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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. -
Ending the Wage Gap
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleTop female executives usually start out with pay comparable to their male counterparts', but a gap emerges and increases over the course of their tenure.... -
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. -
Bringing Caste into the DEI Conversation
Diversity and inclusion Digital ArticleAs companies increase their global footprint, they must also expand their definition of DEI. -
Making Differences Matter: A New Paradigm for Managing Diversity
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleDiversity efforts in the workplace have been undertaken with great goodwill, but, ironically, they often end up fueling tensions. They rarely spur the... -
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... -
How Low Will You Go? (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticleNo question, Galen McDowell knew how to sell. He quickly hooked a big-league outfit, Kinan Motors, as a potential customer. He invited their representatives... -
Retention Through Redemption
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleCorporate America and the U.S. Navy share one big problem: employee retention. Today's knowledge workers hop from start-up to start-up. And 40% of the... -
How to Build an Anti-Racist Company
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleAs a Black man with three decades of experience in the corporate world, the author has a deep understanding of how to conceive and implement diversity,... -
How to Effectively - and Legally - Use Racial Data for DEI
Organizational Development Digital ArticleAfter the Supreme Court's ruling on affirmative action, avoid harmful overreactions that don't reflect real legal risks. -
Fat Chance (HBR Case Study)
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleSid Shawn is a 10-year veteran of NMO Financial Services and a mainstay of the pensions marketing group. He's been a good, consistent worker and an invaluable... -
Work in the Era of No Retirement
Age and generational issues Big IdeaLongevity is an opportunity for companies — but only if they can overcome ageism. -
Women in the Workplace: A Research Roundup
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleA variety of recent research by business, psychology, and sociology scholars offers a window into women's collective experiences at work. Some of these... -
Will She Fit In? (HBR Case Study)
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleSusan Carter, a partner at a prestigious strategy consulting firm, is caught in a dilemma she never expected: her firm's most important client has made... -
Case of the Unequal Opportunity
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleLaura Wollen, group marketing director for ARPCO, was about to recommend her best product manager, Charles Lewis, for a position in the London office.... -
How to Overcome Discrimination and Get the Promotion You Want
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleThis week's question for Ask the Coach: As a black woman, I feel that I'm getting overlooked for promotions. How can I get hiring managers to look beyond... -
Are Non-Christian Employees Represented in Your Holiday Policies?
Diversity and inclusion Digital ArticleOne third of Americans don’t identify as Christian. Here’s how to offer a more equitable approach to time off. -
Where Religious Identity Fits into Your DEI Strategy
Organizational Development Digital ArticleSeven best practices to help companies embrace religious diversity. -
Jim Fielding, Ex-Head of Disney Stores, on the Struggles of Making It as a Queer Executive
Global Business Digital ArticleWorking-and living-inauthentically can cause stress, mental illness, or worse.
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Differences at Work: Emily (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details 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... -
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... -
Differences at Work: Erica (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details In Differences at Work: Erica (A) HBS Case No. 9-408-015 Erica, a junior sales person, has just been offered the opportunity to attend an important client... -
Discrimination or Non-Performance?
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Dr. George Annan was hired as an assistant professor at Northern Plains University (NPU) in August of 2003. He was born in Kenya, Africa, and was of African... -
Ellen Moore (A): Living and Working in Bahrain
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Ellen Moore is working for a large multinational financial institution in Bahrain and is offered a promotion to one of two jobs, between which she can... -
Visualfy: Improving the Quality of Life of an Invisible Community
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details Visualfy is a start-up introducing technology (software and hardware) to help people in the deaf community solve some basic problems in their homes: for... -
White Working Class, With a New Foreword by Mark Cuban and a New Preface by the Author: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America
"It is really worth a read..." -- Former Vice President Joe Biden, interviewed on Pod Save America. Now in paperback with a new Foreword by Mark Cuban... -
HBR's 10 Must Reads for HR Leaders Collection (5 Books)
Build the workforce of the future. In our volatile and complex era--which boasts a competitive market for top talent--HR's traditional model will fail.... -
Differences at Work: Ben (B)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details In Differences at Work: Ben (B) HBS Case No. 9-408-043 Ben shares his colleague's comment with another colleague who empathizes with Ben's discomfort... -
Kathryn McNeil (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Charles Foley, vice president of the computer retailing firm Sayer MicroWorld, must decide whether or not to fire his employee, Kathryn McNeil, a 37-year-old... -
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... -
Racial Discrimination on Airbnb (B)
Management Case Study5.00View Details Supplement to case 920051. -
Differences at Work: Ben (C)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details In Differences at Work: Ben (C) 9-408-044 Ben shares the remark with his bosses who let Ben decide whether to report the incident to Human Resources.... -
West Side United: Hospitals Tackle the Racial Health and Wealth Gap
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details During the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. David Ansell, Darlene Hightower, and Ayesho Jaco, leaders of West Side United (WSU), a coalition of Chicago hospitals,... -
Democracy, Sovereignty, and the Struggle over Cherokee Removal
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details By the mid-1830s, the U.S. Government and the State of Georgia had for years been pushing the Cherokees to turn all of their territory over to white settlers... -
Speak Up, Speak Out (HBR Women at Work Series)
24.95View Details Make yourself heard. Having your voice heard at work can be challenging, whether you're confronting a colleague about an inappropriate comment or trying... -
Serendipity Software
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Two partners, Anne Salpryn and Tom Hilliard, successfully develop a creative software company. While Anne becomes more managerially oriented, Tom wants... -
Artea: Designing Targeting Strategies
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details This collection of exercises aims to teach students about 1)Targeting Policies; and 2)Algorithmic bias in marketing-implications, causes, and possible...
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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. -
Differences at Work: Emily (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details 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... -
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... -
Ending the Wage Gap
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleTop female executives usually start out with pay comparable to their male counterparts', but a gap emerges and increases over the course of their tenure.... -
Differences at Work: Erica (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details In Differences at Work: Erica (A) HBS Case No. 9-408-015 Erica, a junior sales person, has just been offered the opportunity to attend an important client... -
Discrimination or Non-Performance?
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Dr. George Annan was hired as an assistant professor at Northern Plains University (NPU) in August of 2003. He was born in Kenya, Africa, and was of African... -
Ellen Moore (A): Living and Working in Bahrain
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Ellen Moore is working for a large multinational financial institution in Bahrain and is offered a promotion to one of two jobs, between which she can... -
Visualfy: Improving the Quality of Life of an Invisible Community
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details Visualfy is a start-up introducing technology (software and hardware) to help people in the deaf community solve some basic problems in their homes: for... -
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. -
White Working Class, With a New Foreword by Mark Cuban and a New Preface by the Author: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America
"It is really worth a read..." -- Former Vice President Joe Biden, interviewed on Pod Save America. Now in paperback with a new Foreword by Mark Cuban...