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Stop "Fixing" Women and Start Fixing Managers
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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
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Research: How Bias Against Women Persists in Female-Dominated Workplaces
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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 […] -
How to Get More Men to Take Gender Balance Seriously
Gender Digital ArticleMake it a business issue, not a diversity issue. -
The Best Way to Name a New Product
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticleWhen an established consumer-packaged-goods (CPG) company introduces a new product, it faces a potentially make-or-break decision: how to brand it. Tying... -
How Sex Hurts the Workplace, Especially Women
Gender Digital ArticleSex in the workplace doesn’t just hurt those parties involved. Sure, Mark Hurd’s recent scandal produced three obvious casualties: Mark Hurd, Hewlett Packard and its shareholders, and even, to an extent, Jodie Fisher. But in the barrage of press attention since the news broke, little mention has been made of a large group of other […] -
How One Law Measurably Lifted the Status of Women in India
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What Men Can Do to Help Women Advance Their Careers
Global Business Digital ArticleShaking off the past means changing how we act. -
How the Gender Balance of Investment Teams Shapes the Risks They Take
Gender Digital ArticleNew research finds that women are more likely to make big bets when important social issues are on the table. -
If Women Don’t Apply to Your Company, This Is Probably Why
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Stop Undervaluing Exceptional Women
Gender Digital ArticleResearchers found that companies assume talented men will job hop to further their careers, while talented women will stay loyal. -
Women in Leadership Face Ageism at Every Age
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleNo matter how old you are, someone will argue you're the wrong age. -
Ways Women Lead
Managing people Magazine ArticleThe command-and-control leadership style associated with men is not the only way to succeed. -
Send a Message to the Women in Your Company
Business communication Digital ArticleEvery 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 reason to start (or to restart) a conversation with employees — the sort of conversation that builds real connections with them, the sort of conversation […] -
The Trillion-Dollar Opportunity in Supporting Female Entrepreneurs
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We Know Female CEOs Get Paid More, But We Don’t Know Why
Gender Digital ArticleResearch offers some clues. -
Creating a Trans-Inclusive Workplace
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleTrans people often experience stigma and discrimination, hostility from others, and pressure to "manage" their identities in social settings, including... -
The Average Mid-Forties Male College Graduate Earns 55% More Than His Female Counterparts
Gender Digital ArticleAnd other important findings from a huge new study of U.S. Census Bureau data.
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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
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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
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Women in Leadership Face Ageism at Every Age
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You’re Not Powerless in the Face of Imposter Syndrome
Managing yourself Digital ArticleResearch found that moxie — strength of will, self-discipline, and the ability to persist despite challenges — was vital to the success of professionals from underrepresented backgrounds. -
Creating Psychological Safety for Black Women at Your Company
Diversity and inclusion Digital ArticleWhat organizations tend to get wrong — and how to get it right. -
Research: Why Women Trust Their Employers Less Than Men Do
Gender Digital ArticleA survey of more than 5,000 U.S. employees found that company policies designed to promote gender equity often backfire.
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Activision Blizzard Inc.: Facing the Call of Duty with a Laser Focus on Women
Management Case Study8.95View Details Honorable Mention; 2022 DEI Global Case Writing Competition. In November 2021, Activision Blizzard, Inc., the California-based maker of popular videogames... -
Hailey's Handbags: Customer Complaints or Cyberbullying?
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View 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... -
Team Building Across Diversity
Management Case Study11.95View Details The case highlights the challenges encountered by a corporate life and health insurance leader while dealing with an underperforming employee, Tina Smith,... -
Uwa Ode: Embracing Life and Career Across Cultures
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details The case traces the personal and professional career of Uwa Ode, a bicultural individual who grew up in Nigeria and then lived in the United Kingdom and... -
Empirical Chemicals, Ltd. (B): Merseyside and Rotterdam Projects
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CIBC: Fostering an Inclusive Culture, Leading with Gender
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View 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... -
Raj Kapoor: The Socialist Showman
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details This case examines the career of Raj Kapoor, the legendary Bollywood filmmaker of the postwar decades. It explores how Kapoor built RK studios after 1948... -
Glass-Shattering Leaders: Ilene H. Lang
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details Ilene Lang started her career in technology at a time when the tech sector was new and women had only recently entered the workplace in large numbers.... -
Kaweyan: Female Entrepreneurship and the Past and Future of Afghanistan
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details Explores the challenges of female entrepreneurship in Afghanistan through the case of Kemeli Sediqi, who built a business under the Taliban, and founded... -
Sustainability at Siemens
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details Describes sustainability efforts at Siemens since arrival of Chief Sustainability Officer, Barbara Kux, in 2008. Asks students to evaluate success of... -
Next-Level Negotiating: Women at Work Discussion Group Toolkit
Sales & Marketing BookThe "HBR Women at Work" series, based on the popular HBR podcast of the same name, spotlights the real challenges and opportunities women experience throughout... -
Harlem Capital: Changing the Face of Entrepreneurship (A)
Finance & Accounting Case Study9.95View Details Jarrid Tingle and Henri Pierre-Jacques had spent the summer between their first and second years of their Harvard Business School MBA program fund raising... -
Analytics Pros: Taking Digital to the Next Level
Strategy & Execution Case Study9.95View Details Analytics Pros (AP) is a consultancy that gives elite and global brands the most accurate picture of their digital landscape. In particular, Analytics... -
Glass-Shattering Leaders: Jack Rivkin
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details Jack Rivkin's innovative approach to hiring, developing, and retaining employees created opportunities for female analysts to thrive at the equity research... -
Satya: Authentic Entrepreneurship and Community
Management Case Study8.95View Details Patrice Mousseau was an Indigenous woman in Canada who founded an organic skin care company, Satya. From Satya's modest beginnings and early challenges,... -
Young Lion Brewery: Leveraging Female Leadership?
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details This case features a woman entrepreneur whose early-stage company has achieved some regional success creating craft beer in a highly competitive, male-dominated... -
Glass-Shattering Leaders: Ana Paula Pessoa
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View 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... -
The LEGO Group: Builders of a More Diverse and Inclusive Tomorrow
Sales & Marketing Case Study15.05View Details This case explores how the LEGO Group's diversity and inclusion efforts from 2008 to 2022.
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Stop "Fixing" Women and Start Fixing Managers
Organizational Development Digital ArticleLike any corporate change, gender balance requires leadership. -
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.” -
Research: How Bias Against Women Persists in Female-Dominated Workplaces
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleA look inside the ongoing barriers women face in law, health care, faith-based nonprofits, and higher education. -
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 […] -
How to Get More Men to Take Gender Balance Seriously
Gender Digital ArticleMake it a business issue, not a diversity issue. -
The Best Way to Name a New Product
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticleWhen an established consumer-packaged-goods (CPG) company introduces a new product, it faces a potentially make-or-break decision: how to brand it. Tying... -
Double Career Negotiation, Teaching Note
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleTeaching Note for cases IN1225 and IN1226. -
Activision Blizzard Inc.: Facing the Call of Duty with a Laser Focus on Women
Management Case Study8.95View Details Honorable Mention; 2022 DEI Global Case Writing Competition. In November 2021, Activision Blizzard, Inc., the California-based maker of popular videogames... -
How Sex Hurts the Workplace, Especially Women
Gender Digital ArticleSex in the workplace doesn’t just hurt those parties involved. Sure, Mark Hurd’s recent scandal produced three obvious casualties: Mark Hurd, Hewlett Packard and its shareholders, and even, to an extent, Jodie Fisher. But in the barrage of press attention since the news broke, little mention has been made of a large group of other […]
