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- 28 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 28
strategy comes into question when students take the first standardized test aligned with the more rigorous Common Core State Standards. While the test results show that, on average, Uncommon’s students still perform well compared to their district peers, they also... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Building Histories of Emerging Economies One Interview at a Time
interviewed have a broad view of their societal and ethical responsibilities. "It's not something that we went fishing for, but it came through very clearly that many of these people, some of whom came from great poverty, are aware of the economic View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 08 Jan 2014
- What Do You Think?
Do Productivity Increases Contribute to Social Inequality?
term cultural changes (she cited reduced education, greater dependence on drugs, and entitlement programs) are the basis for many of the disparities in employment. Productivity is necessary where not enough skills are available at the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 14 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 14
interactions. By aggregating previously identified problems in several existing industries, the founders articulated an innovative idea for a new venture in a nascent industry. The seeds of the new venture existed in the company's founders' View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
our evidence is consistent with U.S. market interactions impacting U.K. compensation practices through two mechanisms: 1) to alleviate internal and external pay disparities arising from the presence of U.S. operations and businesses... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 6
changing definitions of success and diversity, barriers faced by women at work, the expectations of work and family, and present-day implications for the pipeline of future women leaders. Students consider the role of the School in addressing View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 01 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
How IT Shapes Top-Down and Bottom-Up Decision Making
hierarchy are associated with a decentralization of the decision-making process," Sadun says. "On the other hand, we have the communication technologies, which actually do exactly the opposite." It's Different Roles Companies, however, often fail to... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 12 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
Creating Value Across Borders
system. In France and Germany, the university systems create a lot of inventions but not necessarily innovations. The third difference is the varying tolerance for income disparity across cultures. While that tolerance is very high in the... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 03 Apr 2006
- What Do You Think?
Has Globalization Reached Its Peak?
until such time that disparity between the haves (U.S., Europe, etc.,) and the have-nots is significantly bridged." One theme common to several of these comments is that globalization (and the outsourcing it promotes) will turn out... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 14 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Pay-for-Performance Doesn’t Always Pay Off
as the delivery of parts, affected their work. The high-performance teams often refused to admit people whom they thought to be below their level of expertise, leading to disparities among the teams. There was reduced mobility between... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 18 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 18
Second, pay disparity between managers located in different states decreases relative to that of co-located managers. Third, division productivity falls in dispersed firms, with the effect driven by managers at the low end of the wage... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
class, venture capital has produced high cyclical returns that mirror trends in capital markets and in markets for new technology. There is a large disparity in median and upper quantize performance. A small number of funds do well on a... View Details
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Time to Rethink the Corporate Tax System?
between book and tax income, and yet this disparity has been growing. Other factors such as the peculiar accounting treatment of stock option compensation and differential treatment of overseas income, subsidiary income, and pension... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 30 Jun 2020
- What Do You Think?
Is a Business School-Industry Collaboration Needed to Attract Black Talent to Campus?
student as a DBA-- doctor of business administration--student.”) David Wittenberg was more to the point, arguing that it is not inadequate recruitment efforts that are producing disparate enrollments. “Let’s do everything in our power to... View Details
- 17 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
How ‘Hybrid’ Nonprofits Can Stay on Mission
organization ended up hiring a mix of social workers, sociologists, anthropologists, bankers, and economists. The idea was that these seasoned employees would complement each other with their disparate backgrounds, after training them to... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 21 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them
slices, lacking a grounding in practice. "A more holistic approach would bring together disparate skill sets in a very practical way, thinking about strategies and how to actually effect change in health care," she says. Another... View Details
- 13 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
Cash and the Woman-Owned Business
particularly large gender disparity was reported between male and female executives. For example, in 1999, only 5 percent of women executives were then earning $80,000 or more, but 23 percent of male executives were in the $80,000... View Details
- 08 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Women’s Summit Celebrates ‘Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuit’
Ann Moore (HBS MBA '78)—called it, "the sisterhood of the traveling pantsuit." The anniversary has become a focal point for the School's efforts over the past few years to address its gender disparities head-on. Women now make... View Details
Keywords: by Katie Koch & Harvard Gazette
- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
structure of the firm, especially its organizational boundaries and property rights. Although these tools involve disparate bodies of knowledge, they must be used in tandem to achieve maximum effect. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 23, 2007
unequal initial endowments. As a result, with respect to efficiency, the initially more unequal economy fares worse in the short run but better in the long run, and the disparity of wealth distributions across economies mitigates over... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne