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- 18 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018
investigated how an organization’s heightened focus on political ideology impacts employees. We address this gap by exploring how an individual’s political ideological misfit with an organization’s prevailing ideology impacts mobility. By...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 19, 2016
released through such refactoring efforts. We address this gap by analyzing the relationship between system architecture and maintenance costs for two software systems of similar size but with very different structures: one has a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 5
the net new jobs in our country. Yet in recent years, small businesses have been slow to recover from a recession and credit crisis that hit them especially hard. This lag has prompted the question, "Is there a credit gap in small...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Breaking Through a Growth Stall
and help entrepreneurs better understand the implications of change. Q: What are you working on now? A: I'm finishing a book on aligning strategy and sales. I am faculty chair of an executive program on this topic at HBS and have worked with many firms on the issue,...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 30
development of a public school turnaround initiative in Boston, Teach Plus showed that teacher-driven policy initiatives filled an important gap in the education reform landscape. By mid-2011, Teach Plus had grown to a network of more...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 9
has been little empirical evidence on the propensity with which core-periphery structures are observed in practice, the factors that explain differences in the design of such structures, or the manner in which these structures evolve over time. We address this View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation
of closing the gap with larger and better-funded multinationals. Clearly, there is hope for companies anywhere in the world to win through innovation and creativity. Moreover, the practical innovation tools used by developing country...
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- 15 Sep 2020
- News
How To Make Diversity a Reality
to that? Because there's still a gap in terms of getting those results at scale. Willie: I think that's window dressing and lip service. Chief diversity officers are set up as people who are trying to solve a problem. But most times those...
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- 17 Jun 2021
- News
Investing in a Post-COVID World; Exploring the Pandemic’s Impact on Gender Equity
Ventures—for three months to create the landmark conference. The full recording of the program is available at hbsangels.com/annual-conference. Toronto Panel Grapples with Losses in Gender Equity in Post-COVID Canada When the World Economic Forum’s 2021 Global Gender...
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Margie Kelley
- 02 Oct 2016
- Blog Post
Peek Weekend: The Family Business Cohort
event. Elements of the weekend were tailored to the interests and knowledge gaps of those from family businesses. Cases focused on relevant topics like small scale franchising and analyzing family business success stories. Staying in the...
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- 01 Mar 2008
- News
India's Chidambaram Says Nation Is "Poor Rich"
times as many Ph.D.’s as India. Basic education and technical and vocational training languish despite renewed government commitments. The rich-poor gap in education is mirrored in health care — India boasts hospitals and clinics with...
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- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Leadership Project Codifies Elusive Traits
have an impact on business managers on an everyday basis. In essence, we want to bridge the gap between theory and practice,” says Mayo. Mayo, who spearheaded the legacy project along with HBS professor Nitin Nohria, notes that the...
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- 02 Dec 2019
- What Do You Think?
How Does a Company like Boeing Respond to Intense Competitive Pressure?
pressure? What do you think? Original Column Tube and train riders in Europe are well-aware of the term, “mind the gap.” They see it every time they step off a train or subway platform. In a sense, it’s also an appropriate warning for leaders of large organizations....
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- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
A Fast Start on Your New Job
transform their organizations. But most of the guidance that was available about how to manage change effectively assumed that the leader was already part of the organization and knew it well. So there was a gap in the literature that I...
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by Martha Lagace
- 20 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
No Place Like Home: America’s Housing Crisis and Its Impact on Business
real-estate market, have created what many experts are calling an affordable housing crisis. They predict that the problem is likely to get worse because of a widening income gap and a shrinking stock of low-income units. As a result,...
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- 30 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Driving Social Impact Through Consumer Behavior: Nonprofit to Finance to Retail with Nicole Krantz (MBA 2022)
to the for-profit way of thinking and solving problems.” With this shift, Krantz then sought out opportunities to build a strong foundation for a career in for-profit AND non-profit leadership and saw that the skills gap she needed to...
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Retail
- 20 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Mobilizing Private Sector Action For Racial Equity in Milwaukee: SE Summer Fellow Zach Komes (MBA 2022)
future involvement in social enterprise? The scale of our racial wealth gap means the private sector must act boldly to advance equity; we need all hands on-deck to make significant, urgent progress towards inclusive prosperity. Luckily,...
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- 10 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
HBS Summer Fellows Focus on Racial Equity and Justice
to dramatically change the lives of marginalized communities. It's also helped me understand how I want to focus my efforts moving forward. While there are a lot of issues I want to tackle after HBS, I want to focus on companies that help to address the racial wealth...
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- 10 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
Managing Sustainable Advantage with Key ESG Cofounders, Anne-Marie Schoonbeek and Heleen van Poecke
did not know where to start managing ESG performance and a knowledge gap with regards to ESG was common among senior leaders which meant ESG was not being managed like other business goals. “Many leaders were starting to see they needed...
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- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
but that some children fail to follow that norm in the actual game. The gap between norm and behavior was correlated with self-regulation skills on a parent-report individual differences measure. Specifically, we show that failure to...
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Sean Silverthorne