writing - Publications - Faculty & Research

31 Dec 2013
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Feeling Nervous? Don't Try to Calm Down—Get Excited

11 Sep 2020
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Two Books Wonder: How Long Until You Fall in Love With a Robot?

08 Nov 2018
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Bookshelf: November / December 2018

09 May 2017
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If You Were Lorde’s Manager What Would You Do?

01 Dec 2023
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The Imposter Among Us

Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; Illustrations by Peter Arkle It was their rst day at Harvard and like the rest of his cohort, Edgar Wallner (PMD 22, 1971) will never forget meeting Robert Gaines-Cooper. Frankly, it would have been difficult to miss the Englishman, who... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

30 Aug 2017
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The Surprising Power of Online Experiments

22 Feb 2024
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Combat-Tested Cancer Coaching

"Oh my gosh, Kathy, 15 minutes with you just saved me five months of time trying to understand how to deal with this disease. And it gave me more hope. and more knowledge and understanding." And so that's where the 12 steps came from. But while I was View Details

01 Dec 2023
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Thinking Ahead

cost-effective behaviors in the insurance company’s subscribers. The effort involved machine learning, with a team of engineers writing algorithms that spotted patterns in customer behavior—for example, a member with repeated ER... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Illustrations by Chris Gash; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

01 Mar 2024
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In Harmony

Kim at Seoul’s government-built Hoehyeon “Citizens’ Apartments.” Opened in 1970, it stands as a reminder of a Korea from a very different era. Like so many South Koreans of a certain age, Michael ByungJu Kim (MBA 1990) lives in a country where the past lingers,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographs by Jun Michael Park; private equity; fiction; financial crisis; leadership; Korea

22 Sep 2023
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Skydeck Voices: The Most Important Person I Met at HBS

have small group discussions. It was very uniquely formulated and enabled the student to really open up in a way that I have not seen in any other class at HBS. He got us to write a lot—to reflect and to write. And I remember in one of... View Details

01 Jun 2000
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Going Public: Margaret M. Crotty

and motivating others. She recruited her brothers to tutor students, her Princeton alumni club to paint classrooms, her investment banker friends to help write a budget, and members of the community to organize fundraisers. At the same... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Jun 2024
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Again and Again

Ritual, Harness the Surprising Power of Everyday Actions, copyright © 2024 by Michael Norton, PhD. Reprinted by permission from Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, LLC. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

28 Sep 2023
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What Ray Dalio Can Teach Us About Global Venture and Startups

global business in the future. Writing for his Substack newsletter 99% Tech, Lazarow, a managing partner at Fluent Ventures and author of Out-Innovate, notes, “Dalio believes that existing reserve currencies, including the US dollar,... View Details

18 Jul 2023
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The First Five Years: Brooke Biederman (MBA 2019)

to business school. A few constants: -I write every day, on a number of different projects at different stages of completion. I’ll write three to five pages finishing a screenplay, then move to a TV show... View Details

Keywords: Robert Bochnak

02 Mar 2016
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David Moss is Rewriting History

Xs, and arrows in every direction. “What you are doing is writing the Constitution—specifically Article 1, Section 8,” Moss tells the class. It’s no idle practice; Harvard University claims eight United States presidents among its alumni.... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Feb 2001
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What Makes a Good Leader

that the traditional manager versus leader argument ("Clark Kent versus Superman," he jokes) tends to undermine the value of management. "There are lots of people who look and act like managers, who have excellent managerial skills, and who don't make a lot of noise.... View Details

Keywords: Management

25 Apr 2024
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Origin Stories

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Where we come from and how we were raised has a profound effect on who we become. The recipients of this year’s Alumni Achievement Award grew up... View Details

01 Dec 2023
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Leadership Transition for External Relations

MESSAGE FROM ANGELA CRISPI AND DEAN SRIKANT DATAR To: HBS Faculty and Staff From: Angela Crispi and Srikant Datar Re: Leadership Transition – Janet Cahill, External Relations We write to let you know that Janet Cahill (AMP 189) has... View Details

01 Mar 2024
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Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

for Freedom By Richard B. Levine (MBA 1990) Fidelis Publishing The maintenance of liberty rests upon America’s faith, its founding, families, and commitments to uncorrupted education and science, writes Richard Levine. Pillars for Freedom... View Details