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      U.S. Competitiveness FAQ About the Project Research Faculty Forum Media Coverage Research Middle Skills The demand for “middle-skills” jobs—those...
      Bridge the Gap: Rebuilding America's Middle Skills
      The market for middle-skills jobs—those that require more education and training than a high school diploma but less than a four-year college...
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      • December 24, 2020
      • Article

      How Businesses Can Find 'Hidden Workers'

      By: Joseph B. Fuller, Manjari Raman, Eva Sage-Gavin and Ladan Davarzani
      Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, low- and middle-skill workers struggled to find and retain steady work. Now, many of these workers are considered “essential,” while many others are unemployed and struggling to find work. As the pandemic eases throughout 2021,...  View Details
      Keywords: Health Pandemics; Employees; Selection And Staffing
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      Fuller, Joseph B., Manjari Raman, Eva Sage-Gavin, and Ladan Davarzani. "How Businesses Can Find 'Hidden Workers'." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (December 24, 2020).
      • July 2020 (Revised January 2021)
      • Case

      Mr. Five Percent: Calouste Gulbenkian and the Origins of Global Oil

      By: Geoffrey Jones and Yazeed Al-Rashed
      This case describes the business career of Calouste Gulbenkian, a skilled intermediary who was able to secure 5 per cent of a vast oil concession covering much of the Middle East that was signed in 1928. Gulbenkian was an ethnic Armenian born in the Ottoman Empire,...  View Details
      Keywords: Oil; Globalization; Energy Sources; History; Biography; Energy Industry; Turkey; Central Asia; middle East
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      Jones, Geoffrey, and Yazeed Al-Rashed. "Mr. Five Percent: Calouste Gulbenkian and the Origins of Global Oil." Harvard Business School Case 321-003, July 2020. (Revised January 2021.)
      • February 2018 (Revised May 2019)
      • Case

      CEWD: Closing the Skills Gap

      By: William Kerr, Michael Norris and Manjari Raman
      In 2018, Ann Randazzo, executive director of the Center for Energy Workforce Development (CEWD) is assessing the organization’s performance since its 2006 founding. Founded to address an imminent retirement bubble of middle skills workers in the utilities industry,...  View Details
      Keywords: Workforce Development; Industry Cooperation; Skills Gap; Middle Skills; Training; Strategic Planning; Competency And skills; Utilities Industry; United States
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      Kerr, William, Michael Norris, and Manjari Raman. "CEWD: Closing the Skills Gap." Harvard Business School Case 818-081, February 2018. (Revised May 2019.)
      • 2017
      • Report

      Room to Grow: Identifying New Frontiers for Apprenticeships

      By: Joseph B. Fuller and Matthew Sigelman
      In the United States, apprentices are employed in just 27 occupations, mostly in skilled, physical trades. An analysis of job postings data shows that extending apprenticeships to more occupations provides an opportunity to expand employment and close the middle skills...  View Details
      Keywords: Employment; Training; Competency And skills; Personal Development And Career; United States
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      Fuller, Joseph B., and Matthew Sigelman. "Room to Grow: Identifying New Frontiers for Apprenticeships." Report, November 2017. (Published by Burning Glass Technologies and Harvard Business School, Managing the Future of Work.)
      • February 2016
      • Teaching Note

      Akın Öngör's Journey

      By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone
      The case of Akın Öngör's Journey describes a highly successful former CEO with stellar leadership skills, who transformed a bank in Turkey into one of the world's best, steered it to contribute to his country's social agenda, influenced business practices of other...  View Details
      Keywords: Leadership; Change Management; Social Entrepreneurship; Business And Community Relations; Turkey
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      Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone. "Akın Öngör's Journey." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 316-062, February 2016.
      • December 2015 (Revised April 2019)
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      Chicken Republic

