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- 02 Feb 2017
- News
Enabling Everyone in a Community to Contribute
how a life can be changed if you’re committed to doing it and seeing the person behind the form that we all present. “I’d say the endgame for what I do as CEO of the organization is to show the world that people with developmental... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Innovation Takes Center Stage
’53), an Alumni Board member: “I was particularly struck by how Dean Nohria shared his personal life with us. I was also impressed by his effort to listen and engage faculty and alumni in creating a vision for the School. Sharing and... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Better Hiring Through Brain Science
in neuroscience research experiments—with former research colleague Julie Yoo to assess cognitive and emotional traits. The games didn’t ask personal questions, they measured responses, providing objectivity in a way that the traditional... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 28 Feb 2025
- News
Joy to the World
the power of community to be a place to create joy-- from that experience growing up, from being in East Boston, and from research that says that the happiness of the friend of your friend can impact your happiness if that person lives... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Leaning In to Gender Equity
recalls him saying. "Mark was right." The desire to please is a common character trait in women generally, she observes, but in business, it is just one way women can hinder their own advancement. Indeed, Sandberg finds that women often... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
The Right Stuff: Getting the Word from MBA Admissions
authority and an openness to learning, sharing, and teaching as well as to complexity, ambiguity, and risk-taking. Confidence, decisiveness, self-esteem, creativity, maturity, and integrity are other important personal View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
complexity of pulling together idea, sound, and movement into a unified whole. The squirrel skitters to the edge of our path, thinks better of it, and darts back to safety—a smart decision, since Langford never saw it. Which isn’t to say that he is the sort of View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
the yield and quality of various cuts of beef to determine if he wants to repeat prior cow-bull pairings or emphasize particular traits or grazing conditions. The physical demands of farming are on par with an endurance athlete's training... View Details
- 19 Jun 2017
- News
Can Neuroscience Find You the Perfect Job?
path. It works for recruiting too, allowing companies in search of specific personality traits to find ideal workers. Today I talk with neuroscientist Frida Polli, cofounder and CEO of pymetrics, about what... View Details
- 09 Feb 2017
- News
Turning Disorder into Opportunity
organization—taps into the talents common among those on the autism spectrum, which include attention to detail, highly focused concentration, perseverance with repetitive tasks, pattern recognition, problem solving, and honesty. These View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Keeping the Beat
lyrics like, “I’ve been holding out strong from a past life, I’m holding out strong it’s gonna be alright.” These are lyrics that are 100 percent inspired by this time of waiting, this time of uncertainty, this time of actually being able to go deeper into your own... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
The Accidental Pioneers
the resident experts when case discussions focused on household goods such as laundry detergent. "Maybe without intending to do so, they were making it evident that we were different," she observes. "I didn't want to be singled out. I just wanted to be another View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Natural Fit
hitting our daily or quarterly number. You can’t take that approach in sports. Yes, we want to win the medal count in 2026. But you have to put that aside and, each day, focus on process, process, process and culture, culture, culture.” Solid ground: “A common View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Classroom Legend
emotional context of business decisions,” Andrews noted. “The addition of personal values and aspirations became an integral part of his philosophy of management.” As his interest and influence in the Business Policy area expanded,... View Details
- 17 Dec 2024
- News
Solving the Underemployment Crisis
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, it’s Dan. Today, we are sharing a brief excerpt from Managing the Future of Work, the critically-acclaimed podcast from my colleagues at Harvard Business School. Each episode, HBS professors Bill Kerr... View Details
- 20 Dec 2019
- News
The 19 Musts of 2019
does Charles Darwin, who wrote that cooperative social behavior was a trait of survival and prosperity. Pearlstein ends with a beautiful quote from Robert Kennedy from 1968, that the GNP statistic our country so relies on captures... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Effective Communication in the Age of Zoom
The similarity is about the need to make great first impressions, to really stand out in a crowded marketplace and figure out a way to find a personal brand and create that compelling 30-second elevator pitch. So in dating, singles are... View Details
Keywords: Zoom
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
Founder’s Mentality: How to Overcome the Predictable Crises of Growth by James Allen (MBA 1989) and Chris Zook (Harvard Business Review Press) Based on their decade-long study of companies in more than 40 countries, the authors demonstrate how applying three View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
Shackleton divided them into three categories: “Mad,” “Hopeless,” and “Possible.” He met face-to-face with those in the Possible category, searching for cheerfulness, a sense of humor, and other qualities he associated with optimism, a View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
to hone and manifest to become a powerful, impactful leader no matter where you work. She also examines the key traits of being a transformational leader, focusing on the gaps she has seen in leadership that could impede or damage any... View Details