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- 06 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Flood of Picassos Threatens to Water Down the Art Market
for that very reason that she is cutting out intermediaries and may sacrifice some value (and possibly depress the value of other lesser Picassos) in the process: because she is intent on purging herself of painful emotional ties to that... View Details
- 08 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Is That Really Your Best Offer?
hints of emotion leak out in facial movements—a momentary blush or twitch that might be caught in a couple frames of film but would escape the notice of most untrained observers. Evidence suggests that micro-expressions are there to be... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
- Profile
Maren Quezada
change in the business of home entertainment. Sales of DVDs and Blu-Rays were declining; I learned how to manage change during a stressful time.” Building pipelines – and emotional connections Six years of experience at Fox gave Maren her... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Racial Bias Pervades Health Care
and let the patient die in her own blood. White writes: “I don’t think it had quite hit me at that point that I was on the verge of entering a profession where white doctors treating black patients was the rule, and that there was a host of often hidden View Details
- 08 May 2022
- Blog Post
The Territory of Motherhood: A Reflection in Honor of Mother’s Day
I was anticipating how helpful this community of moms would be to ease the logistical challenges of an early, quick delivery without family in town, I greatly underestimated how important their emotional support and friendships would be... View Details
- Portrait Project
Elizabeth Bruyere
to a health-care project at work. Initially, I was indifferent – healthcare seemed messy, dull, obstinate. Yet as I immersed myself in the health-care ecosystem, memories emerged that I had locked away: my mother's countless, emotional... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Porter, Kanter Win McKinsey Awards
capital and labor, disconnecting business from society and posing conflicts between them. She advocates a new approach to leadership and corporate behavior in which companies exhibit, among other things, a common purpose, a long-term view, View Details
Keywords: awards
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Building Your Own Dream Team
personal and career success and emotional development. Think of them as your personal board of directors with a heart. You meet with each other regularly with a formal agenda, call on each other’s expertise as needed, share emotions,... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Improving the service experience requires excellence—but not in everything
Frei. “The number-one obstacle to excellence may be an emotional one.” Frei’s research demonstrates that a successful service model must be designed to allow all employees—not just the “heroes”— to deliver excellence as a matter of... View Details
- April 2011
- Case
Daniel Kim's Dilemma (A)
By: Bill George and Natalie Kindred
Daniel Kim was considering "blowing the whistle" on his friend, the CEO of a fast-growing startup where Kim had spent most of his professional career. When Kim joined the company, called Cardio-Metric, in 2002, it consisted of seven young engineers (including its two... View Details
Keywords: Ethics; Fairness; Corporate Accountability; Emotions; Behavior; Leadership Style; Governing and Advisory Boards; Corporate Disclosure
George, Bill, and Natalie Kindred. "Daniel Kim's Dilemma (A)." Harvard Business School Case 411-009, April 2011.
- Portrait Project
Judy D'Agostino
among family, I remained an outsider; even as I endured the inconveniences of power cuts and well water, I was a Westerner. My stays were time-bound, my presence ephemeral. I am American.I pledged allegiance to the flag each morning, and swelled with View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Fred Newman
traveling “sound effects guy” on Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion radio show, “doing what I used to do behind teachers’ backs.” He uses acoustic technology to enhance the art of storytelling. “Information is in words,” says Newman, “but all the View Details
- 12 PM – 1 PM EST, 16 Feb 2017
- Webinars: Trending@HBS
Grown and Flown: Parenting Through the High School Years
High school is a time of dynamic growth for kids who enter in 9th grade with one foot still in childhood and graduate four years later, well on their way to adulthood. But teens are not the only ones in a family who are changing. Adults, too, must learn to adapt to the... View Details
- Portrait Project
Amer M. Lahham
Palestinian Jerusalemite, cried that morning, emotional hearing what I had to say. My mom, a Palestinian refugee, wrote it. I remember rehearsing the rhetoric late into the night; words that were charged with a deep yearning for a lost... View Details
- Profile
John Nordin
undergraduate lectures, it would be a disaster. But the professors put in so much energy and encourage us to share our personal experiences—there's a lot more emotion to it. We had a number of people moved to tears last semester because... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy
- 13 Mar 2018
- News
Leadership Lessons from the “Lone Survivor” Mission
I had some of the newer guys. These were friends. These were folks that they spent every hour with of every day in Afghanistan. And they weren't about to let their buddies stay up on that mountain without immediate help. It became very contentious. It was very... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Maasai Village
are sold in local markets. We learned that the women in the tribe do the bulk of the work — building their thatched roof mud huts, gathering all food and water, preparing all meals, and taking care of the children. In a sometimes View Details
Keywords: Hospitality
- 2011
- Working Paper
Memory Lane and Morality: How Childhood Memories Promote Prosocial Behavior
By: Francesca Gino and Sreedhari D. Desai
Four experiments demonstrated that recalling memories from one's own childhood lead people to experience feelings of moral purity and to behave prosocially. In Experiment 1, participants instructed to recall memories from their childhood were more likely to help the... View Details
Keywords: Judgments; Moral Sensibility; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Organizational Culture; Behavior; Emotions; Personal Characteristics; Welfare
Gino, Francesca, and Sreedhari D. Desai. "Memory Lane and Morality: How Childhood Memories Promote Prosocial Behavior." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-079, February 2011.
- 11 Oct 2024
- Blog Post
Committing to Work and Family: Allison Boxer (MBA 2012)
pieces of what makes a full career for me. I was having dinner earlier this year with a friend who is a career coach. We were talking about the career versus family identity crisis, and the emotional difficulties of balancing work life... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 11 Oct 2024
- Blog Post
Committing to Work and Family: Allison Boxer (MBA 2012)
emotional difficulties of balancing work life and family life. She said to me “what were your big wins from the past year?” Thinking about it, I could confidently say I felt good about my commitment to my work and my commitment to my son.... View Details