For McQuown, Vasicek and Kealhofer, the road from theory to practice had some gaping potholes.

FORBES: Default-risk bookies

You come up with a great idea, but moving that new discovery from theory to practice or from the lab to the marketplace, that's a challenge.

WHITEHOUSE: Winning the Future with Clean Energy

Its critics echo Mr Mintzberg: thanks at least in part to Gordon-Howell, business education's emphasis has moved too far away from practice towards theory.

ECONOMIST: The Gordon-Howell report of 1959

In the Handbook of Leadership Theory and Practice, author Nitin Nohria points to research findings that 60% of women felt excluded from networking opportunities compared with 4% of men.

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