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- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Business Suits You: Experimenting with Professional Identity
selective. "Wholesale imitation refers to experimenting strategies in which the junior person mimics the self-presentation style of a single role model, holistically, without much adaptation," she writes. With selective imitation, the... View Details
- 11 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
Secrets of the Successful Businesswoman
as the appointment that you have with the CEO." Striking a balance between work and personal life was one of the five traits of leadership success that McGovern emphasized in her talk at Harvard... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Fixing What Ails the Drug Industry
with academia; and sharing pre-competitive research, Lechleiter said. He made a plea for federal and state policy support in the form of tax incentives and improvements to the U.S. education system to back up industry action. Conference panelists also touched... View Details
- 19 Jun 2017
- News
Can Neuroscience Find You the Perfect Job?
path. It works for recruiting too, allowing companies in search of specific personality traits to find ideal workers. Today I talk with neuroscientist Frida Polli, cofounder and CEO of pymetrics, about what... View Details
- Profile
Samuel Racana
improvisation and stage training have come in unexpectedly useful in life. What is your favorite childhood memory? Food has always been at the center of my family gatherings, whether during travels or at home. Cooking during Christmas with my mother and grandmother... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
I Gave at the Office
helping to create a more comprehensive picture of our capacity for generosity. In the following conversation, they share insights into the research on why we respond the way we do, when asked. You’ve both studied some of the reasons people don’t give and found that... View Details
- 02 Feb 2017
- News
Enabling Everyone in a Community to Contribute
how a life can be changed if you’re committed to doing it and seeing the person behind the form that we all present. “I’d say the endgame for what I do as CEO of the organization is to show the world that people with developmental... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Better Hiring Through Brain Science
in neuroscience research experiments—with former research colleague Julie Yoo to assess cognitive and emotional traits. The games didn’t ask personal questions, they measured responses, providing objectivity in a way that the traditional... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 06 Mar 2018
- News
A Voice for Diversity and Impact at Scale
With a father in the US Air Force, Vivian Hunt (MBA 1995) moved often as a young girl, living in places as far flung as Montana, Alabama, and Japan. That experience was difficult at times, but it developed her ability to engage across cultures—a View Details
- 27 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes
purposeful vulnerability produced deeper, more intimate coworker relationships in which they could express a broader repertoire of personal qualities—qualities that were responsive to the dictates of their work rather than to the dictates... View Details
- 05 Feb 2009
- What Do You Think?
Why Can’t We Figure Out How to Select Leaders?
essentially enumerating the qualities that we should look for in a leader without suggesting how we identify and select for them. Some of the more interesting ones included Kapil Kumar Sopory's suggestion that we look for "... the View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 09 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
For Better Ideas, Bring the Right People to the Brainstorm
neutral, or even harmful to minting winning ideas. Testing for personality Koning and Hasan detail their findings in the paper Conversations and Idea Generation: Evidence from a Field Experiment, to be published in Research Policy this... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Faculty Books
courage and hard work. Drawing on many years of real-life experiences in helping people achieve their aspirations and rethink their personal and career development, Professor of Management Practice Kaplan covers in depth the critical... View Details
- 09 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 9, 2018
Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53689 forthcoming Foundations and Trends in Entrepreneurship Personality Traits of Entrepreneurs: A Review of Recent Literature By: Kerr, Sari... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Feb 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Do You Hire an 'Impostor'?
employees. And several identified personally with the phenomenon. Desirable qualities of imposters were described in different ways. Julie Cohen said, “The balance of competency and occasional self-doubt keep them constantly striving to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Mr. Start-Up
Ultimate Frisbee with one, and I could tell by the way he played he’d be a terrific person to do a company with. The other was a woman who almost made the Canadian Olympic marathon team. People who are intense about sports often bring... View Details
- 30 Sep 2002
- What Do You Think?
Are Business Schools Really Important “Crucibles of Leadership?”
integrity; and "neoteny," a trait that makes them "addicted to life" and able to recruit protectors, nurturers, and believers through a long and productive leadership career. In pointing out one other thing shared by... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Feb 2004
- What Do You Think?
Leadership: A Matter of Sustaining or Eliminating Groupthink?
useful change effort? What are the risks for the subordinate in dealing with a leader not always able to separate judgements regarding the quality of contrary ideas from those concerning personality traits... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 24 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Do We Tax?
gender, height, race, and other personal characteristics. Economists call these characteristics "tags." The Utilitarian logic for taxing tags is that these traits are both hard to change and systematically... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
GMAT Added to Admissions Criteria
includes components such as undergraduate transcripts, essays, letters of recommendation, and, in many cases, the results of personal interviews with HBS admissions staff. There has never been a specific "formula" for admission to the... View Details