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01 Feb 2023
Blog Post

How I Spent My HBS 2+2 Deferral: Jada Haynes

make sure I was intentional with my decision. Instead of stressing over applications, GMAT studying, and business school prep, I spent my time career mapping and thinking about what goals I had for my MBA program. What advice do you have... View Details

01 Jun 2023
HBS Case

A Nike Executive Hid His Criminal Past to Turn His Life Around. What If He Didn't Have To?

crippling migraine headaches—at times landing in the emergency room in excruciating pain. This mental anguish continued for 40 years, growing more intense and frightening as time went on. “The stress and anxiety of holding it all in... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Apparel & Accessories

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Faculty & Research - Health Care

News The UnitedHealthcare CEO Shooting Should Be a Turning Point for Corporate America By: Ranjay Gulati 12 Dec 2024 | Harvard Business Review Why You Should Volunteer When You Feel Stressed Re: Ashley Whillans 10 Dec 2024 | Harvard T.H.... View Details

02 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

What Makes a Good Leader?

can't always follow the top-down model," he says. "With the fluidity of information in business today, leaders need to be masterful listeners; they need to be able to receive as well as send." David Thomas stresses the... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg & Susan Young

01 Feb 2001
News

What Makes a Good Leader

listeners; they need to be able to receive as well as send." David Thomas stresses the importance of "multimodality" in communication. "What you say is only the beginning," he states. "Your behavior, your actions, and your decisions are... View Details

Keywords: Management

05 Apr 2024
Blog Post

How I Spent my 2+2 Deferral: Zoe Bhargava

candidate with more diverse experiences to draw upon during the case method. What advice do you have for prospects considering the 2+2 program? For all prospective 2+2 applicants, I’d like to stress that there is not one career plan or... View Details

April 4, 2009
Article

The Return of State-Owned Enterprises: Should We Be Afraid?

By: Aldo Musacchio and Francisco Flores-Macias

The global financial crisis of 2008-2009 has prompted many industrialized states worldwide to increase their stakes in private corporations. This wave of partial nationalizations has come amidst full-scale expropriations in developing countries such as Venezuela,... View Details

Keywords: History; Private Ownership; State Ownership; Financial Crisis; Business and Government Relations

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15 Jul 2013
Research & Ideas

Five Imperatives for Improving Health Care

actually become their own providers with respect to many issues." Integrating new approaches into established organizations: Still, survey respondents stressed the importance of established firms and hospitals in fostering... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

Research Summary

Automotive Product Development

At present, my primary research focus is studying product development in the auto industry. I am working with Stefan Thomke (HBS) and Takahiro Fujimoto (University of Tokyo) on the 4th Round of the Global Automotive Development Study. The first round of this... View Details

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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

chains have come under unprecedented stress as a result of US-China trade tensions, the pandemic, and geopolitical shocks. We've documented US participation in global value chains over four decades, with particular focus on the last five... View Details

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Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research

outcomes in organizations, such as individual stress and well-being, intergroup conflict, performance, and change. By providing a way to investigate patterns of relationships among multiple identities, the identity network approach can... View Details

07 Nov 2023
Blog Post

Get to Know the HBS Armed Forces Alumni Association

reservist community about the benefits of an MBA." Curran Boyce (MBA 2024), Co-President (Community) "After serving in the military, the first year at HBS can be a lot for new students to adjust to. I remember feeling challenged by the View Details

01 Jun 2023
News

3-Minute Briefing: Jeremy Grantham (MBA 1966)

Edited by Julia Hanna; photo by Webb Chappell When I was 16, I took my savings to the bank and bought some shares of a neighbor’s scaffolding company. Before coming to HBS, I sold them to my mother, who had also acquired some, and we felt pleased about saving the... View Details

Keywords: climate change; finance; sustainability; prediction; Finance

27 Jun 2016
Research & Ideas

These Management Practices, Like Certain Technologies, Boost Company Performance

their management in productive ways. The US Census Bureau has already adopted a modified version of the methodology, and census offices in other countries are experimenting with the same approach. Changing a company’s management practices isn’t easy, View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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

about approaching career growth like a hop from one lily pad to the next. “One of the things that has unlocked my career has been this lily pad approach and not being so focused on one title or one destination,” Leahy shares. “There's so much pressure and View Details

28 Feb 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

Master the Team Meeting

doing this at the end versus the start of a meeting tends to give you a better read because no one is bringing the stress from a prior meeting into their pulse check. Meeting Engagement No one wants to listen to a monologue and no one... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

25 Jun 2012
Research & Ideas

Collaborating Across Cultures

need to be genuine to work. “You want to deeply involve yourself in cross-cultural interactions" "It's not just going to a foreign movie or eating culturally different food," he says. "You want to deeply involve yourself in cross-cultural interactions." Chua View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

09 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization

price decreases segmented by customer and channel. Another hallmark of stressful situations is that they can lead to paralysis and inaction, what Nathan Furr calls “unproductive uncertainty.” He recommends three strategies for... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott

20 Nov 2017
Research & Ideas

How Independent Bookstores Have Thrived in Spite of Amazon.com

by shopping at neighborhood businesses. Indie bookstores won customers back from Amazon, Borders, and other big players by stressing a strong connection to local community values. Curation: Independent booksellers began to focus on... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel (with video by Amelia Kunhardt); Retail

20 Sep 2017
Research & Ideas

The Three Types of Leaders Who Create Radical Change

these three roles also comes with its own set of traps, a point Battilana stresses when talking to action-driven students: Among agitators: fragmented agitation—triggering multiple areas of outrage that can’t work together as a cohesive... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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