Intention - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jan 2022
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Family Ghosts in the Executive Suite

30 Oct 2020
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Tough Macho Leadership Is Over. Here’s What’s Taking Its Place.

19 Oct 2020
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Today’s Leaders Need Vulnerability, Not Bravado

01 Jun 2020
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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

15 Jun 2021
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Turning Point: Tell Me More

Illustration by Gisela Goppel Illustration by Gisela Goppel By Diane Hessan (MBA 1977) My entire career has been a series of pivots: a friend who convinced me to join his firm, a conversation on an airplane that turned into a new job, a middle-of-the-night idea that... View Details

Keywords: politics; communication; voting; demographics

03 Mar 2016
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3-Minute Briefing: Pamela Meyer (MBA 1986)

(photo by Cade Martin) At my 20th HBS reunion I heard faculty member Michael Wheeler describe behavior people engage in when they’re being deceptive. The room was transfixed. No one was on their phone! It turned out there is a robust, well-funded body of... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

20 Apr 2016
Research & Ideas

When CEOs Become Activists

debate about gay rights in Indiana” To investigate, Toffel and Chatterji designed an experiment to gauge whether mentioning Cook’s concerns about the RFRA influenced public support for the law, and whether Cook’s opinion affected consumers’ View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Publishing

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

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

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

Student-Profile

Anastassia Fedyk

Having grown up in Berkeley to an academic family, some of my earliest interactions with economists came from the behavioral economics seminars. I am as fascinated by this field now as I was then, and my intention has always been to... View Details

25 Feb 2022
Blog Post

Climate Stories

Actionable Climate Literacy Climate Stories Episode #12: Vehicle to Everything - Claire Broido Johnson (MBA 2002), Chief Operating Officer of Fermata Energy Climate Stories Episode #13: Democratizing Climate Returns - Nisha Desai (HBS 1997), Founder and CEO of Invest... View Details

01 Feb 1998
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A Player's View: Gord Kluzak (MBA '98)

High above the gleaming ice surface of Boston's FleetCenter, Gord Kluzak (MBA '98) gazes down intently at the fast-paced action between the Boston Bruins and the Pittsburgh Penguins. No ordinary spectator, Kluzak is an Emmy Award–winning... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner

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Building a Culture of Awareness and Accountability in your Organization - Recruiting

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 language. “Language creates worlds and we need to be as... 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

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