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Student Handbook | MBA

It is every student’s responsibility to be aware of, and compliant with, the policies of Harvard Business School and Harvard University. Students should become familiar with the material pertaining to their degree program and, together... View Details

Career Coach

Kristen Fitzpatrick

Kristen (HBS '03) is Managing Director, HBS Career and Professional Development. In this role, she coaches alumni and MBA students. Through her interactions with recruiters over the past decade, Kristen is familiar with many industries... View Details

Keywords: Education; Manufacturing; Consumer Products; Social Enterprise

01 Oct 2021
News

Helping Leaders Chart an Ethical Path

value that is central to our reputation.” “In reading the case, you learn about the history of Lebanon, where Lebanon sits in the MENA region, and the issue of waste. Ziad’s story opens up a whole other world that students may not be View Details

2009
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Collaboration Across Knowledge Boundaries within Diverse Teams: Reciprocal Expertise Affirmation as an Enabling Condition

By: Amy C. Edmondson, Kate Roloff and Lucy H. MacPhail

We review research on expertise diversity, psychological safety, team collaboration, and role identity to propose a model in which reciprocal affirmations of expertise identity among team members—a feature of the team environment that we conceptualize as a dimension of... View Details

Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Experience and Expertise; Learning; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Groups and Teams; Familiarity; Identity; Cooperation

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2010
Working Paper

Dynamically Integrating Knowledge in Teams: Transforming Resources into Performance

By: Heidi K. Gardner, Francesca Gino and Bradley R. Staats

In knowledge-based environments, teams must develop a systematic approach to integrating knowledge resources throughout the course of projects in order to perform effectively. Yet, many teams fail to do so. Drawing on the resource-based view of the firm, we examine how... View Details

Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Knowledge Sharing; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Performance Effectiveness; Quality; Groups and Teams; Risk and Uncertainty; Familiarity

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Read Now

01 Sep 2012
News

Anti-Social Media

limit their social interactions, and in the case of pair, to just your life partner. It focuses on intensity and familiarity rather than broad and shallow interactions. Honestly, I find most new tools and sites to be variations on a... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Sep 2005
News

The Dark Side

About a year ago, David Yelland (AMP 164, 2003) left the editorship of the British tabloid The Sun to join the PR firm Weber Shandwick (WS). It’s a familiar career switch that PR-averse journalists disparage as going over to “the dark... View Details

Keywords: Arts, Entertainment

01 Sep 2005
News

Will He or Won’t He?

Cox will undo much of what his predecessor, William Donaldson (MBA ’58), accomplished during his two-year tenure; others aren’t so sure. Quoting unnamed “people familiar with his thinking,” the Financial Times (June 29, 2005) said of Cox... View Details

Keywords: Government

09 Oct 2019
News

Building a Tradition of Giving

deeper philanthropic engagement. From there, his giving has followed a familiar trajectory, according to Inside Philanthropy (paywall): Driven by his own personal inspiration, Sternlicht’s giving has become increasingly targeted on... View Details

Portrait Project

Nelly-Ange Kontchou

soil; a familiar enemy. As I got older though, and the fortunes of those on the red soil had not changed, I began to think that the red soil was actually clinging to me, pleading for me to stay, calling me home. I walk through baggage... View Details

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A Marketing Revolution - The Art of American Advertising

responded to the kinds of accretionary, miscellaneous forms they were familiar with . . . in which commercial and non-commercial messages mingle and prepared themselves for a world in which advertisements were ever more present.” 53 The... View Details

17 Apr 2014
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Striking a Balance

Alvin J. Silk The struggle to balance career and family was all too familiar to the late Diane Doerge Wilson, whose memory is being honored with an HBS professorship funded by a gift from her husband, Alvin J. Silk. A senior consultant at... View Details

Portrait Project

Jevan Soo

imploring others to join my refrain. I must hold a distracted, indifferent audience spellbound, convincing them that this song above all others deserves their attention. Can I appreciate notes different from my own? Like many others, I prefer View Details

16 Oct 2014
News

Reducing special-interest influence over government regulation

When regulated industries exert undue influence on (or “capture”) their governmental regulators, problems that are all too familiar may result. And while scholars have investigated regulatory capture, deregulation has been the most... View Details

23 Nov 1999
Research & Ideas

The Future of the Venture Capital Cycle

in the development of what economists term "agglomeration economies" in the regions with the greatest venture capital activity. The efficiency of the venture capital process itself has been greatly augmented by the emergence of other intermediaries View Details

Keywords: by Paul A. Gompers & Josh Lerner; Financial Services

22 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Negotiation is Like Jazz

exchange form the foundation of the larger improvisation. Each of the six improvisations described below involves a specialized set of fundamental guidelines for interaction. Haggling, perhaps the most familiar negotiation improvisation,... View Details

Keywords: by Kathleen L. McGinn

Portrait Project

Erica Santoni

Being “the other” is a familiar feeling. At elementary school, I was the girl with glasses and unfashionable clothes.In high school, I was the introvert who preferred a book to a night out with friends.At University, I was the one... View Details

01 Dec 2000
News

The Birds and Bees in China

The fact that they are one billion in number confirms that the Chinese have at least a passing familiarity with the means of reproduction. Yet Leslie Kenny (MBA 1997) has built a thriving online business based on a Chinese desire for more... View Details

Keywords: News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

Portrait Project

Brian Sykes

frustration as they recall a recent trip to my hometown. All too familiar with how this scene plays out, I ready myself for a discussion of the city’s much publicized faults. I cringe when I hear stories of frightening encounters with the... View Details

Portrait Project

Alpha Mengistu

every day, I remember watching students and recent immigrants temporarily satisfy their yearning for home. Swinging my feet from a bar stool that dwarfed me, I took in the sense of comfort and belonging ladled on their plates right next to the aromatic wot and shiro.... View Details

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