made up the majority of college-educated workers in the United States. In 2019, the gap between the percentage of women and the percentage of men in the workforce was the smallest on record.... View Details
Keywords: Women; Career; Gender Gap; Glass Ceiling; Gender; Employment; Personal Development and Career; Equality and Inequality; Organizational Culture; Diversity; Management; Strategy
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  • June 2014
  • Article

How Non-Native Speakers Can Crack the Glass Ceiling

By: Laura Huang, Marcia Frideger and Jone L. Pearce
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  • 06 Mar 2019
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Has the Glass Ceiling Been Broken (or at Least Cracked)?

On Friday, we will celebrate International Women's Day 2019, an annual event to promote the advancement of gender equality and gauge our progress across many domains. In business, researchers tell us, progress is happening but is still slow. There are more women on... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • April 2021
  • Case

Glass-Shattering Leaders: Ilene H. Lang

By: Boris Groysberg and Colleen Ammerman
Ilene Lang started her career in technology at a time when the tech sector was new and women had only recently entered the workplace in large numbers. Over the next thirty years, she built a career spanning large and small tech companies, leading global teams and... View Details
Keywords: Glass Ceiling; Leadership; Gender; Power and Influence
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  • April 2021
  • Case

Glass-Shattering Leaders: Barbara Hackman Franklin

By: Boris Groysberg and Colleen Ammerman
Barbara Hackman Franklin was one of the first women to earn an MBA from Harvard Business School. She went on to break barriers in the private and public sectors, rising to leadership positions in business and government. In the 1970s, she led a successful White House... View Details
Keywords: Glass Ceiling; Leadership; Gender; Power and Influence
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  • April 2021
  • Case

Glass-Shattering Leaders: Ana Paula Pessoa

By: Boris Groysberg and Colleen Ammerman
Ana Paula Pessoa built a career at the largest media conglomerate in Latin America, combining a passion for digital transformation with a commitment to doing work that had a positive impact on society. Having grown up during a dictatorial military regime in Brazil, the... View Details
Keywords: Glass Ceiling; Leadership; Gender; Power and Influence
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  • 13 Apr 2021
  • Book

How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations

world in which his two daughters can follow their ambitions, without a ceiling that limits their potential. On a practical level, Ammerman and Groysberg hope Glass Half-Broken helps women understand what... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • Research Summary

Searching for a Corporate Savior: The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs ( Princeton University Press, October 2002)

By: Rakesh Khurana
In this book, I argue that the external CEO labor market was born in a burst of rhetoric about wresting control of corporations away from a group of self-interested insiders, as senior managers in the era of managerial capitalism had come to be portrayed. The rationale... View Details
  • 13 Dec 2021
  • Research & Ideas

The Unlikely Upside of Mergers: More Diverse Management Teams

marginalized racial and ethnic groups were 54 percent less likely to be promoted than whites, and women were 36 percent less likely to be promoted than men, despite diversity efforts by advocates and government regulators. Bias-driven workplace practices didn’t just... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
  • 21 Jul 2009
  • Research Event

Business Summit: Managing Human Capital—Global Trends and Challenges

Investments in early childhood development are investments in a society's future human capital. The glass ceiling not only holds back women, it holds back business competitiveness. A sound diversity strategy... View Details
Keywords: Re: David A. Thomas
  • 13 Aug 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Women Heart Patients Have Better Survival Odds with Women Doctors

for Disease Control. In the emergency room as a business, the customer lives or dies. "Here we find that who you are and who is advocating for you, who is treating you, is making a difference" “This is really like a glass View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

What It Takes: Minorities in the Executive Suite

Express; Solomon Trujillo, president and CEO of U S West Communications; and Ann Fudge, president of Maxwell House Coffee Company and Post Cereals? How did these people of color overcome the odds and break through the glass View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
  • 31 Jan 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Taking the Fear out of Diversity Policies

not mean putting a positive spin on a sorry situation—an organization at which only 1 percent of executives are minorities, for example. Rather, it means looking at the exception to the rule and studying the factors that made that exception possible. "Most... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 25 Mar 2014
  • Research & Ideas

China’s Economic System has Difficult Road Overcoming its Political System

answer is the political system. It is enabling, but it is also highly limiting—there is a glass ceiling beyond which talent can't rise." Competing Against The State State-owned banks exist to support... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 11 Nov 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Women Entrepreneurs Usher in the Next Generation

you either have to have money or position," she said. The glass ceiling is real, she added. "Money is what you need to change the world. We get both power and position when we get money. All of us... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 17 Apr 2013
  • Research Event

Conference Challenges Gender Conventions

spoke about how glass ceilings don't apply to black women—when they look up, they see a concrete wall. And she argued for another conference on changing academic roles, to combat what she sees as fear among... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

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