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- Faculty Publications (107)
- 2019
- Article
When Gender Diversity Makes Firms More Productive
By: Stephen Turban, Dan Wu and Letian Zhang
Does diversity make a company more productive? Many say yes—some researchers argue that gender diversity leads to more innovative thinking and signals to investors that a company is competently run. Others say no—conflicting research indicates that gender diversity can...
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Turban, Stephen, Dan Wu, and Letian Zhang. "When Gender Diversity Makes Firms More Productive." Harvard Business Review (website) (February 11, 2019).
- 2022
- Other Teaching and Training Material
Organizational Behavior Reading: Managing Differences
By: Robin Ely and Colleen Ammerman
This reading provides principles and practices managers can draw upon to leverage differences in social identities - such as gender and race - to create more effective work relationships, teams, and organizations. The Essential Reading's first section draws upon...
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Keywords:
Diversity;
Groups and Teams;
Prejudice and Bias;
Identity;
Management Practices and Processes
Ely, Robin, and Colleen Ammerman. "Organizational Behavior Reading: Managing Differences." Core Curriculum Readings Series. Boston, MA: Harvard Business Publishing 8394, 2022.
- Blog
What Can You Do to Foster Gender Equity?
deeply. We found that gender biases affect women at all stages of their careers and create barriers to advancement. Identifying and understanding the commonalities in many women's experiences is an important first step to overcoming the...
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How Gender and Status Shape Productivity-related Negotiations
Employees frequently engage in negotiations outside of formal settings like salary negotiations, and for resources other than money. Employees must negotiate their roles, negotiate for work-life accommodations, and negotiate for resources such as the time, staff, and...
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- 08 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity
gender identity in dual-career couples with Jennifer Berdahl of the University of Toronto. McGinn is involved in three related projects: The first, with HBS colleague Mukti Khaire, studies self-employed women in India and their View Details
- 2013
- Difference
Ella Bell Speaks at the 2013 Gender & Work Symposium
- 02 Jan 2020
- News
This Is the Gender Gap in Self-Promotion
- 17 Apr 2013
- Research Event
Conference Challenges Gender Conventions
when she moved to Chicago for a job at Northwestern, the fact that she was the only working mother in her neighborhood led her and her four-year-old son to be stigmatized. Race And Gender Cuddy went on to describe ways in which the rules...
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by Maggie Starvish
- 2022
- Presentation
Danya Lagos presents at the 2022 Gender and Work Symposium
- 2022
- Flash Talks
Alexandra C. Feldberg presents at the 2022 Gender and Work Symposium
- Web
Gender & Race in Organizations Research Group - Race, Gender & Equity
Professor of Management and Organizations at Boston University. Her research investigates how organizational and social network processes shape gender and race differences amongst employees in the workplace....
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- March 2018 (Revised March 2019)
- Case
Gender and Free Speech at Google (A)
By: Nien-hê Hsieh, Martha J. Crawford and Sarah Mehta
In August 2017, Google fired James Damore, a 28-year-old software engineer who had been employed by the company since 2013. The move came after Damore penned an internal company memo titled “Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber,” which posited that innate biological...
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Keywords:
Free Speech;
Representation;
Diversity;
Gender;
Race;
Human Resources;
Employees;
Employee Relationship Management;
Recruitment;
Selection and Staffing;
Labor;
Employment;
Lawsuits and Litigation;
Organizational Culture;
Technology Industry;
United States;
California
Hsieh, Nien-hê, Martha J. Crawford, and Sarah Mehta. "Gender and Free Speech at Google (A)." Harvard Business School Case 318-085, March 2018. (Revised March 2019.)
- 2016
- Working Paper
Equal Opportunity? Gender Gaps in CEO Appointments and Executive Pay
By: Matti Keloharju, Samuli Knüpfer and Joacim Tåg
This paper uses exceptionally rich data on Swedish corporate executives and their personal characteristics to study gender gaps in CEO appointments and pay. Both gaps are sizeable: 18% for CEO appointments and 27% for pay. At most one-eighth of the gaps can be...
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Keloharju, Matti, Samuli Knüpfer, and Joacim Tåg. "Equal Opportunity? Gender Gaps in CEO Appointments and Executive Pay." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-092, February 2016.
- 16 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
How Gender Stereotypes Kill a Woman’s Self-Confidence
within the group when their gender was known, particularly in cases where only one woman was talking with a bunch of men. But in the groups where gender was unknown, no gender...
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- 12 Mar 2015
- Video
Edith Dorsen - Making A Difference
- 18 Jan 2016
- Blog Post
Meet the HBS Race, Gender & Equity Initiative
everyone, including HBS students and alumni. Through enhancing collective understanding of how gender and other axes of inequality affect individuals, teams, and organizations, we contribute to the School’s mission to educate leaders who...
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- 21 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
HBS Research Focuses on Gender Issues and Fixes
—should business leaders and policymakers do about the gender disparity? Research by Professor Boris Groysberg and colleagues shows that male and female board members have very different takes on the issue...
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- November 2007
- Case
Differences at Work: Emily (A)
By: Sandra J. Sucher and Rachel Gordon
In Differences at Work: Emily (A) HBS Case No. 9-408-014 Emily, a private equity analyst, reads disturbing, sexually focused emails written about her by work colleagues and acquaintances after they all attended a work-related social event. Emily debates what she should...
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Keywords:
Moral Sensibility;
Behavior;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Organizational Culture;
Problems and Challenges;
Gender
Sucher, Sandra J., and Rachel Gordon. "Differences at Work: Emily (A)." Harvard Business School Case 408-014, November 2007.