Gender

I was just a year out of college, and interviewing for a sales assistant position at PaineWebber. One of my prospective bosses offered me $24,000. I countered with $27,000. He pulled out his calculator like a gun from a holster, punched in $3,000, divided it by 52, and in a clipped tone responded, “That’s only […]

Based on interviews and interactions with hundreds of women.

Their experience of working on the site may explain.

On 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 […]

According to a recent study.

A look at the numbers debunks the stereotypes.

A simple step can help women gain ground in heavily male-dominated fields.

The company prioritized hiring more women and a broader mix of nationalities.

A much-quoted study from a few years back shows that companies with high numbers of female directors on their boards perform substantially better on three metrics—return on equity, return on sales, and return on invested capital—than companies with very few or no female directors. A group of researchers led by Harvard sociologist Frank Dobbin is […]

Research shows the maternal wall is an obstacle regardless of whether women plan to have children or not.

From hiring to feedback to exit interviews.

If you're still hiring more men than women, your system has a design flaw.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Harvard Business School professor and regular blogger for HBR.org, explains why women’s compensation and advancement to the highest ranks have failed to keep pace with their impressive inroads into the workforce.

No matter how old you are, someone will argue you’re the wrong age.

Every day, of course, is a good day to work on improving the way that you engage and communicate with your people. But it never hurts to have a special...

And what leaders can do to prevent it.

There should be more ways to be "a man."

And other important findings from a huge new study of U.S. Census Bureau data.

Only 12% of the CEOs of large U.S. financial firms are women.

Four things organizations need to do.

The first female chief executive officer (CEO) of Vancouver City Savings Credit Union (Vancity) believes in the importance of developing a positive workplace...

After a year filled with the highs of entrepreneurial success and the lows of personal hardships, Whitney Wolfe was considering starting a new venture-a...

This collection of exercises aims to teach students about 1)Targeting Policies; and 2)Algorithmic bias in marketing-implications, causes, and possible...

Stichting Het Potentieel Pakken (HPP) was launched to solve a systemic problem in the Dutch Labor Market: gender inequity that was leading to a large...

In 2000, media superstar Oprah Winfrey promised the recently retired Nelson Mandela, first president of post-apartheid South Africa, that she would build...

A career professional at a major consumer goods company, Kym Lew Nelson is hoping to negotiate a promotion to vice president, which would make her one...

Third Place Winner; 2022 DEI Global Case Writing Competition. Ashima Patel, senior vice president and chief diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) officer...

Set in April 2022, the case chronicles how Kering-owned luxury-fashion house Gucci underwent a comprehensive creative and cultural transformation, making...

This case should accompany the (A) and (C) cases, "Gender and Free Speech at Google" (318085) and (319097).

In 2018, New York Times writer Nicholas Kristof and his wife, former Times writer Sheryl WuDunn (HBS '86) who worked in finance, were planning for their...

Supplement case for W14562.

Gender equity can't happen without racial equity. We need Shared Sisterhood. Bias persists in organizations and society. Despite efforts that have been...

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...

Overworked? Overwhelmed? Protect yourself from burnout. The amount of work placed on women is often insurmountable. Along with doing what's required for...

Jessica Johnson-Cope, CEO of Johnson Security Bureau (JSB), pondered options for scaling the firm. JSB was the oldest Black-owned security firm in New...

The case is about the decision to convert a not-for-profit organization into a for-profit company. STFC, which is part of a larger non-profit organization...

Discusses the negotiation of a possible trademark infringement involving a German conglomerate and a Taiwanese trading firm.

This case introduces CEO activism, a phenomenon in which business leaders engage in political or social issues that do not relate directly to their companies....

This field-based case uses the challenges an elementary school principal encountered during her first year as a seasoned professional in an underperforming...

How leaders behave in difficult situations are an important part of controlling their narrative. This public-sourced case provides students an opportunity...

I was just a year out of college, and interviewing for a sales assistant position at PaineWebber. One of my prospective bosses offered me $24,000. I countered with $27,000. He pulled out his calculator like a gun from a holster, punched in $3,000, divided it by 52, and in a clipped tone responded, “That’s only […]

Based on interviews and interactions with hundreds of women.

Their experience of working on the site may explain.

On 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 […]

According to a recent study.

A look at the numbers debunks the stereotypes.

A simple step can help women gain ground in heavily male-dominated fields.

The company prioritized hiring more women and a broader mix of nationalities.

A much-quoted study from a few years back shows that companies with high numbers of female directors on their boards perform substantially better on three metrics—return on equity, return on sales, and return on invested capital—than companies with very few or no female directors. A group of researchers led by Harvard sociologist Frank Dobbin is […]

Research shows the maternal wall is an obstacle regardless of whether women plan to have children or not.