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Joel Shapiro Untitled 2003 | About

collection. Many of Shapiro’s large bronze sculptures, including Untitled , are first made in wood, serving as patterns for the versions cast in bronze. The original wood grain remains in the final bronze casting; the artist’s intention... View Details

April 1993
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Prodigy Services Company (B)

By: Lynn S. Paine

Describes the actions taken by Prodigy executives. View Details

Keywords: Communication Intention and Meaning; Conflict Management; Status and Position; Equality and Inequality

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10 Dec 2021
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African American Student Union Spotlight on the Midwest

business and leadership experience. How has your experience growing up in the Midwest shaped your values and leadership style? People in the Midwest are genuinely nice and I am extremely grateful to come from a region where kindness is valued. This has shaped me to... View Details

19 Feb 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

Amazoned: Is Any Industry Safe?

announced earlier this month intention to join megapartners Warren Buffett and JPMorgan Chase on some still mysterious project in the fastest-growing market of them all, health care. These stories from our archive suggest the great impact... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

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Jennifer DeWhitt

intentional with my decisions, rather than let inertia take me wherever. I can't optimize around other people's metrics." In her current role, Jennifer supports Bain's private-equity group with investment landscape analyses and... View Details

01 Mar 2018
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Research Brief: A Path to Moral Management

people with good intentions do things that look, for a lack of a better word, stupid,” he says. Finally, Soltes suggests creating opportunities for norm reinforcement throughout careers, allowing people to really live what they learn in... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

26 Jul 2016
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July 26, 2016

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes Overcoming the Outcome Bias: Making Intentions Matter By: Sezer, Ovul, Ting Zhang, Francesca Gino, and Max Bazerman Abstract—People often make the well-documented mistake of paying too... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Feb 2009
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In Praise of Marketing

additional millions of poor people to buy in. As prices have fallen, Asian brands such as Asus and Acer of Taiwan have gained share while IBM sold its PC business to Lenovo. “Critics of marketing tend to overestimate the level of View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Advertising

08 Mar 2021
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Building Influence Without Authority

07 Oct 2020
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CEOs, Don't Let Fear Sink Your Leadership

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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

01 Sep 2004
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Outsourcing for Radical Change

distinctive aspects of transformational outsourcing. First, senior management has the explicit intention of transforming the organization, and secondly, the impact of the change is measurable at the enterprise level. Why should HBS alumni... View Details

Keywords: Laura Singleton; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Mar 2004
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Ex-Con Talks Ethics with HBS Students

where he opened a lucrative financial practice. His downfall came in 1989 when a business acquaintance invited him to join in a bond-trading scheme involving the state of Oklahoma. In addition to skirting the intent of some laws, Kuhse,... View Details

Keywords: Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government

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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

06 Mar 2017
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Why Comparing Apples to Apples Online Leads To More Fruitful Sales

a “shopper’s” purchase intent when the display items were matched was significantly higher than the person’s purchase intent for mismatched products. In another experiment, participants were asked to make a... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail; Advertising

01 Dec 2001
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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

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

08 Sep 2021
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Socioeconomic Inclusion at HBS: Joshua Mbanusi (MBA 2021)

a place where someone like me can enter and feel a strong affection and affinity? How do we signal that this is an institution that on its surface could be exclusionary but has resisted that impulse by taking intentional efforts to make... View Details

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