middle skills gap - Publications - Faculty & Research

26 Jul 2010
Research & Ideas

Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn

look. Q: Discuss the "gap" between customer value and price, and why it represents "the essential driving force for the customer to buy." Ben Shapiro: The gap is the difference between the customer value provided by... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail; Consumer Products

01 Mar 2010
Op-Ed

A Golden Opportunity for Ford and GM

board chair. Since that time, he has acted decisively, removing Fritz Henderson as CEO and assuming the mantle himself. Whitacre quickly reorganized the company from top to bottom, cut out layers of middle management, initiated new... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George; Auto

09 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation

specialized skills or training, forcing them to turn to experts to solve important problems. Consumers who lack adequate wealth to participate in a market. Consumers who can use a product or service only in centralized and/or inconvenient... View Details

Keywords: by Scott D. Anthony, Mark W. Johnson & Matt Eyring

07 Apr 2008
Research & Ideas

The Debate over Taxing Foreign Profits

we're in the middle of a changing understanding of what these firms do and how they should be taxed. As I mentioned, most of the world has moved to exemption systems, which is consistent with this emphasis on ownership as being central to... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

23 Jun 2009
First Look

First Look: June 23

income tax rates remain well above the zero level recommended by theory. Moreover, some of theory's more subtle prescriptions, such as taxes that involve personal characteristics, asset-testing, and history-dependence, remain rare in practice. Where large View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

08 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

Women’s Summit Celebrates ‘Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuit’

factors such as hard work, help from others, or luck. That gap in self-confidence starts as young as middle school, she added, but can be reversed as more and more trailblazing women pave the way—women like... View Details

Keywords: by Katie Koch & Harvard Gazette

17 Feb 2015
HBS Case

HBS Cases: The Battle for San Francisco

School. "There is this real squeeze on certain parts of the community—housing prices are out of sight, the middle class is leaving, and homelessness is a serious problem. This is in the face of great prosperity for many technology... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology

03 Apr 2013
What Do You Think?

Will Women Leaders Influence the Way We Work?

we should be asking the question, as like it or not our approach in leadership and problem solving are different." Respondents were pretty well split down the middle on the question, although there was apparently little doubt in Judy... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

21 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

Shabana Azmi: Leveraging Bollywood Fame into Social Good

For decades, Shabana Azmi has been a leading actress in Indian cinema. She has starred in many of that country’s most popular and acclaimed films, including the groundbreaking Fire in 1996, about a lesbian relationship between two sisters-in-law. At age 66, Azmi’s... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Motion Pictures & Video

05 Mar 2001
What Do You Think?

Fine Coupling: Can Human Resource Management Learn from Supply Chain Management?

important." Scott Lichtman agrees, pointing out that "to be efficient in this fast-moving era rather requires longer-term investment in skills and strategy adoption by longstanding employees ..." On the other hand, Ryan... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

03 Jan 2008
What Do You Think?

Does Judgment Trump Experience?

quote that "Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment." Andrew Obara assumed a middle ground, saying that "the two mutually enhance each other." Several felt that the premise depends on... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

04 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

Start to Measure Your E-commerce Success

of various operations and corrective action that can be taken to make improvements. The measures should be of use to both senior and middle managers in the business units and functions. Thus, they must be disaggregated so each unit can... View Details

Keywords: by Marc J. Epstein

13 Oct 2003
Research & Ideas

Negotiating Challenges for Women Leaders

McGinn believe that negotiation skills are crucial to closing the gender gap in leadership. Riley Bowles, who earned her doctoral degree from Harvard Business School, is an assistant professor at Harvard's... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

11 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

How AI Could Ease the Refugee Crisis and Bring New Talent to Businesses

can be painfully slow and difficult—and the decade-long surge of refugees and asylum seekers has left staff members scrambling to make timely placements, Paulson says. The war in Ukraine, coupled with ongoing conflicts and instability in the View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Technology; Information Technology

02 Jul 2013
First Look

First Look: July 2

what are the key drivers of technology; and what are the macroeconomic consequences of technology. We prioritize in our discussion unified approaches to these three questions that are based on direct measures of technology. 2006 pub Dysfunction in the Boardroom:... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

21 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them

Global health care is entering its most challenging era, with increasing demand for services from consumers newly arrived in the middle class, under-served people, and rapidly aging populations, all the while dealing with the need to... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Guttry; Health; Education

14 Apr 2008
Research & Ideas

The Surprising Right Fit for Software Testing

particular skills and needs. People with ASD may also have little preparation or capacity for the common social interactions required on a daily basis at work. As Sonne and his family adapted to life raising their son, the nature of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Video Game; Web Services; Computer

23 Aug 2010
Research & Ideas

The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization

of mercantilist system was, with a short time lag, a winner for all Japanese citizens, who were all able to raise their living standards; the income gap between the upper and lower quintiles was actually reduced to only 3.4 percent, the... View Details

Keywords: by Paul R. Lawrence

17 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?

billionaires than the United States. Behind that fairly startling statistic are troubling related issues such as corruption among China’s elite and very wide variance in income, standard of living, and opportunity gaps between urban and... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg

23 Sep 2014
First Look

First Look: September 23

officers, cabinet ministers, and unskilled workers-to their ideals for what those wages should be. We show that ideal pay gaps between skilled and unskilled workers are significantly smaller than estimated... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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