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- 2022
- White Paper
The Partnership Imperative: Community Colleges, Employers, & America's Chronic Skills Gap
By: Joseph B. Fuller and Manjari Raman
The nature of work has changed dramatically across
industries in the last few decades due to rapid and
repeated waves of automation. Nowhere is this more
evident than in middle-skills positions—those that
require less than a four-year college degree but more
than... View Details
Keywords: Future Of Work; Human Capital; Competency and Skills; Training; Higher Education; United States
Fuller, Joseph B., and Manjari Raman. "The Partnership Imperative: Community Colleges, Employers, & America's Chronic Skills Gap." White Paper, Harvard Business School Project on Managing the Future of Work, December 2022. (In partnership with the American Association of Community Colleges.)
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Bridging the “Middle Skills” Gap
- 2014
- Report
Managing the Talent Pipeline: A New Approach to Closing the Skills Gap
By: Joseph B. Fuller, Robert G. Sheets and Jason A. Tyszko
Fuller, Joseph B., Robert G. Sheets, and Jason A. Tyszko. "Managing the Talent Pipeline: A New Approach to Closing the Skills Gap." Report, U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation, 2014.
- 2021
- White Paper
Hidden Workers: Untapped Talent
By: Joseph B. Fuller, Manjari Raman, Eva Sage-Gavin and Kristen Hines
Companies are increasingly desperate for workers. As they continue to struggle to find people with the skills they need, their competitiveness and growth prospects are put at risk.
At the same time, an enormous and growing group of people are unemployed or... View Details
Keywords: Hiring; Talent; Skills Gap; Selection and Staffing; Diversity; Talent and Talent Management; Competency and Skills
Fuller, Joseph B., Manjari Raman, Eva Sage-Gavin, and Kristen Hines. "Hidden Workers: Untapped Talent." White Paper, Harvard Business School Project on Managing the Future of Work, Boston, MA, September 2021. (Published by Harvard Business School Project on Managing the Future of Work and Accenture.)
- 27 May 2015
- News
A Playbook for Making America More Entrepreneurial
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Minding The Gap
- 05 Feb 2024
- Research & Ideas
The Middle Manager of the Future: More Coaching, Less Commanding
Middle managers aren’t going extinct. They’re evolving. Once a wasteland where careers stalled or abruptly ended in layoffs, middle management has adapted and is thriving, seeing double-digit growth in some... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
- 24 Nov 2014
- News
Filling the 'Middle-Skills' Gap
- 08 Sep 2014
- News
America's wealth gap 'unsustainable,' may worsen: Harvard study
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Bridging the Gap
cities. Nor do they measure success by how faithfully a city group implements its whiteboard project. (This year’s presentations included a pledge to increase participation in the 2020 census; an effort to close the skills View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Bridging the Gap
Illustration by Chris Gash Long before “COVID-19” became a household word with grave implications, the education sector faced enormous challenges. Opportunity and achievement gaps marginalizing students of color and those from low-income... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Minding The Gap
from college than middle-class and affluent kids. PELP demonstrates the immediate impact of a class gift. Funded by the 40th Reunion gift from the HBS Class of 1963, PELP was launched in 2003 to see if HBS could help narrow the urban school achievement View Details
- January 2025
- Case
Untapped Global: Financing Africa's Missing Middle
By: Raymond Kluender and Emanuele Colonnelli
In November 2024, Jim Chu, founder and CEO of Untapped Global, faced mounting internal tensions over the company’s strategic direction. Untapped had developed a data-driven revenue-based financing (RBF) model to address the “missing middle” problem—the $5.2 trillion... View Details
Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Working Capital; Private Equity; Financial Strategy; Microfinance; International Finance; Currency Exchange Rate; Profit Sharing; Revenue; Developing Countries and Economies; Economic Growth; Emerging Markets; Mission and Purpose; Small Business; Entrepreneurial Finance; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; Information Technology Industry; Technology Industry; Africa; Nigeria; South Africa; Kenya; Uganda; California; San Francisco
Kluender, Raymond, and Emanuele Colonnelli. "Untapped Global: Financing Africa's Missing Middle." Harvard Business School Case 825-056, January 2025.
- 21 Dec 2018
- News
Bridging the Gap
experience? Falik: Traditionally, study abroad has been the experience that we’ve encouraged kids to have to expand their horizons and have a global experience. When we look at the data, though, it’s pretty striking: 80% of kids who participate in study abroad are... View Details
- 18 Aug 2014
- News
Closing the Education Gap
performance test scores. By June that number had jumped to 53 percent. “In nine months, we can effectively close the gap between poor and average performance on pre-K tests,” says Dias Griffin, “and we can do it for $6,000 per child,... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Bridging the Success Gap
extreme poverty, inspired him to work for social change. An Antioch College graduate who worked as a community organizer in the late 1970s, Navarro then ran a software company prior to attending HBS. “I needed to acquire business skills... View Details
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Senior Executive Leadership Program - Middle East (SELPME)
By: Stefan H. Thomke
Change is everywhere in the Middle East today, as many countries seek to diversify their economies and encourage new industries. While the region's complexity includes distinct political and economic conditions in each country in addition to an uncertain global... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News