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

November 7, 2017
Article

Temporary Sharing Prompts Unrestrained Disclosures That Leave Lasting Negative Impressions

By: Reto Hofstetter, Roland Rüppell and Leslie John

With the advent of social media, the impressions people make on others are based increasingly on their digital disclosures. Yet digital disclosures can come back to haunt, making it challenging for people to manage the impressions they make. In field and online... View Details

Keywords: Disclosure; Privacy; Self-presentation; Impression Formation; Behavior; Perspective; Internet and the Web; Social Media

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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

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

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

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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

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

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

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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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

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

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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

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

10 Mar 2015
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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

17 Feb 2022
Book

When Employees Feel a Sense of Purpose, Companies Succeed

What’s a company’s purpose? Too often it has been hijacked by one extreme or the other claiming it’s either the unbridled pursuit of profit on behalf of shareholders or it’s anything but profit. I also take issue with the idea that... View Details

Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati

01 Mar 2024
News

Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books You Got This! A Straightforward, No-Nonsense Playbook for Crushing 130+ Workplace Challenges By Heidi Abelli (MBA 1993) Palmetto Publishing Stepping into the corporate world can feel like navigating a labyrinth, especially when... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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

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