Content written by Brian Uzzi and published by Harvard Business Review.
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Extracted Content: We know that social networks are critical to professional advancement. We also know that men are more likely to rise to leadership positions.
This makes one wonder: Is there a difference between the networks of successful male and female leaders?
Recent research I conducted with collaborators Yang Yang and Nitesh V. Chawla suggests there is. We studied what types of networks helped new male and female MBAs land executive leadership positions. We found that men benefit not so much from size of network but from being central in the MBA student network—or connected to multiple “hubs”, or people who have a lot of contacts across different groups of students.