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- 16 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business
are on the same page. The final thing I’ll say: Remote companies have well-established processes where people are socializing and no one is feeling isolated and falling through the cracks. That’s really important right now, especially with all the View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
save a marriage but one of trying to save their lives. Fighting to Belong: History of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders By Amy Chu (MBA 1999), Alexander Chang and Louie Chin Third State Books For many Americans of Asian American,... View Details
- 13 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Consumer Appeal of Underdog Branding
real-world challenges and anxieties faced by increasing numbers of Americans.” As HBS professor Anat Keinan explains, "Today, underdog brand biographies are being used by both large and small companies and across categories,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Customers Need to Hear from You During the COVID Crisis
pandemic. Consumers consider the brands they use to be trusted partners and look to them for information about the crisis and how it is affecting their companies, employees, and the products and services they provide. Brands should try to avoid communications that... View Details
Keywords: by Jill Avery and Richard Edelman
- Web
2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
crises. Participants will leave this session understanding the state of the art in identifying financial market bubbles, and how predictable crises are. Women Protagonists: On and Off the Page Carin Knoop (MBA 1994), Executive Director,... View Details
- Profile
Humbulani Dombo
half years at Anglo American, Humbulani believed she was "starting to think in one particular way, through a mining paradigm." Seeking a wider range of experience and eager to address the gaps in her business skills, she applied to HBS. "I wanted to go... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Job Interviews
considered rude in some cultures, in the United States a steady gaze conveys self-confidence, directness, and honesty. “The bar for this is very high,” Butler observes. “By trying for eye contact 90 percent of the time, you will probably... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Book Review: Hooray for the Huddled Masses
to create. But life in America, which began when he left Iran as a one-year-old, taught him about the qualities that immigrants bring to the country—perseverance, entrepreneurialism, a willingness to adapt to new cultures—that made it possible, he says, for the United... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- Portrait Project
Helen Ruiqi Zhang
ever had. I've grown up always striving to be bigger, stronger, faster. But Antarctica teaches me to be small. Here, ego is diminished and anxiety subdued. I realize a strong mind achieves and is not solipsistic; a peaceful heart aspires... View Details
- Portrait Project
Alexandra Minnis
She was beautiful: a dappled, dark-brown coat and rippling muscles to match. But it was the mischievous sparkle in her eyes that caused most of my adolescent anxiety – a sparkle that kept me constantly guessing whether Cintara was going... View Details
- 11 May 2020
- Op-Ed
Immigration Policies Threaten American Competitiveness
a vaccine to end the COVID-19 pandemic is Moderna, a Cambridge company with an immigrant co-founder and an immigrant CEO. Another firm already conducting vaccine trials is Inovio Pharmaceuticals of Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania, led by cofounder J. Joseph Kim. Kim,... View Details
Keywords: by William R. Kerr
- 17 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
New Treasury Rules Help Long-Retirement Planning
The United States Treasury recently amended its rules to encourage workers with retirement plans to purchase life annuities within these plans. Life annuities generally make fixed monthly payments from the date of retirement until the... View Details
- 12 Jun 2017
- Blog Post
Doubts about Applying to HBS
I am a first generation Mexican-American born and raised in farming and immigrant communities in Arizona. I earned my undergraduate economics degree from Arizona State University. After graduating, I worked for Bank of America Merrill... View Details
- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Time that Government Reopens for Business
Gridlock has unfortunately become a way of political life in the nation's capital. But as of midnight on September 30, things went from bad to worse with the shutdown of funding for the federal government. And as if that weren't unsettling enough, more trouble lies... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Short Takes
Relations in Organizations The workplace remains the primary locus of racial interaction in American society; as such, it is a valuable, albeit neglected area for research, write HBS associate professor David A. Thomas and Karen L. Proudford of Morgan View Details
- 09 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: ’Fortune Tellers’
book excerpt Forecasters From the introduction of Fortune Tellers: The Story of America's Economic Forecasters By Walter A. Friedman This is a book about a group of entrepreneurs who, like Evangeline Adams, identified a business opportunity in the View Details
Keywords: by Walter A. Friedman
- Profile
Kendall Brinker
answer; you have to know how to approach people to get things implemented." The section has helped Kendall overcome any anxieties she may have had about tackling business issues outside of her experience. "Without a financial... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Ink
Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges, Cuddy highlights her personal experience to introduce the concept of “presence,” the ability to generate an inner calm, authority, and confidence during times of potential stress. In high View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Changes for MBA Applicants
personally. That face-to-face interaction has enabled us to reduce much of the time, energy, and anxiety formerly expended on application essays, which used to serve as the only means of ‘getting acquainted’ with an applicant.” Leopold... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Starting Off on the Right Foot
fairly stressful. “Switching jobs is hard work,” he says. “You’re processing a lot of new information, and anxiety is normal and even healthy in a situation like that.” After a few months, he relates, “your stress level should plateau,... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg