middle skills gap - Publications - Faculty & Research

26 May 2023
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Bringing Space Tech Back to Earth

would magically know how to bridge the gap between technology and business strategy,” she said. “Knowing how to build out a financial forecast, carry out a discounted cash flow and do all of those financial steps in modeling and business... View Details

18 Apr 2016
Research & Ideas

The Cost of Leaning In

Last summer, Christine Exley polled 200 American adults with a simple yes/no question: Do you think women should negotiate their salaries more often? Seventy percent of respondents answered in the affirmative. She wasn’t surprised by the response. Just as there’s a... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

07 Nov 2023
News

Love and Money

looking for in a mate is a height and a religion and a geography and an education background – that's what you want. But look at this list that makes you happy. The person that makes you happy has a sense of humor, isn't judgmental, and so forth. And I tell them that... View Details

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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work

School, 2019. With Manjari Raman. Dismissed by Degrees , Report, Harvard Business School, 2017. Room to Grow: Identifying New Frontiers for Apprenticeships , Report, Harvard Business School, 2017. With Matthew Sigelman. Bridge the Gap: Rebuilding America’s View Details

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Research Resources - Doctoral

Global Research Activities Africa Asia-Pacific California Europe Japan Latin America Middle East & North Africa South Asia Harvard University Harvard University Libraries HBS Doctoral students have access to the more than 90 libraries... View Details

06 Aug 2020
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My HBS Financial Aid Story: Why I Chose to Invest in My Future

insurmountable burden. With that in mind, I attended the college that awarded me the best scholarship and sought out external scholarships and work-study opportunities to avoid relying on student loans. So, when I was admitted to HBS, my concern turned at once to... View Details

19 Oct 2022
Op-Ed

Cofounder Courtship: How to Find the Right Mate—for Your Startup

Partners in Short & Long Term Relationships. “The conviction to have a cofounder is often based solely on complementary skills and experience versus the softer, and often more important, relationship criteria.” In the podcast, Dr.... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

18 Jun 2020
Research & Ideas

What Is an "Essential" Purchase for a Low-Income Family?

garage, a safe and secure neighborhood, interior walls in good condition, and natural light. Of the 20 attributes tested, 17 of them were rated significantly less necessary for the lower-income family. "The gap emerged for things... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

22 Aug 2005
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Restoring a Global Economy, 1950–1980

industries. Europe and Japan had to spend the immediate postwar decade undergoing extensive reconstruction, heavily dependent on official aid from the United States, yet over time Europe and Japan closed the technological and productivity View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones

04 Apr 2023
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How Does Remote Work Affect Innovation?

doing a terrible job of it, with little preparation and training for middle managers primarily responsible for the success of the process. Also, the impact of remote work on organization culture has yet to be determined. We can assume... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

25 Jun 2018
Research & Ideas

In America, Immigrants Really Do Get the Job Done

toward a healthy economy and future gains? There are several levers such as investing heavily in robotics and labor-augmenting machinery, but immigration can also be a powerful way for countries to continue economic development and growth.” Highly View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Agriculture & Agribusiness; Technology; Service

21 Aug 2013
Research & Ideas

What Went Wrong at J.C. Penney?

available options, from low-end Walmart and discounters like TJ Maxx to Kohl's, Macy's, and Target. Beyond that, there are plenty of specialty stores such as The Gap and Gymboree. Aisner: That's a full plate of problems. What did Johnson... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner; Retail

08 Sep 2014
Research & Ideas

The Strategic Way To Hire a Sales Team

Too often, there's a huge gap between a company's overall business strategy and the way its salesforce operates in the field. In fact, says Frank V. Cespedes, articles and books about strategy rarely take sales into consideration at all.... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

22 Nov 2023
News

So You Want to Join a Startup

the things I've found, particularly with really early stage startups is that you never quite know what you're going to be working on from day to day. And so if you need a lot of structure and you know, let's say you have a particular sort of narrow View Details

26 Aug 2024
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HBS Lingo 101

place in the second semester. Field Global Capstone builds on interpersonal and team-based skills learned in START, LEAD, and Inclusion and culminates with student teams going into global markets around the world to help develop a new... View Details

31 Mar 2022
Op-Ed

Navigating the ‘Bermuda Triangle’ in Professional Services

In professional services, successful firms tend to be either small or super-sized. There’s very little middle ground. Take health care, for example. Shouldice is a small, 89-bed hernia hospital in Canada that, over the past several... View Details

Keywords: by Ashish Nanda

20 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

The 5 Strategy Rules of Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs

1997, Tim Cook was one of his first hires to run operations, which allowed Jobs to focus on overall strategy and design. "These guys each had very different skills they brought to the table," says Yoffie, "but they also... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Computer

01 Sep 2021
Op-Ed

How Women Can Learn from Even Biased Feedback

When receiving their performance reviews, most people find such feedback conversations to be difficult, no matter how skilled the feedback-givers are. In a recent survey I conducted of 360 working adults, 89 percent said they were not... View Details

Keywords: by Francesca Gino

09 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations

identification of every employee with the firm as a whole and its overall goals. Remember that four-drive theory argues that the innate pressure to fulfill all four drives together has served to evolve a social contracting skill as a... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria

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Global Opportunity Fellowship GO: AFRICA - Alumni

amounts are designed to bridge the gap between the recipient’s salary and $130,000 USD, with a maximum award of up to $50,000 USD per year. For example, if recipient’s salary is $95,000 USD, the GO Fellowship may be up to $35,000 USD. MBA... View Details

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