speech giving - Publications - Faculty & Research

27 Sep 2004
Research & Ideas

How Leaders Build Winning Streaks

is often a function of the quality of all the other people who stand beside them to exercise leadership. At Continental Airlines, Gordon Bethune gave the speeches and appeared in the Rodney Dangerfield "respect" videos, but he... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

06 May 2002
Research & Ideas

Profits for Nonprofits: Earning Your Own Way

session was devoted to the topic "Profits for Nonprofits: Challenges of Earning Your Own Way." (Starbuck's CEO Orin Smith addressed a related theme—can for-profit companies integrate non-profit values—in his keynote speech... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

16 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

Earnings Calls That Get Lost in Translation

reaction on capital markets. It was written by Harvard Business School assistant professors Gwen Yu and Francois Brochet, with MIT Sloan of Management doctoral student Patricia Naranjo. Although targeted at foreign executives, the research may inspire executives using... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

13 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

The Hidden Market for Babies

"brave new world" had actually wanted governments to come in and regulate the market that technology had created. For about a year after the book's publication, I gave speeches about it. And inevitably, someone would ask what... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls; Biotechnology; Health; Technology

14 Sep 2017
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Google Engineer Deserved to be Fired by the CEO

pointed out, he justified his assertions by cherry-picking research on gender differences. The real risk of Damore’s generalizations, expressed in a business context, is that they give license to people to behave as if those beliefs are... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

16 Aug 2024
In Practice

Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?

political speech in the workplace—now. Discussion is both widespread and inevitable as the election process heats up. To prepare, game out scenarios and determine how you would manage them. The reality, of course, will be different. But... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

10 Apr 2012
First Look

First Look: April 10

PublicationsHow Will You Measure Your Life? Authors:Clayton M. Christensen, James Allworth, and Karen Dillon Publication:HarperBusiness, forthcoming Abstract In 2010 world-renowned innovation expert Clayton M. Christensen gave a powerful View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

12 Jan 2018
Cold Call Podcast

Leadership Lessons from a Young Martin Luther King, Jr.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered those remarks in a now famous speech in Memphis on April 3, 1968. Everyone present felt the power of his words, but no one could have known just how prescient they were. The following evening, at... View Details

24 Apr 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018

elements. First, we study beliefs and values about the economic system present in Peron’s speeches during the period 1943–1955. Second, given that these beliefs are nonstandard (for economists), we present two models formalizing some of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

11 Jan 2011
First Look

First Look: Jan. 11

system present in Peron's speeches during the period 1943-1955. Second, we study survey data for the 1990s on the beliefs of Peronist and non- Peronist voters in Argentina and Democrat and Republican voters in the U.S. While income and... View Details