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04 Feb 2010
What Do You Think?

What’s the Best Way to Make Careful Decisions?

we rely less on so-called "experts" and "stars"? In short, should we be spending more time examining our true decision-making abilities and the things that influence our results, i.e., more time "thinking twice" than "blinking"?... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Jun 2024
News

Firm Foundation

few investors were operators, and vice versa. “There’s not often a lot of respect or a lot of switching of skills in that space,” she says. “And yet, you’ve seen the power of it in venture.” Startup founders routinely go into venture... View Details

Keywords: Janelle Nanos; private equity; Warren Buffett; career path; investment strategy; family business; Finance

Portrait Project

Michi Ferreol

first summer I spent teaching, at a small public school in Manila called Oranbo Elementary School. I was 16. More than ten years later, I still think about Harold, about that humid classroom where 60 children shared 20 textbooks and 15 benches, and about the View Details

16 Sep 2020
Blog Post

Turning a Moment into a Movement: Interview with Anti-Racism Fund Co-Founders Kenneth and Kevin Chenault

current energy and passion around issues of racism in the US and make long-term change. The team transformed the Anti-Racism Fund GoFundMe project into a nonprofit organization, ARF, and then set off to make that organization the best it could be. The View Details

04 Jun 2012
Research & Ideas

The Business of Life

found. He's also faced a series of powerful setbacks. So far in his life, Christensen has lived with Type I diabetes, survived a massive heart attack, endured lymphoma (the same type of cancer that killed his father), and, 18 months ago,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

June 2018 (Revised June 2018)
Case

Facebook Confronts a Crisis of Trust

By: William W. George and Amram Migdal

The case, “Facebook Confronts a Crisis of Trust,” starts with the crisis Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is facing in March 2018 over Cambridge Analytica’s accessing data from 87 million Facebook accounts in order to influence the 2016 U.S. Presidential... View Details

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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

FY19 174 FY20 211 FY21 227 FY22 247 FY23 Harvard is obligated to preserve the endowment’s purchasing power by spending only a small fraction of its value each year. Spending more than that over time, for whatever reason, would privilege... View Details

21 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

From Emerging Economies to the Global Market: The Case of Embraer

other countries, we see islands of competitiveness, where companies have managed to succeed in decoupling themselves from the most negative elements of the domestic environment while retaining the positive elements, as they attempt to become competitive."... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Manufacturing

10 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

The Little Understood Problem Confronting Diverse Workplaces

people who make the rules are often those with power and status. “A big lesson for all organizations is to be more thoughtful about the extent to which our expectations for others are rooted in what worked for us, and also to understand... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

01 Jun 2008
News

You Only Thought You Were Republican

point, what we might do to have them say that, after a very rocky start to the 21st century, on the heels of a most auspicious end to the 20th, we HBS alums helped to get America back onto a hopeful, progressive track, once again beacon to the world. Toward which end I... View Details

Keywords: Andrew Tobias; national debt; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Government

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Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

for Best Article in Harvard Business Review in 2018 for "The Surprising Power of Questions" with Alison Wood Brooks. Leslie K. John : Finalist for the 2018 Paul E. Green Award from the Journal of Marketing Research for "Does 'Liking' Lead... View Details

02 Aug 2020
What Do You Think?

Is the 'Experimentation Organization' Becoming the Competitive Gold Standard?

experimentation organization become the competitive gold standard? What do you think? References: Michael Luca and Max H. Bazerman, The Power of Experiments: Decision Making In a Data-Driven World (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2020)... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology

03 Jan 2011
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2010

2011. Enjoy, and have a great new year! TOP 10 MOST POPULAR ARTICLES OF 2010 Power Posing: Fake It Until You Make It Nervous about an upcoming presentation or job interview? Holding one's body in "high-power" poses for short time periods... View Details

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04 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How Schmoozing with the Boss Helps Men Get Promoted

feel they have less access to managers who have the power and influence to make decisions about their career advancement, Cullen says. And, she says, the male advantage can become a self-perpetuating cycle. If men are more likely to be... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

08 Sep 2008
HBS Case

The Value of Environmental Activists

There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities

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Harvard Business School

him to be named one of the 50 most powerful Black executives by Fortune magazine in 2002. Eglon Simons MBA 1976 Eglon Simons is president and CEO of the National Association of Multi-ethnicity in Communications (NAMIC). A strong and... View Details

13 Apr 2021
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How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations

Unless men embrace their role in eliminating gender bias and barriers, organizations and institutions will never leverage the value that women bring to the workplace. “Most positions of power are still held by men,” says Colleen Ammerman,... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

08 Feb 2010
HBS Case

Looking Behind Google’s Stand in China

economic significance. China is reluctant to be badgered by Western companies or Western governments into changing its rules and regulations. The Chinese do not yet understand international public relations and have perhaps too short-term a view. If they have View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology

01 Mar 2023
News

Step Change

their own priorities, was a time-consuming challenge for Enan, he recalls. “It was a real exercise in navigating various congressional committees and the general power structure in Washington,” Harmon says. “Enan’s ability to relate to... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Abdelrahman Gabr – Koree; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance

22 Feb 2022
News

A World of Difference

expertise are not bad things, but sometimes they narrow the way we think about problems because we think we have the right answer. One of the stories that I included in my book Rebel Talent was about the airline pilot Captain “Sully” Sullenberger, who lost View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

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