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- July–August 2013
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Relaxing the Taboo on Telling Our Own Stories: Upholding Professional Distance and Personal Involvement
By: Michel Anteby
Scholars studying organizations are typically discouraged from telling, in print, their own stories. The expression "telling our own stories" is used as a proxy for field research projects that, in their written form, explicitly rely on a scholar's personal involvement... View Details
Keywords: Fieldwork; Research Practiced; Distance; Involvement; Taboo; Practice; Ethics; Education Industry
Anteby, Michel. "Relaxing the Taboo on Telling Our Own Stories: Upholding Professional Distance and Personal Involvement." Organization Science 24, no. 4 (July–August 2013): 1277–1290.
- 30 Sep 2014
- News
Life Lessons on the Open Seas
Paul Callahan (MBA 1992) is the captain of his own fate. A freak accident at age 21 left him a quadriplegic. That transformative moment led him, ultimately, to take the helm of Sail to Prevail, a nonprofit... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 2009
- Chapter
The Decline and Renewal of British Multinational Banking.
By: G. Jones and Lucy Newton
This chapter discusses the renaissance of British multinational banking from the 1990s. British commercial banks had pioneered multinational banking during the 19th century, but they were unable to build on this legacy during the new wave of global banking that began... View Details
- 27 Jun 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Learning to Make the Move to CEO
find that maybe that wasn't such a bad thing to do," Simons remarks. "It's given other people the time to stretch themselves and added a dimension to the organization that wouldn't have existed... View Details
- 03 Jan 2023
- What Do You Think?
How Would the Leadership Style of Girl Scouts' Frances Hesselbein Fare Today?
that the Girl Scouts paid for their operations out of money earned from cookie sales. It was a set of assumptions difficult to change; it mattered a great deal in an organization in which each of View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- 12 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
How Crowds and Experts Kickstart the Arts
correlation between the scores judges assigned and the outcomes of the crowd, suggesting that on average the two groups saw projects similarly... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Intellectual Debate: The Business of Business
economics overlap and highlighted the key implications this has for management and management education. When the afternoon was over, differences of opinion on the topics... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Research Brief: Ahead of the Game
As a lifelong runner who spent countless hours training and competing his way up to the national level, Professor Paul Gompers has always believed that his athletic experiences were critical to shaping who he is, both as a competitor and in the professional sphere. Now... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Action Plan: Fruit of the Vine
authenticity, and consistency.” Don’t take sales for granted. “It sounds obvious, but if you make the wine, you’ve got to sell the wine. As a small business owner, you can really get into a trap of providing... View Details
Keywords: Ryan Jones
- 25 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
How Disruptive Innovation is Remaking the University
rethink the entire traditional higher education model. Private universities without national recognition and large endowments are at great financial risk. So are public universities, even prestigious ones... View Details
- 10 Nov 2008
- Research Event
Social Media Leads the Future of Technology
effective in the sense that advertisers can reach great scale and do precision targeting. The challenge is to discern consumers' intent. "Search is unbelievably efficient... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Web
Members of the Military | MBA
the 95+ student-run clubs at Harvard Business School (HBS) can be a great way both to explore interests and meet some of your closest friends. The mission of View Details
- 14 Aug 2019
- News
Pasricha on the Perils of Retirement
relationships with our friends and family”), structure (“a reason to get out of bed in the morning”), stimulation (“we always need to be learning something new”), and story (being part of something bigger than yourself). “And those four... View Details
- 24 Jul 2019
- Blog Post
Growing the Seeds of an Early-Stage Startup
personally blending and packaging the pilot batch. The chasm between small batch and bulk production is very real, and we have to be creative to optimize investment until we get to sufficient scale. I have... View Details
- 07 Nov 2016
- News
The Business of Saving Old Buildings
board of directors. And they now are the principle lobbyists of historic preservation in Massachusetts, and have done a great deal over the last 10 years or 15 years in getting... View Details
- 05 Aug 2015
- News
Mobilizing the Public to Fight Bribery
“Corruption is a great untapped market,” Henry Motte-Munoz (MBA 2013) says with a laugh. “Not many competitors and customer interest is quite high.” It’s a market he’s helping to disrupt using Bantay, an NGO he cofounded while at HBS,... View Details
- 02 Apr 2014
- What Do You Think?
Has the Post-Capitalist Economy Finally Arrived?
network (government?) will need to be developed alongside of capitalism for those who do not survive the massive consolidation." What will capitalism require of us in the future? What do you think?... View Details
- 29 Oct 2007
- HBS Case
Marketing Maria: Managing the Athlete Endorsement
athletes have relatively short careers compared to most other professionals, it is extremely important to strategically manage these assets and to make the right decisions at the right times. Q: What makes... View Details
- 11 Dec 2017
- News
Leadership Lessons from the Basketball Court
great salary and benefits, but also, feeling like you're invested in. And that's really why we saw an opportunity with PowerForward, to not only help organizations improve, but also help organizations invest in their people in a way that... View Details
- 2003
- Book
The Slow Pace of Fast Change: Bringing Innovations to Market in a Connected World
By: Bhaskar Chakravorti
Innovation's encounter with the market results in a game of both high risk and high stakes. Often its outcome defies common sense: Superior new products flop, unlikely ideas become runaway hits, and—despite rapid technological advances and intense... View Details