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- 01 Jun 2014
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Ready for Takeoff
Photographed by Luciano Munhoz From her São Paulo office, Claudia Sender (MBA 2002) has a clear view of the Octávio Frias de Oliveira Bridge, a spectacular 450-foot-tall structure of yellow steel cables laid over an X-shaped support tower that spans the Pinheiros River... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Earl “Butch” Graves Jr. (MBA 1988)
can address the wealth gap that exists in this country. It doesn’t require a PhD, but it does require a sense of moral obligation. I believe if I can give you positive energy, you’ll return it. That’s the approach I bring to management View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 02 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Secrets to a Successful Social Media Strategy
Why are people so drawn to social media? The question long haunted Mikolaj "Misiek" Piskorski and eventually led to his new book, A Social Strategy: How We Profit from Social Media. Drawing from years of research dating back to before... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
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Training Course in Personnel Administration: 1937 - 1944 | Baker Library
study of the motivation which underlies behavior." (4) The curricula included economics, sociology, guidance, government, and educational psychology. Portrait of Edith G. Stedman, ca. 1921. Radcliffe College... View Details
- 10 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Homers: Secrets on the Factory Floor
A factory worker uses company time and materials to fashion a lamp he will take home for personal use—an artifact called a "homer." The practice is probably illegal and clearly against written... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Seth Klarman
incentives for the people involved. What’s amazing is that anybody actually bought them. That’s because they’re created with a one-dimensional idea of what the economy and the world are going to do. If you... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Winning Legally
a common language? Top management needs to place a higher value on legal literacy. Training and incentives are important. Potential problem areas can vary depending on industry View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
HBS Is Committed to Increasing Alumni Engagement
engagement. Alumni focus groups and interviews have been conducted around the world to better understand the motivators and barriers to alumni engagement View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Kruti Patel Goyal (MBA 2004)
My parents were in the hospitality business. They owned a motel, so we grew up working at the business as well as living at the business. I remember vividly some moments of really intense stress. And it was because my parents took a lot of risk to build the business.... View Details
Keywords: Sarah Wyman
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Blake Landro
Motivated to make a difference in the world, Blake Landro seriously considered law school. But while working at a law firm after college, Blake found that he “liked the business side of the firm more than the law itself.” He felt a career... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Star Search
function of having an engaged and motivated workforce. So how do you keep talent engaged and motivated? There is a table stakes component that I believe is compensation... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 26 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Neuroscience Tells Us About Consumer Desire
or even how much they will pay for an item. But they aren't very good at accessing where that value comes from, or how and when it is influenced by factors like store displays or brands.” Most humans are a little more complicated than... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
30, 1975). “In our very first class he opened my eyes to how people are motivated to make decisions. Before, I thought as an engineer — the best attributes and the best price sells the product. From that day... View Details
- 29 Sep 2015
- Blog Post
5 Leadership Lessons from the First Year at HBS
The first few weeks of the first year at HBS can certainly be overwhelming: meeting 900 new people, learning how to prepare for cases and how to jump in at the right time in class, managing an influx of social events, determining which... View Details
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Management Training Program: 1945 - 1955 | Baker Library
of a working group and interaction between groups, always in specific situations." (1) One class focused on the Hawthorne experiments, then under the direction of HBS Professor Elton Mayo. The famous study, which looked at the needs View Details
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Admissions Resources - Doctoral
articulate their academic goals, research interests, and motivation for pursuing a PhD. Watch this video to learn more about the difference between your statement of purpose View Details
- 04 Oct 2018
- News
“A Shout Through Time”
"Are you Tim Perzyk? And was a gentleman named Richard Perzyk, who died about 70 years ago at the end of World War II, your grandfather?" At which point, I felt that Piero had shared enough information to clearly have some insight into my... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
what motivated her to write The Dressmaker of Khair Khana. “I think stories are the best way to reach people you otherwise couldn’t,” she says. “But storytelling is just a start; you then have to mobilize people View Details
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Entrepreneurial Sales 101: Founder Selling - Course Catalog
and incent sales teams. CLASS REQUIREMENTS Preparation and class participation are a requirement. We will cold call students to open each class. Every class is associated with... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Books
includes tempering ambition, inspiring others with a greater purpose, and not violating values. The authors cite Mohandas Gandhi and Cesar Chavez as leaders who were able to View Details