The Great Divergence - Publications - Faculty & Research

21 Mar 2016
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The Massive Difference between Negative and Positive Leadership

Unlocking the Customer Value Chain

“Thales Teixeira brings a brilliant and incisive intellect—blending fundamental insights with practical guidance—to the urgent question of digital transformation. In the book, he gives us a roadmap for winning the right customers, and for keeping them, amidst... View Details

08 Feb 2013
Working Paper Summaries

The Dynamic Advertising Effect of Collegiate Athletics

Keywords: by Doug J. Chung; Sports

15 May 2015
Video

Making the Right Choice During A Recession

November 2022
Case

Hiring with the Community in Saint Paul

By: Mitchell B. Weiss and Sarah Mehta

This case reviews Saint Paul Mayor Melvin Carter’s decision to involve the community in the process of hiring his cabinet members. Rather than relying on an executive recruiting firm or choosing cabinet heads from his own network, Carter recruited 100 community members... View Details

Keywords: Community Engagement; Competency and Skills; Government and Politics; Human Resources; Government Administration; Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Decision Making; Public Administration Industry; United States; Minnesota; Saint Paul

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28 Jun 2021
Blog Post

7 Things HBS Taught Me the Last 2 Years

great gifts, the biggest of which is creating leaders of tomorrow who will move us into entirely new ways of community building. Building a community online - the VCPE... View Details

15 Aug 2016
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How to Make the Other Side Play Fair

2019
Book

Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream: How Technology Is Transforming Lending and Shaping a New Era of Small Business Opportunity

By: Karen G. Mills

Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream describes the needs of small businesses for capital and demonstrates how technology—novel data sources, artificial intelligence, machine learning—will transform the small business lending market. This market has been... View Details

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16 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Angels Face the Innovator’s Dilemma

gosh. If I were you, I would be scared to death..." The Case Of Hp Hewlett-Packard lost ground in the disk drive race, Christensen suggested, because it made what appeared to be very smart decisions... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

08 Aug 2017
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The Stock Market May Be Poised for a Replay of the 1987 Crash

2022
White Paper

The Emerging Degree Reset: How the Shift to Skills-Based Hiring Holds the Keys to Growing the U.S. Workforce at a Time of Talent Shortage

By: Joseph B. Fuller, Christina Langer, Julia Nitschke, Layla O'Kane, Matthew Sigelman and Bledi Taska

Employers are resetting degree requirements in a wide range of roles, dropping the requirement for a bachelor’s degree in many middle-skill and even some higher-skill roles. This reverses a trend toward degree inflation in job postings going back to the Great... View Details

Keywords: Skills; Workforce; Talent; Human Resource Management; Selection and Staffing; Competency and Skills; Talent and Talent Management; Human Resources

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13 Sep 2010
Research & Ideas

The Consumer Appeal of Underdog Branding

biographies especially prevalent and popular now? A: Underdog stories about overcoming great odds through passion and determination are particularly resonant during difficult times. They inspire and give hope when View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

09 Feb 2023
Blog Post

The Sixth Year of Short Intensive Programs (SIPs) at HBS

Short Intensive Programs (SIPs) are courses that offer a great opportunity for students to think about career choices, gain practical skills, and explore new topics. These are no-fee, no-credit courses over winter break open to both... View Details

14 Sep 2015
News

Rewriting the Rules of Service Competition

February 2016 (Revised September 2017)
Case

Neurotrack and the Alzheimer's Puzzle

By: Richard G. Hamermesh, Liz Kind and Carin-Isabel Knoop

Elli Kaplan founded Neurotrack in 2012 with a breakthrough noninvasive cognitive diagnostics test that will detect Alzheimer's disease in its earliest pre-symptomatic stages. While the company has gained great traction in the three years since it was started, with no... View Details

Keywords: Alzheimer's Disease; Diagnostics; Healthcare; Entrepreneurship; Health Disorders; Science-Based Business; Business Model; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; United States

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Inconsistencies in accounting treatment across countries are a major obstacle for global equity investment. Founded in 1985, HOLT is an equity valuation service provider that offers its clients (e.g., global equity investors) a consistent performance metrics from... View Details

2013
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If Technology Has Arrived Everywhere, Why Has Income Diverged?

By: Diego A. Comin and Marti Mestieri Ferrer

We study the lags with which new technologies are adopted across countries, and their long-run penetration rates once they are adopted. Using data from the last two centuries, we document two new facts: there has been convergence in adoption lags between rich and poor... View Details

Keywords: Income Characteristics; Technology Adoption; Globalization

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