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- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Fast Lane to Country Lane
TOGETHERNESS: Mark and Kim Lackley based their furniture business in Vermont. Learn on someone else’s dime. That’s a lesson from HBS that served Kim Alley Lackley (MBA ’94) well as she made the leap from software and Internet start-ups to launching her husband’s... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Teachable Moments
telling you that he feels like a failure. He feels like he has ruined the business his father began in the early 1900s. And he wants you to save the business. Through the story of Rick Cohen, I have invited the students to join me emotionally and View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Ink: Comfort in Discomfort
recommend Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How it Changes Us, by Brian Klaas, and Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity, by Kim Scott (MBA 1996). —Christa Quarles (MBA 2000) Mindset: The New Psychology of Success,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Price Is Right
cash, credit cards, loyalty points, foreign currency—varies considerably. So if you allow people to pay what they want in different forms of currency, will your overall revenues be higher as a result of those psychological differences?... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Realizing The Potential Of One Harvard
the program. A PRIMO fellow last summer, Castro, a psychology major at Harvard College, was born in Dallas and raised in Central Mexico. Paired with Assistant Professor Susanna Gallani, a member of the Accounting and Management Unit at... View Details
- 29 Aug 2018
- News
The Value of Valleys
not I was cut out to be in business. So when we pulled up in the summer and realized that we had to do another reduction in force I went to our Chief Operating Officer and asked if I could take a package. My kids at the time were one and three. Obviously, I was still... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
revolution has been unleashed. More and more people have access to more and more money to try out more and more ideas. So yes, money talks—and loudly. But the revolution also has psychological aspects that are harder to quantify and... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
landing on an aircraft carrier in darkness, flying combat missions over Korea, breaking the sound barrier, and then teaching others to do the same. This is the story of that journey. The Big Ordeal: Understanding and Managing the View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
motivation and aligns team efforts to deliver your leadership outcomes; foster responsive working relationships, reinforce effective commitments, and focus leadership attention on the right things; establish psychological safety to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Is AI OK?
fixed through better coding or inputs. “There is no more biased instrument than the human brain,” she observes. At HBS, Polli says she witnessed a recruiting process that was rife with bias and bad data. Employers screened job seekers using outdated View Details
- 02 Jun 2019
- News
A Data-Driven Approach to Gun Policy
Styslinger III Associate Professor of Business Administration (photo by Stu Rosner) MIKE LUCA, Lee J. Styslinger III Associate Professor of Business Administration (photo by Stu Rosner) Not long after, the pair discussed the tragedy in Newtown. As researchers working... View Details
- 10 Jun 2014
- News
Why Work-Life Balance Is Your Company's Problem
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
resistance many of us feel. Dolly Chugh, award-winning professor of social psychology and author of The Person You Mean to Be, gives us the psychological tools we need to grapple with the truth of our... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
An American Odyssey
are areas where income lost to unjust enrichment would have been saved or invested by black people. It’s not a big proportion of GDP, but it will require a huge emotional and psychological shift in the public’s thinking. I believe it can... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Action Plan: Role-Play
When you encounter the phrase private investigator, chances are good the character you conjure up in your mind doesn’t resemble Sarah Carson (MBA 1971). So much the better for Carson, whose work has often required convincing people she was a small-business employee... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
I Gave at the Office
still a win for humanity. Julian Zlatev: There’s been a long debate in psychology about whether people are truly altruistic: Is altruism really altruism if it reflects this warm glow or the self-interested reasons Christine is talking... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Insights from the Post-Macho Workplace
— is the first condition. Second, you need to cultivate an atmosphere of psychological safety, where people are assured that behaving in ways that aren’t stereotypically masculine won’t result in ostracism or punishment. And third,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Bringing Hope to a Violent Land
terror, psychological devastation, and social disruption to a horrific degree. “Despite the peace agreement between north and south, people are not returning home,” Van Gerpen says. “They are unsure about security, which is very important... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
remember that business is all about working with people, be they your associates or customers." DANIEL GREGORY Wesleyan University, 1951 B.S., Psychology "Companies don't grow and succeed through some sort of miracle or because you put a... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path out of Polarization
when you don't give them Twitter access and you take away their cell phones, they become more polarized, not less polarized. The reason appears to be that, for many people in these echo chambers, Twitter has become a part of their education, and the echo chamber is... View Details