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- 02 Jul 2014
- What Do You Think?
Are Today’s Business Heroes Challenging Our Ideas About Leadership?
to be inconsistent, if not contradictory. "In the ultimate analysis, however everything boils down to perception of the team members or subordinates or followers of the leader concerned." The importance of maintaining an open mind on the subject of leadership... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 12 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Private Sector, Public Good
board and do their part. During visits to companies, she said, executives always stress the money-making part of business. But during social get-togethers with these same executives, they admit to also being worried about the world and... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Finance in Africa: Health, Self-Interest, Avoided Future Cost
African people, businesses, cities, and nations are increasingly stressed by climate related perils like drought, river flooding, extreme heat, and sea level rise. This is already leading not just to destruction of assets but also... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Taking Time to Make Time
couple of hours every day to connect with the people in your life who should matter most. You stress the importance of reading, writing, and public speaking. Any hints? When it comes to reading, prioritize. Determine which information is... View Details
Keywords: Time management
- 25 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
Hikma Health + HBS MBAs Crowdsource Largest County-Level COVID-19 Dataset
non-flashy ways through data entry and recruitment, especially in such uncertain and stressful times, has been inspiring. And the degree to which it has happened was completely unexpected. While recruiting and managing volunteers,... View Details
- 14 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society
the difference between using new information technologies to automate and to informate. Automation strategies stress labor substitution and cost reduction. Informating strategies stress information diffusion... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
images after a traumatic event, a hallmark feature of post-traumatic stress disorder, are suggested to develop because the trauma memory is disorganized and not integrated into autobiographical memory. Unconscious Thought Theory predicts... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Are Creative People More Dishonest?
importance of being creative and innovative, it's important to make sure that you're stressing the presence of ethics, too," Gino says. "Dan and I are of the hope that managers will start thinking about how to structure the... View Details
- 24 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Who Sets Your Benchmarks?
in the Midwest, and my mother was a real estate agent who took on other work as money needs arose. They both hoped that I wouldn't have to deal with the financial stresses they had faced. They wanted me to have a nest egg. They hoped I... View Details
- 04 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Attention Medical Shoppers: What Health Care Can Learn from Walmart and Amazon
ER costs have dropped significantly. The Power Of Checklists Gawande also stressed the importance of implementing checklists in health care. (Gawande is the author of The Checklist Manifesto. Knowing that the manufacturing industry was... View Details
- 01 Oct 2009
- What Do You Think?
Can the “Masks of Command” Coexist with Authentic Leadership?
the leader shares how they actually felt or the range of emotions they were experiencing . Be who you are, lead how you prefer to be led." The importance of self-awareness in the use of "masks" was stressed repeatedly. As... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 25 Jan 2022
- Blog Post
Feeling Seen: What to Say When Your Employees Are Not OK
Maybe it goes without saying that the past two years have been stressful for employees. But new research suggests managers should say it anyway. That’s because verbally acknowledging someone else’s feelings, especially negative ones, can... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 03 Apr 2019
- News
Finding Common Ground
Education, a nonprofit that provides grants to support innovative, evidence-based practices in K–12 education. Because problems such as homelessness and underperforming schools have multiple causes, Shumway stresses that solving them... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
End of Campaign Celebrated
nationals who return home after living abroad for an extended period. In closing the celebration, Dean Jay Light noted that like many present, HBS had changed his life. “Our goal is to continue to change the lives of the young people who come here,” he observed, View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Job Interviews
is often interpreted as anxiety or lack of self-confidence. “Whether you speed up under stress or if you’re naturally a fast talker, during an interview you need to slow down.” Butler’s list of interview “don’ts” includes expressions of... View Details
- 07 Dec 2016
- Blog Post
Marketing Reimagined: A Recap of the 2016 Marketing Innovation Conference
by Always, promotes girls’ confidence, which is shown to drop during puberty. He also stressed the importance of focus – it’s better, he said, to create fewer, highly-effective campaigns instead of trying to do too much, and not doing it... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment / Media / Sports
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
A Silent Workplace Crisis
reduce the stress that worsens health. My tenure as my parents’ caregiver lasted a decade. In time, feelings of frustration, exhaustion, and grief over the loss of work that I loved and the parents I was losing were eventually replaced by... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
From Bytes to Bites
restaurants’ finances and operations. “It’s been extremely stressful since December,” she admits. Debt and loan management, meetings with her seven-person senior management team, profit and loss reports, marketing plans, management... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Ann M. Fudge
away from the day-to-day responsibilities of overseeing a division of a huge multinational corporation, she looks forward to returning to the challenges of running a business. “I really do love to work hard and solve problems,” she adds, View Details
- 11 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Paradoxical Quest to Make Food Look 'Natural' With Artificial Dyes
all-year-round—even though the true color of butter fluctuated throughout the year. “Uniformity of color was one of the qualities that butter color makers stressed to their customers,” Hisano writes, citing a 1905 advertisement in which... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel