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  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Right from the Start: Common Traps for the New Leader

authority until people feel like they know you." Coming In With The Answer New leaders who show up with a single answer for complex organizational problems usually do so out of arrogance or insecurity, or because they believe they must appear View Details
Keywords: by Dan Ciampa & Michael D. Watkins
  • 17 Aug 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Who is Boss in the Sharing Economy?

promoting themselves with custom-based profiles and setting their own fees, in direct contrast to the traditional consultancy model of companies like McKinsey & Co. that trade on the power of their corporate brand. A key question for... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Service; Technology
  • Web

Systems for Scaling Ventures (SSV) - Course Catalog

decisions (e.g., through performance assessments), (c) promote peer-to-peer feedback (e.g., through enterprise social networks), and (d) engage employees in developing new ideas and best practices (e.g.,... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2012
  • News

Straight to the Heart

That’s my philosophy. I think about all the angst around deciding about the first job to take, post-HBS. It’s nothing compared to the decision of who to marry! You can do many things to change your professional circumstances, but there’s... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; marriage; social media; matchmaking; Personal Services
  • 01 Dec 2007
  • News

Faculty Books

also knows its people, suppliers, customers, and future direction. Bower describes the inside outsider’s attributes and reveals how to recruit, nurture, and promote this special type of leader. With a healthy supply of qualified internal... View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 22 Jan 2025
  • Blog Post

Career Risks and Professional Growth: Finding a Fulfilling Career with Paige Arnof-Fenn (MBA 1991)

promotional items—had nothing to do with finance. She told me that what I was describing was marketing. That conversation helped me realize it was time to chart a new course. At HBS, I leaned into marketing, taking courses and building a... View Details
  • 27 May 2020
  • Research & Ideas

What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID

distribution of face masks and the promotion of their use, are winning strategies in this battle. As other countries begin to reopen their economies, how can they apply these lessons to combat COVID-19? Proactive testing and tracing As... View Details
Keywords: by Doug J. Chung; Health
  • 01 Jan 2008
  • News

James D. Wolfensohn, MBA 1959

decisions managers must make.” ADVICE TO STUDENTS “Spend at least as much time focusing on people as you do on numbers.” ON LEADERSHIP “Too many of our leaders fail to translate macroeconomic trends into human experience. Increasing... View Details
  • 12 Jan 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 12

actions. Combining supermarket scanner data with firm-level financial data, we find evidence that differs from prior literature. Instead of reducing expenditures to boost earnings, soup manufacturers roughly double the frequency and adversely change the mix of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Jun 2018
  • News

Skydeck Live: The Science of a Meaningful Life

people. There was a study that was done on Fortune 500 executives, trying to figure out why some of them got promoted fastest. And the only commonality that could be found is that executives who tended to succeed faster than their peers,... View Details
  • 03 Aug 2010
  • First Look

First Look: August 3

managerial engagement in process improvement promotes the latter. Our findings suggest that particular management practices can influence front-line workers' decisions about whether to speak up and that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jun 2001
  • News

Leng Lim: The Spiritual Face of Business

(UWC) in New Mexico, a two-year high-school program that promotes international understanding among students from over eighty countries. “I met people who were very different from me, from the Soviet Union, South Africa, and Eastern... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services
  • 22 Jan 2025
  • Blog Post

Career risks and professional growth: Finding a fulfilling career with Paige Arnof-Fenn (MBA 1991)

conversation with a friend during a post-banking trip helped shift my perspective. When she asked me what I liked most about my finance job, my answer—running ads, planning events, and creating promotional items—had nothing to do with... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 01 Sep 2017
  • News

Turning Point: Getting to Giving

was also very practical: After I graduated, my husband and I would be living on one salary while he went to business school. When he graduated, we decided to continue to manage our money as if only one of us was working. I didn’t realize it then, but that View Details
Keywords: Amalya “Ami” Campbell (MBA 1997); Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance
  • 30 May 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 30

Investment Promote Growth? By: Alfaro, Laura Abstract—Among the prominent economic trends in recent decades is the exponential increase in flows of goods and capital driven by technological progress and a falling number of restrictions. A... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Rewiring the Workplace: Behavioral Economics and the Future of Inclusive Organizations - Blog: RGE Report

both a subfield of economics and a framework through which to look at our society, specifically at the overlap between economic decisions and the psychology of decision-making. It is well-established that human beings are biased thinkers,... View Details
  • Profile

Hayling Price

you look at neighborhoods of persistent poverty, you see failures, not just of policy, but of markets. To lead the kind of change I see, I needed a different set of skills. To speak truth to power, I need to use the language of markets to View Details
Keywords: Financial Services; Nonprofit/Government/Education
  • 01 Jun 2015
  • News

Alumni Take Action to Improve US Competitiveness

Skills”—has generated much interest nationally in the role of business in closing the skills gap. The Walmart Foundation, for example, cited the research in its recent decision to grant $100 million over the next five years to... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson; Walmart; Health, Social Assistance; Retail Trade
  • 01 Mar 2015
  • News

The Next Big Swing

in 1987, the game puts players in the manager’s seat, letting them make tactical decisions against a mathematical model that determines outcomes based on everything from how a batter has historically fared against a certain pitcher to the... View Details
Keywords: Andrew Clark; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information
  • Web

Getting Things Done: Motivating Yourself and Others - Course Catalog

their own productivity and effectiveness Have the skills to build and manage effective incentive systems, whether based on monetary compensation or based on other forms of rewards, that tap into people's underlying motivations and promote... View Details
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