Advice Seeking - Publications - Faculty & Research

31 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

Bypass Marketing: Are Docs Influenced?

Until the close of the last decade, health consumers received much of their knowledge and advice about prescription drugs from their physicians or other health care professionals. Today, pharmaceutical companies are spending several... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

01 Dec 2014
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014

the herbs, spices, and other seasonings that best enhance their flavor. For God’s Sake: An Adman on the Business of Religion by Ambi Parameswaran (AMP 186, 2014) (Portfolio) Combining his thirty-year experience as an adman with a passion for religious studies, the... View Details

10 Jan 2020
Blog Post

PRIDE in the HBS Community

another, connect with employers seeking diverse talent, and drive thought leadership in key areas of business and management. Here, three current MBA students discuss their experiences as LGBTQ+ students in the PRIDE community. Mindy... View Details

Web

The Art of "Posting" - The Art of American Advertising

single slogan or line of argument. As Fowlers Publicity Encyclopedia reasoned, “It is more profitable to have twenty-five readable words on the poster than to let it contain one hundred words that people cannot see without an opera glass.” 35 Hawkins offered View Details

01 Jun 2018
News

June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

(such as failing health, fears of growing older, and grieving lost loved ones) and shares positive ways to meet your financial needs. And “Fresh Maps,” complete with advice from a range of role models, provides insights for changing... View Details

23 Dec 2014
First Look

First Look: December 23

Abstract—Negotiation analysis seeks to develop prescriptive theory and useful advice for negotiators and third parties. It generally emphasizes the parties' underlying interests, alternatives to negotiated... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

03 Jul 2018
What Do You Think?

Should CEO Satya Nadella Cancel Microsoft’s Contract with ICE?

families.” “Dr J Do what is right” put it this way: “The organization’s culture is getting tested My advice would be to quickly hold a series of town hall meetings with employees to gauge what they feel. More importantly, it needs to be a... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Computer; Technology

10 Aug 2020
Blog Post

HBS Summer Fellows Focus on Racial Equity and Justice

program has taught me how to ask for help and how to prioritize the advice I receive from others to make my own decision. To launch a social enterprise, you have to move quick, but with thoughtfulness and intention, and View Details

02 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Stuck in Gear: Why Managers Don’t Act

future. He also offers suggestions for avoiding the worst mistakes and gives advice for reviving your own company. For most companies, a big jolt in the industry landscape is a pretty rare event, Sull says. The travel industry, for... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

05 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Venture Capital Goes Boom—or Bust?

market timing was critical to the success of the new venture. In addition to providing financing and advice on product development, marketing, and finance, Kleiner introduced Netscape to key Silicon Valley players, as well as the... View Details

Keywords: by Paul A. Gompers & Josh Lerner

01 Dec 2012
News

From Where We Stand

of women being admitted to the School's full-time MBA Program, we invited the HBS alumni community to identify alumnae who stood out as leaders, mentors, and role models. From several hundred suggestions, we asked a cross section of women to share thoughts and View Details

06 Dec 2021
News

December 2021 Alumni and Faculty Books

students, relocated persons, immigrants, or refugees—will find useful advice for landing a job in the United States this book. Readers will learn the different stages of the search process and how to prepare for each one, as well as... View Details

01 Jan 2005
News

Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965

answers." ADVICE TO CURRENT STUDENTS "One of the most important elements of leadership is fairness. You have to be consistent in the decisions that you make and the messages that you deliver. An organization looks to you as representative... View Details

Blog

Understanding the Benefits of Our Virtual Programs

face as they were talking improved understanding. WHAT SURPRISED YOU ABOUT THE EXPERIENCE? TF: The humility of the group. Harvard does something different than anything I've ever seen. Folks disagree and argue in a very specific way. They View Details

27 Sep 2006
Research & Ideas

Report From Egypt: Studying Global Influences

and how they influence the standards of the countries in which they operate as they seek global consistency. We are following a small number of companies with excellent reputations to locations both similar and different from their home... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

26 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

A Clear Eye for Innovation

innovations while also making steady improvements to an existing business is so commonplace—and so fascinating—that it has become a battleground of management thought. For decades, scholars have spun theories to explain the puzzle and offered View Details

Keywords: by Charles A. O'Reilly III & Michael L. Tushman

18 Jun 2020
Blog Post

Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 3/5

how to dismantle systemic racism. If we choose to, and are able to, we have to go through personal education just like everybody else. Here are a couple ways we learn: 1. We experience direct/indirect racism and figure out how to move and operate in racist society. ... View Details

19 Jun 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018

Applied Corporate Finance Investors as Stewards of the Commons? By: Serafeim, George Abstract—Over the past few years, there has been a significant increase in the number of initiatives seeking to mobilize investor voice towards positive... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

03 Aug 2016
What Do You Think?

How Can We Hold the “Leadership Industry” Accountable?

list of academic achievements. The irony here is that Pfeffer, a Stanford Graduate School of Business professor, and others of us, including me, are part of the leadership industry he criticizes. Give him credit, then, for seeking the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

16 Feb 2021
Blog Post

The Rise of The Sixes: Interview with CEO and Founder Franci Girard

her comfort zone in regard to how she would define and achieve success. “Up until this point in my life, I had a seek and destroy mentality for my goals, my career, and my education,” she said. “I understood the path or the steps needed... View Details

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