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- 04 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Shackleton: An Entrepreneur of Survival
lessons for business leaders to be found in areas outside business. History itself, literature, theater—look to Shakespeare and Henry V, Julius Caesar, or King Lear. When we look at these enduring works, we find more than just great... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 28 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
7 Things HBS Taught Me the Last 2 Years
applicable. I felt like an impostor but I found over the next two years that impostor syndrome is nearly universal and always unfounded. All of us belong here and have enriched the HBS community in our own special way. I learned that my... View Details
- 07 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
4+2 = Sustained Business Success
business wisdom as old school, we found ourselves wondering if they were right. For years we had watched new management ideas come and go, passionately embraced one year, abruptly abandoned the next. "What really works?" we... View Details
- 02 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
When Goal Setting Goes Bad
Business School. We asked Professor Bazerman to explore in more depth some of the paper's findings. Sean Silverthorne: So, are you against incentives and goals? Max Bazerman: No, my coauthors and I are not against incentives. We believe in incentives. And each of us... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
Can Apprenticeships Work in the US? Employers Seeking New Talent Pipelines Take Note
apprenticing in their junior year of high school. Each first-year apprentice works 16 hours per week during the school year. Fuller and colleagues tracked 232 CareerWise apprentices during 2017 and 2018 and found that of those completing... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 05 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 5
and profanity than other participants. Participants using deception by omission used fewer words and a lower percentage of causation words than other participants. Support was found for the "Pinocchio effect": liars generally... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jan 2022
- Research & Ideas
Feeling Seen: What to Say When Your Employees Are Not OK
sanctions in order to try to help someone who is maybe going through a difficult time." Zlatev, who partnered with Justin Berg, an assistant professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and former Stanford doctoral student Alisa Yu on a series of studies,... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- 17 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Blue Skies, Distractions Arise: How Weather Affects Productivity
shifts.) In short, they found that an increase in rain correlated with a decrease in the time it took for workers to complete their tasks. Low visibility and extreme temperatures also matched periods of high worker productivity. Clear,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 26 Nov 2019
- News
The Ritual Effect
Source: Norton Source: Norton Professor Michael Norton studies the ways in which rituals can influence human behavior. In his research, he has found that people establish rituals to enhance their enjoyment of something or to improve their... View Details
Keywords: rituals
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Greenhill House | About
business.” Robert Greenhill (MBA 1962) is chairman of Greenhill & Co., LLC, an international merchant-banking firm he founded in 1996. Headquartered in New York, the firm has offices in key financial centers around the world. Greenhill... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Banking on Success
spent four years in London as cohead of the firm's European operations before resigning in 1996 to found Compass Partners International, a privately held investment banking advisory and investment firm that manages a large European... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 15 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
Don't Bring Me Down: Probing Why People Tune Out Bad News
participant more. They could avoid information and choose A or B directly, or they could learn which is better for the other participant before choosing. The researchers found that individuals frequently avoided information and chose A,... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- Web
General Management Curriculum - Faculty & Research
Andy Zelleke Fall 2024 Q1 1.5 Doctoral Programs Faculty from the General Management unit work with students across several doctoral programs. Detailed curriculum information for each doctoral program associated with this unit can be found... View Details
- 30 Jun 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
The Role of Emotions in Effective Negotiations
figure out how to respond in various scenarios to maximize one's own value. Research beginning in the '90s, however, found that negotiators rarely acted rationally, instead taking into account what they felt they deserved from the other... View Details
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Eight Steps to Board Success for Female Executives
opportunities. The WEoB group is one such network that many women have found helpful. Seventy-seven percent of their members sit on a board, and eighteen percent sit in a chair role. The group has many alliances—with other networks,... View Details
- 28 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
The FDA’s Speedy Drug Approvals Are Safe: A Win-Win for Patients and Pharma Innovation
Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, the US Food and Drug Administration faced the task of convincing a skeptical public of the safety of new vaccines when the agency began authorizing them for emergency use less than a year after the pandemic began. Ultimately, the... View Details
- 17 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Our Brain Determines if the Product is Worth the Price
neuroscience at Stanford. "Because we had neuroscience tools at our disposal, we had the benefit of exploring both those questions," Karmarkar says. “We were interested in whether considering the price first changed the way the brain coded the value of a... View Details
- 16 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Advice on Advice
thrilled to work on the advice project with Garvin since he has turned to his colleague for professional advice and has found him to be especially skilled in providing it. "I was curious about the method and skill set he had that... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
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Q&A with the HBS Armed Forces Alumni Association, MBA Class of 2023 - MBA
pursue an MBA? Before I transitioned out of the military, I started to look at jobs I wanted in 5-10 years. I quickly realized that an MBA would help me get those. I then found the MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences program at HBS and... View Details
- 20 Jan 2011
- Working Paper Summaries