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- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
would serve for three years, from 2012 to early 2015, leading the country through some of the worst years of the crisis. His government was tasked with implementing the austerity measures demanded by its international creditors, the... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 23 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
that the appropriate leadership style did depend upon the nature of the task, specifically how certain or uncertain it was. However Vroom and Yetton defined the task as decision making, while the others were not so specific about the type... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes
organizational scholars, we were interested in organizations as social and cultural contexts that shape how men make sense of themselves—the stories they tell themselves as men about what it means to be male—and in the effect this... View Details
- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
United States began to use standardized color, achieved by synthetic dyes, as part of their marketing strategies. The emergence of the synthetic dye industry paralleled the growth of mass production and mass marketing in the American food industry. It provided food... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- Blog
Two-Year Action Plan Update: Q+A with Terrill Drake, Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer at Harvard Business School
We'll continue to support existing task forces in different departments, and opening up communication between leaders and creating a mechanism for feedback. One of the best ways to keep the momentum going is to allow the work that has... View Details
- 31 May 2018
- News
Finding Freedom from Eating Disorders
the time. I had just come off of two years in investment banking. I had always been fairly active in terms of exercise and running. In fact, I was training for a couple half marathons, which soon turned into marathon training at the time. Not unusual for me, and I had... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
about how to create social impact. Against this backdrop of intellectual and social ferment, Bradach and Tierney hatched their plan for Bridgespan. They came to the task well prepared. While at Bain, Tierney had spent years serving on... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Getting the Message
years and currently serves as faculty chair for the Managing Brand Meaning program in the Executive Education curriculum. He believes the future of Internet advertising depends on improvements in technology. "We won't really understand... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
variability in productivity means the marginal productivity of labor depends substantially on which new workers are hired—which requires not an estimate of a causal effect, but rather a prediction. We demonstrate that there can be large... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Pilgrimage to the Museum: Man’s Search for God Through Art and Time By Stephen Auth (MBA 1985) Sophia Institute Press In Pilgrimage to the Museum, author-curator Stephen Auth takes you on a colorful journey through the history of... View Details
- 28 Jun 2024
- News
Honoring Leadership in New York; PRIDE Alumni Share HBS Stories
New York Leadership Dinner Honors Leaders Challenging the Status Quo At its 55th Annual Leadership Dinner in May, the HBS Club of New York (HBSCNY) honored four leaders whose careers and contributions to the world embody this year’s theme, “Challenging the Status Quo.”... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 09 Jan 2020
- News
Your Whole Self
leader where our presence and not scratching the itch ensures that we don't keep leading by our bad habits. And then the final principle of peace around loosening the grip, is really about ourselves against ourselves, and not letting that View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Winning Season
of the great aspects of this sport is its element of uncertainty,” says DeWitt. “A losing team still wins about 40 percent of the games it plays, while a winning team wins around 60 percent. That means the team with the worst record can... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
The Exchange: The Road Ahead for Crypto
people have all agreed that it has value. Dollars, or other established fiat currencies, are useful because lots of people are willing to exchange them for goods and services. Which means that if you’re holding a dollar, you’re pretty... View Details
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
psychological contract between themselves and employers. They work to make a living, but also they aspire to find purpose and meaning in what they do. We in the academy have much intellectual capital to develop to help organizations... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Spangler Effect
campus center surfaced soon after Kim Clark was appointed Dean in 1995 and a task force was assembled to update the campus master plan. “We identified that there was no central place on campus for students to gather,” recalls Sharon... View Details
- 08 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity
and the solution even more so." Adds Ramarajan, "Even though the work-family logic has taken off and grabbed everyone's imagination and experience, it doesn't mean that bias is no longer an issue, or that underrepresentation is... View Details
- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
provides students with the means to navigate their way through the decisions they will face and formulate an effective business strategy. This is a much-needed guide to the common strategic issues that arise when firms compete... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
years old, one of my first clients told me to be different in kind, not degree. We’re competing well now, but it’s pure competition. We’re not a unique thing. I want to lift the Atlantic up to be something special, which probably means we... View Details
- 25 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Software Platforms Revolutionize Business
solutions for myriad tasks that previously were performed in traditional, non-tech ways. In this way, they have improved the productivity of many traditional industries (just look at all the industries that use PCs today) and created... View Details