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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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- 14 Feb 2023
- Blog Post
Recruiting During Uncertainty: How to Meet Students Where They Are
While there may be changes along the way, the more information students have about the process the more confident they will feel about engaging with your company. Create space for students to share their career goals honestly Transparency...
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- 18 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
4 Ways to Make Your Company Conversations Count
questions in advance you achieve three things: Your company representative can gather information before the event so they feel confident and prepared for the conversation. You can provide slides or a one-page PDF that provides answers to...
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- 08 Aug 2013
- News
Cause Marketing Gets Personal
not have been her strength, the experience gave Langer confidence to establish herself as a force in both the business and not-for-profit worlds. At HBS's W50 Summit on women and business in April 2013, Langer spoke candidly about her...
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- 10 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis
When Standard & Poor's Rating Services lowered its long-term sovereign credit rating on the United States from AAA to AA+ on August 5, it was a shot heard 'round the world. Stock markets plummeted, investors covered their eyes, consumers' View Details
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- 27 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 27
GUIDES is an easily remembered framework that can help the business leader and student to confidently and quickly identify, organize, and interpret a country's key economic indicators. Alternatively, it can help them to evaluate...
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Martha Lagace
- 29 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
Pride Goeth Before a Profit
"A" awarded by the company auditor in his thirty years at Unocal. Now a production foreman, Thompson still lives and works in Van, just like always. "We are all blue-collar guys, we all like what we do, and we all feel View Details
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by Theodore Kinni
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Online AI Course | HBS Online
cohort members where I received valuable shared experiences, feedback and was able to be a thought partner around strategies and best practices in varying scenarios. Raymond Porch Manager of Diversity Programs at Boston Public Schools The course has given me the View Details
- 14 Apr 2021
- News
The First Five Years: Mike Gandy Auzenne (MBA 2016)
understanding of what to expect and when. I’m not always patient with my son, but when things take longer to sink in than I’d like, I have confidence they’ll sink in eventually because of my experience with Mike. “On a bigger stage, my...
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- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Unleashed
leading from the sidelines, where their most valuable, freedom-loving employees preferred them to be. It’s a model that reveals another foundational truth about leadership: some of your best people don’t always want you in the room. Culture gives you the View Details
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
One-on-One with Jim Breyer
pattern recognition. Our partners combine tenacity and confidence with a large dose of humility. Accel prefers early-stage companies. Isn’t that the riskiest strategy? It is certainly the riskiest part of the business. At the same time,...
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- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
begin in childhood, Fisher and two partners developed the basic structure for FitMoney, a program to be embedded in K–12 curricula. “We want children to become confident and competent in managing their personal finances, and to take...
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Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
50 Years & Counting
Ahead, which is open to women and men who are alumni of the OPM Program. In A New Path, Kraus says competence and confidence are typical concerns. "These women may need a check-in on their marketing or finance skills if they're reentering...
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- 21 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
From Tigers to Kaleidoscopes: Thinking About Future Leadership
company. The new moral contract also asks a lot from employees, they write. "It requires that [employees] have the courage and the confidence to abandon the stability of lifetime employment and embrace the invigorating force of continuous...
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by Martha Lagace
- 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
- 22 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 22
stakeholders. In the case of Shire, both a commitment to integrated thinking and the adoption of integrated reporting appear to have helped the company attract longer-term investors, which in turn has strengthened management's confidence...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan
still more government debt would be imprudent. Should Japan lose its AA- sovereign debt rating, confidence in the country's economy and government could be sent into a debilitating tailspin. A safer, even if less popular, course of action...
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- 03 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Ingredients of a Deal Disaster
fatal; how they are handled can strengthen or rupture the social contract. If a breach is inadvertent, for example, managers normally should acknowledge it and reassure the other side that the "violation" was unintentional, not exploitative. Indeed, sincere...
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- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Race Does Matter in Mentoring
gain confidence and establish their credibility. Third, the mentors provided crucial career advice and counsel that prevented their protégés from getting sidetracked from the path leading to the executive level. Fourth, the mentors often...
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by David A. Thomas
- 16 Jul 2024
- Op-Ed
Corporate Boards Are Failing in Their No. 1 Duty
2018 by Charles Scharf, who has focused on cleaning up the messes and restoring the confidence of regulators. These succession failures illustrate some of the risks companies face during CEO transitions, and they raise some obvious...
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by Bill George