Case Study: Is It Teasing or Harassment?

A manager wonders whether to complain about her boss’s insensitive comments.

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Michael Page

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Michael Page

From the Magazine (June 2015)

Charlotte Farmer

“My, my, how tiny you are! You must be the smallest woman on earth. Hello, Dot!”

A version of this article appeared in the June 2015 issue (pp.114–117) of Harvard Business Review.

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Dianne Bevelander is a professor at Erasmus University’s Rotterdam School of Management and the executive director of the Erasmus Centre for Women and Organisations.
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Jacqueline Nolan is a freelance case writer at the Rotterdam School’s Case Development Centre.
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Michael Page is a professor at Bentley University and its provost and vice president for academic affairs.

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