Perspective Taking - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2024
News

Redefining How Businesses Operate

In her LinkedIn profile, Rebecca Hu (MBA 2023) describes herself as a “biologist-turned-technologist obsessed with building great software products.” A product manager at the language learning app Duolingo, Hu immersed herself in electives and activities centered... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

11 Oct 2023
Blog Post

A Journey of Discovery, Teamwork, and Impact with FIELD Global Immersion

DoctorNow. 2. Teamwork requires work Initially, I thought teamwork would be intuitive, especially for a group of accomplished HBS students; but teamwork takes work! As such, my team and I were intentional about getting to know each other... View Details

02 Sep 2014
First Look

First Look: September 2

http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/SSRN%20-%20Org%20Sci%20Rewrite%20for%20ssrn_b75b2c22-40f6-430f-be8f-9797e71fe2ea.pdf September 2014 Journal of Economic Perspectives Management Practices, Relational Contracts and the Decline... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Oct 2015
First Look

October 20, 2015

both partners. For the bank, the partnership with a major art institution gives access to cultural, symbolic, and social resources, which can add value to and differentiate wealth management services. From the perspective of the bank, the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Oct 2010
Op-Ed

Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

will take this perspective to address the last of the three questions raised in the previous section, i.e. is the focus on export competitiveness as the ability to export appropriate? Conceptual issues In... View Details

Keywords: by Christian Ketels

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Enrico Ferrari

Accelerator program. Taking the time to do it right Even with successes under his belt, Enrico still saw investing two years in graduate studies as a necessity. "It takes a lot of energy to run a... View Details

Keywords: Tech

07 Aug 2013
What Do You Think?

Is There Still a Role for Judgment in Decision-Making?

biases by soliciting expensive advice, which we are more likely to take seriously, for example), taking our emotional temperature (determining when our feelings regarding a decision "were triggered by... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

10 Aug 2016
Blog Post

3 Benefits of the Case Method

Through exploring various options, students effectively teach each other the merits and downsides of each course of action. My classmates offered perspectives from an incredible diversity of cultural, functional, and industry backgrounds... View Details

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Mireya Iglesias Ayala

reflections, ideas, case lessons, wisdom shared by peers and guest speakers, and memories that chart my journey of growth and discovery thus far. It's marked with routes of where I've been and where I intend to go, informed by the diverse View Details

26 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

The Office of Strategy Management

perspective on the organization. Since our focus reflects the preeminence of the Balanced Scorecard as the vehicle through which strategy is described and executed, an OSM is typically an outgrowth of a good scorecard program. Such a... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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6 Steps to Building a Better Workplace for Black Employees - Recruiting

experience for many of the black business executives included in the book Race, Work, and Leadership: New Perspectives on the Black Experience , co-edited by Mayo, University of Virginia Professor Laura Morgan Roberts, who is a visiting... View Details

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Tom Adeyemi

section, creating an environment of openness for our future discussions. What is one thing you brought with you to campus, and one thing you'll be leaving with? One thing I brought was a desire for absolute clarity on the exact steps I wanted to View Details

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Growing on the Job - Alumni

a more personally and professionally rewarding career path. Harvard ManageMentor Featured Lesson: Managing Your Boss You and your boss are critical to each other's success. Take the initiative to have the best possible working... View Details

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Negotiation Course Online | HBS Online

raise to buying a car. I am paying more attention to how my clients perceive the value of my services. I find myself rephrasing their statements to confirm their true needs. Peggy Dau Founder & Managing Partner at MAD Perspectives LLC... View Details

18 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

How New Managers Become Great Managers

who want to take on more and more responsibility over the course of their careers must ask themselves: Am I preparing myself to manage and lead? How Can We Learn To Manage And Lead? Although some of the qualities of effective management... View Details

Keywords: by Linda Hill

10 Aug 2009
Research & Ideas

High Commitment, High Performance Management

only come from the top. Develop a leadership team that embraces the values and perspective discussed here. If that means moving people out and replacing them, that must be done. Engage the leadership team in a discussion of purpose,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

29 Oct 2020
Blog Post

Delving Deeper into Development with the MBA/MPA-ID Program – a Q+A with Zainab Raji (MBA/MPA-ID 2022)

African countries. I feared that during and after the outbreak populations living in poverty would be much worse-off and new populations would fall into poverty because the outbreak was taking away lives, sources of income, foreign... View Details

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By: Matthew C. Weinzierl

My academic research centers on uncovering and closing gaps between the theory and reality of tax policy. My main contribution has been to identify and address a mismatch between the goals for taxation typically assumed in theory and the goals the public and... View Details

20 Apr 2010
First Look

First Look: April 20

customers be convinced to add their own sweat and labor to the manufacturing process? The case is written from the perspective of a start-up company seeking funding while trying to implement a novel business concept. Purchase this... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

03 Nov 2021
Blog Post

Recent Grad Reflections: From Being Cold Called to Becoming a Case Protagonist

and I were fervently taking notes throughout the discussion and gained a lot of new perspectives which will no doubt influence our decision-making process moving forward on this live case. Talent and... View Details

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