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- 14 May 2009
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Teams
Sharpening Your Skills dives into the HBS Working Knowledge archives to bring together articles on ways to improve your business skills. Questions To Be Answered How does a team leader win the confidence of the group? What's the best...
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- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
confident that shareholders will approve changes made to the company’s executive incentive plan (EIP) and steps taken to accelerate the turnover of long-serving directors, but he wonders how much longer the company will be able to...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Landscape of Integrated Reporting: An E-Book
this integrated reporting initiative, business can show its commitment in that direction and in the process restore society's confidence and trust. Perhaps that will return us to a productive cycle in which business and society have a...
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- 18 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
Marketing After the Recession
consumers to lead you into recovery. But don't forget to stock up to take advantage of the pent-up demand that will be unleashed once other consumers get their confidence back. Don't assume a return to normal. The longer and deeper the...
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- 09 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Manager in Red Sneakers
confidence in their dressed-down rejection of the traditional pricey business suit and tie. It happens in academia, too. Anat Keinan, assistant professor of marketing at Harvard Business School, and Silvia Bellezza, a doctoral candidate...
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- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Is There Help for the Big Ticket Buyer?
well-documented tendencies to be overconfident and to act on overly optimistic assessments (Thompson 2001). Interestingly, many people know that they have these tendencies, but fail to notice them in the context of a specific decision. For example, when people are...
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by Max H. Bazerman
- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
universities, local governments, and civic groups and developed an array of outreach programs to help people understand and express themselves through music. Ma was confident that there could be no better time to hand over leadership. But...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
intrinsic or extrinsic incentives, and, for a wide range of settings, when the principal is more confident about the right course of action. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-085.pdf Publications Quanto Sei (a)Morale?...
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Martha Lagace
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Greed, Fear, and The System Hinder Corporate Reform
because the unjust had stolen the just's umbrella. The Restoring Confidence in American Business conference was co-sponsored by the Harvard Business School Association of Boston and the Boston Security Analysts Society.
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by Martha Lagace
- 17 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Tales of the Newly-minted MBA
Anderson found sustenance in personal and professional relationships that allowed her to talk through the situation and regain her psychological footing. "In the middle of last summer, when no one was hiring, I found six jobs. A new level of View Details
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by Julia Hanna
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
Chief Investment Officer, was confident that this was a successful way to invest if implemented effectively, but he also saw the top university endowments experience 25% to 35% declines in portfolio value during the second half of 2008...
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Martha Lagace
- 16 Feb 2012
- Op-Ed
Nitin Nohria: Why US Competitiveness Matters
from the perspective of smart people looking in. When it comes to understanding the state of American competitiveness, I often find that the sharpest insights come from the individuals I meet when I travel abroad. On a recent trip to China, what struck me most was the...
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by Nitin Nohria
- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
would expect that the temptation would be to continue to play your strong suit and try and express your own taste and your ideas because it’s worked for you for 50 years. The second issue you’d expect of anybody in this situation would be that they’re probably quite...
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by Christina Pazzanese
- 03 Nov 2003
- What Do You Think?
Can Investors Have Too Much Accounting Transparency?
it, "We cannot look at investor losses as the only benchmark to evaluate the costs of Sarbanes-Oxley. One must also consider the cost of capital if confidence in the markets does not return
Unfortunately, you cannot legislate...
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by James Heskett
- 30 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Your Board’s Effectiveness
communication to investors highlights key value and risk drivers, and one that holds senior executives accountable for successful strategy formulation and implementation will give investors more confidence that the company is well...
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by Robert S. Kaplan
- 13 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Ignore This Advice at Your Own Peril
financial planners they studied said they ended a relationship with a client after the client ignored their advice. Experts often gain status, power, and confidence from having a certain level of expertise, so when their advice is...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Jul 2014
- HBS Case
Marketing Obamacare
segment consumers into four different groups: Confident Rejecters, Cautious Optimists, Stoic Skeptics, and Stressed and Strained. The agency then created different messages for each one—for example, emphasizing affordability for the...
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- 12 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
‘Let the Buyer Beware’ Doesn’t Protect Investors
recognized as a result of the bubble—have been those of the analysts who worked in the investment banks. The banks employ two kinds of analysts: Those who issue recommendations about individual firms, and those who try to get investors to buy the stocks. For an...
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by D. Quinn Mills
- 06 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Flood of Picassos Threatens to Water Down the Art Market
primary market for collectors is to discover a diamond in the rough," Khaire said. "But as a collector, you have to be much more confident about your ability to judge art if you want to do it as an investment, even in the case...
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- 24 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Linking the Globe: The Role of Media and Communications
e-commerce is really about," said Job, "is reducing the gap between thought and action, between when you know something and when you do something about it." Third, he said, is a relevant brand that gives people confidence...
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