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- 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...
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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...
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- 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
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by Michael Blanding
- 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,...
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Private Ownership;
State Ownership;
Financial Crisis;
Business and Government Relations
Musacchio, Aldo, and Francisco Flores-Macias. "The Return of State-Owned Enterprises: Should We Be Afraid?" Harvard International Review (website) (April 4, 2009).
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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...
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- 07 Nov 2023
- Blog Post
Get to Know the HBS Armed Forces Alumni Association
In honor of Veterans Day, we checked in with the HBS Armed Forces Alumni Association, the club on campus for student veterans. The mission of the Armed Forces Alumni Association (AFAA) is to help talented veterans transition out of the military to Harvard Business...
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- 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...
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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...
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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...
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- 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...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 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...
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by Julia Austin
- 14 Jun 2021
- Op-Ed
When Your Nerves Get the Best of You, Change the Narrative
narrative and turn stressful moments into meaningful ones. Expect to do well How we think about an outcome influences our actual results. This insight has been demonstrated for years through the use of medical placebos. In one study,...
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by Francesca Gino
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2.2 Recruiting Standards of Conduct - MBA
How a student handles the decision is critical. The CPD Office cannot stress enough how seriously HBS considers the violation of reneging. These actions will impact the student, their classmates, HBS alumni, and the HBS reputation....
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- 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...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 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...
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by Deborah Blagg & Susan Young
- 05 Jul 2012
- What Do You Think?
Why Is Trust So Hard to Achieve in Management?
starters, Karen Caswelch suggested that we take steps to ensure that in our hiring, we consistently select people who share and value behaviors that produce trust as a shield against management turnover that leads to broken commitments. Mike Flanagan View Details
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by James Heskett
- 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
- 09 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
The MBA Class of 2022 Looks Back
nonprofit space, something completely different than what I was doing before. What is your favorite memory of your time at HBS?It was during my first semester. Due to COVID guidelines, we were very restricted in terms of section gatherings. It was very View Details
- 04 Jan 2022
- Research & Ideas
Scrap the Big New Year's Resolutions. Make 6 Simple Changes Instead.
empathetic or not, but you can increase your ability to empathize. Takeuchi, whose research weaves together strands from various disciplines, including history, neuroscience, anthropology, and more, stresses the importance of a liberal...
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by Kristen Senz
- 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...
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