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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Faculty Books
Flying Without a Net: Turn Fear of Change into Fuel for Success by Thomas J. DeLong (Harvard Business Review Press) DeLong, the Philip J. Stomberg Professor of Management Practice, lays out the roots of high achievers’ anxiety (fear of... View Details
- 07 Dec 2020
- News
Lifting The Stigma
a deep depression. “I had never dealt with failure and failure of that magnitude,” he told Harvard’s Alumni website. “I didn’t know how to talk about it. I had never had that conversation before. It was isolating. I was deeply depressed. I would have View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Changes for MBA Applicants
personally. That face-to-face interaction has enabled us to reduce much of the time, energy, and anxiety formerly expended on application essays, which used to serve as the only means of ‘getting acquainted’ with an applicant.” Leopold... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Breaking Free from Fear of Change
anxieties that can arise and block career growth when change is the order of the day. What’s the meaning of “flying without a net” in your book’s title? High-need-for-achievement professionals — and I would say that many MBAs would place... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Starting Off on the Right Foot
fairly stressful. “Switching jobs is hard work,” he says. “You’re processing a lot of new information, and anxiety is normal and even healthy in a situation like that.” After a few months, he relates, “your stress level should plateau,... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
The Nature of Change
School are much different now, Kester observes, yet the Class of 1949 entered a period of uncertainty, characterized by the Cold War and nuclear proliferation, that is not unlike the current anxieties surrounding the war on terrorism.... 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
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Ideas in Action
project reveals that anxiety reduces self-confidence and tends to increase a reliance on others’ advice. Unfortunately, anxiety also reduces the ability to discriminate between good and bad counsel. So it’s... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Ink
Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges, Cuddy highlights her personal experience to introduce the concept of “presence,” the ability to generate an inner calm, authority, and confidence during times of potential stress. In high View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Protagonist Goes Prime Time
can feel the anxiety and exhilaration that comes with the creative process. “Multimedia cases give you the opportunity to capture the richness of daily life.” “Multimedia cases give you the opportunity to capture the richness of daily... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Editor's Letter
and herald new ideas and voices. We hope this version of the magazine will better resemble a spirited classroom conversation—but without the anxiety of a potential cold call. I know we asked much of you to help us make this change, but we... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Crucible: Give It Up
Here’s a great saying that’s been particularly relevant in my life over the past few years: “If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans.” To rewind a bit, I was named president of Micron Technology in January 2012. Five days later, my boss, the CEO, died in a... View Details
- 18 Apr 2022
- News
Home Grown
missing anything. And so what Glance does is by bringing the internet to the lock screen, is it takes away that anxiety for you to keep opening the phone and clicking on the app and actually says, hey, you can actually consume content... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Neil MacKenna on Effective Job Search Strategies
Alumni Career Services. What follows are several samples of MacKenna’s wisdom that might be of use to those in transition. Reassure Yourself. Anxiety during job searches only creates a creative block in your mind. Creativity returns to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
Today, we can move our money around from one mutual fund to another, at very low cost. As a result, money flows from funds that aren’ t doing well in a particular quarter into the funds that are and that causes enormous anxiety on the... View Details
- 21 Nov 2024
- News
Mother Nurture
Julia Cole, Tina Keshani, and Sophia Richter (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) When Tina Keshani (MBA 2020), Julia Cole (MBA 2020), and Sophia Richter (MBA 2020) met at Startup Boot Camp in their first year at HBS, they quickly discovered they shared a vision to create a... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
The Devil You Don’t Know
just be the product of some kind of anxiety of unknown origins. Rational or not, if people begin to become pessimistic about their economic future and the economy in general, one of the first things they typically do is start scaling back... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Crucible: Relocation
no longer manage my anxiety by stacking up wealth or titles, but instead celebrate an active life in nature, my creative and intellectual pursuits, and relationships. In addition to sharing personal stories, I use my platform to... View Details
Keywords: Zhang, Qian
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Marked Managers
Your personal accountability is laid on the line, and the anxiety level is likely to be quite high, as is the amount of social reinforcement for doing well. How much of imprinting can be attributed to the relationships that are formed... View Details
- 06 Feb 2025
- News
How to Judge Your Next Job
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Clay Christensen was a legendary professor and thinker and his “Jobs to Be Done” theory—this idea that customers buy products to solve problems—was one of his iconic intellectual contributions.... View Details