Influencers - Publications - Faculty & Research

Hattie Carnegie

lines and garnered a much wider following with her ready to wear dress and suit designs. Carnegie’s fashions influenced a generation of American women and inspired countless designers. Her signature Carnegie suit and simple “little black... View Details

Keywords: Fabric & Apparel

17 Sep 2014
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpen Your Negotiation Skills

today's complex financial environment, dealmaking is blending into a merger of negotiations and auctions. The Potential Downside of Win-Win What happens when a wonderful agreement ignores the needs of consumers? WORKING PAPERS Psychological View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

08 Mar 2010
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Successful Negotiation

discussions—be it fairness or competition—strongly influences the equality of payoffs even in complex, full-information multiparty bargaining. Research in this working paper by HBS professor Kathleen L. McGinn and coauthors Katherine L.... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

16 Feb 2022
News

Holding Business to Account

realized, and they had a say in how a company ran and the ability to influence everything from labor practices to environmental policies. It would be years before the model Aiyer envisioned would be christened “impact investing,” but she... View Details

01 Dec 2011
News

What Keeps HBS Ahead? You Do!

the Harvard Innovation Lab—depends on new gifts. The bottom line is that the School needs annual support to maintain its excellence. If we didn’t receive alumni gifts each year, we couldn’t fund emerging needs, ensure our faculty’s academic freedom, or continue to... View Details

Keywords: William A. Sahlman; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2012
News

From Where We Stand

throughout your career. Early in your career, pick your boss, not your job. Seek those who give open and honest feedback, guidance, and support. Early success will help build confidence and competence. In the middle of your career, make an effort to contribute and... View Details

03 Aug 2009
Research & Ideas

Corporate Social Responsibility in a Downturn

societal issues and at the same time enhance business success, yielding a "double bottom line." And there's no time like the present, he adds. "Effective programs that serve the community in a compelling way, and that also demonstrate a strong potential... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

17 Aug 2021
Blog Post

Applying the MBA Skillset to Global Health Challenges: Summer Fellow Vasilis Theodorou (MBA 2022)

management issues, form an opinion, and engage in discussions more actively and substantially. How has the summer influenced your thinking on future involvement in social enterprise? My post-MBA goal has always been to pursue a career in... View Details

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The Arts of Communication - Course Catalog

holding an employee accountable, giving a peer critical feedback, speaking on your feet, influencing someone to change their behavior, resolving conflicts, and more. This class is for anyone ready to take risks, hungry to receive and... View Details

29 Oct 2013
First Look

First Look: October 29

influence in their organizations. Specifically, we examine how influence-seeking risk managers (1) establish and maintain interpersonal connections with decision makers and how they (2) adopt, deploy, and reconfigure tools-practices that... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 21 Mar 2023
Webinars: Career

LinkedIn for Job Searching

Data can reveal what matters most in today's job market, and this interactive webinar from CPD and Jeremy Schifeling, LinkedIn's former head of student and alumni education, will share behind-the-scenes insights that can help you optimize LinkedIn for both job hunting... View Details

June–July 2014
Article

Language as a Lightning Rod: Power Contests, Emotion Regulation, and Subgroup Dynamics in Global Teams

By: Pamela J. Hinds, Tsedal Neeley and Catherine Durnell Cramton

Through an ethnographic study comprised of interviews with and observations of 96 globally distributed members in six software development teams, we propose a model that captures how asymmetries in language fluency contribute to an us vs. them dynamic so common in... View Details

Keywords: Equality and Inequality; Communication Intention and Meaning; Groups and Teams; Applications and Software; Emotions; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Power and Influence; Information Technology Industry

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January – February 2011
Article

Are You a Good Boss-Or a Great One?

By: Linda A. Hill and Kent Lineback

Private moments of doubt and fear come even to managers who have spent years on the job. Any number of events can trigger them: an initiative is going poorly; you get a lukewarm performance review; your new assignment is daunting. HBS professor Linda Hill and executive... View Details

Keywords: Leadership; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Personal Development and Career; Groups and Teams; Power and Influence; Social and Collaborative Networks

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01 Jun 1998
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José Royo

closely during the School's technological revamping. He credits both with influencing his decision to enter the MBA Program. Over the last eighteen months, in his role as student chair of both the MBA Academic and Educational Committees,... View Details

Keywords: Eileen McCluskey; photograph by Webb Chappell

25 Jul 2013
News

An Engine of Education Innovation

organization functions as an "an engine of innovation," working to define the nature of good teaching, determine the role of technology in education, and influence change in the country's graduate schools of education. Once Match begins... View Details

Keywords: Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

02 Sep 2019
What Do You Think?

Are Overlooked Forces Shielding the US from Severe Economic Downturns?

will be very important in determining the length of the current US economic expansion. Those were the messages from responses to this month’s column. Steve Adcock was optimistic about the influences of technology and services on economic... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Service

15 Jan 2007
Research & Ideas

The Business of Free Software

vendors like IBM and Oracle on the open source community. Why are proprietary firms diving into open source? The answer (it's good for business) is hardly shocking. But the line from investing in OSS to profiting from a product is not as straight as one would expect.... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Computer

31 Jan 2011
Research & Ideas

Taking the Fear out of Diversity Policies

that mentoring relationships are less likely to form across race than among people of the same race. But the positive approach would be to look at the research and say, 'Well, even though they may be rare, let's try to understand these positive cross-race relationships... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

10 Nov 2008
Research Event

Social Media Leads the Future of Technology

capital—anywhere from $10,000 to $50,000—yet get to scale quickly and build new applications on the Web. Sleeping By The Cell Phone Just as technology is influencing society, society is increasingly making demands on technology, said Sue... View Details