Confidence - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2004
News

One-on-One with William H. Donaldson

December 2001 had severely eroded investor confidence and prompted Congress to legislate sweeping corporate reforms contained in the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Donaldson’s predecessor, Harvey L. Pitt, had been forced to resign under pressure.... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

03 Apr 2019
Book

Fintech's Game-Changing Opportunities for Small Business

business’s future cash flows. One can see the value of knowing more precisely when future lean periods or shortfalls might be coming up, and having the opportunity to set aside a rainy day fund. This transparency into future cash flows could benefit a growing business... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Banking; Financial Services

30 Jun 2020
Book

Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever

updating the 10 disruptive forces identified in the first edition, showing how managers can address these challenges, and describing how public confidence in the market system could be rebuilt. The revised edition includes examples of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

11 Apr 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, April 11

Experiments 1A and 1B found that advice influenced participants more when they thought it came from an algorithm than when they thought it came from other people. This effect was robust to presenting the advisor jointly or separately (Experiment 2). Experiment 3 tested... View Details

08 Mar 2016
Research & Ideas

Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile

business leaders more confident and willing to talk to Harvard. They talked surprisingly openly to us, about their businesses and about politics. A number of the Chileans, for example, talked of their admiration for General Augusto... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

20 Dec 2011
First Look

First Look: December 20

unconsciously was compared to participants thinking consciously, and to immediate decision makers. Across a total of 92 studies, the overall aggregated effect size was g = .224, with a 95% confidence interval from .145 to .303. This... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

10 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

How to Look at Globalization Now

adding value by operating across borders is concerned; others can be identified as well. Q: Globalists and global skeptics have had plenty to argue about in recent years: as you write in the same paper, globalists gained confidence from... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2007
News

The Wise Men

MBA degrees handed out nationally. But more importantly, HBS was cementing its identity, centered on the powerful pedagogy of the case method and on the entire MBA experience as a unique and transformational event. Indeed, the School had become View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna

15 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Find Your Pragmatic Path through Radical Uncertainty

thing not to do is make long-term bets. In budgeting for operations, for example, lots of effort is wasted by thinking that we can project with any accuracy the timing for getting the answers to the important questions that will define the new normal. Complete View Details

Keywords: by Howard Stevenson, Eugene B. Kogan, and Shirley Spence

02 Oct 2013
What Do You Think?

Is Leadership an Increasingly Difficult Balancing Act?

have little confidence in long-range planning, predictions of others, or their own biases. They will spend less time planning and more time fostering the organizational ability to develop and test new ideas. In a recent e-mail, Scott... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

22 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

CEO Succession: The Case at Ford

turning outside means the board has lost confidence in the insiders. And at least as long as there is some success, the terrific advantage is that the leader has the support of the board. In some instances, you also get someone who knows... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner; Auto; Employment

07 Nov 2005
Research & Ideas

Exit Interview: HBS Dean Kim Clark

quick to speak and more inclined to listen. In many ways, I'm more confident about grasping situations but also a lot more aware of my own limitations. I've learned to multitask and compartmentalize, to leave work at the office, to put a... View Details

Keywords: by HBS Alumni Bulletin Staff

28 May 2019
News

INK: Maker’s Manual

for everything from market research to packaging. What do you hope the book will do for would-be entrepreneurs? I’d like it to give them confidence to start their ventures with a playbook so that the path is not as lonely or ambiguous.... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Apr 1999
News

A Vibrant Brand

Blaze in order to have a monthly magazine that could concentrate solely on hip-hop music and culture. Launched with much fanfare and a tremendous vote of confidence from advertisers in August 1998, Blaze calls itself the "fifth element"... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Jun 2005
News

One-on-One with Grover Norquist

eyebrows with his provocative rhetoric. A master of hyperbole, he once declared that he wanted to “reduce government to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.” Rhetorical flourishes aside, his stock in Washington has never been... View Details

Keywords: Government

16 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?

although it certainly means that. It is deeper. It is about the match between what leaders say and what they do. Leaders with integrity have strong values and standards and principles, and they act on them--consistently, without fail, in public and in private. Such... View Details

Keywords: by Kim B. Clark

01 Dec 2001
News

September 11: A Community Reflects

confidence in the business community. Pulling Together In an interview in the September 24 edition of the Harbus, Dean Clark was asked if he believed the mood on campus would be "somber" for the rest of the year. "I don't think somber is... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg

14 Oct 2021
Blog Post

Making the MBA Degree More Accessible

incoming class, she says, represents a manifestation of the team’s work over the past several years. “My hope is that these efforts helped them to decide that this is the right place for them, and also that they are showing up confident... View Details

16 Jul 2024
Blog Post

Driving Positive Impact on Community and Climate with Ben Schutzman (MBA 2016)

greater impact in the community. The Leadership Fellows Program also gave me an opportunity to explore something beyond working in a traditional business. Working in government was something that I wouldn’t have otherwise explored, but I had the View Details

13 May 2014
First Look

First Look: May 13

prices as much as 20% below Tesco's, and premium-grocer Waitrose were both growing fast. What did Clarke need to do to restore confidence and get Tesco back on track? Purchase this case:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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