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14 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

You're Right! You Are Working Longer and Attending More Meetings

us.” About the author Danielle Kost is senior editor of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. [Image: iStock Photo] Related Reading Master the Team Meeting 'Always On' Isn't Always Best for Team Decision-Making From the Plow to the Pill: How Technology Shapes Our... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

22 Aug 2005
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Restoring a Global Economy, 1950–1980

industries. Europe and Japan had to spend the immediate postwar decade undergoing extensive reconstruction, heavily dependent on official aid from the United States, yet over time Europe and Japan closed the technological and productivity View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones

13 Mar 2023
Research & Ideas

What Would It Take to Unlock Microfinance's Full Potential?

we are bringing new innovations and risk capital to the industry has piqued a lot of curiosity. Bulletin: So with these products you’re bridging the gap between research and practice? Rigol: Well, it’s a big gap, and we’re small people.... View Details

Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint; Financial Services

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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work

Colleges, Employers, and America's Chronic Skills Gap , Report, Harvard Business School Project on Managing the Future of Work, December 2022. With Joseph Fuller. Building From the Bottom Up , Report, Harvard Business School Project on... View Details

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Impact Stories - Impact Stories

Beshears Beyond Medical Devices: Filling in the Gaps at HBS Michael Chang Taking Advantage of Boston’s Health Care Ecosystem Martin Grasse Play Fraudulent Billing and Safety Net Hospitals Jonas Heese The Godmother of Consumer-Driven... View Details

20 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

The 5 Strategy Rules of Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs

they were not good at, and they were able to fill those gaps by recruiting individuals and forming teams to do the things they couldn't do or wouldn't do or shouldn't do." That kind of self-aware recognition of weakness is not... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Computer

01 Dec 2023
News

A More Accommodating Approach

Shelly Nooner (GMP 33, 2022) had already proven herself to be visionary and execution-focused during her two decades at Trimble, an industrial technology company that provides hardware, software, and services across agriculture, construction, geospatial, and... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

19 Oct 2022
Op-Ed

Cofounder Courtship: How to Find the Right Mate—for Your Startup

a few types of candidates. The same holds for co-founders. You may have to test a few potential cofounder candidates before inking a cofounder agreement. Try to meet at least a half-dozen people who may solve for the gaps you are hoping... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

10 Jun 2010
Working Paper Summaries

Corporate Governance and Internal Capital Markets

Keywords: by Zacharias Sautner & Belén Villalonga

05 Oct 2023
Blog Post

A Pathway to Public Service: Brandon Moore (MBA/MPP 2025)

problems demand public-private cooperation. We’ll only achieve our climate goals if private firms develop innovative technologies and public regulators keep a tight lid on emissions. Similarly, policymakers cannot fix our country’s wage View Details

03 Jan 2023
Book

Confront Workplace Inequity in 2023: Dig Deep, Build Bridges, Take Collective Action

inequities, Opie says companies need to dig deep, build bridges, and take collective action. Step 1: Digging deep Opie says leaders need to confront the entrenched beliefs that reinforce the pay and promotion gaps playing out around them.... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

02 Jul 2018
Research & Ideas

Corporate Tax Cuts Don't Increase Middle Class Incomes

savings to drive growth. What actually results, however, is something of a surprise, according to a new study. Corporate tax cuts end up widening the income gap between those at the top of the pay scale and those at the bottom, and they... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

02 Apr 2021
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Salary Negotiations: A Catch-22 for Women

The higher a woman rises through a company’s ranks, the more backlash she faces if she negotiates her salary assertively—a phenomenon that contributes to the wide gender gap in the C-suite, new research suggests. By analyzing data from... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

01 Dec 2023
News

Rounding the Bend

Illustration by Fernando Cobelo To help people visualize what a circular economy could look like and bring the challenges down to a closet-sized scale, Emily Bolon (MBA/MPA 2007) recommends the following exercise. First, make a mental tally of the number of garments... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade; Apparel Manufacturing; Manufacturing

16 Apr 2018
Research & Ideas

Can Consumers Be Saved From Their Misguided Decisions?

What’s behind a bad decision? Researchers trying to change behavior tend to focus on one of two main reasons for bad choices: “frictions” and “mental gaps.” In a mental gap analysis, researchers conclude that people just don’t think... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Consulting; Retail

18 Jun 2020
Research & Ideas

What Is an "Essential" Purchase for a Low-Income Family?

garage, a safe and secure neighborhood, interior walls in good condition, and natural light. Of the 20 attributes tested, 17 of them were rated significantly less necessary for the lower-income family. "The gap emerged for things... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

29 Jul 2021
Blog Post

Exploring the Intersection of Business & Health Care: Summer Fellow Derek Soled (MD/MBA 2022)

Equity Team in the Vaccine Operations Center, whose goals are to achieve maximum vaccination levels in New York City, to close the vaccination gap between different boroughs and ethnic groups, and to tackle structural racism in healthcare... View Details

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By: Matthew C. Weinzierl

My academic research centers on uncovering and closing gaps between the theory and reality of tax policy. My main contribution has been to identify and address a mismatch between the goals for taxation typically assumed in theory and the goals the public and... View Details

February 2017 (Revised December 2018)
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From Start-Up to Grown-Up Nation: The Future of the Israeli Innovation Ecosystem (Abridged)

By: Elie Ofek and Margot Eiran

In June 2016, Benjamin (Bibi) Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel, wrestled with how to sustain Israel’s strong innovation track record and the country’s reputation as the “start-up nation.” Despite the economic miracle the country had wrought since its founding, he... View Details

Keywords: Innovation and Management; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Government and Politics; Economy; Equality and Inequality; Israel

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