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Gender at Work
Groysberg, Boris; Ammerman, ColleenCase HBS-416026-ELeadership and People ManagementStarting at €8.20
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Gender at Work, Teaching Note
Groysberg, Boris; Ammerman, ColleenTeaching Note HBS-417058-ELeadership and People ManagementTeaching note for case 416026.Starting at €0.00
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BrightStar Care: The Evolution of a Leadership Team, Teaching Note
Groysberg, Boris; Ammerman, Colleen; Hull, OliviaTeaching Note HBS-417074-EEntrepreneurshipTeaching note for case 417020.Starting at €0.00
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Glass-Shattering Leaders: Ilene H. Lang
Groysberg, Boris; Ammerman, ColleenCase HBS-421070-ELeadership and People ManagementIlene Lang started her career in technology at a time when the tech sector was new and women had only recently entered the workplace in large numbers. Over the next thirty years, she built a career spanning large and small tech companies, leading global teams and overseeing products such as AltaVista, an early search engine. After leading three dot-coms in the late 1990s, she was ready for a new chapter and joined Catalyst, a global nonprofit foc...Starting at €8.20
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Glass-Shattering Leaders: Jack Rivkin
Groysberg, Boris; Ammerman, ColleenCase HBS-421074-ELeadership and People ManagementJack Rivkin's innovative approach to hiring, developing, and retaining employees created opportunities for female analysts to thrive at the equity research department he led, and also made the entire department more effective. Rivkin fostered a culture of gender inclusion and focused on developing the unique strengths of every employee, rather than expecting women to fit a rigid masculine norm. His efforts led to an increase in the department's f...Starting at €8.20
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Glass-Shattering Leaders: Ros Atkins
Groysberg, Boris; Ammerman, ColleenCase HBS-421075-ELeadership and People ManagementRos Atkins launched the 50:50 Project on a BBC news program her anchored, deciding with his team to start tracking the gender of the contributors and experts featured on the show. Before long, it was clear that monitoring the data led to increased awareness of a gender gap which in turn spurred action - the represenation of women and men equalized. Atkins knew the simple process could have a signficinat impact, so he worked with colleagues to imp...Starting at €8.20
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How to Close the Gender Gap
Ammerman, Colleen; Groysberg, BorisArticle HBS-R2103J-ELeadership and People ManagementMost companies say they're committed to advancing women into leadership roles. What they may fail to recognize, though, is that systemic barriers are holding women back. As a result, women remain disadvantaged at every stage of their employment and underrepresented in positions of power. Drawing on their own research and the scholarship of others, the authors describe common forms of gender discrimination in seven key areas of talent management: ...Starting at €8.20
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Rethink What You "Know" About High-Achieving Women
Ely, Robin J.; Stone, Pamela; Ammerman, ColleenArticle HBS-R1412G-ELeadership and People ManagementOn the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the admission of women to Harvard Business School's MBA program, the authors, who have spent more than 20 years studying professional women, set out to learn what HBS graduates had to say about work and family and how their experiences, attitudes, and decisions might shed light on prevailing controversies. What their comprehensive survey revealed suggests that the conventional wisdom about women's career...Starting at €8.20
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BrightStar Care: The Evolution of a Leadership Team
Groysberg, Boris; Ammerman, Colleen; Vaughan, John D.Case HBS-417020-EEntrepreneurshipBrightStar Care was a rapidly growing franchise of home health care agencies. Founded by husband and wife team JD and Shelly Sun as a single agency near Chicago in 2002, by 2016 nearly 300 BrightStar franchises were open across the United States, generating over $300 million in revenue. BrightStar was now a very different company from the one Shelly and JD had started up during their first year of marriage. Shelly Sun, CEO, had decided to franchi...Starting at €8.20
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Glass-Shattering Leaders: Barbara Hackman Franklin
Groysberg, Boris; Ammerman, ColleenCase HBS-421073-ELeadership and People ManagementBarbara Hackman Franklin was one of the first women to earn an MBA from Harvard Business School. She went on to break barriers in the private and public sectors, rising to leadership positions in business and government. In the 1970s, she led a successful White House initiative to hire more women into high-level roles, helping to change the makeup of the federal workforce and advance the national conversation about women's roles in public life.Starting at €8.20