Emotional Experience Of Leaders - Publications - Faculty & Research

04 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

The Business of Global Poverty

only have tens of dollars a year to spend, that disposable income, multiplied several billion times over, represents significant purchasing power. With this realization have come some dramatic shifts in business thinking, sparking... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

02 Jan 2007
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Most Popular Articles of 2006

perceived "seller's market," says Jim Heskett. As we select and train future leaders for all levels of our organizations, how much effort do we really spend assessing executive intelligence as... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

07 Feb 2017
Research & Ideas

The Right Way to Cry in Front of Your Boss

Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University. Reframing to signal competence For the study, the researchers set up five experiments to tease out how reframing View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

2022
Article

Becoming a Learning Organization While Enhancing Performance: The Case of LEGO

By: Thomas Borup Kristensen, Henrik Saabye and Amy Edmondson

Purpose - The purpose of this study is to empirically test how problem-solving lean practices, along with leaders as learning facilitators in an action learning approach, can be transferred from a production context to a knowledge work context for the purpose... View Details

Keywords: Performance Efficiency; Learning; Organizational Change and Adaptation

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01 Oct 2002
News

The Class of 1977

industry celebrities to help raise money for nationwide public-school projects. Of course, not all HBS graduates are heroes, and a few have surely missed the mark. But the School's ability to attract, matriculate, and prepare world-class... View Details

Keywords: Desmond Wong

15 Jun 2021
News

The Value of Difficult Conversations

diversity and inclusion. Brian Ratajczak (MBA 2022) was a little nervous, too. “If you are talking about finance, and someone says something you disagree with, there’s probably not going to be a lot of View Details

Keywords: April White; Tulsa Massacre

October 2020
Article

Overcoming Resource Scarcity: Consumers' Response to Gifts Intending to Save Time and Money

By: Alice Lee-Yoon, Grant Donnelly and A.V. Whillans

Consumers feel increasingly pressed for time and money. Gifts have the potential to reduce scarcity in recipients’ lives, yet little is known about how recipients perceive gifts given with the intention of saving them time or money. Across five studies (N =... View Details

Keywords: Scarcity; Status; Time; Gift Giving; Status and Position; Money; Attitudes; Emotions

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01 Dec 2017
News

The Changing Nature of Research

experiments, often facilitated by HBS’s network of global research centers and offices. Professor Karim Lakhani conducts field experiments using crowdsourcing—online networks View Details

21 Nov 2005
Research & Ideas

The Geography of Corporate Giving

systems that include common club memberships and overlapping boards. These connections help inform companies what others in their local area are doing and directly put them in touch with local needs. Prior research on Minneapolis has shown how local clubs and the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

19 May 2011
Research & Ideas

Empathy: The Brand Equity of Retail

the Cleveland Clinic had lost business solely due to a lack of empathy. "It was like the prettiest girl in class not getting a date," Raman said. For Cosgrove, Barnett's story was a transformative experience... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

Megan Gorges

Megan is a doctoral student in Organizational Behavior at Harvard Business School. She is interested in identity and the relationship between people's work- and non-work lives, and is currently conducting a longitudinal qualitative study of people's experiences as they... View Details

16 Jul 2019
News

The Making of a Movement

repeat riders, we realized Cycle for Survival could have a bigger impact than anyone ever imagined,” says David. Given their marketing and finance experience (Jen was Nickelodeon’s senior vice president of... View Details

Keywords: Greg Forbes Siegman; cancer

06 Aug 2021
Book

Steve Jobs and the Rise of the Celebrity CEO

and services inextricably linked to bosses with outsized personalities. Think Jeff Bezos of Amazon, Steve Jobs of Apple, and Elon Musk of Tesla. All these View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

29 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

The History and Influence of Andy Grove

If you look at some of the principles by which he ran that company, you can see that in an upside-down way, he learned them in Hungary. Everything Intel was, Grove's experience in Hungary was not. Here are a... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer

03 May 2010
Research & Ideas

What Is the Future of MBA Education?

to experiment to see what works best for them. Datar: We also believe that it is important for schools to broaden the types of research that faculty conduct at business schools. The discipline-based research... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

13 Apr 2009
Research & Ideas

Kind of Blue: Pushing Boundaries with Miles Davis

flat top of the S). “Miles Davis forced the musicians to approach the music without any expectations or preconceptions, often by giving them minimal sketches and sparse instructions."—Carl Størmer: Companies View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Music

26 Jan 2017
News

Finding a Path out of Poverty

analysis, sustainability, and value creation. “The AMP increased my ‘can-do’ attitude. I had a unique, if not once-in-a-lifetime, opportunity to mix with such a diverse global group of leaders and to engage... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

05 Jul 2022
What Do You Think?

Have We Seen the Peak of Just-in-Time Inventory Management?

distribution channel on overall inventory levels and costs. One thing that may have helped generate the HBS offer was an experiment I performed using my own crude version of what would become known as the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing; Shipping; Transportation

16 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers

way to combine the best of both? Yes, if marketers are willing to dig below superficial benefits and attributes to connect products and services to emotions and schemes of... View Details

Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors

03 Sep 2024
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Business of Animal Protection Club

Are you interested in connecting with other HBS MBA students dedicated to tackling climate change? Student Clubs are a vital part of the HBS Community experience that support the school's mission to educate... View Details

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