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  • 19 May 2017
  • News

Faculty Advice for Graduates

  • 01 Aug 2001
  • News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

using reunion committees and mailings, the Bulletin, and the Web to get the word out. Other potential programs might focus on work/life balance and career management. In light of limited faculty resources,... View Details
Keywords: John Hoffman
  • 25 Apr 2012
  • What Do You Think?

How Will the “Age of Big Data” Affect Management?

Summing Up: Will Access To Big Data Further Enable Fact-based Decision Making Or Analysis Paralysis? "To T. S. Eliot's prescient words 'Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?' we... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
  • 07 Apr 2022
  • Video

Welcome To The EC

  • 21 Dec 2016
  • Blog Post

The Best Little Secret of the Harvard MBA

It’s 7:45 in the morning on a Friday and I am sitting in Spangler Hall, the center of student activity at Harvard Business School. About a third of the building is a large dining facility that includes a... View Details
  • 14 Jan 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Countries on the Cusp: The Power of Nationalism

large degree on who they think they are—and aren't. Lagace: The word "nationalism" has bad connotations for many people. Some might think of terrible problems in the former Yugoslavia, for example.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 09 Nov 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Come Fly with Me: A History of Airline Leadership

Few industries have had the competitive challenges—the literal ups and downs—experienced by the U.S. airline industry since its formation in the 1920s. Consider that its early pioneers had the unenviable task of selling tickets to people... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Air Transportation
  • June 2008
  • Supplement

Professors Sven Larson and Kenneth Carpenter (C)

By: James L. Heskett and Tor Askild Aase Johannessen
Professor Kenneth Carpenter has received word that he has inadvertently offended one of his students. He is pondering a possible response. View Details
Keywords: Higher Education; Teaching; Learning; Interpersonal Communication
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  • 22 May 2017
  • Lessons from the Classroom

A Luxury Industry Veteran Teaches the Importance of Aesthetics to Budding Business Leaders

Pauline Brown offers some words of wisdom: You first need to be able to discern what’s beautiful. “Aesthetics cannot be outsourced to the creative department; it has to start with the leader,” says Brown, a... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Beauty & Cosmetics; Apparel & Accessories; Auto; Tourism
  • 15 May 2013
  • Research & Ideas

From McRibs to Maseratis: The Power of Scarcity Marketing

KFC pulled the sandwich off the menu across most of Canada. This move may seem strange in an industry where a pivotal goal—in the words of Coca-Cola's long-standing mantra—is... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael I. Norton
  • Web

Souvenirs & Novelties - The Art of American Advertising

in the size and shape of an advertised product. Flaps, pullout levers, and projecting tabs, known as “mechanicals,” created animations often to humorous effects—such as a man moving his mouth as he enjoys... View Details
  • 2010
  • Working Paper

Course Materials For: 'Being a Leader and the Effective Exercise of Leadership - An Ontological Model'

By: Werner H. Erhard, Michael C. Jensen, Steve Zaffron and Kari L. Granger
This course is designed to leave students being leaders and exercising leadership effectively as their natural self-expression - rather than attempting to learn the characteristics, styles, and skills of noteworthy leaders, and then trying to remember and apply them... View Details
Keywords: Curriculum and Courses; Leadership Development; Research; Science; Attitudes
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Dying Is Unexpectedly Positive

By: Amelia Goranson, Ryan S. Ritter, Adam Waytz, Michael I. Norton and Kurt Gray
In people’s imagination, dying seems dreadful; however, these perceptions may not reflect reality. In two studies, we compared the affective experience of people facing imminent death with that of people imagining imminent death. Study 1 revealed that blog posts of... View Details
Keywords: Death; Language; LIWC; Positivity; Affective Forecasting; Open Materials; Perspective; Attitudes
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Speeding Up the Trade: Clippers and Steamships - A Chronicle of the China Trade

of the American clipper ships (the word “clipper” signified speed) with their narrow hulls and large sails enabled sea travel at speeds of up to 30 kilometers an hour, far... View Details
  • 15 Jun 2018
  • News

Skydeck Live: The Science of a Meaningful Life

every single flight. As they were taking the shuttle from the hotel to the airport, he would say, tell me a story about what happens if engine 2 goes out. What are the first things you're going to do with your hands? What are the first View Details
  • 07 Sep 2007
  • What Do You Think?

Are Elite Business Schools Fostering the Deprofessionalization of Management?

classroom spaces for those interested in managing people, that the market may help redress problems described above? What do you think? Original Article My areas of interest bring me into contact with companies that are, in the View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 30 Sep 2014
  • News

Language Investments Pay Big Dividends for Global Companies

  • 18 May 2018
  • News

Faculty Advice for Graduates

  • Video

My Pandemic Year

  • 26 Oct 2018
  • Blog Post

Making the Switch from Finance to Fitness

that “fitness is a hobby and finance is your career.” I remember nodding in agreement, but at the same time, those words rang so false. Why Harvard Business School One day it really hit me that I ultimately wanted to partner my love View Details