Thoughtfulness - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 Jul 2023
Interview

Jeffrey Rayport on Product Market Fit, Profit Market Fit and Whiplash, and More

This episode of "Lessons from Startup Life" podcast features Jeffrey Rayport, Senior Lecturer of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. Jeffrey specializes in teaching and researching growth-stage technology ventures and their scalability. Prior to... View Details

Keywords: Scaling And Growth; Start-up; Diversity; Equity; Inclusion; Technology; Business Startups; Product Marketing; Business Growth and Maturation

Citation

10 May 2010
Research & Ideas

What Top Scholars Say About Leadership

leadership versus transactional leadership. We also wondered to what extent there were different insights depending on the unit of analysis with which one began. We knew it was essential to also invite people who were reflective, View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

Profile

Brandon Graves

and cuisine was just a short train ride away. What has changed about your understanding of leadership? My understanding of leadership was one-dimensional before coming to HBS. I thought of leadership in the formal sense of someone with a... View Details

02 Mar 2016
News

David Moss is Rewriting History

global financial events. His first course-length experiment had been a success. He saw the case method bring history—which many students thought of as a dull procession of inevitable events—to life. Character, narrative, and tension gave... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Sep 2021
Op-Ed

How Women Can Learn from Even Biased Feedback

LinkedIn. Follow Francesca Gino on LinkedIn to read more of her posts. About the Author Francesca Gino is the Tandon Family Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. She's the author of Rebel Talent: Why It Pays to Break the Rules in Work and... View Details

Keywords: by Francesca Gino

27 May 2022
Blog Post

Q&A with the HBS Armed Forces Alumni Association, MBA Class of 2023

world and to work on some pretty challenging problems. I leaned on those experiences heavily throughout the application process– they helped me solidify what I thought I could bring to the HBS classroom and shape the impact I wanted to... View Details

15 Sep 2021
Research & Ideas

Don't Bring Me Down: Probing Why People Tune Out Bad News

entice people to pay attention to relevant information and act more conscientiously. Through experimentation, Exley and Kessler’s recent research confirms that information avoidance occurs for a variety of reasons and brings together previously separate schools of... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

22 Oct 2021
Research & Ideas

Want Hybrid Work to Succeed? Trust, Don’t Track, Employees

and if given the tools, empowerment, and support, they will not only perform for you—they will thrive,” Neeley says. “We need to trust ourselves, trust our people, and increase our skills on how to lead both in the office and virtually.” About the Author Michael... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

16 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

Advice on Advice

In business, good advice is priceless. Managers who are anxious and confused when confronted with corporate challenges can find that a piece of sound advice from a colleague can instill a sense of calm and clarity that leads to more View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

30 Jul 2007
Research & Ideas

Repugnant Markets and How They Get That Way

disease, and if you thought it was associated with injury—of which there is no evidence—you could pass laws requiring the use of a helmet. It's interesting that some activities that seem repugnant strike me as very similar to other... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

04 Jan 2022
What Do You Think?

Firing McDonald’s Easterbrook: What Could the Board Have Done Differently?

the court of public opinion again. If you were a McDonald’s board member, what would you have done differently? Why? What do you think? Share your thoughts in the comments below. Editor's note: Heskett explores the leader's role in his... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

15 Feb 2024
News

Startup Shepherds

ShermansTravel Media. Photos by Simon Simard Photos by Simon Simard Daniels, on the other hand, had never considered herself a born entrepreneur. She worked at McKinsey & Company before attending HBS and returned to the firm after graduation, building a 17-year career... View Details

Keywords: April White

Profile

Doug Marsan

can feel a bit scary. Others, like recruiting for that dream job or going on that trek to another country, are experiences that you never thought would be available to you. While you only get to “ride the rides” for two years, the... View Details

09 Nov 2021
Research & Ideas

The Simple Secret of Effective Mentoring Programs

“The evidence shows that formal, broad-based mentoring programs work,” says Stanton, “even after you factor in the program costs.” About the Author Jay Fitzgerald is a writer based in the Boston area. [Image: iStockphoto/PeopleImages] How does your company approach... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

20 May 2024
Blog Post

Get to Know Class Day Student Speaker Erik Roberts

had a stint at an autonomous vehicle infrastructure startup. An MBA, he said, was an opportunity to learn a new problem-solving language. “I’ve thought about each step of my life as learning a new language—a dialect and a set of words... View Details

20 Dec 2023
News

New School

In three and a half weeks, Curriculum Associates added 1 million students. (In the previous eight years, it had enrolled 8 million.) “The things that mattered most were not the things we did in that moment. It took a decade to be ready for a week I never View Details

28 Jun 2021
Blog Post

7 Things HBS Taught Me the Last 2 Years

week), I sat in Klarman Hall with 900 new admits. Surrounding me were veterans, entrepreneurs, scientists, activists, artists, among many others. As someone who started business school a few years later than some people choose to and View Details

01 Oct 1999
News

Banking on Success

The Dow's high for the year was 891.66, there were long lines at the gas pumps, and Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Lehman Brothers were essentially one-office firms. "Most of us who went into banking thought it was going to be a... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

17 Dec 2014
Research & Ideas

How Our Brain Determines if the Product is Worth the Price

neuroscience tools to shed light on how our brains make purchasing decisions. "We were interested in whether considering the price first changed how people thought about the decision process, and whether it changed the way the brain... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail

30 Jul 2018
Research & Ideas

Why Ethical People Become Unethical Negotiators

Bazerman, the Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration, argues that good people with strong ethical values, like these traders, can behave in shady ways without consciously realizing they are doing so. “I’ll bet there were dozens if not hundreds of... View Details