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- 15 Sep 2020
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Lifting Fallen Families
dependents have been left behind by troops killed in the line of duty over the past 35 years, says Kim. With those kinds of numbers, Children of Fallen Patriots figures that, after government help, the gap is half a billion dollars. “So...
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- 06 Sep 2016
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The Solution That Doesn’t Get Discussed About How to Get More Women On Corporate Boards
board search is a loss leader for building the connections and relationships needed to support the traditional search firm’s primary revenue stream. We designed Trewstar not to compete with or disrupt the search firm industry, but to fill a View Details
- 17 Dec 2015
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Addressing Gender Equity In Business And Society
shows that cultures of overwork—rather than the lack of family-friendly policies—impede gender equity. The School’s own Life and Leadership After HBS alumni study, launched in 2012, is teasing out intricacies of career, work, and family dynamics, and exploring the...
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- 01 Jun 2013
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The Long View
PROFESSOR DAVID MOSS As a graduate student in history and economics at Yale, John G. McLean Professor David Moss struck up a friendship with the late Nobel laureate James Tobin that changed his perspective. Again and again, Professor Tobin would remind him that rather...
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- 11 Oct 2012
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Answering the Doctor's Call
key advisory and stewardship role at Downing Enterprises. “But,” he adds, “I can definitely see the synergistic advantages of having both business and medical training. Clearly, there’s a health-care gap for urban poor, and it goes along...
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- 01 Sep 2020
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Good Odds
altitude. Imperfect Foods sold 40,000 of them. The company was founded with the goal of narrowing the yawning gap between supply and demand in the American food industry. The space is defined by two data points that, taken together, make...
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- 01 Sep 2013
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Beantown as a Beacon
COMMUNITY-SPECIFIC EDUCATION Online learning tailored to the skills gap of the unemployed Boston is an education mecca, but with the emergence of online education and MOOCs (massive open online courses), every city can boost its education...
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- 05 Dec 2016
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The Dragon’s Tale
with the country’s recent economic slowdown, China has more 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...
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Deborah Blagg
- 17 Jun 2021
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Investing in a Post-COVID World; Exploring the Pandemic’s Impact on Gender Equity
Ventures—for three months to create the landmark conference. The full recording of the program is available at hbsangels.com/annual-conference. Toronto Panel Grapples with Losses in Gender Equity in Post-COVID Canada When the World Economic Forum’s 2021 Global Gender...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2008
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India's Chidambaram Says Nation Is "Poor Rich"
times as many Ph.D.’s as India. Basic education and technical and vocational training languish despite renewed government commitments. The rich-poor gap in education is mirrored in health care — India boasts hospitals and clinics with...
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- 01 Mar 2004
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Leadership Project Codifies Elusive Traits
have an impact on business managers on an everyday basis. In essence, we want to bridge the gap between theory and practice,” says Mayo. Mayo, who spearheaded the legacy project along with HBS professor Nitin Nohria, notes that the...
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- 01 Dec 2014
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Faculty Q&A: The New Brand Manager: You
Now that customers have more of a voice in the consumer-brand relationship, some brands have suffered loud criticism for recent business decisions. How can brands avoid that pitfall? I’m not sure consumer criticism is always necessarily negative. Some recent examples...
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April White
- 01 Oct 2000
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Rationale for Non-Rationality: Why We Make Bad Choices
institutions that Jensen believes can function as a "prosthesis" to bridge this gap in an individual's reasoning. Others, he suggests, include families, universities, corporations, and government -- the last a somewhat painful admission...
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Laura Singleton (MBA '88)
- 01 Dec 2006
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Over 50 and Job Hunting?
currency is the ability to make a positive first impression. “Your attitude, body language, and energy can dispel ageist stereotypes in the first five minutes,” Lassiter states. Although layoffs or extended résumé gaps may have an impact...
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- 01 Mar 2023
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Is AI OK?
Illustrations by Dan Bejar Illustrations by Dan Bejar When she began investigating Airbnb’s smart-pricing algorithm several years ago, Assistant Professor Shunyuan Zhang wasn’t looking for evidence that it generated discriminatory outcomes, a problem known as...
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- 27 Oct 2020
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HBS Votes
tools to provide direct operational support to election officials, tracked misinformation campaigns that undermine the integrity of US elections, and worked to fill the gap in poll workers and other election resources. (More information...
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- 01 Sep 2012
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A Silent Workplace Crisis
pharmaceuticals, the gap between the medical and the mental health systems, and the time required to find community resources and quality home care. My previous experience as a pharmaceutical executive and management consultant seemed...
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- 23 Jul 2013
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Building Great Schools around Great Teachers
on the rest of your life," said Klemmer. Related Links 5 Bright Ideas Charter Revolution Redux Lesson Plans Minding the Gap Learning Curve Yet the success he had observed at the charter school convinced him that top-quality education was...
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- 01 Sep 2020
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We Rise
venture capitalists and the amount invested in founders has its origins in the same historical forces that shaped most industries: When the VC model emerged in the 1940s, white men dominated the workforce. The persistence of the gender View Details
- 03 Jun 2020
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Keeping a Community Connected
provided food—delivering food, distributing grocery cards, and setting up sites where people can pick up food. We’ve helped bridge the gap between paychecks. Partnering with the ICA Watershed, we are using their facility in East Boston...
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Susan Young