jokes - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Sep 2016
First Look

September 6, 2016

relationship between the successful use of humor and status is mediated by perceptions of confidence and competence. The successful use of humor signals confidence and competence, which in turn increases the joke teller’s status.... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

03 Oct 2023
Research Event

Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips

School. Brooks: I made that joke for a reason. Goldberg: Yeah, yeah, yeah. [INAUDIBLE] And and and I want to just-- I want to be clear that Harvard Divinity School and Harvard Business School have a lot in coon. You know. They both have... View Details

Keywords: by HBS Staff

20 Nov 2019
Research & Ideas

It's No Joke: AI Beats Humans at Making You Laugh

We all enjoy sharing jokes with friends, hoping a witty one might elicit a smile—or maybe even a belly laugh. Here’s one for you: A lawyer opened the door of his BMW, when, suddenly, a car came along and hit the door, ripping it off... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

29 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

Time Pressure and Creativity: Why Time is Not on Your Side

and maintained that through regular phone calls and emails from me and my RAs; and (3) we tried to make it fun by giving them little gifts at the meetings (like "TEAM Study" coffee mugs), and including jokes and trivia questions... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education; Fine Arts

13 Jun 2022
Research & Ideas

Extroverts, Your Colleagues Wish You Would Just Shut Up and Listen

listening: Offer verbal cues of listening. Repeat back and paraphrase what someone has just said. Make use of phrases like “right,” “yes,” and “mm-hmm” in conversation. Look for other ways to signal engagement—laugh at jokes and be silent... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

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Tara Basu Trivedi

only gets messier), so I figured there wouldn’t be a better time than now. Coming to HBS is like Drinking from a firehose. We joke at HBS that each day is filled with so many experiences that a day feels like a week. For example, within a... View Details

02 Nov 2016
Blog Post

The Benefits of a Residential Campus

in closet (this wasn’t me, but I’ve heard some classmates joke about this), know that there are many on campus housing options — everything from three bedroom apartments with kitchens, to dorms designed with the executive education... View Details

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My Summer of Joy with the National Parks Service - Recruiting

felt like I needed to use that privilege to find the best opportunities I could. Rhea Choudhury (MBA 2024) I remember finding the listing for the internship with the National Park Service in October, and texting everyone I knew about it. “There’s no way this is a real... View Details

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Mollie Breen

about 'return on technology' when they need to hear about 'return on investment.' I learned a big lesson: tech won't sell itself. You need a business plan and a strategy – how will this make money?" Finding support in entrepreneurship, and supporting others too... View Details

Keywords: Tech; Nonprofit/Government/Education

17 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Blue Skies, Distractions Arise: How Weather Affects Productivity

thinking," the researchers write. For Gino, the findings match up with her professorial career. In fact, she says, academics often joke that they seek out positions in harsh climates on purpose, so that they won't feel like they're... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

29 Oct 2019
Sharpening Your Skills

Robots in the Boardroom

artificial intelligence, and related technologies in the twenty-first century Making Sense of RecommendationsWe compare computer recommender systems to human recommenders in a domain that affords humans many advantages: predicting which View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

09 May 2023
Blog Post

Celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS (part 1)

and reject my Asianness altogether. With every self-hating joke I made, I turned away from self-actualization in a gambit to numb myself against further pain. Luckily, I was steered off this dangerous path; going to college, building an... View Details

01 Jun 1998
News

Simmons Family Endows Professorship

coordinating the schedule for our one bathtub was a full-time job," jokes L.E. Ñ Tibby devoted much time to working with young members of the Mormon Church. She also played a major role in the restoration of several historic buildings of... View Details

27 Mar 2017
Blog Post

Should Entrepreneurs Get an MBA?

In his encouraging entrepreneurs not to go to business school, PayPal co-Founder and Gawker toppler Peter Thiel faults MBA programs for producing “extremely herd-like thinking.” He’s not alone – Elon Musk also rails against business school and being anti-MBA has become... View Details

09 Feb 2021
News

Investing in Entrepreneurship

Foundation, where he has been involved since 2007, including as chair from 2008–2013. Crisp is very comfortable with the behind-the-scenes role he has played in both his work and philanthropic endeavors. He likes to joke that the life he... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

14 Feb 2019
Blog Post

LOVE At HBS

incredible--obviously--but more importantly, this was when Judy and I learned that we would be going to school together. Judy and I do a lot together. On our last day of work, my boss joked that they would be renaming one of the... View Details

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The Moral Enterprise: How Two Companies Profit with Purpose

How can government and business work together in this fractious political moment, when finding solutions to pressing problems like inequality and climate change are more urgent than ever? Rebecca Henderson, Harvard University’s John and Natty McArthur University... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

04 Dec 2023
Blog Post

My Summer of Joy with the National Parks Service

in October, and texting everyone I knew about it. “There’s no way this is a real job,” I joked with my friends. You get paid to live and work in a national park? Doing management consulting? No way. As a native Californian and landscape... View Details

01 Oct 1999
News

Banking on Success

disciplines have become so important in finance." After sixteen years as a "classic, two-career, childless Manhattan couple," Layton and his wife, Sandy, welcomed their first son into their lives in 1990. Their second son was born in 1994. "There is an old View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

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