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- 07 Feb 2005
- What Do You Think?
If You Blink, Will You Miss?
years...I also believe that a gut instinct is built, not born." V. A. Emuang commented, "I think vast exposure to life, wide-ranging experiences, and a courageous, positive attitude allows one to blink or thin-slice with better...
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by James Heskett
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Limor Moshkovich
In her work at Bezeq in Israel, Limor Moshkovich became intrigued by the management possibilities. "I love technology and telecommunications," Limor says. "But to move forward into a senior position, I need something more than my View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Bounce Back from a Blunder
As she was building Big Think, Brown was wary of painting herself into a corner that she couldn’t manage her way out of. “When I’d share earnings and business updates with the board, I had an acute sense that I had to be authentic. I never wanted them to View Details
- 13 Aug 2018
- Research & Ideas
Women Heart Patients Have Better Survival Odds with Women Doctors
gut feelings when it comes to risk. “All of the effects that we're finding in other organizations should not be happening in this context, but yet we still see this glass ceiling.” Another finding: the more...
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- 12 Jun 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Minal Mehta (MBA 2011)
Bollywood to the masses. In California, Mayuri was teaching a wildly popular Bollywood fitness class at UC Berkeley, packing the school gym with 150 students every class. I had a gut feeling that we were the...
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- 05 Aug 2010
- What Do You Think?
What Is Customer Opinion Good For?
products arise from strong insight, gut feel and imagination. Bad ideas, lousy products or services can be avoided by serious market research." Andy Robin pointed out that in the semiconductor business "one...
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- 20 Oct 2017
- Blog Post
Taking Care to Prepare Leaders: Lessons in Leadership Development from DaVita Kidney Care
Fast-track to responsibility In DaVita’s Redwoods Program, future leaders move quickly into real responsibility. After a learning phase in which participants (called “Redwoods” in DaVita vernacular) shadow clinical team members to, Coyle says, “learn the View Details
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Health Care
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
How Do I Get Your Job?
of it is having a gut instinct. If you don’t have that, you can get into trouble trying to repeat past success by measuring every potential acquisition against a comparable film from the past. A film like Winter’s Bone would be a great...
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- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Blockbuster! Why Star Power Works
the biggest entertainment hits were green-lighted based on a gut feeling and little "hard" data. Third, being able to make friends in high places is a valuable characteristic; with that I mean...
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- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Q&A - Mark Fields
your competence and make your priorities clear. It’s important to become culturally literate, but not to lose your sense of self — bringing a new viewpoint is part of the change process. Having done all that, decision-making for me is a combination of clearheaded logic...
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Minal Mehta
California, Mayuri was teaching a wildly popular Bollywood fitness class at UC Berkeley, packing the school gym with 150 students every class. I had a gut feeling that we were the right team sitting on a...
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- 27 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
process. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54030 forthcoming Academy of Management Journal The Role of Investor Gut Feel in Managing Complexity and Extreme Risk By: Huang,...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Cristina Ros Blankfein
When Cristina Ros Blankfein and Jennifer Ross returned from their FIELD 2 expeditions, they were both feeling the entrepreneurial buzz that an international travel experience often spawns. But the idea that the close friends and...
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Ruzwana Bashir
little too strongly on gut instincts and didn’t utilize backchannel references enough. We learned from those mistakes and now make sure we define all the skills and competencies we care most about upfront, as well as the cultural values...
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- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Faculty Books Published in 2020
who design, build, and maintain our buildings can have a major impact on our health. Ever feel tired during a meeting? That’s because most offices and conference rooms are not bringing in enough fresh air. When that door opens, it...
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- 07 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing
better supply chain management.For many of the retailers in our study, forecasting product demand is a right-brain function that relies on the gut feel of a few individuals and not on the systematic use of...
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- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2019
financial guts of the business world when I was a teenager.” Big fail: Missing the cut for the high school volleyball team. “I asked the coach what I needed to do to make the team the next year. She told me, and I ended up being captain...
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- 28 Jun 2024
- News
Honoring Leadership in New York; PRIDE Alumni Share HBS Stories
entrepreneurship means. I think the definition is broader than starting a company or a business,” says Weinstein. “It cuts to the quick of who we are as individuals, what we stand for, and having the guts to chart our own course in life,...
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Margie Kelley
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
isolated. Ascending to ubiquity from the car-obsessed America of the late 1950s, McDonald’s became a common language and a cultural export—an affordable and dependable escape. For decades, McDonald’s was a place to feel good. How could...
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- 19 Oct 2022
- News
If I Were You
Image credit: iStock / -Antonio- Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes This is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. During this spring’s reunions, the Skydeck crew set up shop on Spangler lawn and asked returning alumni to reflect on their time at...
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