Familiarity - Publications - Faculty & Research

04 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How Schmoozing with the Boss Helps Men Get Promoted

found that men who switched from a female to male manager were 23 percent more likely to take breaks with their managers and were more familiar with their sports preferences. Once male solidarity was established, the lift to a male... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

21 Jun 2024
Blog Post

What Does PRIDE Mean to You?

behind and immersing myself in a new world I wasn’t familiar with. I think people often downplay how hard that is regardless of who you are and where you come from. But for queer people, it can be especially hard. PRIDE was my savior – my... View Details

14 Feb 2022
Blog Post

Celebrating Love @ HBS in 2022

even though we had never talked, I did remember him even after I left Indonesia for secondary school. Many years later, I went to an event in Singapore and saw a familiar face. We were in university at this point. I was not 100% sure if... View Details

10 Apr 2023
News

Leading the Way

designed to develop leadership skills, self-awareness, and familiarity with pathways to postsecondary education. High school BALF programs provide students with critical skills and support to successfully prepare for, apply, and... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

27 Jun 2019
Research & Ideas

Rituals Strengthen Couples. Here’s Why They’re Good for Business, Too

Our daily lives are dictated by familiar routines that go something like this: Wake at 6 a.m., shower, go to work, prepare and eat dinner, tidy up the house, head to bed at 10 p.m. Then, set the alarm to repeat it all over again the next... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

04 Apr 2016
Blog Post

Meet the Middle East & North Africa Club

members. How do you integrate new students into the MENA Club? We organize an opening presentation and social events each fall, we make sure that MENA members get to know each other and familiarize themselves with the different events and... View Details

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National Markets - The Art of American Advertising

“Household routines involved making fewer things and purchasing more; consumption became a major part of the work of the household,” cultural historian Susan Strasser asserts. “Formerly customers , purchasing the objects of daily life from View Details

22 Feb 2022
News

A World of Difference

often pushes us in the wrong direction toward something that is fundamentally familiar and comfortable. Difference is not that. You need curiosity and courage to understand something differently and to learn from it. In addition,... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

12 May 2020
Research & Ideas

It’s Time To Relaunch Your Remote Team

respective roles and how they have been contributing to team goals. Team members should be candid about how the work-from-home format has affected their productivity. Some may need assistance getting familiar with mediating tools. Some... View Details

Keywords: by Tsedal Neeley

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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online

fashion. Please note that no preexisting familiarity or experience with generative AI is necessary or assumed to use the bot and, while we encourage you to engage with the bot and share your candid feedback on your experience, a lack of... View Details

10 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

Globalization: The Strategy of Differences

exploiting differences. Indeed, in their rush to exploit the similarities across borders, multinationals have discounted the original global strategy: arbitrage, the strategy of difference. Of course, we're all familiar with arbitrage in... View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat

10 Aug 2015
Research & Ideas

New Medical Devices Get To Patients Too Slowly

led to the longest delays. Rather, we observed many big regulatory delays for devices that are put in new product categories, but built on technologies the FDA is already familiar with," says Stern. "That suggests there is something more... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health; Technology

10 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Do You Have Change Fatigue?

information—and it sat on managers' shelves. No follow-up ever took place. You're probably laughing—or wincing—in recognition of what has become a familiar tale of corporate change efforts. Indeed, with all the transformation efforts... View Details

Keywords: by Nick Morgan

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Launching Tech Ventures | HBS Online

deadlines or time estimates, you can also express those in a similar fashion. Please note that no preexisting familiarity or experience with generative AI is necessary or assumed to use the bot and, while we encourage you to engage with... View Details

26 May 2003
Research & Ideas

When Silence Spells Trouble at Work

failed to create a compelling vision, and the company continued with no clear direction. Pressure For Unanimity This meeting shows how the pressure for unanimity can prevent employees of roughly equal grade and status—even top managers—from exploring their differences.... View Details

Keywords: by Leslie A. Perlow

23 May 2012
Research & Ideas

Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative

question is, how much behavior change do you embed in the product? People resist change. They like the way they do things now, for the most part. They might wish a familiar product was cheaper or faster, but they've gotten used to the way... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons, Julia Hanna & Roger Thompson

15 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

Remembering Alfred Chandler

worldwide. Most scholars at HBS and other institutions never took Al's courses; most were not very familiar with the field of business history. But they would tell you in earnest and in intense terms about what Chandler's work meant to... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

17 Dec 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

‘Ted Levitt Changed My Life’

soccer is something he would mock." Another familiar part of the household was the clack of the typewriter coming from Levitt's upstairs office. From the moment he emigrated from Vollmerz, Germany, at age 10, Levitt seems to have... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education; Retail

01 Mar 2018
News

Every Trick in the Book

’80s—moving it from the city streets to the suburban shopping center, standardizing the book-buying experience, and starting the familiar race to big, bigger, and biggest, and cheap, cheaper, and cheapest. By 1980, analysts were... View Details

Keywords: April White

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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

American hegemony giving way to a multipolar world order, we seem to be gravitating to a very familiar model: a bipolar world order centered around the West on one side and a Sino-Russian led bloc on the other. The first time this... View Details

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