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  • 28 May 2021
  • Video

Robert Livingston Presents at The 2021 HBS Gender and Work Symposium

  • Presentation

Robert Livingston Presents at The 2021 HBS Gender and Work Symposium

  • 01 May 2022
  • News

Disney’s Clash With Florida Has CEOs on Alert

  • 01 Dec 2019
  • News

In My Humble Opinion: Taking Attendance

HBS, where Jones took an entrepreneurship in public education elective with Stacey Childress (MBA 2000), who now heads NewSchools Venture Fund. Childress urged her to enter the field, but Jones, intent on paying off her loans, opted for a... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; public education; leadership; charter schools; career paths; work-life balance; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services
  • 15 Jan 2020
  • Video

Antonio Celia

Antonio Celia, President of Colombia-based Promigas, speaks about the work of the Promigas Foundation and the work it does to improve the quality of public education. Promigas has been able to help over one... View Details
  • June 2014
  • Article

Get Excited: Reappraising Pre-Performance Anxiety as Excitement

By: A.W. Brooks
Individuals often feel anxious in anticipation of tasks such as speaking in public or meeting with a boss. I find that an overwhelming majority of people believe trying to calm down is the best way to cope with pre-performance anxiety. However, across several studies... View Details
Keywords: Opportunities; Attitudes; Performance
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  • February 10, 2023
  • Article

The Case for Having a Boring CEO

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter
CEOs who avoid the cameras and minimize drama offer valuable leadership lessons. Their lifestyles aren’t splashed on the pages of magazines. They don’t speak out on every public issue, and their pronouncements are balanced and cautious. Sometimes when I name them as my... View Details
Keywords: CEO; Leadership; Company Management; Personal Brand; Reliability; Humility; Public Opinion
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  • 13 Aug 2013
  • News

Bill Ackman Resigns From J.C. Penney Board

  • February 2003 (Revised March 2007)
  • Case

Safe to Say at Prudential Financial

By: Amy C. Edmondson and Corey B. Hajim
The CEO initiated a cultural change process at Prudential Financial to support a major business reorientation. Prudential, historically a privately held ("mutual") insurance company, went public in 2001. The cultural change was intended to prepare the organization to... View Details
Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Risk and Uncertainty; Private Ownership; Going Public; Transformation; Organizational Culture
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  • 11 Feb 2019
  • News

Does 2020 presidential hopeful Sen. Amy Klobuchar have a temper? Does it matter?

  • 10 Aug 2009
  • Research & Ideas

High Commitment, High Performance Management

institutionalized process that allows examination of the whole system is essential. Even in HCHP companies, the capacity to learn and change through honest, collective, and public conversations is not as robust as the other pillars,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 10 Apr 2019
  • News

Nancy Koehn's Tips For A Less Stressful Life

  • December 2005 (Revised January 2007)
  • Case

Ben & Jerry's: Preserving Mission & Brand within Unilever

By: James E. Austin and James Quinn
In the months after Ben & Jerry's was acquired by Unilever, Ben & Jerry's head social mission faces challenges and opportunities unique in the company's history, including: how to manage employee morale; whether to include synthetic ingredients to meet consumer... View Details
Keywords: Brands and Branding; Problems and Challenges; Mergers and Acquisitions; Mission and Purpose; Social Enterprise; Management Teams; Governing and Advisory Boards; Value Creation; Corporate Governance; Employee Relationship Management; Food and Beverage Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Retail Industry; United States
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Don't Stop Believing: Rituals Improve Performance by Decreasing Anxiety

By: Alison Wood Brooks, Julianna Schroeder, Jane Risen, Francesca Gino, Adam D. Galinsky, Michael I. Norton and Maurice Schweitzer
From public speaking to first dates, people frequently experience performance anxiety. And when experienced immediately before or during performance, anxiety harms performance. Across a series of experiments, we explore the efficacy of a common strategy that people... View Details
Keywords: Behavior; Performance; Emotions
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    Byju’s The Learning App

    BYJU’S The Learning App (BYJU’s) is India’s largest K-12 education app with approximately 300,000 annual paid subscribers. The mobile app uses a mix of video lessons and interactive tools to personalize learning for every student. Although there is room to grow... View Details
    • 25 Aug 2010
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Managerial Practices That Promote Voice and Taking Charge among Frontline Workers

    Keywords: by Julia Rose Adler-Milstein, Sara J. Singer & Michael W. Toffel; Health
    • 27 Jan 2021
    • News

    Author Introduces Possibility Government in New Book: We the Possibility

    • 15 Jan 2020
    • News

    This 5 Second Trick Has Been Proven To Drastically Improve Your Presentation Skills

    • 13 Jul 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    Merck CEO Ken Frazier Discusses a COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk

    a vaccine like that. What worries me the most is that the public is so hungry, so desperate to go back to normalcy, that they are pushing us to move things faster and faster. But ultimately, if you're going to use a vaccine in billions of... View Details
    Keywords: by Staff; Pharmaceutical
    • 27 Jun 2012
    • News

    Larry Page's Lost Voice Provokes Widespread Worry