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Stop Undervaluing Exceptional Women
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleResearchers found that companies assume talented men will job hop to further their careers, while talented women will stay loyal. -
Minority Women Report Downsizing Their Ambitions Because of Bias
Global Business Digital ArticleAnd it's hurting the companies they work for. -
Where the Race for Talent Is Tight, Women Gain Speed
Gender Digital ArticleIn fast-growing markets, women are getting ahead faster, too. -
Missing Women, Empty Talent Pipelines, and CEO Compensation
Gender Digital ArticleWhat do the career prospects of female scientists, the general chaos of the mid-career managers’ life, the failure to adequately develop new cadres of leaders internally, and escalating CEO compensation have in common? Let me suggest that these are interrelated phenomena whose connections with one another may be poorly understood. Let’s start with female scientists. […] -
Asia’s Key New Segment: Powerful, Professional Women
International business Digital ArticleCareer-oriented women are increasingly flexing their spending muscle. Here’s how companies can reach these “Golden Misses.” -
Management Women and the New Facts of Life
Managing people Magazine ArticleTwo facts matter to business: only women have babies and only men make rules. -
Chinese Activists Are Using Blockchain to Document #MeToo Stories
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleThe technology is helping them bypass online censorship. -
We Interviewed 57 Female CEOs to Find Out How More Women Can Get to the Top
Gender Digital ArticleA survey shows specific traits are critical to women’s success. -
Why Banning Questions About Salary History May Not Improve Pay Equity
Gender Digital ArticleA survey reveals the potential for hidden biases. -
Research: Why Gender Bias Persists, Even When Organizations Try to Curb It
Diversity and inclusion Digital ArticleIn one company, managers were able to reduce gendered descriptions of employee traits and behaviors — but not how they valued and rewarded them. -
Should Ann Livermore Move beyond HP?
Gender Digital ArticleOn this blog, I’ve speculated on the factors that lead to highly talented women dropping out of their once-chosen careers and thus not being available to take the next step, leading to one consequence that these folks are not available in the pool of candidates for top jobs. With this as backdrop, it was fascinating […] -
Why Are India’s Women So Stressed Out?
Stress management Digital ArticleTapping its rich mine of educated female talent has been an important factor in allowing India to become one of the world’s fastest-growing economies. But recently this particular dynamo has been showing signs of strain. According to “Women of Tomorrow,” a recent Nielsen survey of 6,500 women across 21 different nations, Indian women are the […] -
3 Ways Tech Companies Are Offering Parental Leave
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Research: Women Are Better Leaders During a Crisis
Gender Digital ArticleAn analysis of 360-degree assessments done during the pandemic. -
Banks with More Women on Their Boards Commit Less Fraud
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleWhen researchers from Cass Business School compared data on board diversity with fines levied for misconduct, they found that banks with more female directors... -
Research: Being Funny Can Pay Off More for Women Than Men
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleAn analysis of TED talks and startup pitches suggests humor can help women break free from the warmth-competence double bind. -
How Business Schools Can Help Close the Gender Gap
Gender Digital ArticleFemale instructors in quantitative courses can lead more women into finance, consulting, and consumer technology. -
Truths for Our Daughters
Career planning Digital ArticleWhat a female executive wishes someone had told her earlier. -
How Companies Can Meet the Needs of a Changing Workforce
Age and generational issues Digital ArticleGender and age trends are redefining the “standard” career trajectory. -
Gender, Race, and Heartache in the Race for the Presidency
Government Digital ArticleMy colleagues in Canada find the U.S. Presidential campaign process exceedingly odd – months and months of debate. What’s the purpose? But I don’t mind the length. I wonder if the process isn’t as much about finding ourselves – sorting out our current national personality – as it is about the candidates finding us. They […]
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Research: When Employees Identify with Their Company, They’re Less Likely to Recognize Gender Discrimination
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More Women Work in Nonprofits. So Why Do Men End Up Leading Them?
