middle skills gap - Publications - Faculty & Research

26 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

The Office of Strategy Management

"Why is there such a persistent gap between ambition and performance?" ask Robert Kaplan and David P. Norton in "The Office of Strategy Management" in the October 2005 Harvard Business Review. "The View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

28 Jan 2020
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Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking

University, where senior and retired executives learn to develop leadership skills in the service of solving large social problems. Many of the examples in the book come from her experience leading that program. Sean Silverthorne: We’re... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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About the Project - U.S. Competitiveness

% of business leaders expect U.S. firms to be less able to compete, pay well, or both in three years. More from “Problems Unsolved and a Nation Divided” Research Tracks Core Readings PK–12 Education Transportation Infrastructure Cluster Mapping View Details

01 Jun 2023
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Cultivating Prosperity in Afghanistan

Spice’s website and social media presence at night, while Jung went to Afghanistan so she and Alaniz could learn more about how they might set up a supply chain to import the slightly sweet and floral saffron threads used extensively in View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

11 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard

their owner. Assigning responsibilities for their execution to the OSM fills a gap in management practice without infringing on the current responsibilities of any existing department or function. Finally, the OSM is the integrator of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

08 Nov 2021
Blog Post

4 Ways the MS/MBA is Preparing Me for a Career in Health Care and the Life Sciences

Tell us about your life before HBS. I grew up in Antwerp, Belgium as part of the Jewish community. Having four grandparents who are Holocaust survivors, I felt it was important to experience life in Israel, and so, after taking a gap... View Details

29 Oct 2020
Blog Post

Delving Deeper into Development with the MBA/MPA-ID Program – a Q+A with Zainab Raji (MBA/MPA-ID 2022)

Ministries of Finance across Africa and the Middle East on topics such as tax revenue improvement, expenditure management, and economic planning. I also advised commercial and development banks on revenue growth strategies in new... View Details

31 Jan 2023
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It’s Not All About Pay: College Grads Want Jobs That ‘Change the World’

agencies, and compared prosocial and standard job postings with the same skill requirements—some 27,000 of them. To test the veracity of their work, the authors cross-referenced employee reviews from the website Glassdoor. They also... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

14 Jul 2014
Research & Ideas

Pay Attention To Your ‘Extreme Consumers’

was often predictable. The concept of talking to extreme consumers was developed to push students out of their comfort zone. "There is an enormous gap between chatting with your friends and chatting with people on the streets in Vietnam,"... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Business Finance Course Online | HBS Online

Leaders Gain the skills and confidence needed to understand the financial landscape of your business and industry in order to advance your career, especially if you’re in a non-finance role. In an ever fast-changing world, it is important... View Details

27 May 2022
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Q&A with the HBS Armed Forces Alumni Association, MBA Class of 2023

grow as a person and a leader. I wanted to develop a new skill set and garner new insights to make me a more effective and diversified instructor for the cadets I will teach at USMA. What do you think helped you stand out during the... View Details

04 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How Schmoozing with the Boss Helps Men Get Promoted

new research. In fact, social bonding among men may account for more than a third of the gender gap in promotions, according to the working paper The Old Boys’ Club: Schmoozing and the Gender Gap. “I’m not surprised the old boys’ club... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Peter Gumulia

management is only one piece of the puzzle. I wanted to get closer to the decision making – which ultimately led me to business.” After college, Peter turned to management consulting with a two-year stint at Bain & Co in the US and the View Details

28 Nov 2005
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Unilever: Transformation and Tradition

account individual circumstances. From the 1980s Unilever also honed skills in divesting businesses. Unilever's ability to identify acquisition targets, and to absorb the capabilities of acquired companies, became one of its principal... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products

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Globalization - Faculty & Research

Strategy ; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry ; Health Industry ; United States ; United Kingdom ; France ; India ; Brazil ; Middle East Citation Educators Related Tadikonda, Satish, Rajiv Lal, David Lane, and Sarah Sasso. "Allurion:... View Details

09 Aug 2021
Research & Ideas

OneTen: Creating a New Pathway for Black Talent

Americans launch careers in the next 10 years by “cultivating a comprehensive system that focuses on skills first and enables greater opportunities for earned success.” The hope is that this approach will lift up high-potential Black... View Details

Keywords: by Rawi E. Abdelal, Katherine Connolly Baden, and Boris Groysberg

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Peggy Mativo-Ochola

Peggy took advantage of Harvard’s flexibility and explored courses at the Graduate School of Education. Her desire for "visible impact" led to tutoring through the Harvard Allston Education Portal and working with Teach for China. Taking a View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit/Government/Education

03 Jun 2022
Research & Ideas

In a Work-from-Anywhere World, How Remote Will Workers Go?

middle America, and frankly all over the world, to attract talent and revitalize these towns by attracting remote workers back,” Choudhury says, pointing to similar programs in Kansas, Vermont, and West Virginia. Significantly, Choudhury... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin

13 Jun 2019
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Expanding My Worldview Through FIELD Global Immersion

companies to expand their brands. FGI teaches you how to grab a blank sheet of paper and innovate in the globally competitive 21st century economy. You will exercise your leadership skills and 200+ cases of classroom experience in a... View Details

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Research - Race, Gender & Equity

Faculty & Research Research January 2025 Research Policy Everyone Steps Back?: The Widespread Retraction of Crowd-Funding Support for Minority Creators When Migration Fear Is High By: John (Jianqui) Bai, William R. Kerr , Chi Wan and Alptug Yorulmaz We study funding... View Details

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