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- 25 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 25
distance and involvement; the two dimensions should not be conceptualized as opposite ends of a continuum. Moreover, I suggest that the taboo has become too extreme and stifles our collective capacity to generate new insights. To make... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Put Meaning Back into Leading
perceived them to be extremely efficient. At the same time, large work organizations destabilized extended family and community relations: first, by removing individuals from their family and community and placing them in factories for... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
Praise for March Cover Congratulations on cracking the mold of a one-subject cover for the March issue. I found the four of your financial crisis articles extremely interesting, especially Niall Ferguson’s book excerpt on “Chimerica”!... View Details
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
extreme vetting may be even better. But banning everyone from a few poor Muslim countries is not vetting at all. Since the 9/11 terrorists came mostly from Egypt and Saudi Arabia, this executive order would have missed the biggest... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
Workers By: Housman, Michael, and Dylan Minor Abstract—While there has been a lot of research on finding and developing top performers in the workplace, less attention has been paid to the question of how to manage those workers who are harmful to organizational... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 18
the supply of capital create the need for increased upfront financing, but this protection lowers the real option value of the new venture. In equilibrium, financing risk disproportionately impacts innovative ventures with the greatest real option value. We propose... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work
Novices sometimes veer to one extreme or the other, delivering the hard news without the compassion, perhaps to demonstrate their toughness or ability to handle the task, or succumbing to a burst of sympathy that causes them to cushion... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 29 Apr 2025
- News
Challenge Accepted
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Nietzsche said it first: What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger. There’s a reason that saying has legs, nearly 140 years later. We all, at some point... View Details
- 28 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
“Relationships can all too readily slide into cutthroat competition or totally collusive bonding. Either extreme will harm the firm's performance.” Less obviously, the drives to comprehend and to defend are also on opposite ends of the... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 12 May 2022
- News
Onboarding
ground running as a board member. I think it must’ve been extremely difficult for people like Tosh to get an understanding of the business and to build relationships with all of the people and really to be an effective member of the team,... View Details
- 08 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
“Relationships can all too readily slide into cutthroat competition or totally collusive bonding. Either extreme will harm the firm's performance.” Less obviously, the drives to comprehend and to defend are also on opposite ends of the... View Details
- 20 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
Risky Business with Structured Finance
modeling exercise (using the same computer tools employed by the ratings agencies) that demonstrates that the challenge of rating structured products lies in their extreme sensitivity to estimation errors—that even modest imprecision in... View Details
- 11 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
Women Entrepreneurs Usher in the Next Generation
Delegating is an art, and one of Swan's secrets is her savvy ability to delegate, according to Hill. "Taran takes risks and hires extremely talented people whom no one else saw as talented," Hill declared. "She saw what was... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 17 May 2018
- Blog Post
HBS/HKS Alum Regan Turner on Empowering Veterans
did as an officer in the Marine Corps. I have to understand who the local power brokers are, what the major issues and challenges are, and how I can use my resources to make a difference while at the same time trying to accomplish my mission. It can be View Details
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Understanding the Benefits of Our Virtual Programs
SETTINGS? AB: My classroom interactions were extremely relevant to the topic at hand. In the group discussions, we discussed the designated topics first and then opened up the discussion to allow open dialogue on other related topics.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
The Case for Studying Financial History
because these companies clearly are incapable of competing with Japanese-owned companies that are simply producing better cars at lower cost. Won’t we continue to have a U.S. auto industry? It’s just that the manufacturers will produce Toyotas and Hondas? Welcome to... View Details
- 12 Jun 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Minal Mehta (MBA 2011)
the best music and dance of Bollywood and infuse it with an interval training–based cardio workout to create a fitness program that is both physically and mentally invigorating for our class participants. We have designed a unique 50-minute experience during which you... View Details
- 24 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Uncovering Racial Discrimination in the ‘Sharing Economy’
would not stay here at any price" to "This is an extremely nice apartment; I would stay here even if it were a lot more expensive than a nice hotel room." With these ratings, the researchers controlled for apartment/room quality as seen... View Details
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Online Dynamic Teaming Course | HBS Online
Will Benefit Current and Aspiring Managers Leaders of Cross-Functional or Distributed Teams Entrepreneurs Manage team dynamics through psychological safety, inclusion, team decision-making, and intelligent failure. "I found the content of the course to be View Details
- 03 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Marketing Your Way Through a Recession
times loom, we tend to retreat to our village. Look for cozy hearth-and-home family scenes in advertising to replace images of extreme sports, adventure, and rugged individualism. Zany humor and appeals on the basis of fear are out.... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch