Bonding - Publications - Faculty & Research

11 Jan 2022
Research & Ideas

Feeling Seen: What to Say When Your Employees Are Not OK

should keep in mind that they may bond more with employees if they clarify that it’s acceptable for workers to express themselves, even when they feel frustrated or discontent. After all, verbalizing those emotions is often discouraged at... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

13 Mar 2023
Research & Ideas

The Power of Personal Connections: How Shared Experiences Boost Performance

performance builds off that solid foundation.” Look at wider team-building Managers may want to build on the main finding: going through rigorous training together forms bonds that benefit the patient—or the customer—by fostering mutual... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health

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)

history on my grandpa’s walking tours of Lagos Island, celebrating Eid holidays with family, and working on craft projects with my twin sister. My family bonded over storytelling. Older family members recounted tales of their past... View Details

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Investing in Emerging Industries | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

created its own closed-end investment company, the Lehman Corporation, which traded its own stocks and bonds on the New York Stock Exchange. “The management of someone elses [sic] money is a great responsibility under any conditions,”... View Details

28 Jun 2021
Blog Post

7 Things HBS Taught Me the Last 2 Years

care about who you are without any transactional expectations. Even if it’s just a coffee or a meal over the two years, it makes a difference that someone has taken the time to share their story, and in turn learn yours. These genuine View Details

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Faculty and Research - Alumni

and that they disseminate to business leaders and scholars around the world. MANUFACTURING A RENAISSANCE IN THE DEEP SOUTH A faculty excursion to the Golden Triangle helped deepen research expertise and build bonds across academic units... View Details

28 Nov 2005
Research & Ideas

Unilever: Transformation and Tradition

as a result, but also avoiding disasters. The ice cream and other foods businesses were built patiently by the acquisition of one local firm after another, and their melding into the Unilever model. Following the National Starch acquisition, larger targets were... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products

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By: Boris Vallee

Professor Vallée focuses on financial innovation, investigating it from different angles. This research thread has led him to relate the methods and insights of corporate finance and banking with those of other subfields, including household finance, public finance,... View Details

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Dillon House | About

investment bank. Dillon joined the Wall Street bond brokerage firm William A. Read & Company in 1912. Following William Read’s death in 1916, Dillon bought a majority interest in the firm; the company’s name was changed to Dillon, Read &... View Details

27 May 2015
Blog Post

What is an HBS Section?

section’s ability to bring together people who otherwise may not have ever gravitated towards each other. Where else can you find the son of a US Senator, a first generation college student from Arizona, a Canadian Olympic ping pong player, a former NFL cheerleader... View Details

01 Jun 2007
What Do You Think?

How Should Pay Be Linked to Performance?

into account the spread in pay packages between the top two executives in the organizations whose bonds it rates. Presumably, the larger the spread, the lower the bond rating, reflecting the higher implied... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

Portrait Project

Yiwei Zhao

treasure the intimacy of shared vulnerabilities—the heartbeats behind each face in the crowd. For it is in the soft echoes of my mom’s wisdom that I've come to understand that life's worth is measured less by the summits reached than by the depth of the View Details

01 Mar 2024
News

Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books You Got This! A Straightforward, No-Nonsense Playbook for Crushing 130+ Workplace Challenges By Heidi Abelli (MBA 1993) Palmetto Publishing Stepping into the corporate world can feel like navigating a labyrinth, especially when... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

28 Mar 2024
Blog Post

Empowering Future Leaders: Meet the HBS Women’s Student Association

members to Newport, RI for a fun and community-filled weekend where we toured The Breakers mansions, walked along the scenic New England cliffs, and bonded over “WSA Family” Olympics in the evening before treating ourselves to facemasks,... View Details

11 Apr 2024
Blog Post

Climate Stories: Water Series - Episode #17: Leni Peterson Redondo (HBS MS/MBA 2023), Founder & CEO of Celeste

topic is key to driving action. There seem to be few issues and topics that conjure up greater personal connection and emotion – to family, to place, or to community – than water. We hope these stories showcase a range of ways in which some alumni have connected their... View Details

06 Sep 2022
Blog Post

Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business & Environment

investment solutions ranging from green bonds and renewable infrastructure to thematic strategies that allow clients to align their capital with specific ESG outcomes. The Sustainable Investing team is responsible for ESG integration in... View Details

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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

of the Financial Management Association with Huaizhi Chen and Umit Gurun for "Don't Take Their Word for It: The Misclassification of Bond Mutual Funds" ( Journal of Finance , 2021). Lauren H. Cohen : Winner of the 2020 Best Paper Prize at... View Details

31 Jan 2007
HBS Case

When Good Teams Go Bad

Concludes Polzer, "The best teams are those that not only combine the skills of their members successfully to fit the demands of their task but also energize team members through the bonding that comes with striving toward a common... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

25 Jan 2010
Research & Ideas

A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy

regardless of the GDP. But if the nation's total output in future years is not sufficiently large, then all those stocks and bonds are going to end up being worth a lot less than expected. Total output is the key to how much we can... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

Fast Answer

How Do I Cite Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools?

When posed with the question, “What is the history of the bond market?” Chat-GPT explains, [insert AI verbatim text here] Footnote Template: View Details

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