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- 02 Jan 2014
- News
The Power to Change
and the stresses on the planet's environment he saw in places like India and Africa, helped to shape his next move. Fast forward to a TEDx New England Conference, when he first saw grad students Mark Massie and Leslie Dewan. Russell... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
The Network Effect
opportunities. With so many people feeling helpless in the wake of the pandemic, Kapoor stresses that medical researchers need a huge volume and a wide variety of volunteers, not just those who have had the virus. “The more who sign up,... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Silent Killers: Overcoming Barriers to Organizational Learning
implementing strategy are at the heart of an organization's leadership, they are almost never discussed -- turning them into "silent killers." CEOs and general managers can overcome these six natural stress points -- which exist in almost... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 16 Jul 2014
- HBS Case
Marketing Obamacare
segment consumers into four different groups: Confident Rejecters, Cautious Optimists, Stoic Skeptics, and Stressed and Strained. The agency then created different messages for each one—for example, emphasizing affordability for the... View Details
- 20 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Airplane Design Brings Out the Class Warfare in Us All
sensitive to hierarchy, and research shows that feeling low status can make people feel stressed and angry” “People are exquisitely sensitive to hierarchy, and research shows that feeling low status can make people feel View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
What’s Next for You?
cautioned that those who are used to corporate perks often underestimate the challenges associated with work in other fields. “You need to be realistic about the degree of difficulty,” stressed Tierney. “In nonprofits, for instance, lack... View Details
- 03 Jan 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
5 Career-Related New Year’s Resolutions (and 5 Tips for Keeping Them)
get to do those jobs is not expanding,” says Robert Simons, the Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. “People feel more pressure to own their roles and they’re stressed because they’re being... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- Web
Video Clips & Discussion Questions - Creating Emerging Markets
Ltd., explains how her bridal business revived the traditional craft of embroidery in India in the 1960s and '70s. Questions for Discussion The clips stress the continuing difficulty of dealing with government bureaucracy in the region in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Ink
risk, causing us to perform better in job interviews, for instance, and generally configuring our brains to cope well in stressful situations, she says. Her 2012 TED Talk on power posing, with 30 million views, is the second-most viewed... View Details
- 28 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Meet Professor Elisabeth Paulson: A Conversation on Life, Research, and Teaching
lucky enough to continue doing at HBS. How has your teaching experience been at HBS so far? What do you like most about the case method and classroom experience? I just finished my first semester of teaching, and it was an amazing experience. Yes, teaching for the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Ink: Miami’s Dark Neon Era, the Language of Success, and Getting Psyched Up
Michael Norton and Assistant Professor Alison Wood Brooks, offer useful advice gleaned from years of research on “reappraisal”—reconsidering a situation to change its emotional force—and ritual. Get excited “People have this really strong intuition to try to calm down... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Inside MBA Admissions
diverse: 35 percent are female, 33 percent are international representing 73 countries, and 21 percent are minorities. The median age is 27. Such diversity is essential to prepare MBAs to live and work in a global economy, Dewey explains. For all the change she has... View Details
- Profile
LaToya Marc
Growing up in small towns in Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas, LaToya Marc found her passion for social justice tempered by the practical need to make a decent living. "I was raised by a single mother who stressed the importance of... View Details
- Profile
Damali Brown
undergraduate. "A lot of the distinguished speakers who came to visit Spelman had MBAs, many of them from Harvard," she says. "I equated excellence early on with having an MBA from HBS." Reflecting on her background, Damali observes that while... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Value Added
first non-Westerner to hold that position) in 1994 at the age of 45, Gupta stresses that his duties bear little resemblance to those of a corporate CEO. "The partners in the field make most of the operational decisions and bear most of... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Getting on Board
she leads a popular series of “On Board Bootcamp” seminars for aspiring board members. (The next is June 26–27 in New York City.) Both women stress that launching a successful board career requires some preliminary research. “You have to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Revitalizing America
"near-peers," helping kids to stay in school and on track. City Year was founded by Harvard Law School graduates Alan Khazei and Michael Brown with Jennifer Eplett Reilly (MBA 1990). Similarly, health care could use paraprofessionals to bolster a View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 08 Nov 2024
- Op-Ed
How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis
African people, businesses, and nations are becoming increasingly stressed by climate-related perils like droughts, river flooding, extreme heat, and rising sea levels. This is leading not only to the destruction of assets but also challenges to lives and... View Details
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Climate Symposium 2024: Confronting Reality, Celebrating Innovation - Blog - Business & Environment
“Evaluating the Role of Nature Based Solutions in the Climate Challenge”, panelists explored how nature-based solutions can be leveraged to address climate challenges. Janna Jiang , Sr. Manager of Corporate Strategy at Rubicon Carbon , View Details
- 12 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Religion and Business Learn From Each Other?
yourself and what you can deliver. All these things are typical stresses in the business environment. Where would religion fit in there? Well, religion could fit in a number of ways. One is, first of all, the personal perspective, that... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace