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Culture Matters: Career And Life Expectations And Outcomes Among Business School Alumni, Ace Beorchia
Culture Matters: Career And Life Expectations And Outcomes Among Business School Alumni, Ace Beorchia
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
Women have made great strides in narrowing the gender gap in professional fields. However, women are still significantly underrepresented and face substantial challenges in reaching top professional positions in business. Recently, in its Life and Leadership After HBS study, the Harvard Business School surveyed its graduate school alumni to better understand “gendered dimensions of life and career that [are] crucial to advancing women leaders” (Harvard Business School 2013). This groundbreaking study found that both men and women have similar career aspirations and expectations upon graduating from HBS, yet men are more likely than women to achieve their career goals.
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Embody: The Transformation Of Intimate Knowledges Through Generations In Liberal Societies, Lisa Kronberg
Embody: The Transformation Of Intimate Knowledges Through Generations In Liberal Societies, Lisa Kronberg
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
This thesis project aims to examine how intimate knowledges[1] are transferred and communicated between generations in Western, liberal societies. By ‘Intimate knowledges’ I mean to encompass diverse knowledge of emotional intelligence, sexual identity, and gender.
Intimate knowledges evolve with human life circle everywhere and at all times, but in Western popular discourse of today, are treated with confusion and repression; they thus emerge as a “loud display of simultaneously silent sexual desire.” (Fine and McClelland, 2006) I explore this tension through a critical, feminist lens that sheds light on the ways in which political economy creates cultural norms that …