Coupling - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 Nov 2015
Op-Ed

Authentic Leadership Rediscovered

than the original cohort. We also followed up on 90 leaders featured in True North to see how they have fared since their 2005-06 interviews. With only a couple of exceptions, we learned these leaders had remained true to their authentic... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

15 Dec 2023
News

Like-Minded

Yumiko Murakami (MBA 1994), Miwa Seki (MBA 1993), and Kathy Matsui share the same month and year of birth, so the friends started an annual birthday get-together to reflect on the year ahead. Work was always a hot topic of discussion. Each woman had built a strong... View Details

01 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

Better by the Bundle?

are especially suitable for bundling. It also helps if the bundled products work well together, he says. For example, luxury cars such as BMW are often coupled with packages of options that work well together, essentially a mixed bundle.... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Charlotte MacDonald

future, Charlotte says she has "a couple of hypotheses to test. My short-term plan is to return to BCG in Toronto. I grew up in a more rural environment, with a slower economy. My long-term ambition is to return home to Atlantic... View Details

Keywords: Consulting

09 May 2023
Blog Post

Celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS (part 1)

that I couldn’t ask my parents for help with my homework. Instead, they relied on me for navigating everyday situations – I became their translator at school, soccer games, and restaurants. Over the years, my independence honed from an early age View Details

20 Aug 2014
Research & Ideas

Why the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge is a Social Media Blockbuster

million in donations compared to $1.9 million during the same time period (July 29 to August 20) last year. This remarkable increase in their fundraising potential is largely due to the snowball effect of cause marketing coupled with a... View Details

Keywords: by John Deighton

26 Jan 2022
News

Making Peace with Anger

way that I managed pre-anger-management and post-anger-management. And, as I talk about this, I have to be very straightforward: I am far from perfect, and I can still get angry and I can still lose my temper. But there are a couple major... View Details

24 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

The Yelp Factor: Are Consumer Reviews Good for Business?

has been following up his initial research to determine how review sites can do just that. He notes that consistency of reviews were weakest when there were a low number—supporting the criticism by those restaurants that blame Yelp for killing business with a View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage

30 Apr 2020
Book

Fighting Climate Change Requires a New Capitalism

Rebecca Henderson spent her young adult years living two lives. At work, she preached the risks of resisting change to MBA students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, drawing on lessons she learned while watching factories close as a management consultant.... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Energy

01 Dec 2019
News

Bridging the Gap

working world, keeping education a key priority. “Student loan debt exceeds consumer credit card debt by $500 billion,” Drake continues. “We’re buying more higher ed than we are Amazon, which is just unbelievable.” Coupled with that is... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Josh Cochran; photographed by Melissa Golden; cross sector collaboration; local government; nonprofits; education; leadership; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

12 May 2021
News

The First Five Years: Sophie Bai (MBA 2020)

for the next two years. SB: “As the Dean said on our first day, HBS provides two transformative years, and I couldn’t agree more. As Brianna navigates through her first couple months at HBS, I will continue sharing my experiences and will... View Details

01 Mar 2024
News

Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books You Got This! A Straightforward, No-Nonsense Playbook for Crushing 130+ Workplace Challenges By Heidi Abelli (MBA 1993) Palmetto Publishing Stepping into the corporate world can feel like navigating a labyrinth, especially when... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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From C-Suite to CEO - Alumni

motivators, leadership style, and needs. Keep in mind that the CEO role is not right for everyone, and some who achieve this goal find that the responsibilities are not in line with what they enjoy doing most. Self-assessment coupled with... View Details

13 Nov 2017
Research & Ideas

Want to Be Happier? Spend Some Money on Avoiding Household Chores

chores,” Whillans says. “If you can get someone outside the relationship to do it, that might promote greater relationship satisfaction and protect couples from work-life conflicts.” Businesses and other organizations should take note of... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

06 Oct 2003
Research & Ideas

The Problem with Hedge Funds

this the investor has seen before. Statistical models of risk and reward, supposedly prudent investment management coupled in bizarre and undisclosed fashion with the most extremely risky investments, were characteristic of the Internet... View Details

Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills

25 Aug 2014
News

Ashraf M. Dahod, MBA 1981

support for education and health care—particularly for underserved populations—can be seen in the Boston area as well as in Mumbai, where the couple met as teenagers. Working with Shamim, a medical doctor who has survived two bouts with... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Oct 1999
News

Eight Among Many: Peter G. Harf

in 1990. When the couple and their two daughters began looking for a bone marrow donor so that Mechtildis could have a transplant, they learned that there were only two thousand people listed in Germany's national registry of potential... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

2011
Working Paper

How Foundations Think: The Ford Foundation as a Dominating Institution in the Field of American Business Schools

By: Rakesh Khurana, Kenneth Kimura and Marion Fourcade

The question of institutional change has become central to organizational research (Powell, 2008). Recent scholarship has demonstrated, often through carefully researched cases, that institutions can and sometimes do change. According to this research, there are two... View Details

Keywords: Change; Business Education; Business History; Organizations; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Structure; Relationships; Behavior

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01 Nov 2021
Op-Ed

Team Success Starts with the Individual—and with Love

with winning. His expectation that everyone will work hard and strive to perform at their best serves as a foundation for firing up intrinsic motivation among team members. But Carroll couples that expectation with a soft touch. He calls... View Details

Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati; Sports

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Business in Global Society - Alumni

couple gives annually to the HBS Fund in order to fuel Harvard’s cross-disciplinary efforts to develop solutions to society’s problems. Your Gift Matters $250 $500 $1,000 $5,000 Other Give View my giving history Hide my giving history We... View Details

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