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- 01 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
How SVMP Helped Me Take My Next Steps (2+2) and Find Myself
my life before college, my undergraduate experience, my time at HBS - has been one of becoming. Baby Alexxis could never have imagined where she would end up. Her path was one of constant evolution towards becoming who she is and being... View Details
- 15 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
IT Job Wages Are No Longer 'Exceptional'
Over the past few decades, information technology jobs worked their way into the popular imagination as among the most stable, fast-rising, and lucrative ways to make a living, bolstered in the 1990s by the dot-com boom. What astronauts... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Case Study: The Home Team
play that could be associated with this, he says: Imagine having 500,000 users and granular data on the systems in their houses. Rather than projecting the average lifespan of a furnace, Kennealey says Nester could give users actual data... View Details
- 11 Jan 2022
- Research & Ideas
Feeling Seen: What to Say When Your Employees Are Not OK
likely to trust coworkers who had acknowledged their emotions, particularly when the emotions were negative, the findings showed. Ignoring emotions lessens trust: In five subsequent studies, the researchers asked participants to either View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- 17 Feb 2022
- Book
When Employees Feel a Sense of Purpose, Companies Succeed
businesses to contemplate having a purpose the way individuals might do so. Aiming for a higher ideal elevates our thinking and expands our ambition that in turn allows us to imagine the possibility of doing things that might otherwise... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
- 12 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Experts Play It Too Safe: Innovation Lessons from a NASA Experiment
make big leaps. “Doing something that works, that's quick, that is going to be reliable is one approach forward,” Lane says. “But imagine what you want to create and where you want to be 50 years from now—little incremental improvements... View Details
- 18 Feb 2020
- Blog Post
A Vision of Love@HBS in 2020
only thing falling. That magical weekend was seven years ago, and the rest, as they say, is history! Julio Cedeno, Class of 2020 Never could we have imagined the lives we would have together. Never could we have View Details
- 22 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
The Forward Fellowship Convinced Me That I Belong at HBS
about the 2+2 program at HBS. I really could not bring myself to believe that they would ever accept me into such a program, nor could I ever imagine I could afford it. I was an English major in undergrad and had not settled on business... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Again and Again
Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; Illustrations by Jason Holley Whenever he’s presenting to a large audience, Professor Michael Norton likes to pose this question to the crowd: After you get up in the morning, do you brush your teeth first and then shower, or vice versa?... View Details
- 29 Aug 2022
- Op-Ed
Income Inequality Is Rising. Are We Even Measuring It Correctly?
distributed. To illustrate why it’s important to consider other measurements, imagine what it’s like to buy trousers. You could go to the store and ask for trousers in size medium if that’s the size you usually wear. And in many cases,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2021
- Op-Ed
How Women Can Learn from Even Biased Feedback
that the feedback giver has positive intent." To see what I mean, imagine being told, “You need to be more assertive” or “You need to show your potential more fully.” These types of statements, which women often receive, are so ambiguous... View Details
Keywords: by Francesca Gino
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
A Continuum of Innovation
looking down the road, I think about opportunities to embrace technology in both the RC and EC. If you were to imagine where discussions about cutting-edge technology should find their place in the RC, you’d think of the Technology and... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 07 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Art of Haggling
posturing, they settle on a price each can live with, although both know that the deal is likely better for one side than the other. “At some point, it still comes down to determining who gets which slice of the pie.” Now imagine the same... View Details
Keywords: by Katie Johnston
- 09 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
6 Lessons from Donald Trump's Winning Marketing Manual
suppressed the ad hominem insults, and peaked at the right time, confounding the pollsters and media pundits. In every recent speech, he repeated the same messages, inviting voters to imagine the future if they bought into the promises of... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Quelch
- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround
would have accrued a truly permanent population, possibly in large numbers, who would have been able to own private property, enjoy the jurisdiction of American courts, and vote for their own elected government. Under such circumstances, it is difficult to View Details
- 11 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
A World of Difference: What Keeps Companies from Becoming More Inclusive
“perspective taking,” or the practice of trying to put yourself in someone else’s shoes. He shows across 25 studies with more than 2,800 people that imagining the world through someone else’s eyes leads us to inaccurate judgments. What... View Details
Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint
- 13 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Merck CEO Ken Frazier Discusses a COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk
which I can imagine having gone to school on the other side of the river, can be its own challenge. Neeley: I thank you so much for those kind words. I feel the exact same way about you and the fact that we need to be out there for that... View Details
- 09 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Professional Networking Makes People Feel Dirty
participants who read the professional networking story gave much higher ratings to the cleansing products than those who imagined the friendly party. The neutral products received similar ratings across the board. The Effect On Job... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 28 May 2020
- Blog Post
How to Fit in at HBS
walked up to the second floor of Spangler for my Admissions interview. Only then did the thought of attending HBS seem close enough to visualize, but realistically so far out of reach that it remained an evasive dream. In fact, it was a dream my parents would have... View Details
- 21 Jun 2022
- HBS Case
Free Isn’t Always Better: How Slack Holds Its Own Against Microsoft Teams
end in a draw. “You can imagine a number of different scenarios, where Slack turns out to be very successful in certain segments—engineering, IT—and Teams is more successful in others,” he says. “That’s a very reasonable scenario.”... View Details