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How HBR Has Covered Women and Business
Global Business Big IdeaOver the course of its century-long history, HBR has evolved significantly in its coverage of women and business. At first the magazine barely acknowledged... -
Where the Race for Talent Is Tight, Women Gain Speed
Gender Digital ArticleIn fast-growing markets, women are getting ahead faster, too. -
Walgreens CEO Roz Brewer to Leaders: Put Your Phones Away and Listen to Employees
Global Business Digital ArticleBrewer says inclusion and equity are about making employees feel seen and heard. -
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.” -
What Research Tells Us About How Women Are Treated at Work
Global Business Digital ArticleSix of the most important studies we covered in 2017. -
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. -
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 […] -
Why Women Don't Negotiate Their Job Offers
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3 Ways Tech Companies Are Offering Parental Leave
Personnel policies Digital ArticleTwo of them don’t really work. -
Research: Women Are Better Leaders During a Crisis
Gender Digital ArticleAn analysis of 360-degree assessments done during the pandemic. -
Why the C-Suite Needs Women of Color
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleWhen Avon Products Inc. announced that CEO Andrea Jung would step down next year, investors and corporate leadership gurus cheered. I get Wall Street's... -
Ambitious Women Face More Obstacles than Just Work-Life Balance
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleThe reasons women don't reach the top go beyond having it all and leaning in. -
Collaboration's Hidden Tax on Women's Careers
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleA few years ago we hosted a seminar for 150 businesswomen. The topic for the morning was "Power: Do Women Really Want It?" Just imagine the noise level... -
Gender, Race, and Heartache in the Race for the Presidency
Global Business 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... -
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.
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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. -
Watch Out for These 3 Gender Biases in Performance Reviews
Employee performance management Digital ArticleIdentify the practices that lead organizations to overvalue the work of men. -
Women in Leadership Face Ageism at Every Age
Age and generational issues Digital ArticleNo matter how old you are, someone will argue you’re the wrong age.
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Motorola-Penang
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details S.K. Ko managed Motorola's Penang, Malaysia factory, producing telecommunications components and equipment. As a female manager of a multi-ethnic and... -
Hailey's Handbags: Customer Complaints or Cyberbullying?
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details The owner of Hailey's Handbags, a New England-based online business selling handmade products, had successfully grown her company using a limited-release... -
A Supreme Case of Coolness?
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details This case uses Supreme, a skater-clothing brand from New York City, and a framework for understanding the concept of "coolness" (see ""A General Theory... -
Diversity versus Inclusion
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details This exercise puts students into the role of an associate at a marketing and sales agency. They are asked to develop specific recommendations to present... -
Burro: Tools for a Better Life in Ghana
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Burro was a growing start-up in Ghana with a mission to provide "tools for a better life" to Ghanaians by distributing products that addressed local needs.... -
CIBC: Fostering an Inclusive Culture, Leading with Gender
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details In June 2013, the senior vice-president of talent management of the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC), recognized an organizational need at the... -
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... -
Maidenform Bras
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Uses Ida Rosenthal's entrepreneurship in brassieres to explore how economic, social, and demographic changes reshaped gender and business enterprises... -
Eliminating the Gender Pay Gap: Gap Inc. Leads the Way
Communication Case Study11.95View Details This case examines Gap Inc. as a trailblazer in gender pay equality with a focus on investing in gender equity in leadership. Since Gap Inc. made history... -
Williams HR Law: Aligning Growth with Purpose and Values
Management Case Study11.95View Details The case highlights the challenges encountered by Laura Williams, founder and owner of Williams HR Law, a firm based in Toronto, Ontario, providing a... -
Broadway Angels (2022)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details In late June of 2022, Sonja Perkins, co-founder of Broadway Angels, contemplated the group's future. She and her co-founders, Jennifer Fonstad, and Magdalena... -
Glass-Shattering Leaders: Ros Atkins
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details Ros Atkins launched the 50:50 Project on a BBC news program he anchored, deciding with his team to start tracking the gender of the contributors and experts... -
Women Entrepreneurs in an Emerging Economy Environment: Morocco
Management Case Study11.95View Details Women entrepreneurs (WEs) operate at all levels of society in Morocco. But, what it is really like to be a self-employed woman in this emerging economy?... -
Gender Diversity on Boards: Views from Norway
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details The issue of gender diversity on boards has received increased attention in U.S markets over the past few years. In 2018, California introduced a law... -
Valentina Tereshkova: Conquering Space
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details On June 13, 1963, Valentina Tereshkova of the USSR became the first woman to fly in space on Vostok 6. Soviet leaders publicly espoused gender equity,... -
Out for Blood: Tyler Shultz and Theranos (A)
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details In early 2014, recent Stanford University graduate Tyler Shultz was in a quandary. He had been working at Theranos, a blood-diagnostic company founded... -
5 Years of Must Reads from HBR: 2023 Edition (5 Books)
Management Book115.00View Details Five years' worth of management wisdom, all in one place. Get the latest, most significant thinking from the pages of Harvard Business Review in "5 Years... -
CEO Activism (B)
Global Business Case Study5.00View Details Supplement to case 617001. -
Marsha Simms: Trailblazer in Corporate Law
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Follows the journey of lawyer Marsha Simms from her childhood in racially-segregated St. Louis to the upper echelons of the New York legal community....
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How HBR Has Covered Women and Business
Global Business Big IdeaOver the course of its century-long history, HBR has evolved significantly in its coverage of women and business. At first the magazine barely acknowledged... -
Where the Race for Talent Is Tight, Women Gain Speed
Gender Digital ArticleIn fast-growing markets, women are getting ahead faster, too. -
Walgreens CEO Roz Brewer to Leaders: Put Your Phones Away and Listen to Employees
Global Business Digital ArticleBrewer says inclusion and equity are about making employees feel seen and heard. -
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.” -
Motorola-Penang
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details S.K. Ko managed Motorola's Penang, Malaysia factory, producing telecommunications components and equipment. As a female manager of a multi-ethnic and... -
What Research Tells Us About How Women Are Treated at Work
Global Business Digital ArticleSix of the most important studies we covered in 2017. -
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. -
Hailey's Handbags: Customer Complaints or Cyberbullying?
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details The owner of Hailey's Handbags, a New England-based online business selling handmade products, had successfully grown her company using a limited-release... -
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.