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- 16 Apr 2019
- Blog Post
How Being an Introvert Influenced My Business School Experience
broader business world, skew heavily towards being extroverted. As I approach the end of my time at HBS however, I realize just how many other introverts I’ve met (a Harbus article estimates that 35% to 55% of HBS students are... View Details
- Blog
Leading in Tough Times: HBS Faculty Member Amy C. Edmondson on Psychological Safety
offer ideas. To avoid being branded as negative, we don't criticize the status quo. But every time we withhold our thoughts, we rob ourselves and our colleagues of small moments of learning. This stifles innovation in our teams and... View Details
- Portrait Project
Sylvester Wee
"You’ll never make it." I’ve heard that same line too many times growing up, but never once succumbed to it. I started competitive tennis late at the age of 12 but trained hard to eventually become the top ranked player in Singapore. I... View Details
- 09 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Where Will You Be in 30 Years: Behind the Scenes of the 5 Big Life Decisions Documentary
and losses that were told over time were quite powerful and captured both the themes Singer and Hackett expected and new learnings about personal and professional growth. The Lived Experience The most powerful demographic-based theme that... View Details
- 28 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
7 Things HBS Taught Me the Last 2 Years
helped enrich the class’s understanding around cases in tech, marketing, and strategy. #3 The case method teaches you to lead in the unknown. The protagonists in almost all of the 500 cases we read and discussed had imperfect information. They had to make a decision... View Details
- 09 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations
the neglect of the others. When this happens, even the emphasized drive will in time become frustrated. To maintain a reasonable balance among the drives requires hands-on steering by the leadership of the organization. Like riding a... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
- 10 Feb 2016
- Blog Post
Combining an Interest in Music and Business
my promise to myself was to actively maintain music as a core part of my life, as I was afraid the “MBA life” would be too time consuming to be able to do any music. Although I did continue to sing, I am a little embarrassed to admit that... View Details
- 22 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
Want Hybrid Work to Succeed? Trust, Don’t Track, Employees
in-office and remote, and we’ve entered a gray zone in which people are asking, ‘What will permanent look like?’ It’s comfortable to think of our remote work environment as temporary; it’s much more difficult to think about what long term... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- Web
Negotiation Course Online | HBS Online
about what you earn Syllabus 4 Modules, 30-40 Hours Download full syllabus 8-10 hrs Module 1 Introduction to Negotiation Analysis: Finding the Zone of Possible Agreement Identify your walkaway, manage the exchange of offers, and close the... View Details
- 09 May 2023
- Blog Post
Celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS (part 1)
and diversity of the AAPI experience and inspire hope for a world of empathy, compassion, and courage. Adelina Pak (MBA 2024) The first time I ever asked my parents for help on homework was at HBS. Growing up as a child of Korean... View Details
- Profile
Ethan Li
operating." And it opened up new questions for Ethan. "I realized there may be something limited about my skills and the way I think about things," he says. "I was developing breadth, but I wanted depth, too. I thought it might be good to step out... View Details
- 16 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business
a Google doc or Slack. This is how virtual companies work. If you and I are working as a team, I can work in a Google doc and explain what I’ve done, and you can wake up in a different time zone or city,... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
The First Five Years: Karan Shah (MBA 2016)
mother always told me), and 2) work outside the family business for at least a few years. Working outside of your comfort zone with a ‘real’ boss who is not a family member is an experience that I benefitted greatly from. The ‘outside’... View Details
- 20 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Family Business: Survival’s Secret Sauce
over time as an industry matures and ultimately declines. To maintain high returns and keep your family company modern and competitive you need to make well-timed, significant bets in growth businesses. Some of these bets can regenerate... View Details
- Web
African American Student Union Spotlight on Social Enterprise - 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... View Details
- 30 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
The New Rules for Remote Work: Pandemic Edition
Unit. “The crisis accentuates what remote companies already understand—that work does not need to happen at the same time,” says Choudhury. “People can wake up in different time zones and cities, open... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Very Continental
the Zone of Potential Agreement; that negotiation isn’t about intimidation and leaving the other party behind.” 02138: “When I was in the MBA program I lived on Mass. Ave., right across the street from Harvard Yard. I loved the vibrancy... View Details
- 18 Dec 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Grooming Next-Generation Leaders
use the right approach at the right time and change as the situation demands is going to be tough. Not everybody can do it. That's going to distinguish the true leaders from people who are capable but not leaders." Targeting Talent... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 09 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
Cultural Disharmony Undermines Workplace Creativity
Conflicts in Social Environment Undermine Creativity, a paper published this month in the Academy of Management Journal. Multicultural teams may need managerial nurturing to overcome frictions. Photo: iStockPhoto "A lot of times when we... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 17 Jun 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Excellence Comes From Saying No
comic strip. Another wrote a personal essay about her struggles to overcome the stereotype of being the "Shy Asian Girl." Another student, who came from a retail background, wrote an open letter to clothing store Abercrombie & Fitch about why "It's... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding