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  • 18 Jun 2013
  • First Look

First Look: June 18

influence-seeking risk managers (1) establish and maintain interpersonal connections with decision makers and how they (2) adopt, deploy, and reconfigure tools-practices that we define collectively as toolmaking. Using prior literature... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 01 Sep 2024
  • News

Alumni Books

from the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001, there were many heroic and extensive efforts to rebuild this iconic urban area in New York City. Political accomplishments, economic recovery, and community rehabilitation were urgent and... View Details
  • 28 Apr 2023
  • Blog Post

How Employers Can Support LGBTQ+ Employees

the company norms and culture.” Actively solicit feedback and listen to members of your community about their lived experience so that these practices are part of the conversation. Equity audits can also be used to bring in outside... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • October 2022 (Revised January 2023)
  • Case

Century Bank: Closing Time?

By: Lauren Cohen, Grace Headinger and Bill Kwon
Barry Sloane, second-generation Chairman, President, and CEO of his family’s bank, Century Bank, weighed whether to sell to Eastern Bank. As a small regional bank, Century faced a number of challenging trends, such as digitization and market share decline in the coming... View Details
Keywords: Family Office; Business Exit; Banking; Family; Massachusetts; Boston; United States; Acquisition; Business Exit or Shutdown; Family Business; Family and Family Relationships; Interpersonal Communication; Decision Making; Finance; Banks and Banking; Risk and Uncertainty; Emotions; Banking Industry; Boston; Massachusetts; United States
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  • 28 Aug 2019
  • Blog Post

Know Your Audience: Recruiting HBS Students for Investment Banking

She advises banks that “Students want more networking events as opposed to formal presentations. They like the interpersonal connections they can form in the 1:1 or small group interactions.” Specifically when recruiters can connect... View Details
  • 02 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 3, 2008

Centennial Issue. Harvard Business Review 86, nos. 7/8 (July - August 2008) Abstract The article reports on a study concerning team building and the fit or interpersonal congruence among team members. The study found that the performance... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • July 2020
  • Teaching Plan

Girls Who Code

By: Brian Trelstad and Amy Klopfenstein
This teaching plan serves as a supplement to HBS Case No. 320-055, “Girls Who Code.” Founded 2012 by former lawyer Reshma Saujani, Girls Who Code (GWC) offered coding education programs to middle- and high school-aged girls. The organization also sought to alter... View Details
Keywords: Communication; Communication Strategy; Spoken Communication; Interpersonal Communication; Demographics; Age; Gender; Education; Curriculum and Courses; Learning; Middle School Education; Secondary Education; Leadership Style; Leadership; Social Enterprise; Nonprofit Organizations; Social Psychology; Attitudes; Behavior; Cognition and Thinking; Prejudice and Bias; Power and Influence; Identity; Social and Collaborative Networks; Motivation and Incentives; Society; Civil Society or Community; Culture; Public Opinion; Social Issues; Information Technology; Applications and Software; Education Industry; Technology Industry; North and Central America; United States
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  • 05 Oct 2010
  • First Look

First Look: October 5, 2010

inattentional blindness. We discuss the practical implications of our findings in the contexts of interpersonal communication and public debates. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Making Difficult Decisions: The General Manager’s Job (MDD) - Course Catalog

around you, communicating that to them, gathering and considering their feedback, overseeing implementation and responding to the unexpected. Making Difficult Decisions places particular emphasis on frameworks that help managers make,... View Details
  • 02 May 2012
  • What Do You Think?

Can the “Leadership Industry” Fulfill Its Promise?

"the sense" of the many comments in responses to this month's column. Leadership involves, among other things, "competence and interpersonal skill" (David Wittenberg), "visionary" and... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • Web

Leadership Execution and Action Planning (LEAP) - Course Catalog

objectives: To enable students to get things done successfully. To understand the risks, trade-offs, and constraints leaders face when tasked with achieving results under conditions where they have limited skills, time, and resources available. To develop the... View Details
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Value Judgments: Business Ethics Across Borders

plants. After much debate around the choice of technology," she continues, "the company reexamined its concerns about the environment and realized they originated in a broader commitment to social responsibility. Managers then began working with the local... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
  • 10 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 10

3). These results add to the literatures on both Gricean conversational norms and goal-directed attention. We discuss the practical implications of our findings in the contexts of interpersonal communication... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2008
  • News

The Levitt Brand

Robert Sullivan (MBA ’61). “Levitt made me a convert. He taught that marketing is the guts of any business, that it’s critical to understanding the connection between sales, manufacturing, finance, human resources, and interpersonal... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 12 Jun 2012
  • First Look

First Look: June 12

shared value: focus on relationships, not on transactions, by using pricing to communicate that you value customers as people; set prices proactively to discourage detrimental behavior and to encourage behavior that is beneficial to both... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Dec 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018

Mitigating Malicious Envy: Why Successful Individuals Should Reveal Their Failures By: Brooks, Alison Wood, Karen Huang, Nicole Abi-Esber, Ryan W. Buell, Laura Huang, and Brian Hall Abstract—People often feel malicious envy, a destructive View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 16 Nov 2021
  • News

Getting Back Together for Global Networking Night; Healthcare Conference Draws New Interest

Plan, Drake is leading a comprehensive strategy for inclusive excellence throughout the HBS community of faculty, staff, students, alumni, and other constituents. Organized by HBSAAA copresidents Sara Clarke (MBA 1997) and Lewis Long (MBA... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 19 Mar 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Do I Dare Say Something?

As every company knows, employees are its greatest resource. It's more than a shame, then, that many workers are either not encouraged or afraid to speak up and communicate ideas at work. Employers are losing valuable knowledge and... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
  • Web

Data: The Ever-Expanding Frontier - Race, Gender & Equity

worldviews and ways of operating are directly informed by the circumstances of our lives. Many employers have facilitated implicit bias tests that help team members understand the deeply entrenched nature of our interpersonal... View Details
  • 01 Nov 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Companies, Cultures and the Transformation to the Transnational

have reinforced strong Japanese cultural norms that emphasized group behavior and valued interpersonal harmony. Such values carried over into the country's commercial organizations and helped shape distinctive management styles and... View Details
Keywords: by Christopher A. Bartlett & Sumantra Ghoshal