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- 24 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 24
adequacy, actuarial standards, accounting standards, and auditing practice. In these areas, corporate managers and financial experts such as auditors and bankers possess the technical expertise necessary for informed regulation, enjoy... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019
which transparency can backfire. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55804 forthcoming PS: Political Science & Politics Informal Institutions and Survey Research in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq By:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Smart Cities are Complicated and Costly: Here's How to Build Them
Chombosan Much promotion of smart cities assumes that municipalities will take a proactive, top-down, technology-first approach to urban progress. Thus far, these initiatives look for some forward-thinking city official (or immensely deep-pocketed private investor) to... View Details
- 22 Feb 2024
- News
GCC Crossroads Aims for a Bright Future; Seattle Alumni Talk Leadership in Tech; Italy Preps for European Alumni Summit
government, and NGOs, sharing insights on a range of issues including health care, national talent, food security, and sustainability. They also talked about the role of the private sector in meeting goals of Vision 2030, the impact of View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 May 2017
- Research & Ideas
Bad At Your Job? Maybe It's the Job’s Fault
not intuitive for managers. So Simons created a solution: a free online job design optimization tool that allows companies to plug in information about a particular job to test whether the person in that role is getting the right mix of... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- Profile
Kiran Gandhi
turning to her for leadership. She would have answers because of the flexibility and creativity that an MBA can teach you – the ability to pull from different hard and soft skill sets and apply them to dynamic problems. My goal at HBS is... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment/Media
- 09 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
OneTen: Creating a New Pathway for Black Talent
degrees, a particularly important credential in America. “Many people see the four-year degree, in effect as a proxy for the hard and soft skills that are necessary to be successful in the workplace,” Frazier said in the Bain interview.... View Details
- Blog
What Black Executives Really Want
information that might later be used against him. Safety in the workplace comes when your colleagues feel engaged with you, listening, communicating, understanding, and acknowledging you. Another aspect of safety came from seeing others... View Details
- 18 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
Warning: Scary Warning Labels Work!
consumers are veering away from soft drinks, so they are already adding healthier alternatives to their product lines. "There could be situations where graphic warning labels could make people feel badly about themselves, so are we... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
@Soldiers Field
soft gloss paint. To top it off, the building’s dome and finial were cleaned and resurfaced with new 23½-karat gold leaf. The academic year kicked off with a heated competition known as RC Field Day. Sections vied for domination in... View Details
Keywords: Georges F. Doriot
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
South Florida and Minnesota Launch Community Programs
“Alumni are an untapped resource for our communities, and HBS clubs can be a bridge between the two,” says Levy. “In today’s soft economy, there is a particularly urgent need for private–sector best practices to be brought to bear on... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
A Matter of Opinion
Christopher Hitchens, a surprising Iraq war advocate, quit in a huff in 2002, accusing the magazine of being soft on Saddam. Firebrand columnist Alexander Cockburn remains on board, but derides The Nation as only “slightly left of center... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
A Constructive Summer at HBS
the surface for the right level of tackiness before laying down the gold leaf." After pressing on the paper-thin strips of gold, Pawlick burnished the dome with a soft brush before giving it a final polish. Built in 1927, the Baker... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 17 Feb 2022
- News
A Big Bet
certificate courses in IT support, data analytics, project management, and user experience design. In addition to hard skills, the training partners will provide support and guidance in soft skills such as collaboration and communication.... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
companies in South Africa and abroad, and sheds a light on the harsh realities of corporate environments. Drawing on her years of experience and research, the author argues that many young Black professionals struggle early on in their careers as they lack the... View Details
- 09 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Fearing Fox News, Democratic-leaning Companies Delayed Negative Announcements
releasing information that Fox News Channel could use to attack them in the months leading up to the election. Specifically, the firms chose to delay releasing disappointing financial information until the... View Details
- 07 Aug 2018
- News
DreamBox Learning Breaks New Ground
friction”—being hard on ideas, but soft on people. "In a start-up, you don’t know what tomorrow will bring, so you have to be constantly learning and be adaptive with your colleagues. You might think you have a role to play, but you have... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Stanford Lets Students Customize
leads off with a quarter of required “Management Perspectives” courses designed to provide students with an integrative overview of management challenges and to develop soft leadership and communication skills, including courses in... View Details
- 21 Dec 2018
- News
Bridging the Gap
most crucial in today’s world have very little to do with what’s being taught in a lecture hall. We like to say that the traditional soft skills—empathy, self-awareness, resilience, creativity—are actually the power skills of the future.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Richard J. Stillman (MBA 1940)
a soft side, too, and that’s what he used most with his staff. We were completely loyal to him. I also give talks in Europe and all over America on Dow Jones, the stock market, and, of course, my old boss. I’ve been fortunate to have a... View Details