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Insights & Research on Women in Business

Insights & Research on Women in Business

Browse insights and publications from Stanford GSB about women in business.

Insights by Stanford Business

February 4, 2019
Video

Fran Weld: If Your Dream Job Doesn’t Exist, Create It

The senior vice president of strategy and development for the SF Giants carved her own niche in the competitive world of pro sports management.
November 26, 2018
Written

Does Workplace Ageism Affect Women and Men Differently?

A new study suggests that women are perceived as less of a threat by younger colleagues.
A senior businessman at a meeting. Credit: iStock/FangXiaNua
October 31, 2018
Written

Investing in China: It’s Still “the Wild, Wild West”

How an uncle’s battle with cancer helped Nisa Leung become one of Asia’s most successful VCs.
Nisa Leung. Credit: Amanda Kho
September 25, 2018
Written

Kara Swisher: Be the Boss

The executive editor of Recode discusses failure, diversity, and the value of being honest.
Kara Swisher. Credit: Photo by David Fitzgerald/Web Summit via Sportsfile
June 15, 2018
Written

Scaling Up and Changing Lives in Africa

How a Ghanaian entrepreneur stitched together a clothing company that employs and houses homeless women.
SEED transformation participant, Linda Ampah | Gabriela Hasbun

Faculty Publications

Stanford Closer Look|

Pioneering Women on Boards: Pathways of the First Female Directors

David F. Larcker, Brian Tayan
Stanford Closer Look Series. September
2013
Journal Article|

Reducing the backlash effect: Self-monitoring and women’s promotions

Olivia A. O’Neill, Charles A. O’Reilly
Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology.
2011, Vol. 84, Issue 4, Pages 825-832
Journal Article|

Gender and persistence in negotiation: A dyadic perspective

Hannah Riley Bowles, Francis J. Flynn
Academy of Management Journal. August
2010, Vol. 53, Issue 4, Pages 769-787
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Featured Book
Book cover for The Road Winds Uphill All the Way

The Road Winds Uphill All the Way: Gender, Work, and Family in the United States and Japan

Myra H. Strober