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Harrell Chronicled MBA CareersAugust, 2002 THOMAS HARRELL, the Business School professor who reported that athletic, outgoing MBAs were more likely to succeed in business and that marriage helped men's careers but hurt women's, died at age 90 at his home in Portola Valley in April. An applied psychologist who joined the School in 1952, Harrell spent much of his career publishing studies of Stanford MBAs who graduated from 1961 to 1965. Among his findings were that high-wage earners and general managers tended to be communicative, outgoing, energetic, and athletic. Harrell's work, much of it done jointly with his late wife, Margaret, a statistician, also disproved the stereotype that businesspeople have to step on others to get ahead. "This was a very distinctive piece of research," said colleague V. Seenu Srinivasan, a marketing professor who also studies successful business managers. He praised Harrell for tackling slippery variables such as personality and choosing long-term study rather than quick snapshots. Harrell's research on disparities between men and women with Stanford MBAs grabbed headlines in the early 1990s. His 1993 study showed that women were soon earning less, getting fewer promotions, and reporting less job satisfaction than men, although they started out on relatively equal footing at graduation. In 1991, he reported that marriage helped men's careers yet hurt women's. |
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