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Women Pay a Higher Career Price in Todayʼs Always-On Work CultureWomen Pay a Higher Career Price in Todayʼs Always-On Work Culture   

In industries that prize overwork, both men and women pay the price of missed time with family. But the career damage is more severe for women, says Robin Ely. 

Gender Initiative 

The Gender Initiative supports research, education, and knowledge dissemination to accelerate the advancement of women leaders and promote gender equity in business and society.

2019 Symposium

The Courage of our Convictions, the 7th annual Gender & Work Symposium, was held at the Harvard Business School campus on April 4–5, 2019.

Research 

Gender Differences in Communicative Abstraction

By: Priyanka D. Joshi, Cheryl J. Wakslak, Gil Appel and Laura Huang
  • Forthcoming
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  • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

The Old Boys' Club: Schmoozing and the Gender Pay Gap

By: Zoë B. Cullen and Ricardo Perez-Truglia
  • 2019
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  • Faculty Research
The old boys’ club refers to the alleged advantage that male employees have over their female counterparts in interacting with powerful men...

GRIT Fitness

By: Lynda M. Applegate and Olivia Hull
  • October 2019
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  • Faculty Research
In December 2018, GRIT Fitness was a growing chain of boutique fitness studios offering a variety of workout classes, including weightlifting, high intensity interval training, and cardio dance...

Carme Ruscalleda: The Chef as an Artist

By: Boris Groysberg, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Annelena Lobb
  • October 2019
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  • Faculty Research
In October 2018, Chef Carme Ruscalleda, the most-starred woman chef in the world at the time, closed the doors of her Restaurant Sant Pau (Sant Pau), as she had on almost every night for the past 30 years—this time for the last time...

Executive Education 

Take your management and leadership skills to the next level with one our Executive Education programs created expressly for women leaders, including Women on Boards.

In the News 

Record-Breaking Women Class Presidents: Is the World Ready For This Change?

Re: Harvard Business School
  • 05 Dec 2019
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  • Harbus
Women make up 80% of RC Section Presidents; Poorvi Vijay (MBA ’21) and Anoothi (MBA ’21) discuss the importance of having women in leadership positions. Before many of us could even figure out the blistering pace of RC year, someone posted on Slack, “8/10 section presidents are women this year,” and suddenly everything from to filled the “#womenathbs” Slack channel. This makes 2019 a historic year for Harvard Business School since for the first time in our institution’s 111-year-old history, we have seen such an overwhelming majority of women in section presidency. We want to take this moment to congratulate all the women who stepped up for this responsibility and to all the male allies and sectionmates who supported their leadership.

Women in IT Gain Ground at Harvard

  • 03 Dec 2019
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  • Harvard Gazette
Extending beyond the numbers, the positive impact the program has on the community can be seen most vibrantly through its mentors and mentees. Astride Lisenby, associate director for Enterprise Systems and Services at Harvard Business School, and her mentee, Nancy Jagaselvan, senior business systems analyst for HUIT, talked about how their partnership through the program has been beneficial.

‘She Build’: Creating an All-Women Real Estate Development Team

Re: Nori Gerardo Lietz
  • 12 Nov 2019
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  • New York Times
As a highly successful woman in New York’s male-dominated development arena, MaryAnne Gilmartin has a “mini-obsession”: She wants to oversee a commercial real estate project in which every part of the process is headed by a woman.
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