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31 Aug 2022
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Leading with Confidence in Uncertain Times

14 Dec 2021
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Gaslighting at Work—and What to Do About It

07 Sep 2021
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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
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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

01 Sep 2005
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Will He or Won’t He?

Cox will undo much of what his predecessor, William Donaldson (MBA ’58), accomplished during his two-year tenure; others aren’t so sure. Quoting unnamed “people familiar with his thinking,” the Financial Times (June 29, 2005) said of Cox that he had “no View Details

Keywords: Government

27 Jun 2022
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How Can I Build Credibility with My Team?

24 Jan 2023
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Guy Raz on What Great Business Leaders Have in Common

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IT Strategy: Building a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Strategy for HBS IT | Information Technology

their latest strategic plan, HBS IT wanted to dedicate an effort to building a more intentional program to engage and support the organization in advancing this work and so this initiative was born. The Solution The Justice, Equity,... View Details

11 Jun 2001
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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

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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

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Joel Shapiro Untitled 2003 | About

collection. Many of Shapiro’s large bronze sculptures, including Untitled , are first made in wood, serving as patterns for the versions cast in bronze. The original wood grain remains in the final bronze casting; the artist’s intention... View Details

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When Seeking Help, Women and Racial/Ethnic Minorities Benefit from Explicitly Stating Their Identity

By: Erika L. Kirgios, Aneesh Rai, Edward H. Chang and Katherine L. Milkman

Receiving help can make or break a career, but women and racial/ethnic minorities do not always receive the support they seek. Across two audit experiments—one with politicians and another with students—as well as an online experiment (total n = 5,145), we test whether... View Details

Keywords: Support; Marginalized Communities; Personal Development and Career; Equality and Inequality; Identity; Race; Gender; Communication Intention and Meaning

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26 Jul 2023
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Overcoming Your Fear of Giving Tough Feedback

11 Jul 2023
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What the Best Leaders Know — and What Skills They Develop

01 Sep 2009
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MBA Oath Maintains Momentum

Conceived and implemented in the closing weeks of the 2009 academic year, the HBS student-inspired MBA Oath has continued to grow and gain support both at the School and beyond. Spearheaded by Max Anderson (MBA ’09) above, at right and a group of his classmates, the... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management

01 Mar 2017
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Encouraging Young Entrepreneurs

previous role as the founding partner of Suffolk Equity Partners, Martignetti enjoys the passion that young entrepreneurs—many of them HBS graduates—bring to their endeavors. “I like working with teams intent on pushing to make their... View Details

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Elon Musk's Unusual Compensation Plan Isn't Really About Compensation at All

By: George Serafeim

Earlier this year, Tesla shareholders approved likely the largest compensation package ever awarded to a CEO—for a CEO who clearly doesn’t need the money. Elon Musk is already incredibly rich and also doesn’t seem particularly motivated by further wealth. So why do it?... View Details

Keywords: Tesla; Elon Musk; Innovation; Investor Communication; Investor Relations; Short-termism; Long-termism; Disruption; Executive Compensation; Business and Shareholder Relations; Communication Intention and Meaning; Mission and Purpose

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01 Jun 2001
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A Match Made in Heaven

he was named CEO. Intent on having Samuel Adams perceived as a world-class product, Roper wants to move Boston Beer beyond its image as a local craft-brewer. “We’re already distancing ourselves from that,” he observed. “We need to take... View Details

Keywords: Samuel Adams; The Boston Beer Company; Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

30 Oct 2019
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Creating Agents of Change

decades of their lives, from the time they're 3 until they're 24, with the intent to help them break the cycle of poverty. We operate in some of the most poverty-stricken areas, serving about a quarter of a million children in 10... View Details

06 Mar 2017
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Why Comparing Apples to Apples Online Leads To More Fruitful Sales

a “shopper’s” purchase intent when the display items were matched was significantly higher than the person’s purchase intent for mismatched products. In another experiment, participants were asked to make a... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail; Advertising

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