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13 Jun 2016
News

JetBlue Chairman on How to Handle Betrayal

(Big Think) (Big Think) Over at Big Think—described as “a YouTube for ideas,” and cofounded by Victoria R. Montgomery-Brown (MBA 2003)—JetBlue Chairman Joel Peterson (MBA 1973) offers advice on how to cope with betrayal. Betrayal, Peterson says, comes with giving... View Details

01 Dec 2006
News

Student Benefits from Class of 2006 Fellowship

Originally intent on going to law school in order to work for educational change, Goldberg determined that she would have a bigger impact on education by gaining management skills. “I looked around and saw that many of the people I... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services

27 Apr 2017
News

Going with the Flow

enabled parents to store their newborn’s umbilical cord blood as a source of stem cells—was her first foray into entrepreneurship. Fisher’s father, however, was reminding her that good intentions need solid financial underpinnings to be... View Details

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Design: At, Into, & Beyond - Race, Gender & Equity

Just Digital Future Design: At, Into, & Beyond Digital Initative Dan Mall on defining "good" design. Dan Mall on defining "good" design. Digital Initative Intention Our Just Digital Future interview series has put us in conversation with... View Details

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Dave Vitello

with a five-year-old.” Although his professional intention is to move from accounting to a more strategic leadership role, HBS is very much a family affair. “It’s important that this be a full family experience,” says Dave. Brita has... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services

01 Jun 2003
News

HBS Releases First-Ever Financial Report

“Our intention with this report is to increase transparency and respond to any questions our alumni may have.” Highlights from the report include: HBS operates year to year on a relatively narrow operating margin — 2.5 percent of revenues... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

08 Dec 2009
News

Don’t Scare the Bankers

a replacement for his original HBS diploma, lost during the tumult of the Cultural Revolution. That upheaval saw Mr. Ji, a BOC official in Shanghai, get banished to the provinces for ten years. But those bad days were over, he assured this cub reporter in an interview,... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Finance; Offices of Bank Holding Companies; Management

September 2007
Article

(Noisy) Communication

By: Bharat Anand and Ron Shachar

Communication is central to many settings in marketing and economics. A focal attribute of communication is miscommunication. We model this key characteristic as a noise in the messages communicated, so that the sender of a message is uncertain about its perception by... View Details

Keywords: Communication Intention and Meaning; Interpersonal Communication; Cost vs Benefits; Marketing Communications; Performance Improvement; Mathematical Methods

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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

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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

01 Dec 2020
News

Find Your Maximum Sustainable Goodness

community, city, our country, than the pain of outsiders,” he says. We can increase our aggregate good in the world by redirecting our intentions to support people farther afield who are struggling with basic human needs. Max Bazerman is... View Details

01 Sep 2018
News

Action Plan: Rapids Growth

1971—had grown into one of the most admired brands in its industry. The founders were intent on seeing the company they’d built live on, a hope that aligned with Holley’s goals: to buy something to maintain for the long term, and to find... View Details

Keywords: Ryan Jones

06 Apr 2022
News

5 Principles of Purposeful Leadership

01 Mar 2017
News

Research Brief: Lost in Translation

In an increasingly global business world, English is the lingua franca that tethers companies and their investors together. Executives without a deep fluency in English could be costing their companies more than they realize. According to a recent paper coauthored by... View Details

Keywords: Erin Peterson

22 Aug 2013
News

The Impossible Mayor of the Possible

Keywords: Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

07 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Three Steps for Crisis Prevention

It's all too easy, of course, to play Monday-morning quarterback when things go terribly wrong. That's not our intent here. We readily admit that many surprises are unpredictable—that some bolts out of the blue really do come out of the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael D. Watkins & Max H. Bazerman

01 Mar 2017
News

Encouraging Young Entrepreneurs

previous role as the founding partner of Suffolk Equity Partners, Martignetti enjoys the passion that young entrepreneurs—many of them HBS graduates—bring to their endeavors. “I like working with teams intent on pushing to make their... View Details

30 Sep 2024
Blog Post

Reunions: Accelerating Climate Solutions with Professor Jim Matheson (MBA 2001)

the challenges inherent in this transition. HBS alumni, faculty and students are well positioned and will be critical in providing this leadership, but we must continue to focus intently to ensure Harvard leads the world forward on this... View Details

01 Mar 2024
News

Research Brief: The Real Cost of Countering China

Illustration by Patric Sandri Over the last five years, global supply chains have come under unprecedented stress from the pandemic, natural disasters, geopolitical events, and general anti-globalization sentiments. Nowhere is this more evident than in the trade... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers; Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing

Student-Profile

Filippo Mezzanotti

high, classes are engaging, and professors are always happy to advise students on research and coursework. After HBS The path to the end of the Ph.D. is still very long, but my intention is to pursue a career in research. View Details

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