Word Of Mouth - Publications - Faculty & Research

21 May 2001
Research & Ideas

From Tigers to Kaleidoscopes: Thinking About Future Leadership

each of the HBS faculty member's recent insights as described in Management 21C. The Genius Factor Mention the word "genius" and what comes to mind? Most likely a lone person gifted with extraordinary... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

30 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Computer Security is For Managers, Too

operations tell their materials suppliers exactly what specifications to meet. Similarly, companies should demand reasonable levels of security from software vendors. Look at the wording View Details

Keywords: by Robert D. Austin & Christopher A.R. Darby

24 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

Global Brands: Connecting With Consumers Across Boundaries

that casks of whiskey and farm animals were "branded"—or seared—with some kind of mark to identify ownership, she pointed out, the word didn't take on its current... View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner

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Reweaving Ourselves and the World: New Perspectives on Climate Change - Course Catalog

regarding such issues as grading, plagiarism, AI and the use of technology in class . Five short papers (500 words max) responding to the week’s readings, one due approximately every other week at 5 pm the... View Details

02 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

Why Good Deeds Invite Bad Publicity

more favorable coverage when spills were reported—the researchers performed a textual analysis of the newspaper stories, mining the text with software that ranks the tone of the View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Energy

23 Aug 2018
News

Healthcare Alumni Keep Learning Through Virtual Programming

students from Singapore mingled with a dozen alumni to learn more about life at HBS, including the best classes, section dynamics, and “not-to-miss social events.” HBS Club of Singapore President, Stan Furman (MBA 2005) shared a few View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Health, Social Assistance

03 Mar 2017
News

Big Blue’s Big Bet

having the computer choose the right answer. But in Jeopardy! there were roughly 2,500 types of questions, and within each type, thousands of different words or phrases that... View Details

Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page

01 Apr 1998
News

World Class Learning

your mouth unless you're absolutely sure of what you're talking about," she explains. Patricia K. Light, director of MBA Program Support Services, notes that in the United... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

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Commencement 2017 Address | About

entrepreneurship. They are striving to transform economies, whether on a local, national, or global scale, and in doing so, are working to lift hundreds of millions of people out View Details

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Dean Srikant Datar’s 2022 Commencement Remarks | About

first so they can be the best that they can be. Let me say a few words about each. What does it mean to enthuse an organization? You can think of it as how you inspire, guide, and influence others; I’ve also... View Details

17 Feb 2021
Research & Ideas

Pandemic Self-Care for CEOs: Rituals, Running, and Cognitive Restructuring

with our sample. Such activities “made me feel empowered once I completed the tasks,” in the words of one CEO, and “helped me to feel that I was not wasting my time and helped me to not be too hard on... View Details

Keywords: by Gamze D. Yucaoglu, Robin Abrahams, and Boris Groysberg

01 Jun 2002
News

Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth

“In describing me to Stobaugh afterwards, Matthews used words to the effect that I was a strange guy, but one who might add something to the School.” The “strange guy” came to be considered the conscience of... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; management; ethics

01 Apr 1997
News

Manager's Notebook

the same experience and credentials?" Analyzing the content and efficacy of roughly three hundred one-minute pitches, the researchers found that certain words and phrases could be used as signaling devices... View Details

Keywords: Judith Ross

01 Sep 2024
News

Ink: Framing the Full Picture

Filipinos have been in the United States for longer than the country is old. As far back as 1763, sailors from the Philippines started arriving in the Gulf of Mexico as indentured servants on Spanish galleons. Life on board was so brutal that, at the sight of land,... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

02 Mar 2017
What Do You Think?

Is China About to Overtake the US for World Trade Leadership?

cannot be a credible champion for world trade. “Xi Jinping’s words are more of a PR stunt,” he wrote. Wildebeest added, “[A]ttempting to do meaningful work in China is basically a hassle from day one, top to... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

20 May 2019
Research & Ideas

Activist CEOs Are Rising Up—and Their Customers Are Listening

also a significant trend because of our CEO-as-celebrity culture. “CEOs have the opportunity to get their words associated with those policies because when they engage in this type View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Sep 2005
News

Making History, Starting Over

At age 26, Ronald Cohen (MBA ’69) planted the seed of a great idea in inhospitable British soil. With three HBS classmates, he cofounded a consulting firm to advise entrepreneurial businesses. Admittedly, it was a risk. Entrepreneurship... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance

17 Jun 2020
Blog Post

Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 2/5

words to share how outraged and disappointed I am by the continued extrajudicial killing of Black men and women. I feel a deep tension as I am inspired by the energy and passion View Details

26 May 2016
News

2016 Alumni Achievement Awards

photographed by Susan Young; edited by Julia Hanna See full profiles and more photographs here. From a distance, the 2016 recipients of the HBS Alumni Achievement Award give the appearance of unmitigated... View Details

12 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

Operations and the Competitive Edge

most overused and least understood words in the current management vocabulary. Why? A: We're not against "teams" per se. After all, the authors of this book are, in a sense, a team. What we argue... View Details