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- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Raising the bar for financial literacy
Nan Morrison (MBA 1987) is intent on making children financially and economically literate. As CEO of the Council for Economic Education (CEE), a New York–based national nonprofit, she trains more than 55,000 teachers nationwide annually,... View Details
- November 1978 (Revised January 1995)
- Case
McGregor's Ltd. Department Store
President has decided to restructure the discount scheme. Every staff member would be affected, good or bad. Information would have to be tailored to each group--worst off would be managers. Task is to write to managers/supervisors. View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Communication Intention and Meaning; Compensation and Benefits; Retail Industry
Raymond, Thomas J. "McGregor's Ltd. Department Store." Harvard Business School Case 379-059, November 1978. (Revised January 1995.)
- 10 Oct 2022
- News
Getting Along
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Century Marked
Photo courtesy of Baker Library Historical Collections The HBS Alumni Association was formally founded on May 15, 1914, its constitution declaring the group's intention to "advance the interests and to increase the usefulness of the... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 27 Apr 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
enabled parents to store their newborn’s umbilical cord blood as a source of stem cells—was her first foray into entrepreneurship. Fisher’s father, however, was reminding her that good intentions need solid financial underpinnings to be... View Details
- 06 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Flood of Picassos Threatens to Water Down the Art Market
children and eight grandchildren, Marina Picasso ended up with some 10,000 of her grandfather's productions, and sent waves across the art world in February by announcing her intention to make many of them available for sale to the public... 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
- Portrait Project
Jorge-Luis Leon
better for me to stay in Ecuador. I still believe they had the best intentions that day. I believe they feared how hurt I could be if I fell short and didn’t achieve my dream. To be honest my dream scared me too. But that day I chose to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Iron Lady
Development Bank, Oteh is now the director-general of Nigeria’s SEC and the country’s chief financial regulator. At a conference in London in September, Oteh revealed her intention to strengthen the country’s capital markets in order to... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 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
- 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
Brochet, Francois, Gregory S. Miller, Patricia Naranjo, and Gwen Yu. "Managers' Cultural Background and Disclosure Attributes." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-027, October 2016.
- 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
Hattersley, Michael E. "Persuasion." Harvard Business School Background Note 392-012, September 1991.
- 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
- 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