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- 05 Apr 2016
- News
Don’t Send Your Kids to College. At Least Not Yet.
the rich resources and opportunities colleges have to offer? The research, Falik argues, is “undeniable.” A recent Middlebury study showed that students who take a year off before arriving outperform their peers in their academic and extracurricular engagement on... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Book Review: Getting Beyond Yes
for senior executives at HBS. Aligning Strategy and Sales is full of voices and stories from top firms, business leaders, and educators who offer valuable lessons through their experiences—both their mistakes and their ability to bridge that View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Five Bright Ideas
of the gaps that matter—the achievement gap, for example, or the gap between who we are as educators and who we might be—somewhere, some teacher has already developed a solution to that. Almost every major... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Jeanne Jackson
CEO of Banana Republic, with concurrent responsibility for all of parent company Gap Inc.’s Internet businesses, and, most recently, as president and CEO of Walmart.com. A skilled and forward-looking manager, she has been listed among... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
been rising for everyone, we might feel differently about executive compensation, but in fact the gap between top and bottom has grown dramatically. Paul Healy: Short-Term Pressures The freedoms that we’ ve been given as investors in the... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
INK: Out of Exile
it’s your identity, but it might also be your ticket to freedom. It can be very psychologically damaging for your story to be both of those things. Eventually I landed in America and my story became a way to show people that I belonged; that despite the View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Short Takes
pursued a looser, more flexible organizational strategy drawing on employees' experience with previous generations of products rather than formal training. Although these differences became more pronounced between 1985 and 1995, the performance View Details
Keywords: Orna Feldman and Caroline Chauncey
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Bottom-Line Discrepancies
Desai, who is studying the gap between book income — what companies report to shareholders — and tax income — what companies report to the IRS. In a paper titled “The Divergence between Book and Tax Income” published in the forthcoming... View Details
- 05 May 2022
- News
Lesson Plans
emergency We are increasing class time, but increasing it at home and fulfilling our obligations through distance learning. JH: Khan Academy stepped up to fill the gaps when school went online around the world in 2020. SK: I remember it... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Research Brief: May I Ask Your Advice?
as if we develop a curiosity about the person’s potential. “We start thinking about how we can help this person grow into the employee that we believe they can be,” she says. Whillans and her fellow researchers are looking into whether these findings could also help... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Group Therapy: The Role of Business Groups in Emerging Economies
United States,” notes Khanna. “Court systems, contract law, stock markets, accounting standards, and other elements that facilitate entrepreneurship and growth are often weak, archaic, or entirely missing in these economies.” Business groups, Khanna explains, can help... View Details
- 18 May 2011
- News
U.S. Manufacturing Comeback?
Don’t give up on American manufacturing yet. There are signs of new life that give rise to optimism about a U.S. manufacturing renaissance. A new analysis by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) estimates that within the next five years the wage View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Is Market Capitalism Headed for Trouble?
disparity of wealth and income in many countries and across regions. In turn, they thought these gaps could lead to populist politics that would adversely affect the conduct of capitalism. A second major concern was that our productive... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Raymond V. Gilmartin (MBA '68)
the business world has an important leadership role to play in terms of closing the gap in health and other vital social issues," he says. When Ray Gilmartin joined Merck in June 1994 as president and CEO (he became chairman several... View Details
- 11 Jan 2016
- News
Guiding Students to Out-of-School Programs and Resources
Marie Schwartz (MBA 1985) is founder and CEO of TeenLife Media, which produces online and print directories of STEM, gap year, pre-college, overnight summer, and community service programs for students in grades 7 through 12. In this... View Details
- 25 Aug 2021
- News
Reimagining Chicago’s Schools
Back in 2011, when Melissa Zaikos (MBA 2000) first began digging deeply into the standardized test scores of the Chicago Public Schools system, she saw that elementary schools seemed to be getting better in the Chicago area. But once students reached middle and high... View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
Field Course Helps Nascent Entrepreneurs Connect with Customers
200 second-year MBA students signed up for ESM’s 60 available seats. “Student demand, as well as feedback from alumni entrepreneurs, identified a critical skill gap in this area,” says Eisenmann, who developed the course with HBS... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Minding Families' Business
support and guidance." The de Gaspé Beaubiens started the Institute, in part, to fill in the gaps in research and education regarding family businesses that have historically existed in academia. They have also established a fund at HBS... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New News
opportunity you both saw. Who is the audience you’re going after, and what was the gap you saw in the market? MA: This is going to sound crazy but our target is the 200 million people who read the news online in the United States. The... View Details
- 25 Jul 2024
- News
Mentorship Program in Singapore is Still Lighting the Way to Success
Clubs News Clubs News It’s been a decade since the HBS Club of Singapore (HBSCS) launched its signature Mentorship Program, aimed at helping local university and trade school students to prepare for life after graduation, both personally and professionally. The program... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley