Entrepreneurial Gap - Publications - Faculty & Research

26 May 2023
Blog Post

Bringing Space Tech Back to Earth

would magically know how to bridge the gap between technology and business strategy,” she said. “Knowing how to build out a financial forecast, carry out a discounted cash flow and do all of those financial steps in modeling and business... View Details

08 Sep 2014
Research & Ideas

The Strategic Way To Hire a Sales Team

Too often, there's a huge gap between a company's overall business strategy and the way its salesforce operates in the field. In fact, says Frank V. Cespedes, articles and books about strategy rarely take sales into consideration at all.... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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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

30 Aug 2016
First Look

August 30, 2016

identify specific managerial actions that can improve a firm’s architecture and thereby lower the cost of responding to changing future demands. We address this gap in the literature by exploring the relationship between IT architecture... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

28 Nov 2018
HBS Case

On Target: Rethinking the Retail Website

entrepreneurial culture, knowing experimentation would be critical to discovering how data could be woven into the company’s business practices. His colleagues followed this mantra: develop, test, measure. Yet they couldn’t just continue... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail

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Research - Race, Gender & Equity

Faculty & Research Research January 2025 Teaching Material Understanding and Addressing Gender Gaps By: Katherine Coffman This module provides a framework for students to analyze how gender stereotypes, through their impact on beliefs... View Details

09 Nov 2021
Research & Ideas

The Simple Secret of Effective Mentoring Programs

implications,” says Stanton, the Marvin Bower Associate Professor of Business Administration in HBS’s Entrepreneurial Management Unit. “But just setting up a mentoring program that assumes people will come is the wrong way to go. We found... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

30 Aug 2018
Blog Post

My Difficult Decision to Leave Google for HBS

faced by a business leader. During in-section debates, I’d often make a comment in class and be proud of my analysis. I usually hit key points, but almost inevitably, the next few comments would reveal large gaps in my approach or... View Details

29 May 2023
News

Nurturing Breakthrough Ideas

As a center for creativity where innovation and entrepreneurship are intertwined, the Harvard Innovation Labs ecosystem encourages the development of novel ideas, approaches, and technologies that inspire new ventures or ways of thinking that keep companies relevant.... View Details

01 Jun 2023
News

Cultivating Prosperity in Afghanistan

Kimberly Jung, pictured in a field of crocuses, returned to Afghanistan to understand how she and her cofounders could import saffron to the United States. Photo courtesy of Kimberly Jung During their first semester at HBS, former United States Army engineer officers... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

28 Nov 2005
Research & Ideas

Unilever: Transformation and Tradition

the Arab Gulf. The Special Committee of each generation sought to minimize the gap between capabilities and performance. However, no Special Committee began with a clean sheet of paper. Indeed, they inherited such a formidable package of... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products

28 Jan 2020
Book

Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking

change. Look at how we personify buildings: “Headquarters wants . ” “The Pentagon says ....” In today’s fast-paced world, fixed structures can weigh you down, can make agility and resilience very difficult, and can stifle the View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2023
News

From Big Pharma to Startup

Hunter Goble (MBA 2022) did not enroll in Harvard Business School with dreams of becoming an entrepreneur. After earning his MBA, Goble intended to return to Eli Lilly to continue to work building brands and launching products. He envisioned himself leading a big,... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Jun 2023
News

An Engine of Innovation

Startup life can often feel like a solo sport, says Matt Segneri (MBA 2010), the Bruce and Bridgitt Evans Executive Director of the Harvard Innovation Labs: “What the three labs in our ecosystem do is to make building a venture something that happens within a truly... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

06 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

Motivate Your High Performers to Share Their Knowledge

Many employees fall into a rut. They do their jobs and respond to challenges in a set way to deliver stable results. But consistency can give way to performance gaps between a company’s high achievers and its weakest links. Fortunately,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

30 Oct 2019
Research & Ideas

How to Recover Gracefully After Shutting Down Your Startup

interviewed dozens of founders of failed businesses for his upcoming book, tentatively titled Why Startups Fail. He has also been sharing his insights with MBA students in a new course called Entrepreneurial Failure. Knowing when it’s... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

14 Apr 2022
Op-Ed

Let’s Move Forward from COVID—Without Forgetting What We’ve Learned

quickly allows employees to assess their options and find new opportunities within the industry, pivoting to another sector or starting an entrepreneurial venture to find more meaningful work. Two things companies should be doing now:... View Details

Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and MaShon Wilson

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K–12 Education | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

and sustain high-performing K–12 public school districts in the United States. These efforts have resulted in more than 30 case studies focused on adapting and applying management concepts within urban school systems to drive improved performance and on using View Details

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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

instructors, politicians, and parents. The Gender Gap in Self-Promotion Associate Professor Christine L. Exley + More Info – Less Info Participants will leave this session with a deeper understanding of the differences in how men and... View Details

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Strategy Execution Online Course | HBS Online

Understanding the Entrepreneurial Gap Identifying Spans of Influence and Support Balancing Supply and Demand in a Job Analyzing and Improving Job Design Featured Exercises Analyze a job using the Job Design... View Details

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