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      Has the Glass Ceiling Been Shattered for Women Leading Major Companies?
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      • 2021
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      Glass Half-Broken: Shattering the Barriers That Still Hold Women Back at Work

      By: Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg
      Why does the gender gap persist and how can we close it? For years women have made up the majority of college-educated workers in the United States. In 2019, the gap between the percentage of women and the percentage of men in the workforce was the smallest on record....  View Details
      Keywords: Women; Career; Gender Gap; Glass Ceiling; Gender; Employment; Personal Development and Career; Equality and Inequality; Organizational Culture; Diversity; Management; Strategy
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      Ammerman, Colleen, and Boris Groysberg. Glass Half-Broken: Shattering the Barriers That Still Hold Women Back at Work. Boston: Harvard Business Review Press, 2021.
      • June 2014
      • Article

      How Non-Native Speakers Can Crack the Glass Ceiling

      By: Laura Huang, Marcia Frideger and Jone L. Pearce
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      Huang, Laura, Marcia Frideger, and Jone L. Pearce. "How Non-Native Speakers Can Crack the Glass Ceiling." Harvard Business Review 92, no. 6 (June 2014): 27–28.
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      Political Skill: Explaining the Effects of Nonnative Accent on Managerial Hiring and Entrepreneurial Investment Decisions

      By: Laura Huang, Marcia Frideger and Jone L. Pearce
      We propose and test a new theory explaining glass-ceiling bias against nonnative speakers as driven by perceptions that nonnative speakers have weak political skill. Although nonnative accent is a complex signal, its effects on assessments of the speakers' political...  View Details
      Keywords: Spoken Communication; Prejudice and Bias; Competency and Skills; Selection and Staffing; Entrepreneurship; Investment; Decisions
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      Huang, Laura, Marcia Frideger, and Jone L. Pearce. "Political Skill: Explaining the Effects of Nonnative Accent on Managerial Hiring and Entrepreneurial Investment Decisions." Journal of Applied Psychology 98, no. 6 (November 2013): 1005–1017.
      • April 2, 2013
      • Article

      Has the Glass Ceiling Been Shattered for Women Leading Major Companies?

      By: Regina E. Herzlinger
      With all the talk recently about the need for women to "lean in," the phrase that has gained instant currency with the publication of Sheryl Sandberg's book about how women should act more aggressively in pursuing their careers, it is worth asking: Has the glass...  View Details
      Keywords: Women And Leadership; Women; Glass Ceiling; Leadership; Personal Development and Career; Gender
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      Herzlinger, Regina E. "Has the Glass Ceiling Been Shattered for Women Leading Major Companies?" Huffington Post, The Blog (April 2, 2013).
      • 2010
      • Chapter

      Women and Leadership: Defining the Challenges

      By: Robin J. Ely and Deborah L. Rhode
      We use the experience of Carly Fiorina as an introduction to the continued challenges faced by women in top leadership roles. Although Fiorina, on becoming CEO of Hewlett Packard in 1999, asserted that "there is not a glass ceiling," her memoir eight years later...  View Details
      Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Leadership; Perception; Behavior; Attitudes; Gender
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      Ely, Robin J., and Deborah L. Rhode. "Women and Leadership: Defining the Challenges." Chap. 14 in Handbook of Leadership Theory and Practice, edited by Nitin Nohria and Rakesh Khurana. Harvard Business Press, 2010.
      • October 2005 (Revised January 2006)
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      Augusta National Golf Club Controversy, The (A)

      By: Herman B. Leonard, Marc J. Epstein and Melissa Tritter
      The prestigious Augusta National Golf Club's secret membership is widely believed to exclude women. When feminist advocate Martha Burk receives a mysterious list of "members," she must decide how best to use this information in her efforts to crack the glass ceiling....  View Details
      Keywords: Partners and Partnerships; Attitudes; Decision Making; Problems and Challenges; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Gender; Non-Governmental Organizations; Communication Strategy; Sports Industry
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      Leonard, Herman B., Marc J. Epstein, and Melissa Tritter. "Augusta National Golf Club Controversy, The (A)." Harvard Business School Case 306-029, October 2005. (Revised January 2006.)
      • July 2004 (Revised July 2020)
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      Hines Goes to Rio

      By: Arthur I Segel and Ricardo Reisen De Pinho
      The Torre Almirante office tower, Hines' newest project in Rio de Janeiro, was a 36-story, Class AA office tower with an adjoining 420-stall parking structure and a preserved 14-story historic facade. It was completely different from anything that had previously been...  View Details
      Keywords: Property; Design; Construction; Buildings and Facilities; Risk Management; Problems and Challenges; Real Estate Industry; Brazil; New York (city, NY)
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      Segel, Arthur I., and Ricardo Reisen De Pinho. "Hines Goes to Rio." Harvard Business School Case 805-001, July 2004. (Revised July 2020.)
      • March 1994 (Revised December 1998)
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      Managing Your Career

      By: Linda A. Hill
      Designed to serve as background reading for the "Managing Your Career" module of the second-year MBA elective Power and Influence. Describes the way in which managers learn and develop through on-the-job experience. Outlines a model for launching a "success syndrome"...  View Details
      Keywords: Personal Development and Career
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      Hill, Linda A. "Managing Your Career." Harvard Business School Background Note 494-082, March 1994. (Revised December 1998.)
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      Searching for a Corporate Savior: The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs ( Princeton University Press, October 2002)

      By: Rakesh Khurana
      In this book, I argue that the external CEO labor market was born in a burst of rhetoric about wresting control of corporations away from a group of self-interested insiders, as senior managers in the era of managerial capitalism had come to be portrayed. The rationale...  View Details
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