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- September 20, 2019
- Editorial
Why Asking for Advice Is More Effective Than Asking for Feedback
By: Jaewon Yoon, Hayley Blunden, Ariella S. Kristal and A. V. Whillans
Conventional wisdom says you should ask your colleagues for feedback. However, research suggests that feedback often has no (or even a negative) impact on our performance. This is because the feedback we receive is often too vague—it fails to highlight what we can... View Details
Keywords: Feedback; Advice; Advice Seeking; Feedback Culture; Advice Taking; Interpersonal Communication
Yoon, Jaewon, Hayley Blunden, Ariella S. Kristal, and A. V. Whillans. "Why Asking for Advice Is More Effective Than Asking for Feedback." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (September 20, 2019).
- June 1979
- Background Note
Developing Skill in Listening
By: Arthur N. Turner
Keywords: Interpersonal Communication
Turner, Arthur N. "Developing Skill in Listening." Harvard Business School Background Note 479-033, June 1979.
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Egawa Heads New Research Office in Japan
delighted to be taking an active part in the HBS community. "It's very refreshing to come back to the campus and see the progress the School is making in developing leading-edge research," she says. "I look forward to my part in building bridges between the academic... View Details
- 11 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now
reviews, should never be conducted by one person alone. “Think about it. Every major corporation does not have the CEO interviewed alone. There’s always a corporate communications person and others in the room,” she says. “How hard would... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Apr 2016
- News
Innovating Education to Create College-Ready Academic Achievers
with five points of light: character, academics, organizational stability, family/scholar engagement, and college knowledge. “What’s constant is the aspiration to create a greater good,” he says. “We can prove the possible and create hope in View Details
- December 2015
- Case
Difficult Conversations and Dealing with Challenging Situations at Work: The Friend Who Asked for Feedback
By: Boris Groysberg and Ann Leamon
Groysberg, Boris, and Ann Leamon. "Difficult Conversations and Dealing with Challenging Situations at Work: The Friend Who Asked for Feedback." Harvard Business School Case 416-032, December 2015.
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
HBS Is Committed to Increasing Alumni Engagement
engagement. Alumni focus groups and interviews have been conducted around the world to better understand the motivators and barriers to alumni engagement and to further evaluate current and proposed communication channels. There were... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Making travel possible for people with physical challenges
Darren Brehm (MBA 2007) launched an online travel guide and mobile app to help people with physical challenges find accessible hotels, restaurants, and activities, as well as emergency services. AbilityTrip.com and the online community it... View Details
- 11 Sep 2018
- News
Bringing Government Up to Code
the foundations of our social safety net—making it easier, for example, for people to apply for food assistance or for probation officers to communicate with their parolees. On today's episode of Skydeck, Ingersoll talks with contributor... View Details
- 17 Jan 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Competition in Modular Clusters
- June 2023 (Revised November 2024)
- Case
Collaboration Wars: Slack vs. Microsoft Teams 2023
By: David B. Yoffie, Kriti Gupta, Mehek Punatar, Poonam Sacheti and Poorvi Vijay
What's the future of corporate communications? Email? Corporate messaging? The battle for corporate messaging in 2023 was stacking up as a fight between Slack, which had been recently acquired by Salesforce, and Microsoft Teams. This case explores a classic judo... View Details
Keywords: Competition; Product Positioning; Marketing Strategy; Acquisition; Communications Industry; Communications Industry
Yoffie, David B., Kriti Gupta, Mehek Punatar, Poonam Sacheti, and Poorvi Vijay. "Collaboration Wars: Slack vs. Microsoft Teams 2023." Harvard Business School Case 723-457, June 2023. (Revised November 2024.)
- 1981
- Chapter
Explanation and Social Interaction: Some Dialogues on Dialogue
By: R. F. Kidd and T. M. Amabile
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Contributing to a Better Future
understand what business is and can be doing, and then get that research out into the community of practitioners. BUSINESS AS A FORCE FOR GOOD IN SOCIETY READ MORE STORIES BUSINESS AS A FORCE FOR GOOD IN SOCIETY READ MORE STORIES Over the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Turning Point: Life Cycle
Instead, there’s often an amazing portfolio of smaller activities that change communities and change lives, just as I saw on my ride last fall. It’s the little things we do that add up to a good life and to making a difference in the... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Taylor R. M. Keen
tell you, means "those who move against the current," and for Keen, who is always stretching the conventional thinking in whatever community he travels, the name couldn't be more fitting. Spending most of his childhood on his parents'... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
Nayana Mawilmada (MBA 2005) is seeing things. Standing at the edge of Beira Lake, an algae-choked body of water in the heart of Sri Lanka’s capital, Colombo, he envisions people and restaurants—like New York’s South Street Seaport, he says, or Singapore’s Clarke Quay.... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Alice Carfrae; Sri Lanka; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Gimme Shelter
homelessness. But the affordable housing problem is especially acute in urban areas, where entire tranches of the workforce—teachers, laborers, first responders, restaurant and transit workers, for example—are squeezed out of their View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- April 1986 (Revised December 1988)
- Case
Massimo Menichetti
Examines different alternatives for the introduction of telemation and computer aided design in a small firm. The issues involve what extent of cooperation is required by different firms so that a telecommunicative interchange between them becomes effective. View Details
Jaikumar, Ramchandran. "Massimo Menichetti." Harvard Business School Case 686-135, April 1986. (Revised December 1988.)
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Finding New Ways to Solve Civic Problems
As deputy majority whip in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, Ryan MacKenzie (MBA 2010) has followed a path of community service and political involvement, transforming the business experience he received at HBS into an... View Details
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
Presentation Round-Up
Internet and tried as well to clarify some common fears and misconceptions of such research's effects on privacy and intellectual property. The positive aspects, according to panelist George Church, include the fact that the Internet has led to an open exchange of... View Details