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      What's Really Holding Women Back? It's Not What Most People Think
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      • 2020
      • Working Paper

      Uncovering Inequalities in Time-Use and Well-Being during COVID-19: A Multi-Country Investigation

      By: Laura M. Giurge, Ayse Yemiscigil, Joseph Sherlock and Ashley V. Whillans
      The COVID-19 global pandemic continues to alter how people spend their time, with possible downstream consequences for subjective well-being. Using diverse samples from the United States, Canada, Denmark, Brazil, and Spain (n = 30,018) and following a preregistered...  View Details
      Keywords: Time-use; Subjective Well-being; Covid-19; Health Pandemics; Work-life Balance; gender; equality And Inequality
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      Giurge, Laura M., Ayse Yemiscigil, Joseph Sherlock, and Ashley V. Whillans. "Uncovering Inequalities in Time-Use and Well-Being during COVID-19: A Multi-Country Investigation." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-037, September 2020.
      • July 2020 (Revised October 2020)
      • Case

      Valentina Tereshkova: Conquering Space

      By: Boris Groysberg and Annelena Lobb
      On June 13, 1963, Valentina Tereshkova of the USSR became the first woman to fly in space on Vostok 6. Soviet leaders publicly espoused gender equity, but also sent Tereshkova on her mission in order to be the first country to send a woman to space, a milestone they...  View Details
      Keywords: Gender Equity; gender; equality And Inequality; Personal Development And Career; Aerospace Industry; Soviet Union; United States
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      Groysberg, Boris, and Annelena Lobb. "Valentina Tereshkova: Conquering Space." Harvard Business School Case 421-005, July 2020. (Revised October 2020.)
      • March 2020
      • Article

      Explaining the Persistence of Gender Inequality: The Work-family Narrative as a Social Defense Against 24/7 Work Culture

      By: Irene Padavic, Robin J. Ely and Erin M. Reid
      It is widely accepted that the conflict between women’s family obligations and professional jobs’ long hours lies at the heart of their stalled advancement. Yet research suggests that this “work-family narrative” is incomplete: men also experience it and nevertheless...  View Details
      Keywords: 24/7 Work Culture; Hegemonic Narrative; Social Defense; Work-family Conflict; Systems-psychodynamic Theory; Work-life Balance; Personal Development And Career; gender; equality And Inequality; Organizational Culture
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      Padavic, Irene, Robin J. Ely, and Erin M. Reid. "Explaining the Persistence of Gender Inequality: The Work-family Narrative as a Social Defense Against 24/7 Work Culture." Administrative Science Quarterly 65, no. 1 (March 2020): 61–111.
      • March–April 2020
      • Article

      What's Really Holding Women Back? It's Not What Most People Think

      By: R. Ely and Irene Padavic
      Ask people to explain why women remain so dramatically underrepresented in the senior ranks of most companies, and you will hear from the vast majority a lament that goes something like this: High-level jobs require extremely long hours, women's devotion to family...  View Details
      Keywords: Overwork; Employment; gender; equality And Inequality; Work-life Balance; Organizational Culture
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      Ely, R., and Irene Padavic. "What's Really Holding Women Back? It's Not What Most People Think." Harvard Business Review 98, no. 2 (March–April 2020): 58–67.
      • January–March 2020
      • Article

      Improving Decisions that Affect Gender Equality in the Workplace

      By: Edward H. Chang and Katherine L. Milkman
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      Chang, Edward H., and Katherine L. Milkman. "Improving Decisions that Affect Gender Equality in the Workplace." Special Issue on 21st Century Decision Making. Organizational Dynamics 49, no. 1 (January–March 2020).
      • Winter 2020
      • Article

      Goodfellows: Men's Role and Reason in the Fight for Gender Equality

      By: Debora L. Spar
      The essay attempts to make the case for including—even embracing—men in the fight for gender equality. If men believe in equality, then expanding that belief to explicitly include women is not a leap of logic or an act of charity. It is instead a basic extension of a...  View Details
      Keywords: gender; Diversity; equality And Inequality
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      Spar, Debora L. "Goodfellows: Men's Role and Reason in the Fight for Gender Equality." Special Issue on Women & Equality edited by Nannerl O. Keohane and Frances McCall Rosenbluth. Daedalus 149, no. 1 (Winter 2020): 222–235.
      • December 2019
      • Case

      Negotiating for Equal Pay: The U.S. Women's National Soccer Team (A)

      By: Christine Exley, John Beshears, Manuela Collis and Davis Heniford
      In 2016, members of the U.S. Women's National Soccer Team (WNT) took steps to fight for equal pay relative to the U.S. Men's National Soccer Team. Their legal representative declared that the memorandum of understanding governing the relationship between the players...  View Details
      Keywords: Negotiation; Compensation And Benefits; equality And Inequality; gender; Prejudice And Bias; Negotiation Tactics; Corporate Governance; Lawsuits And Litigation; Sports; Sports Industry; United States
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      Exley, Christine, John Beshears, Manuela Collis, and Davis Heniford. "Negotiating for Equal Pay: The U.S. Women's National Soccer Team (A)." Harvard Business School Case 920-029, December 2019.
      • December 2019
      • Supplement

      Negotiating for Equal Pay: The U.S. Women's National Soccer Team (B)

      By: Christine Exley, John Beshears, Manuela Collis and Davis Heniford
      Supplements the (A) case and describes the events following from the actions of the WNT players.  View Details
      Keywords: Negotiation; Compensation And Benefits; equality And Inequality; gender; Prejudice And Bias; Ethics; Negotiation Tactics; Corporate Governance; Lawsuits And Litigation; Sports; Sports Industry; United States
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      Exley, Christine, John Beshears, Manuela Collis, and Davis Heniford. "Negotiating for Equal Pay: The U.S. Women's National Soccer Team (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 920-030, December 2019.
      • October 2019
      • Case

      Harlem Capital: Changing the Face of Entrepreneurship (A)

      By: George Serafeim and David Freiberg
      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 for their start-up venture capital (VC) firm, Harlem Capital Partners. Harlem Capital was founded upon the...  View Details
      Keywords: Impact Investing; Gender Bias; Gender Inequality; Minority Representation; Entrepreneurial Finance; Investment Management; Investing; Inequality; Race And Ethnicity; Black Entrepreneurs; Black Inventors; Black Leadership; Venture Investing; Fund Raising; Venture Capital; Entrepreneurship; Diversity; gender; Race; equality And Inequality; Equity; Mission And Purpose; Investment Funds; Financial Services Industry; United States
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      Serafeim, George, and David Freiberg. "Harlem Capital: Changing the Face of Entrepreneurship (A)." Harvard Business School Case 120-040, October 2019.
      • October 2019
      • Supplement

      Harlem Capital: Changing the Face of Entrepreneurship (B)

      By: George Serafeim and David Freiberg
      The (B) case describes Tingle and Pierre-Jacques’ decision to commit fully to Harlem Capital as their post-graduation job. The case explores the results of their fundraising efforts, new strategic partnerships, and how they plan to “build the market” in order to...  View Details
      Keywords: Impact Investing; Gender Bias; Gender Inequality; Minority Representation; Entrepreneurial Finance; Investment Management; Investing; Inequality; Venture Capital; Entrepreneurship; Diversity; gender; equality And Inequality; Equity; Mission And Purpose; Investment Funds; Financial Services Industry
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      Serafeim, George, and David Freiberg. "Harlem Capital: Changing the Face of Entrepreneurship (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 120-041, October 2019.
      • 2019
      • Working Paper

      The Gender Gap in Self-Promotion

      By: Christine L Exley and Judd B. Kessler
      In applications, interviews, performance reviews, and many other environments, individuals are explicitly asked or implicitly invited to assess their own performance. In a series of experiments, we find that women rate their performance less favorably than equally...  View Details
      Keywords: Self-promotion; Performance Evaluation; gender
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      Exley, Christine L., and Judd B. Kessler. "The Gender Gap in Self-Promotion." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 26345, October 2019. (Revised December 2019.)
      • 2020
      • Working Paper

      Shaking Things Up: Unintended Consequences of Firm Acquisitions on Racial and Gender Inequality

      By: Letian Zhang
      This paper develops a theory of how disruptive events shape organizational inequality. Despite various organizational efforts, racial and gender inequality in the workplace remains high. I theorize that because the persistence of such inequality is reinforced by...  View Details
      Keywords: Inequality; Diversity; equality And Inequality; Mergers And Acquisitions
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      Zhang, Letian. "Shaking Things Up: Unintended Consequences of Firm Acquisitions on Racial and Gender Inequality." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-022, August 2019. (Revised January 2020.)
      • April 2019
      • Case

      Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn: The Power of Writing to Launch and Sustain a Movement (Abridged)

      By: Julie Battilana, Lakshmi Ramarajan and Michael Norris
      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 next book. The couple’s earlier books had given rise to social movements around gender equity and poverty issues....  View Details
      Keywords: Social Movement; Gender Equality; Writing; Social Issues; gender; equality And Inequality; Poverty; Books; Change; Leadership
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      Battilana, Julie, Lakshmi Ramarajan, and Michael Norris. "Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn: The Power of Writing to Launch and Sustain a Movement (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 419-059, April 2019.
      • Spring 2019
      • Article

      Fluid Teams and Knowledge Retrieval: Scaling Service Operations

      By: Melissa A. Valentine, Tom Fangyun Tan, Bradley R. Staats and Amy C. Edmondson
      To scale service operations requires retrieving knowledge across the organization. However, prior work highlights that individuals on the periphery of organizational knowledge networks may struggle to access useful knowledge at work. A knowledge repository has the...  View Details
      Keywords: Teaming; Teams; Groups And Teams; Knowledge Management; Service Delivery; Knowledge Use And Leverage
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      Valentine, Melissa A., Tom Fangyun Tan, Bradley R. Staats, and Amy C. Edmondson. "Fluid Teams and Knowledge Retrieval: Scaling Service Operations." Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 21, no. 2 (Spring 2019): 346–360.
      • 2020
      • Working Paper

