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  • 01 Aug 2002
  • News

Dan Geffken (MBA '87)

Five years ago, Dan Geffken had every intention of attending his 10th Reunion — he was the organizer of his section's party. Days before the festivities were to begin, however, he and his wife, Brenda, received a phone call informing them... View Details
  • 31 Aug 2022
  • News

Leading with Confidence in Uncertain Times

  • 14 Dec 2021
  • News

Gaslighting at Work—and What to Do About It

  • 07 Sep 2021
  • News

Alumni Perspective: The Morning After 9/11

By Rick Zedník (MBA 2002) “Good morning,” our professor, Frances Frei, greeted us at 8:40 a.m. on September 12, 2001. Slowly pacing at the front of the lecture hall, lip quivering, she followed those two words with twenty seconds of silence. “I rehearsed so that this... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2005
  • News

A Matter of Opinion

Victor Navasky of The Nation magazine has spent his life taking on the Establishment. So what did he hope to accomplish at Harvard Business School? Call it what you will — the conventional wisdom, the status quo, the official line — and chances are you’ll find Victor... View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • October 2024 (Revised March 2025)
  • Teaching Note

BWX Technologies

By: Suraj Srinivasan and Yuan Zou
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 124-071. View Details
Keywords: Transformation; Communication Intention and Meaning; Business and Shareholder Relations; Valuation; Diversification; United States; Canada
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  • 2016
  • Working Paper

Managers' Cultural Background and Disclosure Attributes

By: Francois Brochet, Gregory S. Miller, Patricia Naranjo and Gwen Yu
We examine how a manager’s ethnic cultural background affects managers’ communication with investors. Using a sample of earnings conference calls transcripts with 26,430 executives from 42 countries, we find that managers from ethnic groups that have a more... View Details
Keywords: Disclosure Tone; Individualism; Conference Calls; Ethnic Group; Management Style; Communication Intention and Meaning; Ethnicity; Corporate Disclosure; Financial Reporting
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  • September 1991
  • Background Note

Persuasion

Examines the principles that apply in any persuasive business situation. Describes how to analyze the goals and audience; how to devise a persuasive message; and how to execute a persuasive strategy in writing, presentations, and larger corporate communication tasks. View Details
Keywords: Business or Company Management; Communication Intention and Meaning; Interpersonal Communication; Communication Strategy
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  • 12 Jul 2023
  • News

The Simple Power of Communicating with Kindness

  • 14 Jul 2023
  • News

LinkedIn Co-Founder Reid Hoffman on Innovating Amid Volatility

  • 03 Jun 2021
  • News

What It Takes to Run a Great Hybrid Meeting

  • 27 Nov 2020
  • News

Managing Someone Whose Life Has Been Upended

  • 20 Feb 2014
  • News

Managing the World’s Trouble Spots

good intentions but poor results. Had those good intentions been directed in a different and more sustainable manner, it could have made a big impact,” he says. Another compelling lesson in good, if... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
  • Portrait Project

Brian Elliot

I remember sitting against a tree at summer camp listening intently to a counselor who, with her guitar, taught me a song that I still sing to myself every day. It put a three-line ancient rabbinical teaching to a simple tune: "If I... View Details
  • 09 May 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Hold or Fold? Sizing Up Business Risk

intent going forward. And then we go back for another heart check, just as we did in step 1, the Big Goals, to make sure that we don't have hidden emotion loops pulling us toward an option that is less likely to help us reach the goals we... View Details
Keywords: by Eileen C. Shapiro & Howard H. Stevenson
  • 29 Apr 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Is the Digital Age Making Us Petty?

attentiveness to trivial details,” as defined in a recent research study, can drag down relationships, result in recriminating behavior, and ruin the good intentions behind very generous donations. On the flip side, leaving room for error... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 11 Jun 2001
  • Research & Ideas

E-Commerce Unplugged

Companies that spent decades understanding consumer-buying psychology traditionally assumed that specific products could satisfy discrete consumer needs. Now, they will need to define consumers by their fundamental life intentions (the... View Details
Keywords: by Nitin Nohria & Marty Leestma
  • Portrait Project

Carolyn Wintner

husband, the dinner parties I love to throw, or my long-term intention to have children. I thought to work successfully with the guys, I always had to be like them. It's time to finally put my Frank mask away for good. It’s time to be... View Details
  • 07 Aug 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, August 8, 2018

Intent By: Schroeder, Juliana, Jane L. Risen, Francesca Gino, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—We examine how a simple handshake—a gesture that often occurs at the outset of social interactions—can influence deal-making. Because handshakes... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • Career Coach

Troy Peterson

an uncommon intention for a military veteran with a history degree: to jump into the tech world and work in product. After working through challenges getting & preparing for tech interviews, Troy joined a team at Facebook building... View Details