Gender

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.

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

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...

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
By means of a natural experiment in a large financial institution we explore the hypothesis embodied by the term "Old Boys’ Club" - that male employees are promoted faster than female employees due to favorable treatment by their male managers...

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In the News 

‘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.

Harvard Business Review Editors Talk Women and Workplace Conflict at Podcast Taping

Re: Linda Hill
  • 12 Nov 2019
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  • Harvard Crimson
Three Harvard Business Review editors and a Harvard Business School professor discussed approaches to resolving workplace conflicts at a live taping of the podcast “Women at Work” Tuesday night, drawing a packed crowd to the Business School’s Klarman Hall.

More Women Pursue M.B.A. as Elite Schools Step Up Recruiting

Re: Chad Losee
  • 06 Nov 2019
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  • Wall Street Journal
As applications to American business schools decline, the percentage of women enrolled in full-time M.B.A. programs continues to rise, climbing this fall to an average of 39% at more than 50 of the top programs in the U.S., Canada and Europe, new data show.

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