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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Kenny Appointed Chief Marketing Officer
Brian Kenny, who has nearly twenty years of experience in marketing and communications at universities and firms such as Monitor, Genuity, and Arthur D. Little, has been named chief marketing and View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
34,000 Pages and Counting
fleeting sense of community created by the experience. Upon graduation, he continued, we miss the togetherness of our campus years. “It’s the togetherness that people thrive on,” he said, providing the answer I was looking for. For HBS... View Details
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Balancing Progress and Preservation
real estate community should exercise its greatest fantasies at the expense of our architectural heritage.” For additional reading, see Lloyd Zuckerberg—impact profile. (Published September 2015) 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.)
- 11 Feb 2015
- News
Dedicated to a public service mission
details about the projects in which he is involved. The goal is “job growth and to ensure we can have a more viable middle class.” “We’re dedicated to improving people’s lives,” he says. Hunt’s commitment to community began while serving... View Details
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Kwame Owusu-Kesse
balance of hard and soft skills-analytical frameworks, evidence based reasoning, communication and listening skills-provided great preparation for both internship summers, and will serve as important tools moving forward as I try to... View Details
- 27 May 2021
- News
History’s Future
oil, a plant extract used in cosmetics. “Our community agenda is starting to show some promise,” AlMadani says. “But there’s a long journey [ahead] for us to do what we should do for the community.” Building a tourism sector from scratch... View Details
- Article
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.
- 14 Nov 2015
- News
A Message to HBS Alumni in France
find alumni who live or work in the region. (Login required.) During tragic times, we hope that the HBS community can be one of comfort, connection, and assistance. Our thoughts and best wishes are with you all. Sincerely, William A.... View Details
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The Errors of Experts: When Expertise Hinders Effective Provision and Seeking of Advice and Feedback
By: Ting Zhang, Kelly Harrington and Elad Sherf
To be effective, experts need to simultaneously develop others (i.e. provide advice and feedback to novices) and advance their own learning (i.e. seek and incorporate advice and feedback from others). However, expertise, and the state of efficacy associated with it,... View Details
Keywords: Expertise; Self-efficacy; Feedback; Perspective Taking; Cognitive Entrenchment; Interpersonal Communication
Zhang, Ting, Kelly Harrington, and Elad Sherf. "The Errors of Experts: When Expertise Hinders Effective Provision and Seeking of Advice and Feedback." Current Opinion in Psychology 43 (February 2022): 91–95.
- February 1997
- Background Note
Principles of Effective Persuasion
Summarizes six principles of effective persuasion. A rewritten version of an earlier note. View Details
Keywords: Interpersonal Communication
Ibarra, Herminia M. "Principles of Effective Persuasion." Harvard Business School Background Note 497-059, February 1997.
- October 1974 (Revised November 1975)
- Background Note
Understanding and Helping Another Person
By: John J. Gabarro
Keywords: Interpersonal Communication
Gabarro, John J. "Understanding and Helping Another Person." Harvard Business School Background Note 475-039, October 1974. (Revised November 1975.)
- July 1981
- Background Note
Data Channels, Technical Note
Keywords: Communication Technology
Cash, James I., Jr. "Data Channels, Technical Note." Harvard Business School Background Note 182-021, July 1981.
- 14 Dec 1999
- Research & Ideas
From Spare Change to Real Change: The Social Sector as a Beta Site for Business Innovation
healthy communities. Traditionally, businesses have supported the social sector in two different ways: they contribute their employees' time for volunteer activities, and they support community initiatives with money and gifts in kind.... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 18 Apr 2018
- News
Into the Light
Energicity. “Modern life, as we know it, is impossible.” Poindexter has seen the human and economic costs of “energy poverty” firsthand in rural Ghana. There, her startup is working to bring solar power to communities where highly... View Details
- 09 Mar 2023
- News
Four Alumni Clubs Mark Milestone Year
feature a video documentary of the club's 75th year, a time capsule, a presentation on the history of the club, recognition of the pro-bono work done by its Community Partners program, commemorative gifts, and even a few signature... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Students Take Aim at Foreclosures
Last spring four HBS students traveled to Minneapolis to visit the nonprofit Homeownership Preservation Foundation (HPF), which counsels people who are facing foreclosure on their homes. Meeting with HPF officials, the students discussed the nonprofit’s strategy,... View Details
- April 2019
- Article
Mitigating Malicious Envy: Why Successful Individuals Should Reveal Their Failures
People often feel malicious envy, a destructive interpersonal emotion, when they compare themselves to successful peers. Across three online experiments and a field experiment of entrepreneurs, we identify an interpersonal strategy that can mitigate feelings of... View Details
Brooks, Alison Wood, Karen Huang, Nicole Abi-Esber, Ryan W. Buell, Laura Huang, and Brian Hall. "Mitigating Malicious Envy: Why Successful Individuals Should Reveal Their Failures." Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 148, no. 4 (April 2019): 667–687.