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- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do I Get Your Job?
SK: In the beginning, I really wanted everyone to know about our charity partners and the water crisis. If you looked at one of our early websites, it would look like we were a nonprofit. Now I want customers to have an emotional...
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April White
- 26 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
If a Car Can Drive Itself, Can It Make Life-or-Death Decisions?
sometimes die. AI, AVs, and saving lives With less emotion behind the wheel, Musk and Tesla argue that automation could address real-world safety problems. As the case explains, motor vehicle crashes kill 40,000 people in the United...
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- October 2022 (Revised January 2023)
- Case
Century Bank: Closing Time?
By: Lauren Cohen, Grace Headinger and Bill Kwon
Barry Sloane, second-generation Chairman, President, and CEO of his family’s bank, Century Bank, weighed whether to sell to Eastern Bank. As a small regional bank, Century faced a number of challenging trends, such as digitization and market share decline in the coming...
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Family Office;
Business Exit;
Banking;
Family;
Massachusetts;
Boston;
United States;
Acquisition;
Business Exit or Shutdown;
Family Business;
Family and Family Relationships;
Interpersonal Communication;
Decision Making;
Finance;
Banks and Banking;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Emotions;
Banking Industry;
Boston;
Massachusetts;
United States
Cohen, Lauren, Grace Headinger, and Bill Kwon. "Century Bank: Closing Time?" Harvard Business School Case 223-040, October 2022. (Revised January 2023.)
- 17 Feb 2015
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: The Battle for San Francisco
"They say, 'My skill set is coding, so how can I take that and apply it to the problem?' " says Rose. "There are incremental moves to get these folks involved in a more meaningful way, and you can see the power of that View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Breaking Free from Fear of Change
already know you can do well is difficult. What are some of the clues that would indicate your need for achievement is blocking your path to career growth? If the main emotion you experience when you accomplish a task is relief, not...
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- 01 Dec 2011
- News
At Your Service
highly. Getting organizations to accept that concept presents an emotional stumbling block that often is more difficult to overcome than the challenge of deciding which tradeoffs to make. How do you help them over that stumbling block?...
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- 16 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
Building an Internship Program at Your Startup: An Interview with Facily’s Diego Dzodan (MBA 1999)
with cancer and passed away a couple of years later,” Dzodan shared. “After he passed, I had to start working on the company because it was a small business and there were no managers.” Their father’s passing took an emotional toll on the...
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- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Turning Point: Ready or Not
small lemon tree in the graveyard where his father and uncle had been buried. His death made me realize my own mortality, but it was more of a rational response than an emotional one. My grandmother’s death felt different. Like so many...
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- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Alumni Books
contexts while staying grounded in one's own natural style. Molinsky advises how to overcome the emotional and psychological impediments to doing so. Leadership and the Art of Struggle: How Great Leaders Grow through Challenge and...
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- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Do Good: Eat Chocolate
farmer, a plant worker, or an artist. It’s a trade, not aid, model.” Asked if this really makes a difference to your average chocolate fiend, Endline admits, “Some research would tell you that consumers may not be able to articulate the View Details
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Julia Hanna;
candy;
chocolate;
Crop Production;
Agriculture;
Food Manufacturing;
Manufacturing
- 02 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Women, Work, and the "M" Word
physiological and emotional changes, they predominantly feel isolated and too often, ashamed. They don’t feel comfortable in the workplace or supported by their employers. Elektra’s Menopause in the Workplace report found that 40% of...
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- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Floor It
the experience of businesses including Keurig, Peloton, and Rent the Runway to develop more effective strategies to engage and educate patients about precision medicine, the need for genetic testing, and the importance of sharing that information. Techniques included...
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Julia Hanna; illustration by Mengxin Li
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Swimming with the Stream
listens and emotional connections to the music (“you’ve provided the soundtrack to their life, so there is even more excitement for the show”) and two, the data that artists can get from their streams help uncover fan bases in cities they...
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Dan Morrell
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
My Pandemic Year
community at HBS, and I’m also afraid of losing that feeling when I leave this place. Courtesy Jo Tan Courtesy Jo Tan Jo Tan (MBA 2021) is a self-taught illustrator, working mainly with watercolor and ink. She has a fear of forgetting and tries to put paint on paper to...
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- 26 May 2016
- News
Alan F. Horn, MBA 1971
filmmakers know they have a problem. Emotion comes easily to him—at the mention of his deceased parents as well as when he talks about his wife of 33 years, Cindy, and their two daughters. “The girls are our biggest accomplishment,” he...
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Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Frank Blethen (PMD 35, 1978)
shouldn't be that way. THERE IS ONLY ONE decision I would change. In 2007, when we knew the economy was starting to go south, we talked about selling our papers in Maine. Every rational thought I had said, "Sell them, or you'll be sorry." But my View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
- Blog Post
Staying Curious with the Harvard Innovation Labs Ahead of the 2021 Virtual President’s Innovation Challenge
will continue to be challenged by physical distance. As we keep our focus on innovation happening across Harvard, the question becomes, “How do we bring the physical and emotional connections that keep us human into the digital experience...
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- 23 Jan 2019
- Blog Post
Leaving an Unhappy Job: How to Look Before You Leap
things – time, energy, and mindshare – then it may be better not to be in a job than to do a half-hearted effort in your search," says Spielman. The logic behind Spielman's point is strong, but the emotional resistance to it is often...
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- 10 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
American Auto’s Troubled Road
"is getting too big, too fast, which they feel would make it hard to find enough good managers, thereby jeopardizing the company's legendary quality." The ripple effect is going to be emotional and intellectual, not just...
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- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Better Hiring Through Brain Science
in neuroscience research experiments—with former research colleague Julie Yoo to assess cognitive and emotional traits. The games didn’t ask personal questions, they measured responses, providing objectivity in a way that the traditional...
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Dan Morrell