      By: Jose Alvarez and Natalie Kindred
      Deji Akinyanju, founder of Nigerian fast-food chain Chicken Republic, and Ayo Oduntan, founder of an integrated Nigerian poultry operation (Amo Byng Group), are among a growing cadre of skilled food-industry entrepreneurs for whom the opportunities to serve the...  View Details
      Keywords: Poultry; Chicken; Value Chain; Emerging Market; Chicken Republic; Amo Byng; Doreo Partners; Babban Gona; Reform; Mint; Qsr; Quick Serve Restaurant; Fast Food; Corruption; Growth; Leadership; Food; Customer Value And Value Chain; Supply Chain; Infrastructure; Animal-based Agribusiness; Entrepreneurship; Emerging Markets; Crime And Corruption; Governance; Growth And Development; Agriculture And Agribusiness Industry; Nigeria; Africa
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      Alvarez, Jose, and Natalie Kindred. "Chicken Republic." Harvard Business School Case 516-052, December 2015. (Revised April 2019.)
      • November 2015 (Revised May 2016)
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      Aspiring Minds

      By: Karim R. Lakhani, Marco Iansiti and Christine Snively
      By 2015, India-based employment assessment and certification provider Aspiring Minds had helped facilitate over 300,000 job matches through its assessment tools. Aspiring Minds' flagship product, the Aspiring Minds Computer Adaptive Test (AMCAT), used machine learning...  View Details
      Keywords: Technology; Strategy; Higher Education; Technological Innovation; Employment; Technology Industry; India; China
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      Lakhani, Karim R., Marco Iansiti, and Christine Snively. "Aspiring Minds." Harvard Business School Case 616-013, November 2015. (Revised May 2016.)
      • 2014
      • Report

      Bridge the Gap: Rebuilding America's Middle Skills

      By: Joseph B. Fuller, Jennifer Burrowes, Manjari Raman, Dan Restuccia and Alexis Young
      The market for middle-skills jobs—those that require more education and training than a high school diploma but less than a four-year college degree—is consistently failing to clear. That failure is inflicting a grievous cost on the competitiveness of American firms...  View Details
      Keywords: Business Or Company Management; Human Capital; Education; Competency And skills; Macroeconomics; United States
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      Fuller, Joseph B., Jennifer Burrowes, Manjari Raman, Dan Restuccia, and Alexis Young. "Bridge the Gap: Rebuilding America's Middle Skills." Report, U.S. Competitiveness Project, Harvard Business School, November 2014. (This report was authored jointly by Accenture, Burning Glass Technologies, and Harvard Business School.)
      • 2014
      • Report

      An Economy Doing Half Its Job: Findings of Harvard Business School's 2013–14 Survey on U.S. Competitiveness

      By: Michael E. Porter and Jan Rivkin
      In 2013–14, Harvard Business School (HBS) conducted its third alumni survey on U.S. competitiveness. Our report on the findings focuses on a troubling divergence in the American economy: large and midsize firms have rallied strongly from the Great Recession, and highly...  View Details
      Keywords: Competition; Economy; Financial Crisis; United States
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      Porter, Michael E., and Jan Rivkin. "An Economy Doing Half Its Job: Findings of Harvard Business School's 2013–14 Survey on U.S. Competitiveness." Report, Harvard Business School, September 2014. (With contributions from Joseph B. Fuller, Allen S. Grossman, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, and Kevin W. Sharer.)
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      Political Skill: Explaining the Effects of Nonnative Accent on Managerial Hiring and Entrepreneurial Investment Decisions

      By: Laura Huang, Marcia Frideger and Jone L. Pearce
      We propose and test a new theory explaining glass-ceiling bias against nonnative speakers as driven by perceptions that nonnative speakers have weak political skill. Although nonnative accent is a complex signal, its effects on assessments of the speakers' political...  View Details
      Keywords: Spoken Communication; Prejudice And Bias; Competency And skills; Selection And Staffing; Entrepreneurship; Investment; Decisions
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      Huang, Laura, Marcia Frideger, and Jone L. Pearce. "Political Skill: Explaining the Effects of Nonnative Accent on Managerial Hiring and Entrepreneurial Investment Decisions." Journal of Applied Psychology 98, no. 6 (November 2013): 1005–1017.
      • September 2012 (Revised September 2015)
      • Case

      Doing Business in India

      By: Andy Zelleke, Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Saloni Chaturvedi
      The case is set in August 2012—a time when India was undergoing policy stasis as several key reforms were stalled and the government faced allegations of misallocation of coal production licenses. The first part of the case provides a brief background on India's...  View Details
      Keywords: Emerging Market Finance; Emergent Countries; Strategy; Business History; Economic History; Fieldwork; Emerging Markets; Business Ventures; Strategy
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      Zelleke, Andy, Felix Oberholzer-Gee, and Saloni Chaturvedi. "Doing Business in India." Harvard Business School Case 713-430, September 2012. (Revised September 2015.)
      • August 2011 (Revised May 2012)
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      Haier: Taking a Chinese Company Global in 2011

      By: Tarun Khanna, Krishna G. Palepu and Phillip Andrews
      In 2011, Haier, China's leading appliance manufacturer, had over $20 billion in worldwide sales and had just been named the leading refrigerator manufacturer worldwide. Describes Haier's rise over three decades from a defunct refrigerator factory in China's Qingdao...  View Details
      Keywords: Business Growth And Maturation; Global Strategy; Expansion; Diversification; Emerging Markets; Consumer Products Industry; Manufacturing Industry; China
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      Khanna, Tarun, Krishna G. Palepu, and Phillip Andrews. "Haier: Taking a Chinese Company Global in 2011." Harvard Business School Case 712-408, August 2011. (Revised May 2012.)
      • 2004
      • Case

      Learning to Manage with Data in Duval County Public Schools: Lake Shore Middle School (A)

      By: Allen Grossman, James P. Honan and Caroline Joan King
      Keywords: middle School Education; Management skills; Florida
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      Grossman, Allen, James P. Honan, and Caroline Joan King. "Learning to Manage with Data in Duval County Public Schools: Lake Shore Middle School (A)." Harvard Business School Publishing Case, 2004.
      • 2004
      • Case

      Learning to Manage with Data in Duval County Public Schools: Lake Shore Middle School (B)

      By: Allen Grossman, James P. Honan and Caroline Joan King
      Keywords: middle School Education; Management skills; Florida
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      Grossman, Allen, James P. Honan, and Caroline Joan King. "Learning to Manage with Data in Duval County Public Schools: Lake Shore Middle School (B)." Harvard Business School Publishing Case, 2004.
      • 2004
      • Teaching Note

      Learning to Manage with Data in Duval County Public Schools: Lake Shore Middle School (A) and (B) Case Series, Teaching Note

      By: Allen Grossman, James P. Honan and Caroline Joan King
      Keywords: middle School Education; Management skills; Florida
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      Grossman, Allen, James P. Honan, and Caroline Joan King. "Learning to Manage with Data in Duval County Public Schools: Lake Shore Middle School (A) and (B) Case Series, Teaching Note." Harvard Business School Publishing Teaching Note, 2004.
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      Enfranchisement of Service Workers

      By: Leonard A. Schlesinger and James Heskett
      Enfranchisement is achieved through an integration of empowerment with methods of pay for performance. Evidence from Ito Yokado Group in Japan and Nordstrom in the US demonstrates the positive effects of enfranchisement. Successful efforts to enfranchise employees: 1....  View Details
      Keywords: Motivation And Incentives; Franchise Ownership; Employees; Compensation And Benefits; Service Industry; Japan; United States
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      Schlesinger, Leonard A., and James Heskett. "Enfranchisement of Service Workers." California Management Review 33, no. 4 (Summer 1991).
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      Senior Executive Leadership Program - Middle East (SELPME)

      By: Stefan H. Thomke

      Change is everywhere in the Middle East today, as many countries seek to diversify their economies and encourage new industries. While the region's complexity includes distinct political and economic conditions in each country in addition to an uncertain global...  View Details

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