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- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
underleveraged vehicle in reducing the rigor/relevance gap between business schools and the world of practice. Cases & Course MaterialsAkin Ongor's Journey Rosabeth Moss KanterHarvard Business School Case 306-072 A retired bank CEO,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Harvard Business School Announces Latest RISE Fellows - MBA
to combat the racial wealth gap with financial education. There he taught personal finance and investing techniques to underrepresented students in the Chicago public school system, as well as their parents to reinforce the concepts at... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
point in time. We have a historic, twenty-year window of opportunity to become a truly developed country,” he observes, noting that Microsoft offers a unique platform for using technology as an educational tool to help close the gap... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 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
- 01 Nov 1999
- Lessons from the Classroom
What’s Next & So What? Leading in the 21st Century
out, we see sparks of it here and there, more often in entrepreneurial situations. Hamel: I think we see it in two kinds of places: in isolated pockets within large corporations (GE Capital, for example), and in relatively young companies such as the View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 24 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 24
selection of an outsider as the new CEO surprised many inside and outside the bank. Sharma changed the bank's hierarchical culture, strengthened the core team by appointing new talent where needed, sought to build its core processes and infrastructure, and filled... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
can learn the truth about gaps between vision and reality. Without a commitment to a vision and an institutionalized learning and governance system, well intentioned boards will continue to be surprised ethical, human, and performance... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
happy or saving the environment). Moreover, mediation analyses revealed that this effect was driven by differences in the size of the gap between participants' expectations and reality. Compared to those who pursued an abstractly framed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
to Operational Failures in Hospitals By: Tucker, Anita L., W. Scott Heisler, and Laura D. Janisse Abstract—The performance gap between hospital spending and outcomes is indicative of inefficient care delivery. Operational... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
level. This gap has severely limited meaningful cost reduction throughout the system. The paper describes a new (for health care) approach that can accurately measure the costs incurred over the care cycle for a patient's condition.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
suburbs, surface parking demands large gaps between buildings, perpetuating urban sprawl and making walking infeasible. Meanwhile, road maintenance saps budgets at every level of government. Automobile owners face high costs, too,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
has been bridging the gap between the quantitative folks who create new products and the trading community, because each side speaks its own language," she says. "I joke that I'm not a quant, but I play one on TV. I also like... View Details
- 11 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing
for sales. The newest and potentially most powerful linkage between the BSC and ABC is articulated in a book chapter that illustrates how a time-driven ABC model bridges the gap between the Balanced Scorecard's strategy focus and the... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014
companies deliver only about 50-60% of the financial performance their strategies promise. That's a lot of wasted money and managerial effort. Cespedes, the MBA Class of 1973 Senior Lecturer of Business Administration, shows how to close the View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
Business Books Executive development programs have entered a period of rapid transformation, driven by digital disruption and a widening gap between the skills that participants and their organizations demand, and those provided by their... View Details
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
H&M to Gap had overtaken Benetton in revenue and profitability. How could chairman Luciano Benetton turn around the company's struggling fortunes? Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/benetton-group-s-p-a-2000/an/713510-PDF-ENG... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
UK-based program wasn’t keen to send its auditors to a war zone. Mercy Corps staff, positioned there since 1986, bridged the gap by providing pages of documentation attesting to the farmers’ ability to meet the Fairtrade requirements.... View Details
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
and job-training programs-have tended to operate in silos. But they are far more effective when they're networked. By collaborating to bridge the gaps between them, business, academic, and policy leaders can help generate more ideas,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 5, 2008
penetrated the field of negotiation and then presents a framework for bridging the gap between these two literatures. The paper notes that one of the reasons for its limited impact on negotiation research is that extant research on social... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
any of a host of gaps in the marketplace. At a panel in 2016, Shousha remembers bankers droning on about opening bricks-and-mortar retail branches—when only about 10 percent of Egyptians had bank accounts. She left her talking points and... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance