Filter Results:
(1,012)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(1,012)
- People (2)
- News (416)
- Research (498)
- Events (3)
- Multimedia (12)
- Faculty Publications (228)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(1,012)
- People (2)
- News (416)
- Research (498)
- Events (3)
- Multimedia (12)
- Faculty Publications (228)
- 14 Mar 2007
- Op-Ed
Government’s Misguided Probe of Private Equity
and Forstmann Little & Co., have dramatically downsized or announced their intention to cease operations after experiencing investment missteps and succession problems. Meanwhile, new organizations have amassed enormous sums of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Work of Art
Jason Price (MBA 2003) in the main gallery space at NXTHVN, the art community he cofounded in New Haven’s Dixwell neighborhood Trying to capture the scope of what’s going on at NXTHVN, the nonprofit arts and community organization Jason Price (MBA 2003) cofounded with... 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
- Profile
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
- News
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
- 14 May 2009
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Teams
mastery" goals probably lead to better effects than strict "performance" goals. Good people with the best of intentions can focus so much on a stretch goal that they fail to recognize how it leads to unethical behavior and/or excessive... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 13 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Building a Village: Learning and Living at HBS
wonderful. We all understand the importance of being parents, and we strive to create thoughtful, intentional childhoods for our little ones. My friend Sarah said something to me the other day that struck a chord: "We are changing the... View Details
- June–July 2014
- Article
Language as a Lightning Rod: Power Contests, Emotion Regulation, and Subgroup Dynamics in Global Teams
By: Pamela J. Hinds, Tsedal Neeley and Catherine Durnell Cramton
Through an ethnographic study comprised of interviews with and observations of 96 globally distributed members in six software development teams, we propose a model that captures how asymmetries in language fluency contribute to an us vs. them dynamic so common in... View Details
Keywords: Equality and Inequality; Communication Intention and Meaning; Groups and Teams; Applications and Software; Emotions; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Power and Influence; Information Technology Industry
Hinds, Pamela J., Tsedal Neeley, and Catherine Durnell Cramton. "Language as a Lightning Rod: Power Contests, Emotion Regulation, and Subgroup Dynamics in Global Teams." Journal of International Business Studies 45, no. 5 (June–July 2014): 536–561.
- 16 Jul 2024
- Blog Post
Advancing Health Equity: Social Enterprise Summer Fellow Simona Stancov (MBA 2025)
have been tempted, on more than one occasion, to simply move from one pressing task to the next. Working on multiple, disparate CHAI projects in parallel has taught me to be intentional about advancing efforts that are important in the... View Details
- 01 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Retail Execs Underplay Current Performance to Investors--but Why?
mobile phones, tablets, as well as desktop computers. Do some retail executives mislead investors to win in the stock market? Source: Rawpixel Ltd Consumer activity data included counts of specific events that appeared to involve a consumer’s View Details
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
Thomas A. James, MBA 1966
position to a successor three years ago, but he continues to work 60 hours a week. His intention to slow down, or at least shift focus from RJF to his philanthropic endeavors, has not yet been realized. "There's so much I want to do," he... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 19 Aug 2021
- News
A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues
ex-wife and I with the model that he and she who much is given much is required. They know that they've always had to give back as well. My life has been very intentional relative to giving back and helping others. I believe that every... View Details
- 14 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
Celebrating Love @ HBS in 2021
circumstantial. Love is an action and a choice made with intention each day. Choosing to be in a long-distance marriage with me attending HBS and Stephen attending Michigan Ross was one of the hardest decisions we’ve had to make together.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
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
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
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
- 08 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
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
- 30 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
3 Growing Pains from my First Year at HBS: Academic, Social, and Career
meaningful for me. To achieve this, tried to be more intentional and deliberate about my learning. For example, one week, I had a post-it to remind myself not just to say something and relax afterward, but to make sure to listen for the... View Details
- January 2022 (Revised December 2022)
- Case
TotalEnergies’ Investment in Hyzon Motors
By: Vikram S. Gandhi and David Lane
In November 2021, Girish Nadkarni, the head of TotalEnergies’ corporate venture capital arm (TEV) was considering whether, and on what terms, to exit an investment in Hyzon Motors, a start-up supplier of hydrogen-powered trucks. TEV had invested $4 million in Hyzon,... View Details
Keywords: Business Units; Communication Intention and Meaning; Renewable Energy; Venture Capital; Growth and Development Strategy; Market Design; Standards; Commercialization; Investment Portfolio; Market Transactions; Energy Industry; Financial Services Industry; Transportation Industry; Europe; New York (city, NY)
Gandhi, Vikram S., and David Lane. "TotalEnergies’ Investment in Hyzon Motors." Harvard Business School Case 822-019, January 2022. (Revised December 2022.)
- 13 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Ignore This Advice at Your Own Peril
laser-focused on figuring out the best solution. So they are intent on expanding their options and gathering as much information from as many people as possible before acting. Advice seekers should keep these clashing perspectives in mind... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Jan 2020
- Blog Post
Know Your Audience - Recruiting HBS Students for Retail
launch yourself at HBS once every two years.” Being intentional about how you position yourself as an employer of choice makes a big difference over the long term. We suggest that the best first step to establish your brand at HBS is to... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail