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- 15 Sep 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
From Bench to Board: Gender Differences in University Scientists’ Participation in Commercial Science
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RaGE Report - Race, Gender & Equity
gender gap in recruitment and empower women in the workplace, business leaders must rethink how they recruit and promote talent. Harvard Business School Professor Katherine Coffman finds the key is seeking...
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- 10 Nov 2022
- Research & Ideas
Too Nice to Lead? Unpacking the Gender Stereotype That Holds Women Back
and hold fewer seats on the boards of Fortune 500 companies. Researchers have investigated everything from women’s behavior during pay negotiations to their choice of jobs in order to understand why this gap exists. Exley collaborated on...
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by Shalene Gupta
- 2010
- Working Paper
From Bench to Board: Gender Differences in University Scientists' Participation in Commercial Science
This paper examines gender differences in the participation of university life science faculty in commercial science. Based on theory and field interviews, we develop hypotheses regarding how scientists' productivity, co-authorship networks, and institutional...
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Business Startups;
For-Profit Firms;
Gender Characteristics;
Higher Education;
Entrepreneurship;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Science-Based Business;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Biotechnology Industry
Ding, Waverly W., Fiona Murray, and Toby E. Stuart. "From Bench to Board: Gender Differences in University Scientists' Participation in Commercial Science." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-014, August 2010.
- March 2020
- Case
Girls Who Code
By: Brian Trelstad, Amy Klopfenstein and Olivia Hull
In 2012, Reshma Saujani founded Girls Who Code (GWC) with the mission of closing the technology (tech) industry’s gender gap. While GWC offered coding education programs to middle- and high-school-aged girls, the organization also sought to alter cultural stereotypes...
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Coding;
Gender Stereotypes;
Information Technology;
Gender;
Education;
Programs;
Performance Effectiveness;
Technology Industry;
Information Technology Industry
Trelstad, Brian, Amy Klopfenstein, and Olivia Hull. "Girls Who Code." Harvard Business School Case 320-055, March 2020.
- 05 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
Closing the Education Gap with Kei Takatsuka (MBA 2022)
if I can build this dream school I have in my mind that it will be a hub of the impact I want to make and show society that this is feasible,” Takatsuka said with infectious enthusiasm. “The COVID-19 pandemic made the gender View Details
- 02 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
What If Closing the Wage Gap Means Everyone Earns Less?
It’s a sticky but common dilemma for managers: A valued employee finds out that a coworker earns more, gets upset, and demands a raise. If gender or race figure into the wage gap, tensions can escalate fast. Companies, including Whole Foods, Starbucks, and the social...
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by Avery Forman
- 19 May 2015
- News
Harvard aims to take on gender bias with new initiative
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2016 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
(co-authored with Mrinal Sinha, UT Press, 2016). Dr. Hurtado has received the Women of Color Psychologies Award, the American Educational Research Association's SAGE Award for distinguished contributions to gender equity in education...
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2023 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Wilson Professor of Business Administration and faculty chair of the HBS Race, Gender & Equity Initiative. She conducts research on race and gender relations in organizations with a focus on organizational...
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- 17 Dec 2015
- News
Addressing Gender Equity In Business And Society
shows that cultures of overwork—rather than the lack of family-friendly policies—impede gender equity. The School’s own Life and Leadership After HBS alumni study, launched in 2012, is teasing out intricacies of career, work, and family...
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- 17 Dec 2014
- News
Why the Gender-Pay Gap Is Largest for the Highest-Paying Jobs
- 19 Nov 2019
- Op-Ed
Gender Bias Complaints against Apple Card Signal a Dark Side to Fintech
regulation. This would include at least three parts, all of which are all hard to accomplish: Disclosure rules on who gets to see what is in the credit algorithms. Increased expertise at the regulatory agencies. Data collection to know who is getting loans and where...
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2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Headlined News”, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, as well as various other news outlets. Philomena Essed Philomena Essed is professor of Critical Race, Gender and Leadership Studies at Antioch University’s Graduate...
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Pathways to Inclusive Entrepreneurship - Race, Gender & Equity
EntrepreneurshipIntroducing Pathways to Inclusive Entrepreneurship Episode 1: The State of Inclusive Entrepreneurship Episode 2: Pathways to Inclusive Entrepreneurship Episode 3: The Founder’s Journey Reports Diversity & Entrepreneurship: Race & View Details
- 21 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
Gender and Competition: What Companies Need to Know
Programs at Harvard Business School. She and Bohnet, a professor at the Harvard Kennedy School who serves as director of its Women and Public Policy Program, have extensively studied gender gaps and...
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by Kim Girard
- June 18, 2021
- Article
Who Do We Invent for? Patents by Women Focus More on Women's Health, but Few Women Get to Invent
By: Rembrand Koning, Sampsa Samila and John-Paul Ferguson
Women engage in less commercial patenting and invention than do men, which may affect what is invented. Using text analysis of all U.S. biomedical patents filed from 1976 through 2010, we found that patents with all-female inventor teams are 35% more likely than...
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Innovation;
Gender Bias;
Health;
Innovation and Invention;
Research;
Patents;
Gender;
Prejudice and Bias
Koning, Rembrand, Sampsa Samila, and John-Paul Ferguson. "Who Do We Invent for? Patents by Women Focus More on Women's Health, but Few Women Get to Invent." Science 372, no. 6548 (June 18, 2021): 1345–1348.
- 29 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Gender Gap: Why Fewer Women Are Dying
others." A worldwide gender gap It's particularly striking, Pons says, that the gender gap is so widespread, found consistently among the 21,649...
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- April 2021
- Case
Glass-Shattering Leaders: Ros Atkins
By: Boris Groysberg and Colleen Ammerman
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 featured on the show. Before long, it was clear that monitoring the data led to increased awareness of a gender...
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Gender Equality;
Allyship;
Representation;
Leadership;
Gender;
Equality and Inequality;
Media;
Analytics and Data Science
Groysberg, Boris, and Colleen Ammerman. "Glass-Shattering Leaders: Ros Atkins." Harvard Business School Case 421-075, April 2021.
- 14 Apr 2016
- News