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- 07 Sep 2021
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Alumni Perspective: The Morning After 9/11
people.” Twenty years ago, Frances Frei was not the globally revered management guru she has become. This was before she helped transform the culture at HBS to close the performance gap between female and male students, resulting in...
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- 11 Mar 2020
- News
Making It Rain
weather services. “This market is not very innovative, and it’s one of the last industries where governments still lead the technology,” Elkabetz says. Most of the industry relies on data from three public sources: staffed weather stations, mostly in airports; radar,...
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Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 01 Sep 2018
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Case Study: A Good Fit
Illustration by Matt Chinworth Illustration by Matt Chinworth Every year, millions of Americans resolve to lose weight, but few sustain their loss over time, according to a report in the New England Journal of Medicine. The reason lies in the View Details
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 14 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations
and the gender pay gap persists. While young women are aware of these systemic problems, the more nuanced forms of sexism that persist today often take them by surprise, say Ammerman and co-author Boris Groysberg, the Richard P. Chapman...
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Matthew Boys
Matt went hands-on in Chongqing, China, where his FIELD 2 team reviewed plans for a hotel that wanted to create the right kind of experience for a growing market of professionals. “The local market already had plenty of dance clubs and private membership clubs,” Matt...
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Brittany Williams
girls, but we lose talent at the college level—that’s where the gap is.” To prepare herself for leadership, Brittany served as the African American Student Union’s director of career and academics, “matching first-year and second-year...
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The Global Health Delivery Project - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
and educational programs in the design and management of health care delivery systems in resource poor settings and the development of online collaboration tools. By taking an overall strategic perspective that emphasizes value, the project aims to bridge the View Details
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IT Strategy: The Future of the Web at HBS | Information Technology
a result, many web content update requests go through IT Web Services for execution, creating a bottleneck. There can be gaps between strategy and execution when it comes to website changes. The Solution HBS has selected Contentful as the...
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- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Real Estate: A Local Business Goes Global
for example. For several years, it was the number one city for real estate investment. You would have expected that to change dramatically after the Brexit vote—and it did. A lot of European and US investors lost interest in London, but Asian investors filled that...
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- 01 Dec 2013
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Climate Change as Must-See TV
where he wrote Americans and Climate Change: Closing the Gap between Science and Action. "To get action," he says, "we must build public pressure, even a social movement; we hope this series will be one more catalyst for that. Our...
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- 18 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
Selling Luxury to Everyone
lifespan in the fashion industry. "What used to be a six-month turnaround in fashion is now six weeks," she said. Morse said his company is competing with an ever-more crowded market in cosmetics, a high-margin business that has enticed many retailers: Think...
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- 17 Nov 2022
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Blockchain for Good
As the Nigeria-Biafra war raged around them, Stella Dyer (MBA 1994), her mother, and her brother made a dangerous dash for a better life. Huddled in the belly of a Portuguese cargo plane returning from delivering arms to the Biafran forces, Dyer remembers Nigerian...
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Ralph Ranalli
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Women, Work, and the “M” Word - Blog: Health Supplement
intimate health issues. The fact they continued to do so into my adult life was not lost on me. These experiences highlighted for me the gaps in women’s health, and women’s rights overall. Eventually, they shaped my trajectory to become a...
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Craig Baker
remember asking a professor I respected – who had attended HBS – if it was really worth it. He said if could get in, I should go – that it would be worth many times the cost. As I worked and experienced management problems, I saw gaps in...
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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Code Breakers
recent decades, the number of women in tech jobs remains far lower. And the figures for women in leadership roles still hover around a far-from-equal 25 percent. Girls Who Code is on a mission to close the gender gap in STEM education and...
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- 20 Nov 2014
- News
Strengthening America's Public Education System
and infrastructure, and closing America’s gap in preparing workers for jobs requiring “middle skills”—that is, competencies beyond a high school diploma but less than a four-year college degree. Rosabeth Moss Kanter, the Ernest L....
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- 07 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
Looking to Leave a Mark? Memorable Leaders Don't Just Spout Statistics, They Tell Stories
information, they usually understand that statistics tend to be more informative than stories,” Graeber says. “But after a day, stories are simply more memorable.” Beware extreme stories Still, the gap between storytelling and statistics...
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- 10 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
COVID's Surprising Toll on Careers of Women Scientists
Business School professors Kyle R. Myers, Karim R. Lakhani, and eight colleagues from institutions including Yale and Northwestern, published in the journal Nature Human Behavior in July. There’s already a “well-documented, persistent gender View Details
- 08 Sep 2011
- What Do You Think?
What’s Apple’s Biggest Challenge: Replacing Steve or Wall Street?
platform, that often cannibalize each other, and that are simple, elegant, and easy to use. It borrows good ideas from organizations such as Xerox and Gap but practices secrecy with its own ideas. Its strengths and interests reflect its...
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- 01 Sep 2020
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In My Humble Opinion: Screen Tested
it’s a good thing to do, but because it makes good business sense,” she says. “We’re addressing a massive gap in content.” Aussie advantage: “The general perception of Australians is that we’re easygoing and approachable. And the accent...
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