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Cold Calling - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning
ambiguous and may signal to the class that the opener's response was weak or that the instructor is not inclined to challenge students. Reasons to stay with the student Advancing the discussion: The student is well prepared and the... View Details
- 06 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
Skills and Behaviors that Make Entrepreneurs Successful
execute a business vision and strategy. Comfort with Uncertainty. Measures skills and behaviors associated with being able to move a business agenda forward in the face of uncertain and ambiguous circumstances. Assembling and Motivating a... View Details
Keywords: by HBS Working Knowledge
- 01 Sep 2021
- Op-Ed
How Women Can Learn from Even Biased Feedback
often when feedback recipients are female versus male, my research-in-progress shows, the third step is particularly challenging for women as they often receive more ambiguous feedback than men do. "Women tend to become more willing to... View Details
Keywords: by Francesca Gino
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Becoming a Board Member - Alumni
board. A board bio is typically one page including a headshot and four to five paragraphs that highlight your accomplishments, skills, and credibility. Interpersonal skills Ability to handle complexity and ambiguity Integrity Independent... View Details
- 02 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
Salary Negotiations: A Catch-22 for Women
studies have found that situational ambiguity in a negotiation exacerbates the gender gap, and that decreasing that ambiguity helps to close it. “By allowing for negotiation, but putting some guardrails on... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 05 Jul 2012
- What Do You Think?
Why Is Trust So Hard to Achieve in Management?
effectiveness and of achievement at all costs" (Liam); (3) "excessive turnover and continuous change" (Marlis Krichewsky); (4) leaders who "use ambiguity and weasel words in their promises" (Jim Conlow); (5)... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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The General Shoe Company, 1921 | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
1921 The General Shoe Company, 1921: Header The General Shoe Company, 1921 The General Shoe Company, 1921: Quote What I love about General Shoe is it allows students to practice a core skill of general managers: how do you go into an View Details
- 19 Oct 2022
- Op-Ed
Cofounder Courtship: How to Find the Right Mate—for Your Startup
to thrive in ambiguous situations will be critical in a cofounding relationship. If you question whether you are up for sharing these experiences with one or more cofounders, you may need to do some introspective work before taking on a... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 09 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization
actual problem.” Thus, diagnosis of the situation is a prerequisite to crafting a response. They argue that volatility should be met with agility; uncertainty with information; complexity with restructuring (with internal operations reconfigured to address external... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
- 12 Aug 2019
- Research & Ideas
How Scale Changes a Manager's Responsibilities
to scale simply because they did not have big-company DNA or because the company did not ensure they were in roles in which they could continue to thrive. Think about who on your team has real startup DNA–do they thrive with ambiguity and... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 08 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
Decision Rights: Who Gives the Green Light?
will do. "While there has never been perfect alignment," he says, "this process enables us to rapidly identify and address the inconsistencies." 3. Assign Decision Rights Unequivocally Ambiguity about who has decision... View Details
Keywords: by Peter Jacobs
- 30 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why Ethical People Become Unethical Negotiators
big problem. “I think most of us have a self-image that we’re pretty ethical people, yet most of us have done bad things in the context of a negotiation,” Bazerman says. “People may avoid telling a direct lie, but they’re willing to say things that are View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 31 Jul 2023
- News
Striving for Imperfection
me more about this case that you’re making for leaning into ambiguity and imperfection. Why is that a good solution for this moment in time? Charles Conn: Yeah, when most of us learn strategy, and many of us learned it from Michael... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Zone Defense
today. “I came from the military; I had never worked in a formal company before,” says Tseng, who is now Shield AI’s COO. (Ryan Tseng serves as CEO.) But his experience as a SEAL did have its benefits. “In the SEAL Teams, you operate in extremely View Details
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Ethan Li
Group where he later became chief of staff to the group president. "I had just a few years of experience at the time," Ethan says. "My boss had almost forty. How would I build trust and add value? I had to evolve into the role over time." Yet the... View Details
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Peter Gumulia
fintech in South East Asia, as Chief of Staff and VP of Strategy and Growth. Looking for new challenges Having had the opportunity to observe the gray areas that the management team had to navigate – and the ambiguous decisions they had... View Details
- 14 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
A Strategy For Steady Leadership in an Unsteady World
presaged a world that is “volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous” —VUCA, for short. VUCA describes perfectly what is happening in the global business world today. Business is not running as usual. Leaders must deal with growing uncertainty, complexity, and View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
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Dilan Gomih
Even food can be a managerial exercise." Dilan's ambitions are entrepreneurial in nature. “I'm looking for the intersection between wellness and media," she says. “If there's a company out there, great but if not, I get to create one." The View Details
- 09 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Most Accountants Aren’t Crooks—Why Good Audits Go Bad
different ways. As we saw in the study involving the collision, people tend to reach self-serving conclusions whenever ambiguity surrounds a piece of evidence. While it's true that many accounting decisions are cut-and-dried—establishing... View Details
- 14 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact
chain of changes that need to occur to achieve long-term results. We often talk about how a nonprofit organization should have a theory of change, yet many donors don't have one of their own." Internal Benchmarks Possible Despite the View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna