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The Psychology of Conversation
Conversation is a profound part of the human experience. To share our ideas, thoughts, and feelings with each other, we converse face to face and remotely—via phone, email, text message, online comment boards, and in contracts. Conversations form the bedrock of our... View Details
- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
relationship between the successful use of humor and status is mediated by perceptions of confidence and competence. The successful use of humor signals confidence and competence, which in turn increases the joke teller’s status.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- January 2025
- Case
Netflix: Takedown Troubles
By: Clayton S. Rose, Tom Quinn and Maxim Pike Harrell
In October 2021, Netflix Co-CEO Ted Sarandos sent an all-staff email addressing backlash to comedian Dave Chappelle’s new stand-up special, The Closer. Released on October 5, the comedian’s depiction of the transgender community and other LGBTQ+ groups prompted... View Details
Keywords: Disruption; Talent and Talent Management; Customer Satisfaction; Cost vs Benefits; Demographics; Ethics; Corporate Accountability; Employees; Recruitment; Retention; Leadership; Crisis Management; Risk Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Civil Society or Community; Social Issues; Strategic Planning; Adaptation; Decisions; Motion Pictures and Video Industry
Rose, Clayton S., Tom Quinn, and Maxim Pike Harrell. "Netflix: Takedown Troubles." Harvard Business School Case 325-021, January 2025.
- 03 Oct 2023
- Research Event
Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips
School. Brooks: I made that joke for a reason. Goldberg: Yeah, yeah, yeah. [INAUDIBLE] And and and I want to just-- I want to be clear that Harvard Divinity School and Harvard Business School have a lot in coon. You know. They both have... View Details
Keywords: by HBS Staff
- 29 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Time Pressure and Creativity: Why Time is Not on Your Side
and maintained that through regular phone calls and emails from me and my RAs; and (3) we tried to make it fun by giving them little gifts at the meetings (like "TEAM Study" coffee mugs), and including jokes and trivia questions... View Details
- Profile
Tara Basu Trivedi
only gets messier), so I figured there wouldn’t be a better time than now. Coming to HBS is like Drinking from a firehose. We joke at HBS that each day is filled with so many experiences that a day feels like a week. For example, within a... View Details
- 20 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
It's No Joke: AI Beats Humans at Making You Laugh
We all enjoy sharing jokes with friends, hoping a witty one might elicit a smile—or maybe even a belly laugh. Here’s one for you: A lawyer opened the door of his BMW, when, suddenly, a car came along and hit the door, ripping it off... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Jun 2022
- Research & Ideas
Extroverts, Your Colleagues Wish You Would Just Shut Up and Listen
listening: Offer verbal cues of listening. Repeat back and paraphrase what someone has just said. Make use of phrases like “right,” “yes,” and “mm-hmm” in conversation. Look for other ways to signal engagement—laugh at jokes and be silent... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- 02 Nov 2016
- Blog Post
The Benefits of a Residential Campus
in closet (this wasn’t me, but I’ve heard some classmates joke about this), know that there are many on campus housing options — everything from three bedroom apartments with kitchens, to dorms designed with the executive education... View Details
- Profile
Mollie Breen
about 'return on technology' when they need to hear about 'return on investment.' I learned a big lesson: tech won't sell itself. You need a business plan and a strategy – how will this make money?" Finding support in entrepreneurship, and supporting others too... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Simmons Family Endows Professorship
coordinating the schedule for our one bathtub was a full-time job," jokes L.E. Ñ Tibby devoted much time to working with young members of the Mormon Church. She also played a major role in the restoration of several historic buildings of... View Details
- 17 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Blue Skies, Distractions Arise: How Weather Affects Productivity
thinking," the researchers write. For Gino, the findings match up with her professorial career. In fact, she says, academics often joke that they seek out positions in harsh climates on purpose, so that they won't feel like they're... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 29 Oct 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Robots in the Boardroom
artificial intelligence, and related technologies in the twenty-first century Making Sense of RecommendationsWe compare computer recommender systems to human recommenders in a domain that affords humans many advantages: predicting which View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Feb 2021
- News
Investing in Entrepreneurship
Foundation, where he has been involved since 2007, including as chair from 2008–2013. Crisp is very comfortable with the behind-the-scenes role he has played in both his work and philanthropic endeavors. He likes to joke that the life he... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 09 May 2023
- Blog Post
Celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS (part 1)
and reject my Asianness altogether. With every self-hating joke I made, I turned away from self-actualization in a gambit to numb myself against further pain. Luckily, I was steered off this dangerous path; going to college, building an... View Details
- 27 Mar 2017
- Blog Post
Should Entrepreneurs Get an MBA?
informal, I connected with and the dozens of one-on-one meetings with HBS professors that generated insights that informed the future of the company. Cash: The joke in Silicon Valley is that in valuing a startup, you should subtract $250k... View Details
- 28 Jun 2022
- Book
The Moral Enterprise: How Two Companies Profit with Purpose
How can government and business work together in this fractious political moment, when finding solutions to pressing problems like inequality and climate change are more urgent than ever? Rebecca Henderson, Harvard University’s John and Natty McArthur University... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 04 Dec 2023
- Blog Post
My Summer of Joy with the National Parks Service
in October, and texting everyone I knew about it. “There’s no way this is a real job,” I joked with my friends. You get paid to live and work in a national park? Doing management consulting? No way. As a native Californian and landscape... View Details
- 14 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
LOVE At HBS
incredible--obviously--but more importantly, this was when Judy and I learned that we would be going to school together. Judy and I do a lot together. On our last day of work, my boss joked that they would be renaming one of the... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Banking on Success
disciplines have become so important in finance." After sixteen years as a "classic, two-career, childless Manhattan couple," Layton and his wife, Sandy, welcomed their first son into their lives in 1990. Their second son was born in 1994. "There is an old View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg