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- 01 Sep 2021
- Op-Ed
How Women Can Learn from Even Biased Feedback
reports delivered to employees at all sorts of companies. I’m often struck by the way the process can break down. First, what the givers intend to convey and what they actually express to recipients may differ dramatically. Second, what...
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by Francesca Gino
- Web
Interviews - Recruiting
holidays) Virtual Internship Interviews, during winter break January 6-9, 2025 January 13-16, 2025 Internship Interviews, around class time Begin January 27, 2025, Monday-Friday starting at 3:30pm (restrictions during exams, classes, and...
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- 03 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Rituals in Life, Death, and Business
involve inducing the loss of a loved one, Norton notes wryly. "As it turns out, we couldn't randomly assign people to break up with their significant other," he says. Rather, to create instant grief, the researchers held a...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 15 Dec 2023
- News
The Musts of 2023
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. At fall reunions, we set up shop on campus and ask the alumni about what media moved them this year. What changed their minds or their hearts. And their answers ran...
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- 08 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Strategic Way To Hire a Sales Team
Google and Groupon, for instance, a higher percentage of employees work in sales than engineering or data mining. And at Facebook the salesforce's ability to translate 'likes' into advertisers will make or break that company's valuation...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 12 Aug 2019
- Research & Ideas
How Scale Changes a Manager's Responsibilities
even though it may not be polished and perfect? Do they break the rules in a good way? Now, what happens as your company grows and there’s more complexity in the business or more structure? Will they resent the bureaucracy? Will they...
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by Julia Austin
- 06 Feb 2020
- Research & Ideas
What We Learned from Reading Jeff Bezos’ Patents
time breaking through the corporate shields that Bezos has erected. (A former analyst recalled to us that on a trip to the company, she saw the World War II slogan “Loose Lips Sink Ships” on a bathroom wall.) So we wondered if there...
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- 23 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
How to Brand a Next-Generation Product
already confirmed its name. "Windows 7 brought us back to the notion of sequential indicators," Ofek says. "Microsoft learned that when you break from sequential names, people often overemphasize the risk of significant...
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by Carmen Nobel
- Blog
Making the Decision to Attend: Our Participants Share Their Stories
definitely worth the time investment. My family came out to Boston the first week so I could spend a little time with them. I also went home to California for the brief break halfway through the program. Today's technology, like FaceTime,...
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- 20 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Language Wars Divide Global Companies
are certainly entitled to speak their language. It's just sometimes infuriating because they'll just break into it in mid-meeting ," one American explained. In another multinational group, this one featuring four German workers in...
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by Kim Girard
- 05 Jun 2023
- What Do You Think?
Is the Anxious Achiever a Post-Pandemic Relic?
business practices that employ AI Apart from restrictions on human behavior, I doubt that any regulations on AI could be very effective." Rafael Fernandez MacGregor said, "I see one simple regulation to begin with. ‘You break it, you pay...
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by James Heskett
- June 2020
- Supplement
RBC: Transforming Transformation (B)
By: Ethan Bernstein, Francesca Gino and Aldo Sesia
In 2017, the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), a Canadian financial icon, mandated a swat team of “enablers of collaboration” (their job description) to support the personal and commercial bank in the enterprise-wide RBC Cultural Transformation initiative. Historically,...
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Bernstein, Ethan, Francesca Gino, and Aldo Sesia. "RBC: Transforming Transformation (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 920-045, June 2020.
- 15 Mar 2017
- Blog Post
An Average Day at HBS
(e.g., cases for consulting) and interviews themselves. Physical activity: one of my personal priorities is to make time for visits to the gym throughout the week. It helps clear your head and take a break from what can sometimes be...
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- 19 Jul 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Government 'Nudges' Motivate Good Citizen Behavior
much easier on the budget. The most dramatic impact the researchers found was in the area of college enrollment. In an effort to increase the number of students applying for higher education, federal and state governments have put large amounts of money into grants and...
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by Michael Blanding
- Web
How Short Intensive Programs (SIPs) Transform Your MBA Learning Journey - MBA
Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year...
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- 19 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
2023 Summer Internships in Business & Environment
resilient production of fresh fruits and vegetables. That’s why Source.ag is developing pioneering AI technology, to give growers the superpowers to produce more fruit and vegetables, without breaking planetary boundaries. By enabling...
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- 12 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Using the Law to Strategic Advantage
environment, participate in corporate decisions, and be ready to push back when executives head toward murky ethical or legal waters. Bagley's latest book, Winning Legally: How to Use the Law to Create Value, Marshal Resources, and Manage Risk, View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Curb Appeal
on the rat population.” As a result, the Queens pilot diverted almost 13 million pounds of organic waste at one-third the cost of previous programs. “It’s not breaking the bank, and you can roll it out big,” says Tisch, who plans to...
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- 19 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Birth of the American Salesman
sales territories, and tested different methods of compensation. Also, like Taylor, he placed the pace of work under managerial control by demanding that salesmen meet monthly quotas. Patterson was not a likeable person. He believed in the need to View Details
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by Laura Linard
- Web
Events - Business History
debate, as the conference sought to lay the foundation for a community of scholars that can exchange ideas on the value of oral history collections for various classroom settings. There was also a short mid-session break during which CEM...
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