Impression Management - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 Aug 2014
News

A Diversified Portfolio

Professor Janice Hammond, the Jesse Philips Professor of Manufacturing at HBS, was named to the fund's advisory board. "The Women's Venture Capital Fund was referred to me by two highly regarded HBS professors, and it was that referral—together with the View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

Web

'Boomerasking': The Annoying Habit Ruining Your Office Conversations | Working Knowledge

trouble of sharing about ourselves and the other person doesn’t follow up, it undermines those perceptions.” In a business context, managers who chronically boomerask are often seen as self-serving and can make colleagues feel they’re not... View Details

07 Jul 2022
Blog Post

Pathlight: Reimagining the Developer Onboarding Experience

information on how to prioritize, is limited in its human support, and makes them feel overwhelmed. Engineering managers shared that they lack the blueprint for successful onboarding, feel nervous to slow their existing team down further... View Details

16 May 2018
News

ALUMNI NVC Finals and Regional Roundup

clubs across the globe spent the last year recruiting teams, coordinating the pitch events, identifying judges and assembling impressive prizes of cash and in-kind services to find the best competitors to send to the final stages. For the... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

12 Dec 2016
HBS Case

Business Lessons from Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson

little more familiar to MBA students: she studied finance and marketing at the University of Miami, worked at Merrill Lynch, and founded her own wealth-management firm, all before Dwayne asked her to take over the management of his... View Details

Keywords: Re: Anita Elberse; Motion Pictures & Video; Entertainment & Recreation

25 Mar 2022
Blog Post

ClimateCAP 2022

On February 26, 2022, a cohort of HBS MBA students attended ClimateCAP, the Global MBA Summit on Climate, Capital, and Business. This year, ClimateCAP was hosted by Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management and drew over 260... View Details

16 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

Earnings Calls That Get Lost in Translation

reaction on capital markets. It was written by Harvard Business School assistant professors Gwen Yu and Francois Brochet, with MIT Sloan of Management doctoral student Patricia Naranjo. Although targeted at foreign executives, the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

08 Sep 2011
What Do You Think?

What’s Apple’s Biggest Challenge: Replacing Steve or Wall Street?

Summing Up The first impression I get from respondents to this month's column is that Steve Jobs can't be replaced as CEO of Apple by just one person. Rather the succession must include at least a head of design (according to Yadeed Lobo)... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Computer

15 Nov 2013
News

Helping Bright Ideas Shine Again

companies I invest in." Laguë's own desire for active involvement is really what he calls his "entrepreneurship gene" kicking in. "I've always had a bent for the finance side, but I also like to play a strong role in building companies, putting teams together, and... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

05 Jun 2000
What Do You Think?

What’s Happening to Our Patience?

at managing waiting, having long since concluded that guests to its theme parks spend far more time waiting than participating in various activities. Guests are willing to wait longer when they are diverted or entertained, when they know... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

31 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

The New CEO’s Wrong Message

defensiveness in colleagues and subordinates. Second-guessing a senior manager can demoralize and demotivate not only that person but others around him, while eroding his authority and confidence. What's more, the need to overrule a... View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter, Jay W. Lorsch & Nitin Nohria

01 Jun 2019
News

City on a Hill

Education Leadership Project (PELP), a collaborative effort with the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) that employs management concepts and entrepreneurial strategies to improve student performance in large school districts. But... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Clay Cook

26 Jul 2016
Research & Ideas

Where will Pokémon Go with Your Personal Information?

app’s success has striking implications for a number of industries. Willy Shih is the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Management Practice in Business Administration at Harvard Business School and spent 28 years in industry at IBM,... View Details

Keywords: Re: Willy C. Shih; Video Game; Entertainment & Recreation

02 Nov 2020
News

The First Five Years: Julianne White (MBA 2017)

hunger-relief organization in New England and among the largest food banks in the country. I had an opportunity to speak with Catherine D’Amato, GBFB’s CEO, and I was incredibly impressed with the organization’s vision for the future. It... View Details

01 Feb 2000
News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

alumni and their spouses who are moving into a new career phase). This committee is looking at possible additions to these programs and how best to manage them given existing faculty and space resources. It is particularly interested in... View Details

Keywords: Edmund A. Hajim (MBA '64)

22 Jun 2009
Research & Ideas

“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms

regulator to seek out and manage systemic risks regardless of the kind of financial institution posing it. Paulson affirmed his support for the idea in a March 18, 2009, op-ed article in the Financial Times. In January, an international... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Banking; Financial Services

10 Nov 2008
Research Event

Social Media Leads the Future of Technology

capital firm Accel Partners; Susan L. Decker (HBS MBA '86), president of Yahoo! Inc.; and Eric Kim (HBS MBA '81), senior vice president and general manager of Intel Corporation's Digital Home Group. The first computer, the ENIAC, cleared... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

18 Jun 2001
Lessons from the Classroom

Why Leaders Need Great Books

"Blessed Assurance" is a story that often leaves a strong impression on the MBA students who take his course, called The Moral Leader. Like many other works of literature in The Moral Leader, both fiction and non-fiction,... View Details