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Hold ourselves accountable to meaningful, measurable progress. - Advancing Racial Equity

Action Plan Hold ourselves accountable to meaningful, measurable progress. Like many of the organizations we study, Harvard Business School is at risk of declaring a lot of good intentions and goals and then failing to follow through on... View Details

08 Jun 2021
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How to Give Feedback — Especially When You’re Dreading it

11 Jan 2018
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Taking the High Road

lack of exposure. What you have to do is ignore what they say and watch what they do, because the opposite of that is a lot of people know how to be extremely politically correct and have no positive intent whatsoever. “So, let's just... View Details

06 Mar 2017
Research & Ideas

Why Comparing Apples to Apples Online Leads To More Fruitful Sales

a “shopper’s” purchase intent when the display items were matched was significantly higher than the person’s purchase intent for mismatched products. In another experiment, participants were asked to make a... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail; Advertising

27 Oct 2020
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How the Best Leaders Answer “What Are We Here for?”

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Thomas Grenier

philosophy that I value. I do not want to focus intently on taking a rigid path toward a predetermined goal while using any means necessary to reach it. Of course, I understand the value of having an overarching career vision, but I also... View Details

19 Sep 2019
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Predicting Human Behaviors

pedestrians, correctly assigning an intention score (Do they want to cross the street?) and an awareness score (Do they know there is a car?) to each. Guided by technology developed by Perceptive Automata, the company cofounded by Misra,... View Details

Keywords: April White

20 May 2022
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Stop Rambling in Meetings — and Start Getting Your Message Across

02 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

Excerpt: ‘A Social Strategy’

sale. Second, a third of those who participated in a group gift sign up for a PayPal account. Finally, an- other third returned to visit eBay within a month with the intent to purchase other items. Importantly, eBay obtained all of these... View Details

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Doba Parushev

opportunity to study at Princeton University where his initial intention was to study economics. Instead, he switched to physics, then engineering. "I enjoy multi-faceted programs," Doba explains, "and have never settled on... View Details

Keywords: Consulting

07 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 8, 2018

Intent By: Schroeder, Juliana, Jane L. Risen, Francesca Gino, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—We examine how a simple handshake—a gesture that often occurs at the outset of social interactions—can influence deal-making. Because handshakes... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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When Seeking Help, Women and Racial/Ethnic Minorities Benefit from Explicitly Stating Their Identity

By: Erika L. Kirgios, Aneesh Rai, Edward H. Chang and Katherine L. Milkman

Receiving help can make or break a career, but women and racial/ethnic minorities do not always receive the support they seek. Across two audit experiments—one with politicians and another with students—as well as an online experiment (total n = 5,145), we test whether... View Details

Keywords: Support; Marginalized Communities; Personal Development and Career; Equality and Inequality; Identity; Race; Gender; Communication Intention and Meaning

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26 Jul 2023
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Overcoming Your Fear of Giving Tough Feedback

11 Jul 2023
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What the Best Leaders Know — and What Skills They Develop

01 Sep 2009
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MBA Oath Maintains Momentum

Conceived and implemented in the closing weeks of the 2009 academic year, the HBS student-inspired MBA Oath has continued to grow and gain support both at the School and beyond. Spearheaded by Max Anderson (MBA ’09) above, at right and a group of his classmates, the... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management

25 Apr 2014
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Raising the bar for financial literacy

Nan Morrison (MBA 1987) is intent on making children financially and economically literate. As CEO of the Council for Economic Education (CEE), a New York–based national nonprofit, she trains more than 55,000 teachers nationwide annually,... View Details

14 Jul 2023
Blog Post

What You Can Do to Create an Anti-Racist Organization

history I’m asking folks to seek out is a history that unfolded on top of people who are still alive.” Be Intentional with Language Another key focus of Manso-Brown’s work is being intentional about... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

20 Oct 2020
Blog Post

Changing the Face of Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital at Harlem Capital

referrals.” The next stage of building a diverse team is considering the various stages of the applicant funnel and being intentional about hiring. “We always track race and gender all the way through our hiring process to make sure that... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital / Private Equity

01 Jun 2001
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A Match Made in Heaven

he was named CEO. Intent on having Samuel Adams perceived as a world-class product, Roper wants to move Boston Beer beyond its image as a local craft-brewer. “We’re already distancing ourselves from that,” he observed. “We need to take... View Details

Keywords: Samuel Adams; The Boston Beer Company; Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

15 Jun 2021
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Turning Point: Tell Me More

Illustration by Gisela Goppel Illustration by Gisela Goppel By Diane Hessan (MBA 1977) My entire career has been a series of pivots: a friend who convinced me to join his firm, a conversation on an airplane that turned into a new job, a middle-of-the-night idea that... View Details

Keywords: politics; communication; voting; demographics

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