Intention - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 Jul 2023
News

Diversity and Inclusion at Mars Petcare: Translating Awareness into Action

10 May 2021
Research & Ideas

Who Has Potential? For Many White Men, It’s Often Other White Men

them—a familiar scenario that plays out at a lot of companies. “Merely increasing the number of employees from underrepresented groups and trying to be inclusive isn’t enough,” Ely says. “Instead, companies that are intent on diversifying... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

26 Jan 2012
Working Paper Summaries

Behavioral Ethics: Toward a Deeper Understanding of Moral Judgment and Dishonesty

Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman & Francesca Gino

20 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

Language Wars Divide Global Companies

barriers that threaten employees' sense of belonging. Encourage practice of the new language. Provide nonthreatening environments where the new language can be studied and practiced. Encourage empathy. Promote sharing of experiences as employees grapple with the... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

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Health Care - Faculty & Research

to translate intention into impact. Early results from BMC include eliminating racial disparities in urgent cesarean section response times and cutting diabetes-related inequities in half—demonstrating the framework’s promise as a guide... View Details

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Building Iconic Brands and Brighter Futures: Interview with Glossier CEO, Kyle Leahy - Recruiting

athletic apparel into accessories and then beauty. Making small, connected steps along the way has allowed me to grow and evolve my career in both intentional and often just serendipitous ways.” With each small, connected step to the next... View Details

09 Jun 2022
Blog Post

The MBA Class of 2022 Looks Back

going on at HBS, it’s easy to go with the flow and put your time towards what is in front of you in the moment, only to later realize that those activities took a lot of your time and you were not pursuing your priorities. Learning to be proactive and View Details

22 Nov 2023
News

So You Want to Join a Startup

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: At age 29, Gus Bessalel (MBA 1988) decided to leave consulting for a decidedly less glamorous life as an entrepreneur, working out of a storage room in the bowels of an underground hotel... View Details

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Planned Giving - Alumni

legal name is President and Fellows of Harvard College. How can I let HBS know that I’ve included the School in my will? Contact the HBS Development Office at pg@hbs.edu or 877.448.3864. We would be pleased to learn more about your bequest View Details

01 Oct 1997
News

J. Hughes Norton III

attention. But this is the Year of the Tiger, and the crowd is intent on staking out its hero. Golf, sports, and, some say, even American society will never be the same. It's also been quite a year for Hughes Norton, Tiger Woods's agent.... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

25 Nov 2019
Research & Ideas

When Your Passion Works Against You

When Steve Jobs returned to Apple in 1997 after a 12-year absence, the company he co-founded was dispirited, rudderless, and near bankruptcy. In a staff meeting, Jobs shared his plan for revitalizing the struggling brand, touching on one necessary ingredient: passion.... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

20 Oct 2020
News

Steps to Get Out of Your Own Way

10 Jan 2023
Op-Ed

Time to Move On? Career Advice for Entrepreneurs Preparing for the Next Stage

fold it into a paper airplane and toss it from a city window or into the sea. Instead of writing, you could also use natural objects to represent things (e.g., an acorn to represent your tough outer shell or a dried leaf to represent being fragile in certain... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

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Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

claim. Our intent is to turn a critical eye toward current ideas about how to eradicate inequality and, in the process, to engender new ones. Even as many activists and academics continue to wrestle with whether and how “master’s tools”... View Details

01 Sep 2021
Op-Ed

How Women Can Learn from Even Biased Feedback

relationship. Assume positive intent For many people, asking questions feels uncomfortable or seems risky. They worry that the feedback giver will construe the questions as challenges to him or her. Women tend to become more willing to... View Details

Keywords: by Francesca Gino

2010
Working Paper

Introductory Reading for Being a Leader and the Effective Exercise of Leadership: An Ontological Model

By: Werner Erhard, Michael C. Jensen, Steve Zaffron and Kari L. Granger

This paper is the sixth of six pre-course reading assignments for an experimental leadership course developed by the authors over five years (2004-2008) at the U. of Rochester Simon School of Business working with students, alumni, executives, and faculty from various... View Details

Keywords: Leadership Development; Curriculum and Courses; Strategy; Performance Capacity; Attitudes; Behavior; United States; Netherlands; Texas

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15 Feb 2024
Blog Post

How I Spent My 2+2 Deferral: Carol Wright

intentional about which jobs I was applying for. I wanted to ensure that I spent time at a company that would allow me to gain new skills, grow, and create an impact before starting my studies at HBS. What advice do you have for prospects... View Details

18 Oct 2022
Research & Ideas

When Bias Creeps into AI, Managers Can Stop It by Asking the Right Questions

should at least know what is going on. The number one thing to do is audit your algorithms and check if you have outcomes that are systematically different. And then based on whatever the objective is, whatever your business intentions... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

2010
Book

Different: Escaping the Competitive Herd

By: Youngme Moon

Every few years a book-through a combination of the author's unique voice, storytelling ability, spirit, and insight-simply breaks the mold. Youngme Moon's DIFFERENT is that kind of book, a book for "people who don't read business books...," a book that feels like an... View Details

Keywords: Communication Intention and Meaning; Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Invention; Marketing; Creativity; Competition