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Eight Steps to Board Success for Female Executives

Search Firms the Right Way Networking is the most common path to a board seat, but search firms handle about 20-25% of board placements. Keep in mind that your current search firm contacts may work more with executive opportunities than... View Details

28 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Racism and Digital Design: How Online Platforms Can Thwart Discrimination

people tend to use whatever option is set up as the default, so resetting default options with inclusivity in mind can be a useful strategy. Companies can also consider increasing the prominence of their anti-discrimination policies to... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Travel; Entertainment & Recreation; Service

11 Apr 2022
Research & Ideas

A World of Difference: What Keeps Companies from Becoming More Inclusive

traffic controller and the first officer; everybody’s perspective was brought in. He considered many alternatives when most of us would have focused on the obvious one. He had this beautiful habit of mind that every time he walked into... View Details

Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint

29 Nov 2021
Research & Ideas

How Bonuses Get Employees to Choose Work Over Family

performance-based incentives are integral to many workplaces and can be effective in motivating employees. But with research showing that many employees are working even longer and harder than usual during the pandemic, managers should be View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Kim Raczka

16 Oct 2018
Blog Post

2 Tips to Beat Imposter Syndrome

the professor locked eyes with me and called my name, the negative thoughts rushed in like a flood. I was an engineer before business school; I know absolutely nothing about marketing. Didn’t she know I was an admissions mistake? My mind... View Details

22 Oct 2021
Research & Ideas

Want Hybrid Work to Succeed? Trust, Don’t Track, Employees

workers over the past several months, Neeley says managers should keep three things in mind as they develop long-term plans for hybrid work. 1. Trust in employee autonomy While working from home, employees have enjoyed an unprecedented... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Organizing the Family-Run Business

resolve issues that crop up. Each member of the board will typically have a different experience base and a unique perspective on the business, but all members of the board should have in mind the same responsibilities. The primary duties... View Details

30 Jun 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

The Role of Emotions in Effective Negotiations

derailing a negotiation, but also in helping both sides come to better agreement. "To strip away emotions wouldn't be desirable," says Wasynczuk —even if it could be done. "Emotions are an expression of how people are processing information, and can give... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Entertainment & Recreation; Sports

09 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations

offer opportunities for learning they would have to entail enough variety of content to generate novel or problematic situations that trigger the itch of curiosity. It is this itch in the incumbent's mind that activates the drive to... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria

19 Jan 2024
News

The Values and Virtues of a Quick Fix

just came to mind is the young CEO of the Momofuku restaurant group. Her name is Marguerite Seybar Mariscal. What I love about her as a storyteller is she's not afraid to use all kinds of different media. So yeah, she's telling the story... View Details

28 Jan 2020
Book

Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking

over and over, “We believe in you.” Repetition helped overcome the negativity bias—that it takes five positives to overcome one negative. She reinforced her optimistic message in actions as well as words; showing up face-to-face in a principal’s office was one... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

17 Feb 2022
Book

When Employees Feel a Sense of Purpose, Companies Succeed

of subduing individuality and ensuring conformity. Culture offers an inexpensive and informal way of regulating behavior that is all the more effective because it occurs inside the minds of employees and relies on peer pressure as a... View Details

Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati

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The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2023

Healthy Minds by philosopher John Kaag. This book is a fantastic summary of the life and work of William James, the father of modern psychology, and a professor right here at Harvard. James endured intense personal struggles and is known... View Details

09 Aug 2023

2+2 Program and Admissions Virtual Information Session

Do you know where an MBA can take you? Open your mind to the breadth of career opportunities available in business and feel the flexibility of the MBA degree. Come learn more about the MBA program at HBS including the 2+2 Program, a... View Details

12 Oct 2022
Blog Post

11 Stories from HBS PRIDE for National Coming Out Day

Feeling that the gun had been aimed at me too, I was scared and felt alone in this world. No one knew what was going through my mind these days, because no one knew that I could have been there myself that night. While I was scared about... View Details

07 May 2014
What Do You Think?

How Should Wealth Be Redistributed?

France and, as a result, whether our host's family would remain in the country. We discussed it sitting near a priceless painting by a master with only a few examples of his work in private hands. This was all brought to mind by the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Dec 2018
News

In My Humble Opinion: Growth Investor

Cedric Bobo (MBA 2004) was bitten by the business bug at the age of eight, when he visited his mother, who was a secretary at FedEx’s Memphis office. “I was drawn to the creative, all-hands-on-deck energy of the place,” he says. “In 1983, FedEx was reinventing domestic... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

23 Oct 2019
Blog Post

How to Talk Gooder in Business and Life

cognitive demands on your brain—we suffer from egocentrism because our minds are too busy monitoring our own behavior and the behavior of those around us to fully understand what others are thinking. What does egocentrism trip us up on... View Details

11 Oct 2023

HBS Information Session at University College London