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Creighton Taylor

Macarena, the chicken dance, and how to dance Gangnam style.” Summarizing the dynamic of HBS, Creighton says of its social life, “It’s the best of both worlds: HBS’s scale has the range that helps you find people who have experience in... View Details

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The Power of DEI: Harnessing Talent and Opportunity for Enduring Success - Course Catalog

course, |we will devote some attention to the relationship between DEI initiatives and larger movements for economic, political, and social justice. Third, to consider specific examples of organizations that have closely aligned talent... View Details

20 May 2020
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Keeping Families Connected

When millions of Americans started social distancing due to the spread of coronavirus, Caribu co-founder and CEO Maxeme Tuchman (MBA/MPP 2012) didn’t hesitate to lift the paywall on her company’s interactive video-calling platform, which... View Details

01 Mar 2018
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Excellence At The Intersection Of Disciplines

boundaries of their particular schools to address society’s most exciting opportunities and challenging issues. In the Harvard Innovation Labs, for example, members of the Harvard community are developing and carrying forward ideas for ventures in areas ranging from... View Details

01 Dec 1999
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Pearson Hunt

Copeland, Arthur H. Cole, Elton Mayo, and Alfred North Whitehead. Whitehead, a philosophy professor at Harvard, wrote: "Dean Donham is one of a group of businessmen and educators who have gone far to avert the disaster of an American View Details

Keywords: Pearson Hunt

01 Dec 2006
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HBS Honors Four Alumni

graduate now devotes his time to socially oriented investment and entrepreneurship projects in England and the Middle East. William H. Donaldson (MBA ’58) The cofounder and former chairman and CEO of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, Bill... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Aug 2001
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T.J. Dermot Dunphy (MBA '56)

social causes that have played a prominent role in his life since the late 1960s, when he served briefly as a speechwriter in Robert F. Kennedy's presidential campaign. It was in those turbulent years that Dunphy, with fellow members of... View Details

Keywords: Alumni Achievement Award; Management

01 Sep 2005
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Make Plans for Washington GLF

Leadership in Public and Private Organizations. You can view the complete lineup at www.alumni.hbs.edu/glf2006. For evening social events, the local HBS planning committee has lined up after-hours access to the Library of Congress, the... View Details

Keywords: Peter Cooper; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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Tina Gao

Prior to HBS, Tina worked in private equity (middle market buyout) and investment banking (industrials focus). Her first job out of college was in operations at a New York City based nonprofit. She enjoys helping students interested in finance roles and integrating... View Details

1976
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Organizational Behavior and Administration: Cases and Readings

By: Paul R. Lawrence, Louis B. Barnes and Jay W. Lorsch

Keywords: Organizations; Behavior

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October 2, 2000
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Interests, Value and the Art of the Best Deal

By: James K. Sebenius and David A. Lax

Keywords: Value; Interests

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February 18, 2022
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Why Really Smart Executives Do Really Stupid Things

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter

CEO exits due to workplace misconduct are all too common. Over and over we hear about top officials at companies, universities or in government resigning, either because they had affairs with subordinates in their inner circles or made verbal advances to junior workers... View Details

Keywords: CEO; Misconduct; Management; Behavior

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2000
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Does Corporate Quality Matter?

By: R. M. McLauglin, R. S. Ruback and H. Tehranian

Keywords: Quality; Reputation

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Beyond Beta-Delta: The Emerging Economics of Personal Plans

By: John Beshears, Katherine L. Milkman and Joshua Schwartzstein

People make personal plans regarding whether, when, where, and how to undertake certain actions. We discuss three questions related to personal plans. First, what are the effects of plans on behavior? Second, when are plans formed? Third, how do plans deviate from... View Details

Keywords: Behavior; Planning

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February 2013
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Commitment and Behavior Change: Evidence from the Field

By: Katie Baca-Motes, Amber Brown, Ayelet Gneezy, Elizabeth A. Keenan and Leif D. Nelson

Influencing behavior change is an ongoing challenge in psychology, economics, and consumer behavior research. Building on previous work on commitment, self-signaling, and the principle of consistency, a large, intensive field experiment (N = 2,416) examined the effect... View Details

Keywords: Behavior; Marketing

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Aug 2015
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Emotions and Fieldwork (PDW; Co-organizers)

By: Tiona Zuzul, Luciana Silvestri and Elizabeth Hansen

Keywords: Emotion; Qualitative Research; Fieldwork; Research; Emotions

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November 2011 (Revised March 2013)
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China Life: Micro Insurance for the Poor

By: Shawn Cole and Lilei Xu

China Life must decide whether to accept the government's "invitation" to develop a microinsurance product for the rural poor. Can it be done profitably? View Details

Keywords: Social Enterprise; Insurance; Insurance Industry; China

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September 2012
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The Unwanted Self: Projective Identification in Leaders' Identity Work

By: Gianpiero Petriglieri and Mark Stein

This paper employs a psychodynamic perspective to examine the development and maintenance of a leader's identity, building on the premise that such identity work involves both conscious and unconscious processes. We focus on the latter by suggesting that those in... View Details

Keywords: Leadership; Identity

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