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- 12 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019
The organization pays for the individual to enhance his or her skills—and résumé—and thereby benefit from participating. The second is the gap between the skills that executive development programs build and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Jun 2017
- Blog Post
What is the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program? A Q&A with Professor Tom Eisenmann
Entrepreneurial Manager, taught to all 900 first-year MBA students. Here’s what Professor Eisenmann had to say about the new joint degree. Why is Harvard launching this program now? “The world needs more leaders with a deep understanding of technology and management.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
What’s Behind the Explosive Growth of Sustainable Investing?
skills for our students. We’re fully convinced this is going to be fundamental mainstream investing in 20 years. Vikram Gandhi: One key driver is investor demand.If you look at the big pools of capital—family offices, pension plans,... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Offshore Learning
growing number of students from high-poverty neighborhoods. “Our core mission is to help close the STEM achievement gap among students of diverse backgrounds in Boston,” Pearson explained in a traveling conversation this summer that began... View Details
- 16 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
Flatiron School: Reflections from Summer 2020
their voter engagement strategy by developing a granular data-driven understanding of youth voter turnout. I loved putting my new skills to work for such a worthwhile cause! Joshua Rodriguez (MBA 2020): For our first project, we were... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 27 Jun 2016
- Blog Post
From Africa to HBS
industry, I needed some time to refocus on my career goals. In particular, I wanted to use the MBA to fill some of the gaps I had identified in my skill set. I wanted to pursue an MBA in the U.S. because I... View Details
- 14 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Right Fit for Software Testing
particular skills and needs. People with ASD may also have little preparation or capacity for the common social interactions required on a daily basis at work. As Sonne and his family adapted to life raising their son, the nature of... View Details
- 23 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
How to Break the Expert’s Curse
Unfortunately, though, experts frequently make lousy teachers. Experts are sometimes so steeped in expertise that they don't remember what it was like to be a newbie—in terms of both how much they knew and how they felt back then. The memory View Details
- 27 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Creating the Minority Renaissance for Venture Capital: Interview with Henri Pierre-Jacques and Jarrid Tingle, Managing Partners at Harlem Capital
lending encouragement to his colleague, and some friendly pressure to get his application in. From HBS, Tingle was looking to gain skills and experience he could take back with him to investing, either going back to private equity or... View Details
- 10 Nov 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
Research News and Tips: Innovating Across Time Zones
zones As companies expand operations across the globe, they must grapple with time gaps during which employees cannot collaborate (i.e., lost productivity). To study this phenomenon, a research team studied communication patterns among... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jul 2015
- Blog Post
3 Things Women Need to Know About Business School
background in chemistry and history, I had learned all of my business skills in a haphazard way at my previous job; I wanted to fill in the gaps in a systematic way. I also wanted to test different... View Details
- 13 Jun 2017
- Blog Post
Benefits of the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program
in two years, and will have the chance to combine these two skill sets in a really structured way.” Though there are many students interested in technology and entrepreneurship at HBS, Damjan admits he would have appreciated the cohort... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
A Focus on Latinx Entrepreneurs
country. “What we do is invest in businesses that are growing faster than the GDP, which is climbing now because of the recovery, but traditionally, it’s been 2 to 3 percent over the last 10 to 20 years,” Perez says. “We want to bring our View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 26 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn
look. Q: Discuss the "gap" between customer value and price, and why it represents "the essential driving force for the customer to buy." Ben Shapiro: The gap is the difference between the customer value provided by... View Details
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Three Steps for Crisis Prevention
leaders remain oblivious to an emerging threat or problem—a lack of attention that can plague even the most skilled executives. After European Commission regulators refused to approve General Electric's $42 billion acquisition of... View Details
Keywords: by Michael D. Watkins & Max H. Bazerman
- 16 Nov 1999
- Lessons from the Classroom
Leading Change and Organizational Renewal
substantially changed. Tushman: In Leading Change and Organizational Renewal, we begin by helping managers to recognize inertia within their own organizations, and to understand its root causes. But, we don't stop there. We also give them a set of pragmatic tools and... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 17 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?
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 opportunity gaps between urban and... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
- 23 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 23
officers, cabinet ministers, and unskilled workers-to their ideals for what those wages should be. We show that ideal pay gaps between skilled and unskilled workers are significantly smaller than estimated... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2022
- News
Lesson Plans
emergency We are increasing class time, but increasing it at home and fulfilling our obligations through distance learning. JH: Khan Academy stepped up to fill the gaps when school went online around the world in 2020. SK: I remember it... View Details
- 12 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
Buy-In from Black Patients Suffers When Drug Trials Don’t Include Them
observed gaps in the prescribing rates of new medicines,” according to the study. The second experiment evaluated the behaviors of 275 patients with hypertension. Patients viewed clinical trial evidence for drugs along with the percentage... View Details