Perspective Taking - Publications - Faculty & Research

14 Oct 2021
In Practice

Reunited and It Feels (Not) So Good: Tips for Managing a Rocky Return

people return to prior patterns of in-office hours, we have to make sure those who are still constrained by the pandemic don’t face additional penalties. Employers and managers who take their employees’ View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

11 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard

into action. That is why we have placed strategy analysis and formulation as Stage 1 of our management system, with planning and translating the strategy as Stage 2. We take the same position with the various operational improvement... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

23 Oct 2019
Blog Post

How to Talk Gooder in Business and Life

goals. If I had to pick one common mistake to highlight here, it would be egocentrism. Humans have an innate tendency to focus on their own perspective without considering (or misunderstanding) the View Details

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Business Finance Course Online | HBS Online

and potential solutions. Highlights Institutional Investors Signaling Tops Friendly Market Show Hide Details Concepts Capital Market Participants Capital Market Problems Solutions Implications for Your Company Featured Exercises Evaluate View Details

01 Jan 2013
News

Roger W. Sant, MBA 1960

classroom with a completely different perspective than I came in with," he recalls. Sant's career path led him through a series of finance positions in the Bay Area before he moved to Washington, DC, for a two-year stint at the Federal... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

Related Themes: Measuring Sentiment & Expectations, Credit Markets More Info The Stock Market and Bank Risk Taking By: Antonio Falato & David S. Scharfstein MAY 2015 While it is widely accepted that excessive risk View Details

28 Jan 2020
Book

Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking

first helps leaders take ideas from anywhere if those ideas are useful. Including getting ideas from well outside the usual building. Silverthorne: You use the term “advanced leadership” often in the book. What does it mean and how does... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2019
News

Remix

community after their respective accusations against Clarence Thomas and Mike Tyson. It’s one of the factors that helps explain why women of color report sexual assault at rates far below that of white women and a major force behind Dixon’s decision to leave the... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Chris Sorensen; #MeToo; DefJam; Arts, Entertainment

12 Dec 2006
First Look

First Look: December 12, 2006

Periodical:Annali di storia dell'impresa 17 (2006): 7-63 Abstract No abstract available. The End of Nationality? Global Firms and 'Borderless Worlds' Author:G. Jones Periodical:Zeitschrift fur Unternehmensgeschichte 51, no. 2 (2006): 149-166 Abstract This article... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

14 Jul 2016
Blog Post

Dating at HBS

or through mutual friends. I think it happens because there is a lot of alignment on the outlook of life – you want to be stimulated intellectually by your partner, and the most amazing perspectives and topics come up daily while at HBS... View Details

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Credential of Leadership, Impact, and Management in Business | HBS Online

Download full syllabus Why two paths? CLIMB is divided into two paths, New Leaders and Experienced Leaders, and the curriculum is tailored to where you are in your career. The required courses deliver the content you need to take your... View Details

10 Mar 2015
First Look

First Look: March 10

techniques for improving operating decisions during retail store liquidations and by demonstrating the performance of these methods in the field. February 2015 Leading Sustainable Change: An Organizational Perspective Making the Business... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni

HBS Alumni Conference Accelerating Climate Solutions On May 10, 2023 distinguished faculty, HBS alumni and other business leaders, investors, and entrepreneurs convened at Harvard Business School for a groundbreaking day of discussion and interaction around what it... View Details

01 Dec 2019
News

Bridging the Gap

of economic development that lifts all boats isn’t quite happening—yet. The next wave of change that needs to take place in Chattanooga isn’t as straightforward as cleaning up the city’s air or developing its waterfront, impressive and... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Josh Cochran; photographed by Melissa Golden; cross sector collaboration; local government; nonprofits; education; leadership; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

31 Aug 2021
Book

Feeling Powerless at Work? Time to Agitate, Innovate, and Orchestrate

Although CEOs hold positions of power, many can feel powerless in certain ways—particularly when it comes to influencing the behaviors and performance of their employees. Yet perhaps they aren’t taking the time to understand what drives... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

28 Nov 2005
Research & Ideas

Unilever: Transformation and Tradition

demonstrated that Unilever could make a hostile acquisition, while the acquisition of Chesebrough-Pond's two years later showed that Unilever could move quickly and decisively if it wished. Effective procedures were put in place to absorb acquired firms, which were... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products

02 Sep 2014
First Look

First Look: September 2

http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/SSRN%20-%20Org%20Sci%20Rewrite%20for%20ssrn_b75b2c22-40f6-430f-be8f-9797e71fe2ea.pdf September 2014 Journal of Economic Perspectives Management Practices, Relational Contracts and the Decline... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

31 Jul 2023
News

Striving for Imperfection

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Since he left HBS in 1990, Charles Conn (MBA 1990) has built a full and varied portfolio career. Early on, he was a partner at McKinsey and then a tech executive, founding Ticketmaster-Citysearch. Today,... View Details

Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

26 Jan 2022
News

Making Peace with Anger

did it take for you to start seeing results, both from a managerial perspective and at the firm level, but also on a personal level, and what did those results look like? What was the feedback that you were... View Details

01 Sep 2009
First Look

First Look: September 1

experience yields improved performance. Experience, however, can take many forms. Building on recent studies on learning in operations, we distinguish between repetition of task (i.e., prior experience with the task) and repetition of... View Details