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  • 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
  • 18 Aug 2022
  • Op-Ed

Your Best Employees Are Burning Out: A Framework for Retaining Talent

Burnout, retention, and renewed labor organization are critical challenges for leaders, especially amid COVID-19 and a looming recession. Leaders must ask themselves: What is it about my organization’s culture that is contributing to such a high level of mental View Details
Keywords: by Hise Gibson and MaShon Wilson
  • 01 Jun 2023
  • News

3-Minute Briefing: Jeremy Grantham (MBA 1966)

change, geopolitics, declining fertility rates, bad agricultural practices, high levels of debt, shortages of labor and raw materials, and more. You can’t predict the stress point, but the fact that something will crack is not... View Details
Keywords: climate change; finance; sustainability; prediction; Finance
  • 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
  • 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
  • 30 Mar 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Commuting Hurts Productivity and Your Best Talent Suffers Most

Many of us have been there: mired in rush-hour traffic, listening to music or news to take our minds off the grind, wishing we didn’t feel so stressed before we’ve even reached the office. A late-night conversation with a fellow... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
  • Web

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
  • 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

  • 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
  • Web

Resources - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

the value of the case method in developing constructive, independent thought through participation, discovery, and open exchange. Stresses the importance of the instructor as discussion leader, and highlights the challenges and rewards... 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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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 08 Sep 2022
  • Book

Gen Xers and Millennials, It’s Time To Lead. Are You Ready?

stories from his own work experiences and the careers of CEOs and nonprofit leaders who navigated challenges. His advice for emerging leaders: Discover yourself. Test your “crucibles” to find your moral compass and calling. For instance, Kabir Barday almost died from... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
  • 14 Mar 2023
  • In Practice

What Does the Failure of Silicon Valley Bank Say About the State of Finance?

exposures, since they fell below the Fed’s threshold for annual collection of Form FR Y-14A Capital Assessments and Stress Testing. At the moment, we also cannot track what fraction of SVB’s deposits was connected to the local venture... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Banking
  • 19 Oct 2022
  • Op-Ed

Cofounder Courtship: How to Find the Right Mate—for Your Startup

greatest cofounding teams have war stories about stressful situations in their relationships and what they learned from these experiences. Using insights from the listening tour, along with your personal preferences, write a cofounder job... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
  • 16 Jul 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Are You a Strategist?

Montgomery equally stresses the importance of recognizing how a strategist lives and leads. To that end, in the book she cites not only economic gurus, such as Joseph Schumpeter, but also philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, military theorist... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 05 Aug 2015
  • Research & Ideas

How Hormones Foretell Whether People Will Cheat

meanwhile, is known colloquially as "the stress hormone," because cortisol levels go up when people experience stress. An analysis of the post-math-test saliva samples, compared with the pre-math-test saliva, revealed something unexpected... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel