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- 2012
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Talk, Inc. : How Trusted Leaders Use Conversation to Power Their Organizations
By: Boris Groysberg and Michael Slind
How can leaders make their big or growing companies feel small again? How can they recapture the "magic"--the tight strategic alignment, the high level of employee engagement--that drove and animated their organization when it was a start-up? As more and more... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Interpersonal Communication; Organizational Culture; Social and Collaborative Networks; Spoken Communication
Groysberg, Boris, and Michael Slind. Talk, Inc. How Trusted Leaders Use Conversation to Power Their Organizations. Harvard Business Review Press, 2012.
- 2024
- Working Paper
Categorical Processing in a Complex World
By: Marco Sammon, Thomas Graeber and Christopher Roth
In real-world news environments, quantitative information is rarely presented in isolation; it is characterized through qualitative comparisons with various reference levels. Company earnings, for example, are commonly compared to analyst forecasts, previous earnings,... View Details
- 21 Sep 2016
- News
Leadership in Motion
Activities such as building a community playground, running neighborhood associations, chairing the Scarsdale planning board, and serving locally as president of the League of Women Voters—all while starting and running her own consulting... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Creating more effective content across all media
Associate Professor Thales Teixeira’s research into the economics of attention explores the ways in which companies can better communicate with buyers of goods and services in a marketplace cluttered with messaging across all media.... View Details
- March 2019
- Article
Antitrust as Speech Control
By: Hillary Greene and Dennis Yao
Antitrust law, at times, dictates who, when, and about what people can and cannot speak. It would seem then that the First Amendment might have something to say about those constraints. And it does, though perhaps less directly and to a lesser degree than one might... View Details
Greene, Hillary, and Dennis Yao. "Antitrust as Speech Control." William & Mary Law Review 60, no. 4 (March 2019): 1215–1267.
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
HIV/AIDS and Business
employees, you risk more than workers dying,” agrees Ballou-Aares. “You risk losing your customers, your markets — the complete disintegration of communities where you operate.” Experts concur that China is the next potential hot spot for... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Contributing to a Better Future
understand what business is and can be doing, and then get that research out into the community of practitioners. BUSINESS AS A FORCE FOR GOOD IN SOCIETY READ MORE STORIES BUSINESS AS A FORCE FOR GOOD IN SOCIETY READ MORE STORIES Over the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- June 1988 (Revised December 1991)
- Case
IBM Computer Conferencing
Applegate, Lynda M. "IBM Computer Conferencing." Harvard Business School Case 188-039, June 1988. (Revised December 1991.)
- 22 Jun 2023
- News
Book Smart
issues across the nation were laid bare. “We’ve brought all of the tools we’ve built to underserved communities right here in our own backyards,” observes Risher. Thus far, Worldreader has reached 19 million readers in 48 countries. The... View Details
- 04 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
Think of it as Professors in Cars Having Coffee
that's more accessible? Moon: We're hoping for multiple byproducts. One is that we hope that people will feel a connection to HBS. It's a way to bring the community together in conversation a little bit, but it's also absolutely a way to... View Details
- November 2008 (Revised August 2010)
- Case
Whole Foods Acquires Wild Oats (A)
Examines the implications of Whole Foods' CEO's anonymous message board postings including its potential impact on the company's proposed merger with Wild Oats. View Details
Keywords: Forms of Communication; Acquisition; Communication Strategy; Retail Industry; Food and Beverage Industry
Kimbrough, Michael D., Sudhakar Balachandran, Madhav Srinivasan, and Rachel Gordon. "Whole Foods Acquires Wild Oats (A)." Harvard Business School Case 109-029, November 2008. (Revised August 2010.)
- April 1980 (Revised March 1993)
- Exercise
Interactive Exercises
By: Howard Raiffa
Keywords: Interactive Communication
Raiffa, Howard. "Interactive Exercises." Harvard Business School Exercise 180-143, April 1980. (Revised March 1993.)
- 05 May 2020
- News
“Walking a Tightrope”
Kristof, most of which have focused on poverty in developing countries. But in the Pulitzer Prize-winning duo’s latest book, Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope, they turn their lens on working class communities in the United... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Jackie Adams
news. Now interested in “moving from success to significance,” Adams says, “I’m working in the nonprofit sector as a consultant to create wealth for minority communities as well as bring together companies and individuals to turn the... View Details
- April 1986 (Revised December 1988)
- Case
Massimo Menichetti
Examines different alternatives for the introduction of telemation and computer aided design in a small firm. The issues involve what extent of cooperation is required by different firms so that a telecommunicative interchange between them becomes effective. View Details
Jaikumar, Ramchandran. "Massimo Menichetti." Harvard Business School Case 686-135, April 1986. (Revised December 1988.)
- 04 Feb 2016
- News
From Super Bowl to STEM Bowl
and give middle school students a window into the tech future. Members of the HBS Association of Northern California's Community Partners Program worked with the Santa Clara Office of Civic Innovation (OCI) to launch the Technology and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Lesson Plans
one that will depend on investments by the business community to accelerate innovation and the capacity of technology to support great teaching. It can't happen quickly enough." "Education is our generation's civil rights cause. It is the... View Details
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Visual Attention to Powerful Postures: People Avert Their Gaze from Nonverbal Dominance Displays
By: Elise Holland, Elizabeth Baily Wolf, Christine Looser and Amy Cuddy
This paper investigates whether humans avert their gaze from individuals engaging in nonverbal displays of dominance. Although past studies demonstrate that both humans and nonhuman primates direct more visual attention to high-status others than low-status others,... View Details
Keywords: Nonverbal Behavior; Eye-tracking; Dominance; Nonverbal Communication; Interpersonal Communication; Power and Influence
Holland, Elise, Elizabeth Baily Wolf, Christine Looser, and Amy Cuddy. "Visual Attention to Powerful Postures: People Avert Their Gaze from Nonverbal Dominance Displays." Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 68 (January 2017): 60–67.
- 27 Apr 2022
- News
Following the Flow of Aid
support being rushed to some and others being ignored,” McKenna says. Indeed there have been reports of Africans and other minorities like Ukrainian Romani communities being turned away at the border. To address that, Mercy Corps has set... View Details
- 1978
- Book
Interpersonal Behavior
By: Anthony Athos and John J. Gabarro
Athos, Anthony and John J. Gabarro, eds. Interpersonal Behavior. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1978.