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- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Depression or Euphoria? Navigating the Market’s Mood Swings
hammered home the need for companies to return to stressing the basics: hiring good people, producing a good product, delivering it and supporting it. For the first time in history, he said, companies have an unprecedented amount of data...
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by Carrie Levine
- 25 Mar 2021
- News
Alumni Honor Nitin Nohria and Support His Legacy
million to the School in his name. With characteristic humility and honoring a process set by his predecessor, Dean Jay Light, Nohria stressed the importance of allocating these funds to advance the future priorities of his successor,...
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- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Lillian Lincoln Lambert, MBA 1969
Naylor Fitzhugh (MBA 1933), one of the first African-Americans to graduate from HBS, changed Lambert's life. He stressed that business was a way for blacks "to control our destiny," recalls Lambert. She became a student assistant to...
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- 17 Apr 2019
- Blog Post
Making Sabbaticals Mainstream Series: Marty
why the policy was created, what he would do differently if designing one from scratch, and his recipe for a successful sabbatical. In 2000, Summit was seeing stress among its employees, especially in its partners. Summit’s sabbatical...
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- 03 Dec 2015
- Op-Ed
How "New Nuclear" Power Could Save the Planet—If Regulators Would Allow It
Leaders from some 150 nations have convened in Paris this week for the COP21 conference with a singular goal: to fight the global threat of climate change. Each of them have brought to Paris their own national plan for reducing greenhouse gas emissions that drive...
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- 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...
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- 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...
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- 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...
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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...
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- 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...
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Deborah Blagg
- 03 Jul 2018
- What Do You Think?
Should CEO Satya Nadella Cancel Microsoft’s Contract with ICE?
stressed the importance of developing “that deeper sense of empathy and compassion for everything around you” and finding “meaning in our work work that will improve other people’s lives.” These were significant departures from the...
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- 22 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Name Your Price. Really.
deal in two ways: In the first description, they stressed that the shop offered great coffee with great value and efficient service, setting up an exchange norm. In the second, they emphasized that the servers always offered a warm...
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- 27 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Horrible Boss Workarounds
stresses the importance of zooming—the ability to view the world through an adjustable lens as the situation demands, examining particular details in certain situations and maintaining a broad view of the mission in others. Talented...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 31 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Taking the Fear out of Diversity Policies
the dynamics, what facilitates it." The Importance Of Comparison In Diversity Studies The researchers also stress the importance of comparing minorities with similarly situated nonminorities in an organization, so as to differentiate...
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by Carmen Nobel
- Profile
Ruzwana Bashir
add an extra dimension of stress and a need for extraordinary levels of persistence. However it is pretty amazing to create something from scratch and control your own destiny, so I still think it’s absolutely worth it. What makes the...
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Energy & Environment Club’s Icelandic Adventure! - Blog - Business & Environment
Blog Blog Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author HBS Faculty Author HBS Staff Author Students Topics Topics Accelerating Climate Solutions Conference 2023 Alumni Alumni Programs Alumni in Climate Networking Series Business & Environment...
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- 18 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 18, 2007
institutions. Risk-adjusted CCA balance sheets facilitate simulations and stress testing to evaluate the potential impact of policies to manage systemic risk. Purchase the paper from SSRN.com ($5): http://papers.nber.org/papers/w13607...
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Martha Lagace
- 21 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
From Tigers to Kaleidoscopes: Thinking About Future Leadership
asserts, "is the ultimate weapon to help leaders meet the challenges of the 21st century." Leaders at companies that particularly stress innovative new products and services, she adds, give virtual kaleidoscopes to everyone else in their...
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
include reducing stress and stigma, building a safe climate for talking about mental health issues, recognizing at-risk employees, and embracing diversity and neurodiversity. Questions for managers to ask: How am I doing, and how can I do...
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- 07 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
'Be Yourself (Within Reason)' and Other Job Search Survival Tips
That being said, I feel very fortunate to have had an exercise and diet regime going into the interview process. One of the most stressful aspects of the job market is the lack of control. We spend five or six years getting to this one...
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