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Mark Giragosian

of industries.” After Morgan Stanley, Mark moved to PE firm Linden Capital Partners where he concentrated on health care investments. “I love health care specifically because there are so many unique problems worth spending time on.”... View Details

07 Feb 2017
Research & Ideas

The Right Way to Cry in Front of Your Boss

position for criers That may not always be the case depending on the relationship between the person in distress and the observer, as well as the organization’s “display rules.” In other words, are you in a... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

20 Apr 2011
Research & Ideas

Blind Spots: We’re Not as Ethical as We Think

training in ethics and corporate programs focus on intentional acts. We saw an opportunity to contribute to our understanding of how so many unethical acts occur. Q: Why don't traditional approaches to thinking about ethics work? A: Most... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2024
News

Counter Intelligence

big believer in focusing on the job that you do, and I’ve always wanted to be the best at whatever that was,” says Christou, who did well enough that he was soon promoted to assistant general manager. It was... View Details

Keywords: Amy Crawford

01 Jun 2022
Blog Post

Five Lessons From My First Year at HBS

depending on one’s background, experiences, and culture, can lead to individual conclusions. Yet, what is important is being able to distill relevant information from the case, to then develop and defend an opinion. At the same time, I... View Details

Portrait Project

Rory Finnegan

When writing to my grandmother, my very first pen pal, I’d sign my name in cursive with a looping heart attached. It flowed easily from the tip of a glitter pen. Grandma always wrote back, indulging my love of correspondence with neat... View Details

19 Sep 2023
Research & Ideas

What Chandrayaan-3 Says About India's Entrepreneurial Approach to Space

the world, and our MBA students feel they need exposure to it. Going back to my graduate years at Harvard, there were many valuable classes on economic development—including in economics, in political science, at HKS—but what I View Details

Keywords: by Clea Simon, Harvard Gazette; Aerospace

04 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Is Government Just Stupid? How Bad Decisions Are Made

decision making. These barriers are: Do no harm. Their gain is our loss. Competition is always good. Support our group. Live for the moment. No pain for us, no gain for them. The antidote? An approach used in the business schools, whereby... View Details

Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman, Jonathan Baron & Katherine Shonk

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Chris Aguemon

Coming to HBS is like Waking up one day and realizing you’re a wizard like the case with Harry Potter. The opportunities are endless, the realities of what you can accomplish limitless, and the resources around you to do so are abundant.... View Details

08 Sep 2022
Book

Gen Xers and Millennials, It’s Time To Lead. Are You Ready?

Engage with your frontline teams. Never waste a good crisis. Get ready for the long haul. Go on the offense to win now. Always follow your True North. Go to the front lines In surveying the shifting terrain... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

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Brice Fodouop

strong impact on Africa. The Africa Business Conference attracts a thousand people a year; the alumni base on the continent is important to me.” “The HBS ecosystem has been critical in my first few months... View Details

22 Nov 2022
Research & Ideas

When Agreeing to Disagree Is a Good Beginning

School’s Program on Negotiation. “What was it that they figured out that allowed for disagreement to be productive? What can we all do so that disagreement turns out to be productive rather than damaging?” Key, the researchers found, was... View Details

Keywords: by Clea Simon, Harvard Gazette

19 Dec 2022
Research & Ideas

What Motivates People to Give Generously—and Why We Sometimes Don't

because you feel obligated. There are tactics that you can use to increase giving in, in the short-term, but it’s always important to consider the effects of this short-term success on people’s feelings... View Details

Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint, HBS Alumni Bulletin

30 May 2024
News

How to Have Effective Conversations

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Charles Duhigg (MBA 2003) is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, a staff writer for The New Yorker, and author of the bestselling books The Power of... View Details

04 Jan 2022
Research & Ideas

Scrap the Big New Year's Resolutions. Make 6 Simple Changes Instead.

been forced to accept uncertainty during the pandemic, Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka, coauthors of the 2019 book The Wise Company, recently developed “six practices to make a better future” to help leaders focus on the most important... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

Blog

What Can You Do to Foster Gender Equity?

report to you or to members of your team. Be objective. When you're handing out assignments or evaluating employee performance, make sure you are making choices based on objective, job-related criteria, not View Details

04 Apr 2023
What Do You Think?

How Does Remote Work Affect Innovation?

here”? Would the result have been the same? We can at least hypothesize several notions based on early research regarding remote work. Many talented people love it. Some of the reasons they love it, such as the ability to gain more... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

16 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

Are You a Strategist?

powerful impact on practice. But the benefits have not come without costs." Montgomery maintains that strategy has been narrowed to a competitive game plan, separate from a firm's larger sense of purpose. This has led to the eclipse of... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

21 Feb 2018
Research & Ideas

When a Competitor Abandons the Market, Should You Advance or Retreat?

the most similar to ours’—that means the same disease and same mechanism of action—‘and we’re ready to react when they have a result.’” (Acting on your competitor’s actions isn’t always so cut-and-dried,... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Pharmaceutical; Health

18 Oct 2022
Research & Ideas

When Bias Creeps into AI, Managers Can Stop It by Asking the Right Questions

practices. Rachel Layne: People may assume that algorithms are unbiased, but that’s not always the case. Where does bias creep in? Ayelet Israeli: There are several sources of algorithmic bias. One is due to... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

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