speech - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 1999
News

Dan Fenn

Administration flourished under Teele, leading ultimately to the admission of women to the MBA Program in the 1960s. The School marked its 50th anniversary with a megaconference - well covered by the Bulletin - on "Management's Mission in a New Society," which included... View Details

Keywords: Dan Fenn

23 Oct 2018
News

Coming of Age as the World Comes Apart

and an oratorical competition, and she assigned homework, and she said, "Everybody's got to write a speech." And the topic was, "I'm the mayor now, and this is my new plan." At 11, I had never written a speech. I don't think I'd ever really heard a View Details

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2019 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Nation, HuffPost, and The Atlantic. In 2017, she was the co-recipient of the Newhouse Mirror Award for Best Single Feature of 2016 for an in-depth investigative report on free speech and the internet, and a Wikipedia Distinguished Service... View Details

01 Feb 1999
News

Classmates Rally to Help Family Stricken with Rare Disease

In a speech he delivered the day before his graduation from HBS, Class Day speaker John Crowley (MBA '97) observed, "In time, we will all acquire a certain amount of responsibility and power. I encourage each of us to use that power... View Details

01 Jun 2016
What Do You Think?

When Business Performance Falters, is Culture Change the Fix?

cannot change culture just by making speeches and waving a wand. You need concrete changes in rewards, job assignments, and other measurements.” A contrasting perspective is that culture—shared views of “how we do things around here”--is... View Details

Keywords: by James L. Heskett

24 Mar 2022
News

Well Said

the product vision was that you need a feedback mechanism. And for that, we started building our own speech AI so that users can actually speak into the app and get real time feedback, which is really core to figuring out what you need to... View Details

05 Jun 2015
Blog Post

The HBS Investment

prepared for two years of self-reflection that is thorough, exacting, and transformational. It’s a brilliant experience that can’t be understood from an academic lens. Best of all, be prepared to be constantly provoked. More than anything, HBS will incite a furious... View Details

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4.5 University-Wide Statement on Rights and Responsibilities - MBA

freedom of speech and academic freedom, freedom from personal force and violence, and freedom of movement. Interference with any of these freedoms must be regarded as a serious violation of the personal rights upon which the community is... View Details

03 Sep 2024
Research & Ideas

Is It Even Possible to Dam the Flow of Misleading Content Online?

that it’s time for platforms to admit defeat when it comes to trying to flag, edit, or block misinformation on their sites. Instead, they should focus on curtailing specific information that can lead to direct harm, such as hate speech or... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Information Technology; Technology

20 Nov 2012
First Look

First Look: November 20

speech to two evaluators as part of a mock job interview-a prototypical social evaluation. All speeches were videotaped and coded for overall performance and hireability as well as for two potential... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Apr 2015
Blog Post

India Conference 2015

discussion, opening his speech stating how he believed that India was the “Benjamin Button of the world”. He spoke of an India with over 2000 years of history and culture, with a relatively young heart as a 60-year-old democracy and a... View Details

12 Oct 2016
Blog Post

Interning as a Software Engineer while at HBS

supports my work in tech/startups. For instance, this past year a few sectionmates and I started working on a side project called Ummo, a personalized speech coach. Harvard provided the initial capital to get the project off the ground,... View Details

04 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Predictions, Prophets, and Restarting Your Business

crisis war room, and the speech about resilience. It’s unclear whether social distancing has made people more eager to transact online, or whether it simply demonstrates the limitations of communicating virtually. The historian William... View Details

Keywords: by Frank V. Cespedes

16 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

Earnings Calls That Get Lost in Translation

stumble. When answering questions off the cuff, they are more likely to use complex and convoluted speech that can be difficult for investors to decipher. "It is this real-time interaction that's the main barrier," Yu says. The... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

06 May 2002
Research & Ideas

Profits for Nonprofits: Earning Your Own Way

session was devoted to the topic "Profits for Nonprofits: Challenges of Earning Your Own Way." (Starbuck's CEO Orin Smith addressed a related theme—can for-profit companies integrate non-profit values—in his keynote speech... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

30 Apr 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019

cost-benefit approach is proposed to analyze an individual’s incentives to produce speech and is then applied to assess the role social communities play vis-à-vis individual dissent. This analysis underscores the important and complex... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

02 Sep 2016
Op-Ed

The Twitter Election

earned (i.e free) media coverage; name recognition is not an issue. He draws much larger and more enthusiastic crowds than Clinton, which may impress television viewing audiences. He is increasingly combining scripted policy statements with the "stream of... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch and Thales Teixeira

09 Dec 2014
First Look

First Look: December 9

and then prepared and delivered a speech to two evaluators as part of a mock job interview. All interview speeches were videotaped and coded for overall performance and hireability, and for two potential... View Details