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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
- 22 Apr 2014
- News
Business has a responsibility to solve social problems
Robert Goodwin (GMP 3, 2007), CEO of Executives Without Borders, talks about how the business community has a responsibility to help solve major social challenges. (Published April 2014) View Details
- October 1977 (Revised May 1993)
- Teaching Note
Harriman Center for Communications, Teaching Note
Keywords: Communication
- 08 Feb 2022
- Cold Call Podcast
What’s Next for Nigerian Production Studio EbonyLife Media?
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
grassroots community organizations; the increasing tendency of businesses, large and small, to identify the inner city as an untapped market; a drop in urban crime rates; and the "unshackling" of inner cities from the entrenched and... View Details
- 02 Jan 2019
- News
Not Waiting for Progress
understand the power and viability of the stories this community has to tell.” Secret or not, the formula is working. Since 2007, the number of black films showcased at Sundance has increased from 7 to 39, and Blackhouse has added... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 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
- May 2015
- Article
Review and Summary of Research on the Embodied Effects of Expansive (vs. Contractive) Nonverbal Displays
By: Dana R. Carney, Amy J.C. Cuddy and Andy J. Yap
In this comment we list the 33 published experiments based on 2,521 participants demonstrating the embodied effects of expansive versus contractive nonverbal postures. We discuss a new addition to this list that found an embodied effect of nonverbal expansiveness on... View Details
Carney, Dana R., Amy J.C. Cuddy, and Andy J. Yap. "Review and Summary of Research on the Embodied Effects of Expansive (vs. Contractive) Nonverbal Displays." Psychological Science 26, no. 5 (May 2015): 657–663.
- Article
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.
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Poverty and Security
At the IMF and World Bank Group annual meetings in October, World Bank president James Wolfensohn (MBA ’59) declared that along with its fight against terror, the global community must also address the longer-term issues of “poverty,... View Details
- March 2018
- Exercise
Does It Hurt To Ask?
Does It Hurt To Ask? (DIHTA) is an interactive exercise that pairs students (in groups of two) for a brief, spontaneous, open-ended conversation during class. Each student is given instructions to ask many questions (as many as possible) or few questions (ideally zero)... View Details
Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Communication Strategy; Perception; Information; Power and Influence
Brooks, Alison Wood. "Does It Hurt To Ask?" Harvard Business School Exercise 918-037, March 2018.
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Helping smallholder farmers feed the world
training to impoverished communities worldwide, to create healthy local economies. “More than three million children under age five die each year from preventable, hunger-related causes,” he explains. “That shocks me. I have to make my... View Details
- November 2011 (Revised June 2016)
- Teaching Note
Language and Globalization: 'Englishnization' at Rakuten (A) & (B)
By: Tsedal Neeley
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
A Bankable Trust
has performed in theater productions, at weddings and parties, and, for the last five years, in a gospel choir. "It's important to have balance in one's life," she observed. That balance also includes community service — Harris serves on... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
- Research Summary
Overview
I am a doctoral candidate in the strategy unit at Harvard Business School. My main areas of interest are organizational economics, public policy, and technology. My research is published at PNAS and forthcoming at the Journal of Financial Economics. My work has been... View Details
- 03 Jul 2018
- News
How a Passion for Travel Built a $43 Million Fashion Brand
things out of my garage. Because all the moms were crazy for it,” she said. Today, Tea is even more familiar, bringing in over $43 million of revenue in 2017. And it continues to look for ways to build connections and benefit the View Details
- 15 Mar 2010
- News
Solving the Water Challenge
Keywords: Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development