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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
- 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
- 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
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
when confronted with multiple crises and constituencies demanding change. Bridging these gaps requires a new understanding of just what trust is, how it can be built, and how it can be regained once it is lost. Trust is an elusive—mushy,... View Details
- 31 Jul 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Rise of the FOMO Sapiens
pernicious elements of FOBO come in, because this is where it goes from, "I can't decide what I'm going to do Friday," to where it's a real emotional and mental problems, because the more disconnected from reality you are, and the more time you spend filling the View Details
- 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
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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
- 21 Mar 2025
- News
What We Can Learn From “The Oracle of Wall Street”
good friends at this point. And he would also love to call and hear about how school was going, especially because, you know, he went here in 1956. That was 70 years, you know, gap in time, just about—60 some-odd years. And he would love... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 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 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 11, 2009
relatively more short-term debt, firms fill the resulting gap by issuing more long-term debt, and vice-versa. This type of liquidity provision is undertaken more aggressively: i) in periods when the ratio of government debt to total debt... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Heartland
needed, of CSU researchers. Lambert fills in the gaps in marketing and other business-related issues but also expects to draw on the expertise of CSU’s alumni network. From a wider angle, she also hopes the center can help build trust,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
In Review
trying to address the stubborn, long-lasting achievement and satisfaction gaps for women in our MBA program. Within three years, we substantially closed that gap, which gave us the self-confidence that we can advance inclusion when we put... View Details
- 16 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Football Firings Teach Managers About Staying Relevant
leaders constantly have new “teams” to manage. Nowhere is this more relevant than in the NFL, where an average player’s career lasts just over three years. For that reason, the generation gap between coach and players grows over time,... View Details
- 15 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 15, 2008
changes in the maturity structure of government debt. We document that when the government funds itself with relatively more short-term debt, firms fill the resulting gap by issuing more long-term debt, and vice-versa. This type of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
executives, middle managers, and sales people from companies across a variety of industries. The survey focused on questions about how well their companies’ strategies informed six critical elements of their sales approaches. The results indicate a big View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
questions related to personal plans. First, what are the effects of plans on behavior? Second, when are plans formed? Third, how do plans deviate from optimality? For each of these questions, we (a) offer a brief overview of research that sheds light on the issue and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
advisors, educators, and others looking to increase corporate value through smart, strategic divestitures. It fills major gaps in the professional and academic markets, providing a rigorous, research-based treatment of this important... View Details
- 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