Gender Digital ArticleData from 1 million nonprofit workers show that men have an easier pathway to leadership — and suggests how to level the playing field. -
Research: How to Close the Gender Gap in Startup Financing
Business and society Digital ArticleThree ways policymakers, financiers, and other stakeholders can mitigate gender bias in entrepreneurial funding. -
What Demographics Forms Say About Inclusivity at Your Company
Diversity and inclusion Digital ArticleTwo low-cost, low-risk suggestions that can boost belonging. -
Research: How Women Can Build High-Status Networks
Gender Digital ArticleCompanies can help women overcome common obstacles they face when trying to forge powerful professional ties. -
How to Build an Intersectional Approach to Talent Management
Intersectionality Digital ArticleMany organizations now realize that their struggles with workplace culture and recruitment may stem from a monolithic approach to policies, processes, and mindsets. -
A Better Way for Companies to Address Pay Gaps
Business ethics Digital ArticleBy using a structured analysis, organizations can truly begin to deliver on the promise of pay equity. -
What You Can Do to Advance Equity
Management VideoYou don't have to be a leader to make a difference. To improve equity in the workplace, diversify your network and find strength in numbers. -
How Companies Can Support Employees Experiencing Menopause
Diversity and inclusion Digital ArticleInaction will be increasingly costly for organizations. -
Research: Why Gender Bias Persists, Even When Organizations Try to Curb It
Diversity and inclusion Digital ArticleIn one company, managers were able to reduce gendered descriptions of employee traits and behaviors — but not how they valued and rewarded them. -
3 Ways Men Can Advance Gender Equity at Work
Diversity and inclusion Digital ArticleThe majority of men report that they care about the issue. Here’s what’s holding them back from enacting change. -
Research: How Women Improve Decision-Making on Boards
Gender Digital ArticleEvidence suggests they enable deeper, more nuanced boardroom discussions. -
Overcoming Today’s DEI Leadership Challenges
Diversity and inclusion Big IdeaAn interview with former VICE Media chief people officer Daisy Auger-Domínguez. -
Where Does DEI Go from Here?
Diversity and inclusion Big IdeaFostering four freedoms can benefit employees and companies alike. -
The Next Phase of DEI
Management Digital Article"The Next Phase of DEI" Big Idea features the following three articles. In "Where Does DEI Go from Here?", author Laura Morgan Roberts, a researcher in... -
When Diversity Meets Feedback
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Jim Fielding, Ex-Head of Disney Stores, on the Struggles of Making It as a Queer Executive
Business and society Digital ArticleWorking–and living–inauthentically can cause stress, mental illness, or worse. -
How a Remote Australian Mine Became a Gender-Balanced Workplace
Gender Digital ArticleThe transformation sheds light on how sexist and homophobic cultures in male-dominated industries can change. -
What SCOTUS’s Affirmative Action Decision Means for Corporate DEI
Diversity and inclusion Digital ArticleEven if the law continues to evolve in a conservative direction, at least three common approaches to diversity, equity, and inclusion will endure. -
How Managers Can Dismantle “Benevolent Marginalization”
Diversity and inclusion Digital ArticleWhat some managers see as help actually prevents marginalized people from advocating for themselves.
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Glass-Shattering Leaders: Ana Paula Pessoa
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details Ana Paula Pessoa built a career at the largest media conglomerate in Latin America, combining a passion for digital transformation with a commitment to... -
T-Systems South Africa: Commencing Turnaround through Women's Contextual Leadership
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details In late 2016, the board chair of T-Systems South Africa (TSSA), an information technology outsourcing company, faced a new challenge. As the previous... -
Empirical Chemicals, Ltd. (B): Merseyside and Rotterdam Projects
Finance & Accounting Case Study5.00View Details Cases Empirical Chemicals (A) and (B) consider the capital-investment decisions to be made by executives of this large chemicals firm in January 1992.... -
Pay Scales
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details The only female senior partner at a boutique management consulting firm has found out that she is paid less than half of what male partners were making... -
Inclusion and Diversity at Mars Petcare
Management Case Study11.95View Details In 2018, Erica Coletta became Mars Petcare's Chief Human Resources Officer, and immediately found herself dealing with high-stakes inclusion and diversity... -
Aspiration, Action, Determination: Zhu Jing, Founder of Sunkwan Group
Management Case Study11.95View Details The case illustrates Zhu Jing's entrepreneurial story from three stages: aspiration, action, and determination. The case presents the challenges that... -
Glass-Shattering Leaders: Michele Hooper
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details Michele Hooper joined the board of the Dayton-Hudson Corporation when she was in her late thirties, becoming the company's youngest director as well as... -
FINANCE FOR A SUSTAINABLE SOCIETY AT TRIODOS INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT: AN ESG PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT DECISION
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details This case provides the opportunity to perform a real, but simplified, ESG research analysis and portfolio investment decision from the perspective of... -
Out for Blood: Tyler Shultz and Theranos (D)
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Jan Swartz: Steering Princess Cruises Through the COVID-19 Crisis
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details In the summer of 2020, Jan Swartz, President of Princess Cruises, was persevering to lead her company back from the depths of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Diamond... -
Maison Chloé: Driving purposeful transformation for sustainability
Management Case Study11.95View Details At luxury fashion house Maison Chloé, minds were focused on the first collection of new Creative Director, Gabriela Hearst, which was just hitting the... -
IKEA in Saudi Arabia (B)
Finance & Accounting Case Study5.00View Details Supplement to case 116015. A Swedish newspaper reveals that IKEA has erased all images of women from its catalog for Saudi Arabia. The article sparks... -
Helga Wear: The Unzipped Potential of Women's Workwear
Management Case Study11.95View Details The case traces the story of Jodi Huettner, a mechanical engineer, and her journey to launch Helga Wear Inc. (Helga Wear), a company that developed personal... -
Kaweyan: Female Entrepreneurship and the Past and Future of Afghanistan
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details Explores the challenges of female entrepreneurship in Afghanistan through the case of Kemeli Sediqi, who built a business under the Taliban, and founded... -
Dove and Real Beauty: Building a Brand with Purpose
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Unilever subsidiary Dove soap became a "brand with a purpose" and created shared value when the company decided to launch a Campaign for Real Beauty to... -
Shifting the Diversity Climate: The Sodexo Solution
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details This case profiles the evolution of Sodexo's diversity initiative. Diversity became a key priority for Sodexo, North America in 2001 after a class-action... -
Shelly Sun at BrightStar Care: The Evolution of a Leader
Management Case Study11.95View Details Shelly Sun had founded BrightStar Care, a home health care and medical staffing agency, 20 years earlier and had grown the business to over 300 franchised... -
Thomas Cook Group on the Brink (A)
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Harriett Green, the newly appointed CEO of Thomas Cook Group, faces a daunting set of business and financial challenges at the 171-year old UK travel... -
Junko Yoda and Her Collaboration to Address Sex Trafficking in Asia
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details In 2011, Junko Yoda with Pam McCambridge launched CLinked, a venture aimed to reduce human trafficking of women and children for sexual exploitation....
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Stop Undervaluing Exceptional Women
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleResearchers found that companies assume talented men will job hop to further their careers, while talented women will stay loyal. -
Minority Women Report Downsizing Their Ambitions Because of Bias
Global Business Digital ArticleAnd it's hurting the companies they work for. -
Where the Race for Talent Is Tight, Women Gain Speed
Gender Digital ArticleIn fast-growing markets, women are getting ahead faster, too. -
Missing Women, Empty Talent Pipelines, and CEO Compensation
Gender Digital ArticleWhat do the career prospects of female scientists, the general chaos of the mid-career managers’ life, the failure to adequately develop new cadres of leaders internally, and escalating CEO compensation have in common? Let me suggest that these are interrelated phenomena whose connections with one another may be poorly understood. Let’s start with female scientists. […] -
Asia’s Key New Segment: Powerful, Professional Women
International business Digital ArticleCareer-oriented women are increasingly flexing their spending muscle. Here’s how companies can reach these “Golden Misses.” -
Management Women and the New Facts of Life
Managing people Magazine ArticleTwo facts matter to business: only women have babies and only men make rules. -
Chinese Activists Are Using Blockchain to Document #MeToo Stories
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleThe technology is helping them bypass online censorship. -
We Interviewed 57 Female CEOs to Find Out How More Women Can Get to the Top
Gender Digital ArticleA survey shows specific traits are critical to women’s success. -
How Young Women Can Overcome Obstacles in the Corporate World
Leadership & Managing People AdviceKnow your worth, and make it known. -
Why Banning Questions About Salary History May Not Improve Pay Equity
Gender Digital ArticleA survey reveals the potential for hidden biases.