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  • November 2017
  • Teaching Note

Predicting Consumer Tastes with Big Data at Gap

By: Ayelet Israeli and Jill Avery
CEO Art Peck was eliminating his creative directors for The Gap, Old Navy, and Banana Republic brands and promoting a collective creative ecosystem fueled by the input of big data. Rather than relying on artistic vision, Peck wanted the company to use the mining of big... View Details
Keywords: Brands; Brand & Product Management; Big Data; "Marketing Analytics"; Consumer Behavior; Predictive Analytics; Forecasting; Preferences; Operation Management; Distribution Channels; Marketing; Marketing Channels; Marketing Strategy; Brands and Branding; Forecasting and Prediction; Data and Data Sets; Retail Industry; Fashion Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; United States; North America
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Israeli, Ayelet, and Jill Avery. "Predicting Consumer Tastes with Big Data at Gap." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 518-053, November 2017.
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Confronting the Limits of Symbolic Actions: How Entrepreneurs Narrow the Presentation-Performance Gap

By: Rebecca Karp and Siobhan O'Mahony
Entrepreneurs often skillfully leverage symbolic actions to manage impressions and gain acceptance for their innovations. Impression management can generate interest, but also heighten expectations beyond an innovation’s capabilities, creating a gap between... View Details
Keywords: Digital Innovation; Integration Strategy; Impression Management; Innovation Strategy; Entrepreneurship; Health Industry; Technology Industry
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Karp, Rebecca, and Siobhan O'Mahony. "Confronting the Limits of Symbolic Actions: How Entrepreneurs Narrow the Presentation-Performance Gap." Organization Science (forthcoming). (Pre-published online April 15, 2025.)
  • 2022
  • Working Paper

The Gender Minority Gaps in Confidence and Self-Evaluations

By: Billur Aksoy, Christine L. Exley and Judd B. Kessler
An increasing share of the population identifies as something other than male or female. Yet, we know very little about the economic preferences and beliefs of gender minorities. In this paper, we document a “gender minority gap” in confidence and in self-evaluations.... View Details
Keywords: Self-evaluation; Confidence; Gender; Identity; Perception; Income
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Aksoy, Billur, Christine L. Exley, and Judd B. Kessler. "The Gender Minority Gaps in Confidence and Self-Evaluations." Working Paper, October 2022.
  • 05 Mar 2015
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How corporate America can close the skills gap

  • March 2020
  • Case

Gap Inc. and the Spinoff of Old Navy

By: Kristin Mugford and Kevin Chu
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Mugford, Kristin, and Kevin Chu. "Gap Inc. and the Spinoff of Old Navy." Harvard Business School Case 220-063, March 2020.
  • December 2007
  • Article

Psychology and Experimental Economics: A Gap in Abstraction

By: Dan Ariely and Michael I. Norton
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Ariely, Dan, and Michael I. Norton. "Psychology and Experimental Economics: A Gap in Abstraction." Current Directions in Psychological Science 16, no. 6 (December 2007): 336–339.
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Directors from Academia Can Fill Gaps in Talent

By: Gail J. McGovern and John A. Quelch
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McGovern, Gail J., and John A. Quelch. "Directors from Academia Can Fill Gaps in Talent." Directors & Boards 30, no. 4 (Third Quarter 2006): 16.
  • 20 Mar 2012
  • News

Romney's Medicare plan could create gap for seniors

  • 08 Jan 2021
  • News

How Iceland Is Closing the Gender Wage Gap

  • September 2001 (Revised October 2002)
  • Case

Virgin Group, The: Filling in the Value Gap

By: Frances X. Frei, Hanna Rodriguez-Farrar and Corey B. Hajim
Chronicles the successes and failures of the Virgin Group. By examining these examples, students discover attributes of Virgin's overall service concept, which, at its core, competes on quality rather than on price. Students are challenged to consider how Virgin might... View Details
Keywords: Quality; Competition; Price; Business Conglomerates; Service Operations; Service Delivery; Market Entry and Exit
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Frei, Frances X., Hanna Rodriguez-Farrar, and Corey B. Hajim. "Virgin Group, The: Filling in the Value Gap." Harvard Business School Case 602-057, September 2001. (Revised October 2002.)
  • 30 Mar 2016
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Simple policy changes could help close pay gap

  • 25 Jan 2021
  • News

Bridging the Gap Between Me & My Team

  • 17 Oct 2022
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How Companies Can Tackle The Gender Burnout Gap

    The Skills Gap and the Near-Far Problem in Executive Education and Leadership Development

    Executive development programs have entered a period of rapid transformation, driven on one side by the proliferation of a new technological, cultural, and economic landscape commonly referred to as "digital distruption" and on the other by a widening gap between... View Details
    • 05 Aug 2021
    • Blog Post

    Closing the Education Gap with Kei Takatsuka (MBA 2022)

    available to students living in larger cities and began to consider how to close the education gap not just in Japan, but around the world. This question eventually led Takatsuka to Harvard Business School, Nairobi, Kenya, and then back... View Details
    Keywords: Venture Capital; Technology; Entrepreneurship
    • 2016
    • Working Paper

    The Skills Gap and the Near-Far Problem in Executive Education and Leadership Development

    By: Mihnea Moldoveanu and Das Narayandas
    Executive development programs have entered a period of rapid transformation, driven on one side by the proliferation of a new technological, cultural, and economic landscape commonly referred to as “digital disruption” and on the other by a widening gap between the... View Details
    Keywords: Information Technology; Executive Education; Disruption; Management Skills
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    Moldoveanu, Mihnea, and Das Narayandas. "The Skills Gap and the Near-Far Problem in Executive Education and Leadership Development." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-019, September 2016.
    • 25 Jun 2014
    • Lessons from the Classroom

    FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing

    The mission: To sell more laptops. The market: Rural China. The challenge: The business partner wants to know what laptop features would be appealing to customers in rural China. Landing in Shanghai with eight days to find out, a team of six Harvard MBAs did the most... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education
    • Editorial

    Stop Waiting for Governments to Close the Skills Gap

    By: John Streur and George Serafeim
    Keywords: Worker Productivity; Workers; "America"; Training; Employee Training; Employee Engagement; Employee Compensation; Productivity; Inequality
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    Streur, John, and George Serafeim. "Stop Waiting for Governments to Close the Skills Gap." Harvard Business Review (website) (January 11, 2017).
    • 07 Feb 2020
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Old Boys' Club: Schmoozing and the Gender Gap

    Keywords: by Zoë B. Cullen and Ricardo Perez-Truglia
    • 16 Sep 2014
    • News

    Use Data to Fix the Small Business Lending Gap

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