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- 14 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
What You Can Do to Create an Anti-Racist Organization
history I’m asking folks to seek out is a history that unfolded on top of people who are still alive.” Be Intentional with Language Another key focus of Manso-Brown’s work is being intentional about... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- Portrait Project
John Paul Andree
sweeping generality in a far-off future. It is immediate and intentional – to serve others even in the smallest gestures and fleeting interactions. I will always remember this. And remember the icy water below. View Details
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Content & Community for Students | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
by-product, but as an intentional outcome that motivates me to get up and go to work every day. Molly: To me, social enterprise means any organization that purposefully seeks to combine positive social and environmental impact with... View Details
- 2024
- Working Paper
Priors, Experiments, Learning and Persuasion in (Bayesian) Entrepreneurial Finance
By: Ramana Nanda
At the heart of entrepreneurial finance lies a persuasion challenge: regardless of
the strength of an entrepreneur’s belief in the potential of their idea, they typically
need to convince investors to provide the financial capital required for its... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurial Finance; Business Startups; Communication Intention and Meaning; Prejudice and Bias
Nanda, Ramana. "Priors, Experiments, Learning and Persuasion in (Bayesian) Entrepreneurial Finance." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 25-020, October 2024.
- 28 Oct 2020
- News
How to Lead in a Crisis
- Web
IT Strategy: Building a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Strategy for HBS IT | Information Technology
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, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) Task Force was formed in November 2022... View Details
- Editorial
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
Serafeim, George. "Elon Musk's Unusual Compensation Plan Isn't Really About Compensation at All." Harvard Business Review (website) (May 1, 2018).
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
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
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Action Plan: Whole Sale
individualized content that is less permanent. Think TikTok, not Facebook: “Understanding how to talk to them using their technology and their language is really important.” Be intentional about your values. The consumption-to-conviction... View Details
- 10 Feb 2014
- News
King of His Castle
hopes in the near future to focus full time on the Renaissance empire he has built and is intent on expanding. "I get to apply my business skills to the building of the company, but my passion for it hasn't diminished at all," he says.... View Details
- Article
When Dreaming Is Believing: The (Motivated) Interpretation of Dreams
By: Carey K. Morewedge and Michael I. Norton
This research investigated laypeople's interpretation of their dreams. Participants from both Eastern and Western cultures believed that dreams contain hidden truths (Study 1) and considered dreams to provide more meaningful information about the world than similar... View Details
Keywords: Anchoring; Attribution; Dreams; Motivated Reasoning; Unconscious Thought; Communication Intention and Meaning; Judgments; Values and Beliefs; Information; Behavior; Cognition and Thinking; Motivation and Incentives
Morewedge, Carey K., and Michael I. Norton. "When Dreaming Is Believing: The (Motivated) Interpretation of Dreams." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 96, no. 2 (February 2009): 249–264. (Winner of Society for Personality and Social Psychology. Theoretical Innovation Prize For an article or book chapter judged to provide the most innovative theoretical contribution to social/personality psychology within a given year presented by Society for Personality and Social Psychology.)
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Action Plan: Finding Fluency
Photo courtesy of Cammie Dunaway Photo courtesy of Cammie Dunaway Every day of 2020, Cammie Dunaway (MBA 1990) has practiced her French using the Duolingo app. “It is something positive I can do for myself,” Dunaway says of the hobby she has maintained throughout... 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
Kirgios, Erika L., Aneesh Rai, Edward H. Chang, and Katherine L. Milkman. "When Seeking Help, Women and Racial/Ethnic Minorities Benefit from Explicitly Stating Their Identity." Nature Human Behaviour 6, no. 3 (March 2022): 383–391.
- 26 Jul 2023
- News
Overcoming Your Fear of Giving Tough Feedback
- 11 Jul 2023
- News
What the Best Leaders Know — and What Skills They Develop
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
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
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
BOOK: You Can't Enlarge the Pie
interest groups); "Live for the moment" (condoning present behavior that negatively affects the future); and "No pain for us, no gain for them" (resisting change that, over time, would benefit the majority, out of concern that it might hurt a minority in the short... View Details
- 10 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
What You Can Do to Create an Anti-Racist Organization
until his 30s. The history I’m asking folks to seek out is a history that unfolded on top of people who are still alive.” Be Intentional with Language Another key focus of Manso-Brown’s work is being View Details
- Portrait Project
Abhi Sharma
privilege, not a right. I recognize that meaningful change will have to be organic, evolutionary. I came to HBS with the intent of creating for others the opportunities that were granted to me. I also know that this passion to shape a... View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
Michael F. Cronin, MBA 1977
“I wish more alumni could get to know the students we meet at the annual fellowship dinners,” says Michael F. Cronin, a former HBS Fund Chair and longtime supporter of fellowships at HBS. “I’ve met idealists who are committed to social enterprise, line managers View Details