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- 01 May 2017
- Blog Post
Getting Out of Your Comfort Zone at HBS
say they agreed and wanted to talk more. It’s been really amazing to find my voice and speak up with confidence in front of my peers. It’s not just in the classroom that HBS has challenged me. The HBS community is incredibly diverse –...
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- 21 Dec 2016
- Blog Post
The Best Little Secret of the Harvard MBA
began or hoping to raise our hand and be called upon. Fifty percent of our grade depended on the quality of our participation, so informally making our case with classmates in a small group before class helped give us confidence heading...
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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Letters to the Editor
(suite mates). He kind of volunteered as a mentor and even then showed skill in giving guidance, which was quite useful and readily acceptable. He was confident without being arrogant; interested without being meddlesome; loyal, without...
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- 15 Nov 2011
- News
750 World Wonders and counting
my briefcase in one hand and my camera in the other,” he recalls. “After I did the AMP program, my ambitions really came to the fore. It was a watershed time for building confidence and creating big ideas for the future.” For Main Wilson,...
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- 02 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Explaining China's Crash
the short and medium terms to feel confident again in China’s stability? A: Investors are prone to panic, as we’ve seen; they tend to rush for the exits. In reality, China is generally in a position to manage the turbulence in its...
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Introduction - The Product - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
fueled by confidence in the ability of businesses to ensure both the creation and the consumption of mass-produced goods. The companies with which Ayres and Davenport corresponded often sent advertising images along with production...
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- 22 Feb 2017
- News
Funding Solar’s Future
later stages, with a model that rewards in the longer-term. The article also lays out the current challenges for solar, including the falling price of fossil fuels and the potential lack of political appetite for clean energy. But the entrepreneurs have View Details
- 20 May 2019
- Blog Post
Makeup: How Kenya Hunt Transformed Her Career Through Cosmetics
degree, Kenya dove into career research, confident that there was a cosmetics firm out there that would appreciate her ability to conduct R&D – a foot in the door that could lead to more advanced executive positions. She learned that...
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- 25 Aug 2015
- Blog Post
Why an MD/MBA from HBS and HMS?
Harvard, I can confidently say that the resources at Harvard are amazing. There is no topic that I have ever been interested in that I was not able to find within the broader community. At the end of my graduate education, it is...
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- 03 Jan 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
5 Career-Related New Year’s Resolutions (and 5 Tips for Keeping Them)
Anat Keinan shows that people who wear funky outfits to the office are often seen as more confident and as having higher status than those who dress to fit in. As writer Dina Gerdeman explains, “The researchers found that observers viewed...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 05 Oct 2016
- Blog Post
4 Things You Should Know about Entrepreneurship at HBS
because we had that baseline, we should feel confident in taking risks, remembering that “risk” isn’t just downside--its volatility that goes both ways. The more risk we take, the greater upside potential we have, while our downside is...
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- 03 Nov 2003
- What Do You Think?
Can Investors Have Too Much Accounting Transparency?
it, "We cannot look at investor losses as the only benchmark to evaluate the costs of Sarbanes-Oxley. One must also consider the cost of capital if confidence in the markets does not return
Unfortunately, you cannot legislate...
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by James Heskett
- 24 May 2023
- Blog Post
Get to Know Class Day Speaker Adán Acevedo
confidence in daily decisions for me. Whether I’m taking part in a classroom discussion or spending time with loved ones, I’m able to focus on what’s in front of me and really give it my all,” says Acevedo. “It’s been a process of...
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- 15 Feb 2016
- Blog Post
Coming to HBS with a Non-Finance Background
perspective and skill set coming in. Lastly, have confidence in your ability to contribute to the HBS (or any) community. People at HBS have as much to learn from you as you do from them! How did HBS help prepare you to come here? HBS...
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- 25 Mar 2016
- News
Putting Faith in a Good Education
focus and confidence to start Edify. Funded largely on donations, the organization provides the funds to help build simple cement-block classrooms with a $10,000 loan and serve students such as 14-year-old Delphine, who lives in Ghana,...
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- 07 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders
capabilities, such as conducting detailed quantitative analyses; connections, such as peer networks and team-based affiliations; confidence, such as learning-based efficacy (or confidence in my ability to learn); and cognition, such as...
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by Mallory Stark
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Star Search
recent Mercer study shows that organizational commitment is closely tied to employee confidence and engagement in the work that they do. Dig more deeply into these concepts by browsing HBR's collection of talent management articles.
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Dan Morrell
- 01 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
How Much Time Should CEOs Devote to Customers?
spent interacting with customers? Perhaps we can all agree on at least 10 percent, but as much as fifty percent? Of course, a company suffering a temporary crisis of confidence requires all hands on deck. But, in normal circumstances, the...
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by John Quelch
- 21 Jan 2021
- Blog Post
How I Used the HBS Community to Hone My Professional Goals
business each year. Eventually, I reached a point where I had a drive to explore other fields, and to push myself to learn and do more beyond my capabilities at that time. This coincided with an urge to begin a new phase in my career. I felt an MBA would give me the...
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- 15 Jun 2021
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Building Blocks
met in PMD, from all over the world, gave me the confidence to go international; after I finished the program, I wrote the business plan for AEW to take our business outside North America. My partners said, ‘Okay, smart guy, go do it.’”...
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