From Cabal to Collaboration
Harvard Business School Baker Library The Harvard Business School 's efforts to change its culture , and current discussions about gender, work, and family, are inspiring and hopeful. They involve collaborations between men and women around common principles and goals, like excellence, equity, and building more humane work environments. Cross-gender collaborations are beginning to replace gendered cabals as forces of change. As male-dominated domains , some business schools, journals, and areas of expertise have been controlled by male cabals. This is an old-school way of seizing and maintaining power: Banding together in a furtive group that is loyal to its members, shares information extensively within its boundaries, uses this information strategically against outsiders, and has each other's backs no matter what. Being part of a cabal is like wearing armor. It can protect you while fighting but can be suffocating and constrain your freedom of movement. To be sure, many men,