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- 05 Oct 2020
- Book
Want to Be Happier? Make More Free Time
or free time and family? Soon after settling into her dream job, Whillans worked and traveled constantly, but her partner was miserable, with no job or friends nearby. During one work trip, the couple was fighting long distance, and Whillans barely made it to Cornell... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Jan 2020
- Book
Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking
entrepreneurs who think they can defy the rules and trample on communities and also lacking in command-and-control hierarchical types of officials. Like companies, universities can get stuck inside their buildings, too. My cofounders... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
The Role of Emotions in Effective Negotiations
"Rather than discussing topics in the rarified air of investment banking, an industry foreign to many of our students, we wanted to be as universal as possible." Not that it is a simple situation emotionally. Stressed out over... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Ipsita Dasgupta - Global Perspective, Local Results
house, every dinner table discussion was like a BGIE class.” “At our house, every dinner table discussion was like a BGIE class.” After graduating from Columbia University with a double major in economics and mathematics, Dasgupta worked... View Details
- 19 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018
equipment over time. The case details PEG’s business model, growth strategy, financial structure, and the landscape of investment capital in West Africa during the time of the case. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/318003-PDF-ENG Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Nov 2022
- Research & Ideas
A Penny for Your Thoughts? For Big-Picture Ideas, the Right Pay Structure Matters
Columbia Business School, and Jee-Eun Shin, an assistant professor at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management. The paper urges managers to carefully consider “the spillover effects” when designing compensation contracts to... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
- 16 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business
management wants to hear from lower levels about barriers to execution that might include their own leadership. The coronavirus challenge, like any crisis, provides senior management a huge opportunity to develop a trust-based culture... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Feb 2022
- Book
When Employees Feel a Sense of Purpose, Companies Succeed
success by focusing on delivering not only for their shareholders and customers but also for their employees, communities, and the environment. In the video below, I speak with Deepak Chopra, clinical professor of medicine at the View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Simmons Family Endows Professorship
("Tibby"), have worked hard to establish a fulfilling life that centers on work, family, church, and community. And they have passed their values along to their six children, four of whom have earned MBAs at HBS. Like their parents, the Simmons children have reached... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Banking on Success
liberal arts education he received at Hamilton and now serves as chairman of its board of trustees. Kennedy says he has developed "an appreciation for a tolerable level of risk" in trying to decide which companies to underwrite at... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 12 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Innovation Increasingly Benefits from Government Research
spending. “If more inventions are building on federal grants, it suggests that support is becoming more important to research generally.” Since then, corporate spending has continued to rise, while government funding has leveled off. By... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 07 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
The One Good Thing Caused by COVID-19: Innovation
accommodating an appropriate level of economic activity. Businesses have historically overcome this type of challenge through the introduction of risk-mitigating technologies, which in this pandemic include technologies, business... View Details
Keywords: by Hong Luo and Alberto Galasso
- 30 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 30, 2016
Rapidly Developed Patient-Centered Outcome Measures By: Shah, Kevin P., Tracy E. Spinks, and Thomas W. Feeley Abstract—In 2014, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center created a streamlined process for developing measure sets... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 21 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
Do TV Debates Sway Voters?
assistant professor of business administration. “But we find that debates don’t have any effect on any group of voters.” Pons and co-author Caroline Le Pennec-Caldichoury, a doctoral candidate in economics at the University of California,... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 21 Sep 2021
- Office Hours
Readers Ask: How Can I Gain Power and Influence?
The global COVID-19 pandemic has shifted power dynamics not only within today’s historically tight job market, where workers have an unprecedented level of choice and control, but also within households, organizations, and society as a... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley The Happiness Handbook By Landon Carter (MBA 1967) Marshall and McClintic Publishing Have you ever wished you had the instruction manual for being a happy human on planet Earth? This book will answer some of life’s fundamental questions: Who am... View Details
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
the universality of business analysis to solving problems in all walks of life. I am a business school professor, and this case is one of several from HBS that has helped me spot financial issues one level... View Details
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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
face is managing diverse perspectives. At the same time, productive disagreement and engagement with opposing views are crucial to high-functioning teams and organizations. Drawing from my research I will discuss how leaders can approach disagreements productively and... View Details
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
Author:Sophus A. Reinert Publication:Harvard University Press, 2011 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Publisher's Link: http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?recid=31289 The Return Experience of Hedge Fund Investors Authors:Ilia... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Mar 2024
- News
In Harmony
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna; I’m an associate editor at the HBS Alumni Bulletin. Last November I flew to Seoul, South Korea to interview Michael Kim (MBA 1990) of MBK Partners. Often referred to as one of... View Details