Women and Portability: Why is women’s star performance more portable than men’s?
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Posted by Web Team, March 12, 2008
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Winter/Spring 2008 Distinguished Scholar Speakers Series.
Hosted by Professor Joyce K. Fletcher, Distinguished Scholar
Date: Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Time: 12 noon - 1:30pm
Place: 409 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA in the Green Room
Speaker: Professor Boris Groysberg, Harvard Business School
Topic: Women and Portability: Why is women’s star performance more portable than men’s?
Professor Groysberg’s research focuses on the challenges of managing professional service firms, especially how firms develop, hire, retain, and utilize star knowledge workers. In this presentation he will discuss the issue of portability and the surprising findings from a study of investment banking professionals that women are able to maintain their star rankings more reliably than men after changing employers. It appears that there are a number of things that occur in the process of becoming stars that make female analysts portable in a way their male colleagues are not. Professor Groysburg will discuss these factors and lead a discussion about the practical implications of his findings for women, men and the field of knowledge work.
Please RSVP by March 21, 2008 to cgo@simmons.edu
