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- 18 May 2023
- News
Cultivating Can-Do Attitudes
Two days before Thanksgiving 2002, the 4th graders of Irving Primary in Peoria, Illinois, gathered in the school's gym for an assembly. The students were restless, Jen Wilfong (GMP 3, 2007) recalls. They were chatting and jostling one... View Details
Keywords: April White
- Profile
Omowale Casselle
what you learned at HBS in this position? "The primary things that I leverage most heavily are effective team leadership—defining the vision, setting the right incentives, providing actionable feedback, and asking the right... View Details
- Web
Eligibility | New Venture Competition
Eligibility Business Track First, you must form a team around an idea for a business. Participating teams require at least one Harvard Business School MBA student who plays a primary role in the business and is present at the Super... View Details
- 28 Feb 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Omowale Casselle (MBA 2009)
learned at HBS in this position? "The primary things that I leverage most heavily are effective team leadership—defining the vision, setting the right incentives, providing actionable feedback, and asking the right questions. "When team... View Details
- 29 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 29, 2015
bank moves more gradually. The same desire to mitigate bond-market volatility can lead the central bank to lower short rates sharply when publicly observed term premiums rise. In both cases, there is a time-consistency problem, and society would be better off... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Oct 2015
- Blog Post
4 Takeaways from HBS
challenged my conventional views of HBS. Here are a few of the things I learned during my time at HBS. 1. Don’t network It is common shared wisdom that a primary benefit of business school is the networking that takes place during the two... View Details
- 01 Jun 2021
- What Do You Think?
Are Employers Ready for a Flood of 'New' Talent Seeking Work?
(Image credit: iStockphoto/golero) Uncertainty about the future is always on the minds of leaders. Concern about change defines their primary role. It’s up to others to manage, set and meet goals, etc. Recent polls have shown that many... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Sep 2002
- What Do You Think?
What Can Business Schools Do to Avoid Bad Apples?
Summing Up This month's column resulted in a number of suggestions for sorting out the "bad apples" among applicants to MBA programs across the country. But just as many respondents questioned the underlying assumptions of the column. Many respondents... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 27 Jun 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Learning to Make the Move to CEO
explains Simons. At a recent AMP session, Simons rolled out his research on what he calls the Executive Compass, which assigns key performance factors to each of the tool's 8 points. "The North Star of this is identifying your View Details
- 19 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Charitable Organizations Can Thwart Excuses for Not Giving
information in a way that benefits themselves,” says Exley. “That’s discouraging to economists; we think one of our primary tools is information.” The lesson for nonprofits That result may be discouraging to the nonprofit sector as well,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
the existing evidence only weakly supports this causal claim. Research in psychology, economics, and neuroscience exploring the benefits of charitable giving has been largely correlational, leaving open the question of whether giving causes greater happiness. In this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
How Deep Brain Stimulation Could Change Medicine
pharmaceuticals are the primary choice,” says Bennet. “But in most cases they’re not really a miracle” but a temporary reprieve. Bennet notes that while millions of patients suffer from psychiatric disorders, many don’t know that deep... View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos
- 07 Feb 2005
- What Do You Think?
If You Blink, Will You Miss?
there were some dissenters. According to Peter Schaible, "A careful reading of Blink reveals that snap decisions can just as often be incorrect, even dangerous." August Specter expressed a clinical concern when he commented,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 20 Nov 2017
- Blog Post
A Summer Internship with the International Rescue Committee
resettlement in the US, which made our first task simply mapping out what problem we wanted to solve. Did we care most about employment rates, language outcomes of health and wellness? Fortunately, we had the structure of the... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 04 Nov 2002
- What Do You Think?
What’s Best for the Corporate Brain?
Summing Up Those offering insights into ways to make the corporate brain function more effectively suggest that the corporate brain may be as complex as its biological counterpart. Respondents alternatively focused on learning, constant usage, and memory. Where... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Web
Class Profile | MBA
2026 Enrollment 9,856 Applications received in the 2023–2024 Academic Year 45 % Women 35 % International Primary Citizenship Africa 2% Asia 13% Canada 3% Europe 8% Mexico, Central & South America 5% Middle East 3% Oceania < 1% United... View Details
- 21 Nov 2017
- News
Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy
going to get cheaper, and storage is going to get cheaper. “Coal is not going to get developed, because it will be more costly than the alternatives. Greenhouse gases are going to be an issue, but economics will be the primary factor... View Details
- 23 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 23, 2016
of these shortcuts. Specifically, we exploit a regulatory provision wherein a firm’s primary industry is determined by the highest sales segment. Exploiting this regulation, we provide evidence that investors classify operationally nearly... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 27, 2009
control on the part of the primary agent. Experiment 2B indicates that reflective moral judgment is sensitive to indirect agency, but only to the extent that indirectness signals reduced foreknowledge and/or control. Experiment 3... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 19, 2010
causes greater happiness. In this chapter, we have two primary aims. First, we review the evidence linking charitable behavior and happiness. We present research from a variety of samples (adults, children, and primates) and methods... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne