Confidence - Publications - Faculty & Research

17 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan

still more government debt would be imprudent. Should Japan lose its AA- sovereign debt rating, confidence in the country's economy and government could be sent into a debilitating tailspin. A safer, even if less popular, course of action... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

03 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

The Ingredients of a Deal Disaster

fatal; how they are handled can strengthen or rupture the social contract. If a breach is inadvertent, for example, managers normally should acknowledge it and reassure the other side that the "violation" was unintentional, not exploitative. Indeed, sincere... View Details

Keywords: by Ron S. Fortgang, David A. Lax & James K. Sebenius

29 May 2001
Research & Ideas

Race Does Matter in Mentoring

gain confidence and establish their credibility. Third, the mentors provided crucial career advice and counsel that prevented their protégés from getting sidetracked from the path leading to the executive level. Fourth, the mentors often... View Details

Keywords: by David A. Thomas

16 Jul 2024
Op-Ed

Corporate Boards Are Failing in Their No. 1 Duty

2018 by Charles Scharf, who has focused on cleaning up the messes and restoring the confidence of regulators. These succession failures illustrate some of the risks companies face during CEO transitions, and they raise some obvious... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

25 Apr 2023
News

Class of 2022 Startups Sweep Alumni New Venture Competition

“You’re able to see how real people have tried the products so you get a sense of how they work for someone just like you,” says Shah. “We source the video reviews from a diverse community of real people across all skin tones, all ages, and all body types to give... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

25 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]

company's sales in 2000 approached $30 million, and it planned to double revenues this year. Krasnow sounded confident about the business at the end of 2000. Zoots had deliberately slowed its growth to focus on resolving operational... View Details

Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg

01 Jun 2009
News

Inside the Partnership

how those problems and opportunities are changing and might change as time passes and circumstances develop; to keep all the relevant people at each client fully informed about and confident in the firm’s special ability to serve... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

08 Aug 2025
News

Overturning Convictions

Press), Wilkins examines the personal beliefs that shape our approaches to work and offers advice on how you can reframe the ones that are limiting you. Guiding principles that might seem practical or self-assured—pulling long hours to make sure every last detail is... View Details

Keywords: Michelle Cassidy

18 Aug 2020
Blog Post

Innovating in the Hot Market of Cold Brew

amount of training wheels, information, and resources. Ultimately, it instilled a confidence within us that we can do this. And now we’re doing it! The pandemic might have forced us to change our approach, but we’ve been able to make real... View Details

01 Jun 2018
News

Floor It

so that we can help get clinical trials done and move the pace of discovery even quicker.” How do they expect to get there? Here, a look at the accelerator’s model, which comprises four work streams, each inspecting a different part of the pipeline. Building Consumer... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Mengxin Li

19 Apr 2018
News

One Last Pitch

2015) appeared nervous yet confident as he took the stage and began his pitch to the energized audience of more than 500. Gastfriend spoke of a friend, Anna, who was addicted to opioids. He watched her struggle with the indignity of... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

01 Sep 2014
News

Alumni Achievement Awards 2014

working at his desk Nelson with two of his three daughters Nelson with two of his three daughters Wendell P. Weeks, MBA 1987 Chairman and CEO, Corning Incorporated Weeks at Corning headquarters in Corning, NY “Our past gives us the View Details

02 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

The Curse of Double-Digit Growth

Harvard's Center for International Development, has confidence that Liberia has the ability to strike a balance between growth and stability. Among the strengths working in its favor, he says, are transparency and macroeconomic stability.... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

02 Sep 2002
Research & Ideas

Foreign Multinationals in the U.S.: A Rocky Road

elsewhere. Thirdly, foreign firms during the post-war decades lived in awe of the alleged superiority of U.S. managers, and it was not until the 1980s that European firms began to feel sufficiently confident to intervene and take greater... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston & Martha Lagace

Web

Engineering Meets Advocacy: Driving Innovation in Women’s Health - Blog: Health Supplement

tools are more accessible than ever, but the representation gap persists. I want more women to feel confident engaging with not only using AI but also actively shaping how it’s applied to problems that directly impact us. Second, women’s... View Details

20 Dec 2019
News

The 19 Musts of 2019

remains overlooked. The author provides an insightful view into differences between confidence and competence while also recommending several ways to address the issue of incompetence at the ‘top.’ It’s a relevant discussion for so many... View Details

Keywords: podcast; Arts, Entertainment

01 Apr 1999
News

New Releases

course, and it has been shown that effective styles can vary over a wide range. They can stretch from the eloquence and self-deprecation of Abraham Lincoln, to the bombastic preening of Douglas MacArthur, to the confident and infectious... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Oct 2002
News

The Class of 1977

companies do business in China to stay competitive in a global economy. He has been Class Secretary for the Class of 1977 since 1981. Twenty-five years ago, members of the Class of 1977 departed with confidence from the safe haven of the... View Details

Keywords: Desmond Wong

07 Sep 2021
News

Increasing Access and Expanding Opportunity

application fee waiver. When we piloted this, we saw an uptick in numbers among those applying who identify as first-generation college students, some underrepresented minorities, and some women. How confident can a student from a... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

24 Feb 2009
First Look

First Look: February 24, 2009

offers consumers an extra benefit: online payments tend to create records documenting the fact of a customer's purchase; consumers of free content may feel more confident that their purchases will remain confidential. More broadly,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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