      Equilibrium Effects of Pay Transparency in a Simple Labor Market

      By: Zoë B. Cullen and Bobak Pakzad-Hurson
      The public discourse around pay transparency has focused on the direct effect: how workers seek to rectify newly disclosed pay inequities through renegotiations. The question of how wage-setting, bargaining, and hiring practices change with higher transparency has...  View Details
      Keywords: Pay Transparency; Online Labor Market; Privacy; Wage Gap; Negotiation; Corporate Disclosure; Compensation And Benefits; gender
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      Cullen, Zoë B., and Bobak Pakzad-Hurson. "Equilibrium Effects of Pay Transparency in a Simple Labor Market." Working Paper, April 2020. (Formerly two papers, "Equal Work for Unequal Pay" and "Is Pay Transparency Good?" Selected as Exemplary Applied Modeling Paper at EC '19. Reject and Resubmit at Econometrica.)
      • August 2018
      • Case

      Christine Lagarde (C): Managing the IMF

      By: Julie Battilana and Carin-Isabel Knoop
      This case covers the career of Christine Lagarde from 2011 to 2018 as she takes the helm of a troubled multilateral organization during a time of deepening economic turmoil. As the first female leader of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and as a non-economist,...  View Details
      Keywords: Personal Development And Career; Power And Influence; Change Management; Global Range; gender; equality And Inequality; Climate Change
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      Battilana, Julie, and Carin-Isabel Knoop. "Christine Lagarde (C): Managing the IMF." Harvard Business School Case 419-019, August 2018.
      • June 2018 (Revised November 2018)
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      Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn: The Power of Writing to Launch and Sustain a Movement

      By: Julie Battilana, Lakshmi Ramarajan and Michael Norris
      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 next book. The couple’s earlier books had given rise to social movements around gender equity and poverty issues....  View Details
      Keywords: Social Movement; Gender Equality; Writing; Social Issues; gender; equality And Inequality; Poverty; Books; Change; Leadership
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      Battilana, Julie, Lakshmi Ramarajan, and Michael Norris. "Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn: The Power of Writing to Launch and Sustain a Movement." Harvard Business School Case 418-004, June 2018. (Revised November 2018.)
      • June 2018
      • Teaching Note

      Sandra Brown Goes Digital

      By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jonathan Cohen
      As a middle manager at a biotechnology company, Sandra Brown harnessed digital tools and social media to engage others and build campaigns for change in the company. This Teaching Note presents strategies for teaching the Sandra Brown case series, which follows Brown's...  View Details
      Keywords: Change Leadership; Change Management; Digital; Engagement; Stakeholder Engagement; Grassroots Movement; Organizational Change And Adaptation; Quality; Health Care Industry; Management; Career Path; Innovation; Leading Change; Management; Innovation And Management; Personal Development And Career; Organizational Change And Adaptation; Quality
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      Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, and Jonathan Cohen. "Sandra Brown Goes Digital." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 318-156, June 2018.
      • May 2018
      • Supplement

      Prime Minister Shinzo Abe – Speech on Womenomics in Japan: Opening Address to the World Assembly of Women, Tokyo, August 28, 2015

      By: Boris Groysberg
      This video supplement is a lightly edited 2015 speech by Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe in which he describes Womenomics--policies and aspirations to promote greater economic participation by Japan's women, thereby promoting economic growth, greater work/life...  View Details
      Keywords: Gender Equality; Japan; Leadership; Government-business Relations; Shinzo Abe; Economic Growth; Aging Society; Womenomics; Abenomics; Labor Market Discrimination; Workplace Culture; Women And Leadership; Change Management; Leading Change; gender; Business And Government Relations; Growth And Development; Employment; Working Conditions
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      Groysberg, Boris. "Prime Minister Shinzo Abe – Speech on Womenomics in Japan: Opening Address to the World Assembly of Women, Tokyo, August 28, 2015." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 418-722, May 2018.
      • May 2018
      • Supplement

      Abe on Womenomics, part 1: Introductions & Japan's Corporate Culture: Excerpt from Opening Address to the World Assembly of Women, Tokyo, August 28, 2015

      By: Boris Groysberg
      This video supplement part one of a lightly edited 2015 speech by Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe in which he describes Womenomics--policies and aspirations to promote greater economic participation by Japan's women, thereby promoting economic growth, greater...  View Details
      Keywords: Gender Equality; Japan; Leadership; Government-business Relations; Shinzo Abe; Economic Growth; Aging Society; Womenomics; Abenomics; Labor Market Discrimination; Workplace Culture; Women And Leadership; Change Management; Leading Change; gender; Business And Government Relations; Growth And Development; Employment; Working Conditions; Japan
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      Groysberg, Boris. "Abe on Womenomics, part 1: Introductions & Japan's Corporate Culture: Excerpt from Opening Address to the World Assembly of Women, Tokyo, August 28, 2015." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 418-719, May 2018.
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