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- 10 Jul 2017
- Blog Post
Why the MBA is Still Relevant
at a startup, nothing can replace two years of the personal and professional growth I had here at HBS. There are three major aspects of the HBS experience that confirmed for me how valuable getting an MBA can be, and I’m grateful for the... View Details
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Crucibles of Crisis Leadership - Course Catalog
last session, each of us will have assembled a toolbox of concrete insights, actions, and personal behaviors to help us be consistently more focused, resilient, confident, and courageous in our anxious, uncertain time. 3 View Details
- 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 Dec 2011
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
in organizational success and personal growth. He also provides a 28-day program for mastering innovation’s key steps: finding insight, generating ideas, building businesses, and strengthening innovation prowess in the workforce and... View Details
- 31 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
Exploring the Art of Business: Social Enterprise Summer Fellow Felipe Ceron (MBA 2022)
at HBS I've reflected deeply about what I want for my future, and it's been a tough question to answer. I've never been a fan of the "where do you see yourself in five years" question because as I've grown I've changed significantly how I think, so I could be a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Natural Fit
hitting our daily or quarterly number. You can’t take that approach in sports. Yes, we want to win the medal count in 2026. But you have to put that aside and, each day, focus on process, process, process and culture, culture, culture.” Solid ground: “A common View Details
- 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
- 14 Sep 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Google Engineer Deserved to be Fired by the CEO
groups of people lead to individuals being judged by external characteristics such as gender, race, and national origin rather than the authentic person within. As with many complex issues, business leaders must explore these foundational... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 19 Jul 2021
- Blog Post
Building a Powerful Network of Talent at American Tower
Tower Leadership Development Program With this objective in mind, the HR team developed the two-year rotational Leadership Development Program now in its eighth year. When seeking out candidates who would be an ideal fit, Linder and her team are looking for specific... View Details
- 22 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Mind of the Market: Extending the Frontiers of Marketing Thought
the Market's advisory council, for example, looks into the aforementioned concept of loyalty. Implications for marketing, according to the results, include the following: "Embody in brand communications the personality View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Rich Wilson
sitesALIVE! (www.sitesalive.com). Most people have never heard of the Vendée Globe race. Why is it special? Some call it the Mt. Everest of the seas. But when I finished the race, I was told that while 2,700 different people have summited Everest, I was only the 46th... View Details
- 27 Jul 2019
- Op-Ed
Does Facebook's Business Model Threaten Our Elections?
platform. Advertisers used that data to create psychographic profiles of potential customers that went beyond mere demographics to give insights into what they like and value. Studies have found that with just 10 “likes” an algorithm can predict a person’s View Details
Keywords: by George Riedel
- 23 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Prove C-Suite Gender Gap—but Can’t Explain It
researchers factored for personal traits, including imputed height, body mass, and cognitive ability. Because military service was mandatory for men but not for women, they had very little data on the physical View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 07 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: ‘The Art of Negotiation’
things as well. Familiar routines and old assumptions have to be disrupted, even though doing so entails risk. Otherwise nothing new can be created. Frank Barrett calls this trait "provocative competence." It tops his list of key... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael A. Wheeler
- 16 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Football Firings Teach Managers About Staying Relevant
and competitive, managers cannot do everything by themselves. In other words, staying relevant is a team sport, and managers can only be as relevant as the people around them help them to be. Staying curious and continuous learning. Another View Details
- 02 Dec 2019
- What Do You Think?
How Does a Company like Boeing Respond to Intense Competitive Pressure?
possibly was another example unfolded. As reader Anna Johnson put it, “When the pressure to meet quarterly performance expectations against best-guess sales targets and a flesh pounding schedule take precedence, it’s not surprising that psychological safety and View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Innovation Takes Center Stage
’53), an Alumni Board member: “I was particularly struck by how Dean Nohria shared his personal life with us. I was also impressed by his effort to listen and engage faculty and alumni in creating a vision for the School. Sharing and... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 31 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
One Quarter of Entrepreneurs in the United States Are Immigrants
in research in entrepreneurship and innovation. Together, they were able to investigate how many people born outside the United States were responsible for firm creation and the traits of those firms. First, the researchers needed to... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 25 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
How Disruptive Innovation is Remaking the University
unmarketable yet invaluable intangibles such as social tolerance, personal responsibility, and respect for the rule of law. Each is a unique community of scholars in which lives as well as minds are molded. Pure profit-based competition... View Details
- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
Social Behavior By: Crockett, Molly J., and Amy Cuddy Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49863 October 2015 Journal of Personality and Social Psychology Men as Cultural Ideals:... View Details