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Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research

by Attractive Men By: Alison Wood Brooks , Laura Huang, Sarah Kearney and Fiona Murray Entrepreneurship is a central path to job creation, economic growth, and prosperity. In the earliest stages of start-up business creation, the matching... View Details
  • 22 Aug 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Restoring a Global Economy, 1950–1980

Europe.1 However, most developing countries continued to exercise tight controls over capital movements. Even most developed countries retained some exchange controls. It was only after the collapse of the Bretton Woods system of fixed... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones
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Partners - Case Method Project

Nampa Senior High School Nampa, ID ID 20 of 21 Timothy Richards Wood River High School Hailey, ID Subjects: Government ID 21 of 21 Theresa Silvester Buhl High School Buhl, ID Subjects: U.S. History, American Government Illinois All States... View Details
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Joel Hurd

joined the class via Zoom it was definitely too awkward to forget. What is your favorite childhood memory? Vacations were non-existent growing up, but my high school’s marching band spent a week at a summer camp in the woods of northern... View Details
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The Railroads: The First Big Business - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

Horses drew wagons along rails made of wood and later iron. In the 1820s, the English introduced the first successful steam locomotive engine. As routes were carved out, mining areas transformed into industrial centers and coastal sites... View Details
  • 25 Aug 2014
  • HBS Case

Starbucks Reinvented

you also have to figure out what you will invest in. Schultz knew that if he waited until the company was out of the woods to invest in new products, communication channels, and ways of doing business it would be too late—Starbucks would... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Food & Beverage
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Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Curriculum - Faculty & Research

Livia Alfonsi , Alex Chan , Jillian Jordan , Amit Goldenberg , Kadeem Noray Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Negotiation and Diplomacy James Sebenius Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 TALK: How to Talk Gooder in Business and Life Alison Wood Brooks Fall 2025 Q1Q2... View Details
  • 20 Oct 2023
  • Blog Post

Three Stories from HBS PRIDE for National Coming Out Day

anyone reading this and still in the closet, it's okay. Move at your own pace. You don't need to come out today or even next year. But when you do, it will be worth it. Matt Wood (he/him), Class of 2024 Coming out as queer felt like I was... View Details
  • 20 Jan 2023
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Free Spirits

looks out over the sea of guests gathered on the California coast. From across the room she locks eyes with Mariah Wood (MBA 2022). Together, Royle and Wood cofounded Tilden Cocktails, which is sharing the... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality
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Doug Marsan

hard work and decisions my parents undertook when immigrating to the U.S. to make that moment a reality for me. What is your favorite childhood memory? One summer in grade school, my friends and I built a treehouse in a forest by our houses. We spent all summer... View Details
  • December 2015
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Emotion and the Art of Negotiation: How to Use Your Feelings to Your Advantage

By: Alison Wood Brooks
Negotiations can be fraught with emotion, but it's only recently that researchers have examined how particular feelings influence what happens during deal making. Here the author shares some key findings and advice. Anxiety leads to poor outcomes. You will be less... View Details
Keywords: Negotiation Style; Emotions
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  • 22 Aug 2019
  • Blog Post

Moving to the Lower 48 from Alaska for my MS/MBA

a small town in Alaska - where wilderness survival and fishing were necessary parts of her childhood education.  I grew up in Alaska, where we spent much of my childhood outdoors. Our house was on a dirt road outside of town, and we spent long hours exploring the View Details
  • 21 Sep 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Are You Sabotaging Your Own Company?

it says, people can cause time-sucking distractions that stall an organization’s output by doing physical damage to equipment, buildings, and methods of transportation using everyday items found in a home or workplace. This involves petty mischief like setting small... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
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Teacher Profiles - Case Method Project

Crandall Buffalo Grove High School Buffalo Grove, IL OR Tara Crearer Oregon Charter Academy Mill City, OR CA Leslie Criswell Narbonne High School Harbor City, CA TX Tiffany Cross Cypress Woods High School Cypress, TX Subjects: Government... View Details
  • May–June 2018
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The Surprising Power of Questions

By: Alison Wood Brooks and Leslie K. John
Much of an executive’s workday is spent asking others for information—requesting status updates from a team leader, for example, or questioning a counterpart in a tense negotiation. Yet unlike professionals such as litigators, journalists, and doctors, who are taught... View Details
Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Communication Strategy; Information; Knowledge Sharing; Performance Effectiveness
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Nika Duan

passed the AP test, Mr. Wood who pushed us to the brink but left us a love for literature, and Mr. Meloche who knew when to be a teacher and when to be a friend. View Details
  • 23 Mar 2023
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Winners Crowned in 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition

is based in the Northeastern US/Boston region. The virtual audience for the annual event also selected Tilden as the Crowd Favorite. Tilden, cofounded by Mariah Hilton Wood and Vanessa Royle (both MBA 2022) from the Western US/Southern... View Details
  • October 17, 2022
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Relational Diversity in Social Portfolios Predicts Well-Being

By: Hanne K. Collins, Serena F. Hagerty, Jordi Quoidbach, Michael I. Norton and Alison Wood Brooks
We document a link between the relational diversity of one’s social portfolio—the richness and evenness of relationship types across one’s social interactions—and well-being. Across four distinct samples, respondents from the United States who completed a preregistered... View Details
Keywords: Social Interaction; Social Engagement; Well-being; Happiness; Social and Collaborative Networks; Family and Family Relationships
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  • 23 Oct 2019
  • Blog Post

How to Talk Gooder in Business and Life

Alison Wood Brooks is the O’Brien Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Negotiation, Organizations, and Markets Unit at HBS. Her research, course development, and teaching focus is on the psychology of conversation—why we... View Details
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Loeb House | About

The building’s facade was restored and repairs were made to the exterior stucco, bricks, and wood trim. A new granite landing was added to the front entry, with steps and a historical iron railing, to allow safer access to the building.... View Details