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Alpha Mengistu
every day, I remember watching students and recent immigrants temporarily satisfy their yearning for home. Swinging my feet from a bar stool that dwarfed me, I took in the sense of comfort and belonging ladled on their plates View Details
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Estevan Santiago
inner workings of the human body and even dressed up as a doctor for Halloween every year from 1st to 5th grade. This passion drove me to eventually major in Human Biology. While I didn’t end up pursuing... View Details
- 19 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Do I Dare Say Something?
therefore a tendency toward silence—is over-determined by both the general nature of humans and the specific realities of the modern economy. Even from an evolutionary point of view, it seems we're all hard-wired to overestimate rather... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
A Hollywood Backstory
Illustration by Alex Nabaum, theispot.com Every Sunday night when I was a kid, I'd sneak out of bed to watch the late movie on TV, film classics like Patton or A Man for All Seasons. I may very well have been the only fourth grader to... View Details
- 06 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Money and Quotas Motivate the Sales Force Best
Chung says. "I think it's because they thought they were being compensated for past performance. The thinking is, 'Hey, I must be doing something right thus far. I think I may be overworking, so maybe I should slack off.'" An unintended... View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Andrew H. Tisch, MBA 1977
course in human behavior didn’t strike him as particularly relevant in 1976, but when he started running Bulova, the watch company that Loews owned for many years, he realized its value. “I found that in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The First Five Years: Emmanuel Straschnov (MBA 2012)
and everyone, literally everyone, was asking him to be their tech cofounder to start a business (that's a common thing at HBS too when you're technical) and 2) While at Bridgewater, he had used SharePoint to create something that nontechnical employees could use to... View Details
- Mar 2012
- Report
A Jobs Compact for America's Future
human capital in the United States. In short, badly needed investments in the workforce are not being made, thereby threatening the country's future competitiveness and living standards. So argues Kochan, of MIT's Sloan School of... View Details
- 27 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Sidetracked: Why Can’t We Stick to the Plan?
ingredients for a romantic dinner, but ends up spending an hour comparison shopping for organic dog food and craft beer. A college student resolves to spend every Wednesday evening studying in the library, only to spend most of that time View Details
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Marketing AI Guidelines | About
of audio and video for video production YouTube video descriptions (for SEO optimization) Drafts of articles (before further human refinement) Social media copy Modifying or enlarging the backgrounds of photographs (while preserving the... View Details
- 16 Jul 2008
- Op-Ed
What Should Employers Do about Health Care?
delivery reveals some powerful, and ultimately optimistic, principles. First, the best way truly to reduce health care cost is to improve its quality—better diagnoses, more timely treatment, less invasive methods, getting the right... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Theory & Practice
of a product you know will be controversial? Resolving such dilemmas often requires more than simply following the injunction to "do the right thing," says HBS professor Joseph Badaracco in Defining Moments: When Managers Must Choose... View Details
- 25 May 2021
- Blog Post
The Surprising Power of Nostalgia at Work
important because meaning in life has great motivational power. Research finds that nostalgia motivates the pursuit of important life goals by increasing that sense of meaning. Humans are an existential species. To flourish, we need to... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Class Notes Extra
1977 Bill Ahlhauser “Life is all about the possibility of doing good, whatever one's circumstance.” Banthoon Lamsam If his father is watching over him, he is likely to feel proud. Susan McIntosh “When you have been given a talent, you are... View Details
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Board Diversity Network: 2024 Fall Events Recap - Blog: RGE Report
It’s good to bring the core financial skills but boards these days are also looking for expertise on how to navigate economic uncertainty, capital allocation, cybersecurity, digital transformation and AI, and all things talent and human... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Fred Newman (MBA 1978)
Video Embed How “the human fly” saved Newman from a cold call. I wasn’t unique as a kid. In small-town Georgia, all the guys did sound effects. We’d swap them like baseball cards: Show me how to do a finger whistle, and I’ll show you how... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 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
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Cable Gal
winner of the "Woman to Watch Award" as selected by the trade group Women in Cable & Communications. To spend more time being a mom than a road warrior, in 2000 McCollough took a job as vice president and general manager of Cox... View Details
- 17 Apr 2019
- News
Give It to Me Straight
charming. He was funny. He was one of those people who brings a little levity, a little humanity to every meeting. There was just one problem with Bob. Bob was doing terrible work. It was so puzzling. I was so confused because he had this... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
One Degree of Difference
which means that all employees are “really focused on efficiency,” Wallace says. They developed a multilayered interview process to match the right person for each job, as the wrong hire can be extremely costly. It culminates with a two-... View Details