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- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Public Education Goes to School
ranking 16th out of 20 in the number of students who complete high school. Just as importantly, public education is facing a social justice issue that has the potential to undermine our democracy. Even with a dramatic increase in targeted spending to close the... View Details
- 06 Mar 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Has the Glass Ceiling Been Broken (or at Least Cracked)?
Self-ConfidenceResearchers believe gender stereotypes hold women back in the workplace. Katherine Coffman's research adds a new twist: They can even cause women to question their own abilities. Sponsorship Programs Could Actually Widen the Gender View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Is Groupon Good for Retailers?
higher cost of goods sold, giving them less room to discount. And if they don't sell a product one day, they can hold it in inventory for future sale. So marginal business is less urgent for them. We're not prepared to say Gap's Groupon was a mistake. Getting customers... View Details
- 07 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Obama’s Clean Power Plan: Can Nuclear Power Beat the Global Threat of Coal?
This week, President Obama and the Environmental Protection Agency released the final version of the Clean Power Plan, a major set of rules and incentives aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions from America's power plants. The plan requires each state to meet a... View Details
- 21 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
7 Successful Battle Strategies to Beat COVID-19
weaponry. (Many managers today must feel hopeless against an invisible foe that always seems a step ahead.) Boyd realized he could narrow the gap by working out the best possible approaches to deal with rapid change. Similarly, an Agile... View Details
Keywords: by Euvin Naidoo
- 23 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization
of mercantilist system was, with a short time lag, a winner for all Japanese citizens, who were all able to raise their living standards; the income gap between the upper and lower quintiles was actually reduced to only 3.4 percent, the... View Details
Keywords: by Paul R. Lawrence
- 24 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
With Millions of Workers Juggling Caregiving, Employers Need to Rethink Support
tracking system. It asks an employer: If someone has a gap in their work history, how should I treat that? If there’s a gap of more than six months, 50 percent of employers will drop a person from the... View Details
Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 04 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why dot.coms Will Rise Again
McFarlan said, "There is no application gap at all. What is going on in Beijing, Shanghai, and Hong Kong is at the same rate of speed as what has been going on in Silicon Valley and Boston." In all of this, there's a hair's... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
One More Way the Startup World Hampers Women Entrepreneurs
potential appeal of the product,’” Koning says. “When you are trying to grow a startup, the people you are getting advice and feedback from are overwhelmingly men.” This gender gap is hardly limited to Product Hunt. Men also comprise 75... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 05 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Venture Capital Goes Boom—or Bust?
Uncertainty about the future Information gaps "Soft" assets Volatility of current market conditions All companies must grapple with these difficulties, but young, emerging enterprises are particularly vulnerable to them, as... View Details
Keywords: by Paul A. Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 01 May 2000
- What Do You Think?
Can You Hard-Wire Performance?
capability to draft documentation that protects against all contingencies?; and (8) Can there be a gap between the promise and the capability (a way to improve an organization's performance), or is this too risky? In short, there was a... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 28 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
How Property Ownership Changes Your World View
closing the belief gap between a group of very poor squatters and the general population. Changing Lives "How is it that property changes peoples' lives?" asks Di Tella. "In developing countries, there are many claims or... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 05 Oct 2016
- What Do You Think?
Can the US Economy Regain the Growth and Prosperity of the Past?
a century (beginning in 1970) in which “intensive” productivity growth outpaces “extensive” growth in output, thereby limiting new job opportunities and further widening the gap between the haves and have nots? What should we make of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 07 Jan 2015
- What Do You Think?
SUMMING UP: What Are the Limits On Workplace Transparency?
problems in today's workplace. She commented that, "Salary transparency within peer groups is the most expeditious way to bring an end to the gender wage gap that exists in every country in the world (it) will certainly be the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 Dec 2005
- What Do You Think?
Is Growth Good?
reporting, and rewarding end and effect—economic growth—than the means and causes of economic growth? Is there too long a lag time between the two to interest managers (and in some cases even policymakers)? Is there too great a physical and psychological View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 18 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tips to Reinvent the Department Store
identities. "If you have fifteen brands in the men's department, it's not really a brand, it's a name," he said. Barnett said about 16 percent of Barneys merchandise is private-label, with those items often filling in the gaps... View Details
- 13 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
Managing to Learn: How Companies Can Turn Knowledge into Action
In his book, Learning in Action: A Guide to Putting the Learning Organization to Work (Harvard Business School Press), HBS professor David Garvin argues that Nike left open a critical gap between encouraging innovative thinking and... View Details
Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron
- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
“second HQ” in India to exemplify our core proposition. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54978 The Impact of Penalties for Wrong Answers on the Gender Gap in Test Scores By: Coffman, Katherine B.,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
COVID-19 Shines New Light on Working Conditions in Supply Chains
experience, but they’re not set up to gather the anecdotes from all of their staff in order to come up with generalizable insights. So, I thought, how can we bridge the gap between the insights that research is producing with the managers... View Details
- 17 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 17, 2018
that had introduced an innovation to address a practice gap or anomaly. It then described the innovation in articles, cases, and public conferences and proceeded to help a new set of companies implement the management innovation, which... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman