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- 14 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
5 Lessons I Hope Marketers Don’t Learn from Donald Trump
a little in hopefulness if they want to be hired. In marketing, hope takes the form of indulging puffery and exaggeration. The problem is that the temptation to shade from puffery to lying is always present. And the suspicion lurks that... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Deighton
- 17 Oct 2022
- Blog Post
6 Things to Know About Sustainability at HBS
You’ll find beehives and rooftop gardens on campus Beehives have been on campus since 2015 as part of a project proposed by our SSAs. Our four hives act as a natural fertilizer, increasing biodiversity on campus. HBS also has nine green roofs across campus, which range... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Future Tech Leaders Dive into New Program
in five design cycles, which build the skills needed to take a product concept from hunch to launch. Lying in bed each morning, Emily Batt (MS/MBA 2020) yearned to sleep a little longer, but had no way of knowing when her roommate would... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
School of Hard Knocks
and eighth graders gang-tackled me. Every day after that, I was kicked, punched, spit on, or pinched, due solely to the color of my skin. Lying in the dirt and grease under a pickup truck was serenity compared to the cruel reality outside... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
search engine Baidu. Instead of striving and sweating for a good job, a home, and a family, it suggested a minimalist lifestyle of tang ping (“lying flat”). Although the post was later deleted by Communist Party officials, lying flat has... View Details
- 20 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
Part 1: Military Transition and the JD/MBA - Setting Career Goals
a LSAT course and applied to both HBS and HLS. Now, in 2019, I confess that it is not over – and I’d be lying if I said it was easy. Having advised dozens of veterans applying to the JD/MBA program through Service2School and my personal... View Details
- 04 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 4, 2016
impression. Across two pilot studies and six experiments, we identify paltering as a distinct form of deception. Paltering differs from lying by omission (the passive omission of relevant information) and View Details
- 31 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Bring your authentic self to work: Advice from HBS alumni
He also added that in addition to more awareness about heteronormative assumptions, for LBGTQ+ folks, coming out as early as you feel comfortable can be helpful. “If you start out lying or fibbing, it is hard to pull back,” he said. “Do... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- Web
Speculation and Credit - Coin and Conscience – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
34.5 cm CD f5 xx A similar allegory to 55, with the caption: "Les mauvais payeurs l'ont tué." Pictured are an artist, a musician, and a soldier, who have killed another man, lying at their feet. This image inspired many provincial copies,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Turning Point: Change, Stat
who didn’t want a breathing tube was lying comfortably on a stretcher, oblivious to her plummeting oxygen levels. I felt terrible because I couldn’t do anything for her, so I decided to FaceTime her son. Her entire extended family was on... View Details
- 28 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
Can LEGO Snap Together a Future in Asia?
where top execs tested whether the current business model was robust enough for the challenges lying ahead. While LEGO has sold toys in Asia for three decades, there is serious potential to improve market share and maybe even outgrow... View Details
- 25 May 2015
- Blog Post
RapidSOS Wins the HBS New Venture Competition
father climbed up the ladder to clear the roof. My father remembers it as a blur, but in an instant he was lying in the driveway with the excruciating pain of a shattered hip and broken wrist. Surrounded by only the snow piles of our... View Details
- 22 Oct 2018
- News
Capital Murder
the focus of intense media scrutiny after lying to investigators about his relationship with Chandra Levy, a 23-year-old whose remains were found one year after her disappearance in May 2001. Witnessing the fallout from those events... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 31 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
How to Come Out at Work
He also added that in addition to more awareness about heteronormative assumptions, for LBGTQ+ folks, coming out as early as you feel comfortable can be helpful. “If you start out lying or fibbing, it is hard to pull back,” he said. “Do... View Details
- 08 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
Tell Me What to Do: When Bad News Is a Big Relief
surgery for a genetic condition. “I was lying in the MRI thinking, ‘I hope they find just the shadow of something suspicious and bad because then the decision won’t be up to me,’” she says. “Afterward, I was like, ‘That’s the craziest,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
you run on the hedonic treadmill, and that’s why your brain lies to you and says, “Do it again. Do it again. Do it again.” It’s interesting that a cocaine addict’s brain is lying to him and a success addict’s brain is View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 25 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
10 Reasons Customers Might Resist Windows 8
"The ghosts of the past are always lying in wait to haunt us." We have two ghostly words for Microsoft: Windows Vista. It's been nearly six years since the launch of that version of Windows, but harried IT managers may never... View Details
- 28 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
Amazon, eBay and the Bidding Wars
Beware of competitors lying in the grass, says Harvard Business School professor Alvin E. Roth. His study of bidding practices on eBay suggest that those who wait until the last minute to bid—a practice called sniping—is an effective way... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans. Lawyers for former CEO Jeffrey Skilling (MBA ’79) argued that his 2006 conviction on nineteen counts of fraud, conspiracy, insider trading, and lying to auditors — along with his 24-year... View Details
- 08 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Immigrants Who Built America’s Financial System
afterward, he and his mother contracted yellow fever; they were lying in bed together, very sick, when one morning he wakes up to find she's died. That's something you just don't get over, and I believe it contributed to the chip he... View Details