Interviewing - Publications - Faculty & Research

11 Oct 2023
News

Soldier On

day and the day after that. PJ: To be honest, that entire weekend was a blur. I think I did seven or eight primetime interviews, BBC, CNN, Fox News, et cetera. We would do the interviews in the morning and then in the evening we would try... View Details

25 Nov 2019
Research & Ideas

When Your Passion Works Against You

poison in the workplace,” Jachimowicz says. “If two employees are competing for something, one may try to undermine the other.” Pretending doesn't work Expressing fire in the belly in a job interview can work in a candidate’s favor, but... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

11 Apr 2024
Blog Post

Climate Stories: Water Series - Episode #17: Leni Peterson Redondo (HBS MS/MBA 2023), Founder & CEO of Celeste

a platform designed to collect and clarify data about clients’ water usage in their supply chains. “This is the moment to be building a water company,” Leni said in an interview with Climate Stories. Leni and Taryn named the company after... View Details

25 Apr 2023
Blog Post

How Short Intensive Programs (SIPs) Transform Your MBA Learning Journey

students. We interviewed two students about their experiences with SIPs, taking a closer look at their time in the Spiritual Lives of Leaders and Personal Finance courses. Tricia Peralta (MBA 2024) - Spiritual Lives of Leaders Why did you... View Details

16 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

The Most Successful Startups Have Hands-On Founders

responsibilities and make important decisions. It’s easy to confuse hands-on management with micromanaging, Koning says. “Startup founders have a really hard time letting go, so they’re the ones doing the customer interviews and trying to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

2017
Book

The Language of Global Success: How a Common Tongue Transforms Multinational Organizations

By: Tsedal Neeley

For nearly three decades, English has been the lingua franca of cross-border organizations, yet studies on corporate language strategies and their importance for globalization have been scarce. In The Language of Global Success, Tsedal Neeley provides an... View Details

Keywords: Communication; Residency; Corporate Strategy; Globalized Firms and Management; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Brazil; France; Germany; Indonesia; Japan; Taiwan; Thailand; United States

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Projects - Business History

projects are done in collaboration with Special Collections at Baker Library. Creating Emerging Markets Creating Emerging Markets explores the evolution of business leadership in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. At its core are over 150 View Details

2025
Book

Retiring: Creating a Life That Works for You

By: Teresa M. Amabile, Lotte Bailyn, Marcy Crary, Douglas T. Hall and Kathy E. Kram

Retirement, as a major life transition, can be both thrilling and challenging in unexpected ways. Written by acclaimed authors in the fields of business leadership, careers, and work, this book goes beyond the typical financial and health-related advice on retirement,... View Details

Keywords: Retirement

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Online Business Strategy Course | HBS Online

Theatres, JPMorgan Chase, Quest Diagnostics, Raksul, Ripple, Simon-Kucher & Partners, Tatra banka, and West Monroe Partners. Description of silent animated video above: Learner scrolls through video interviews from prominent business... View Details

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Frequently Asked Questions - Health Care

newsletters are only available to students, faculty, and alumni. Do I need to apply or interview separately for this program? No separate application or interview process is required to be involved in the... View Details

14 Jul 2014
Research & Ideas

Pay Attention To Your ‘Extreme Consumers’

interview consumers of their type of product in neighborhoods near the Harvard Business School campus. Boston. Frequently, however, they found that students would only seek out people much like themselves, such as middle-class students in... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

23 Nov 2021
Research & Ideas

The Vinyl Renaissance: Take Those Old Records Off the Shelf

Austin, Texas, in 2017, and Ryan Raffaelli, the Marvin Bower Associate Professor at HBS, to learn more about the vinyl renaissance. The interview has been edited for clarity and length. Gazette: Why have vinyl records come back into favor... View Details

Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Music

09 Nov 2021
Research & Ideas

The Simple Secret of Effective Mentoring Programs

pre-hiring interview records, the authors found no correlation between any specific demographic or personality traits among those who opted in or out of mentoring. They did find that those who opted out of mentoring tended to have lower... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

20 Oct 2008
Research & Ideas

The Seven Things That Surprise New CEOs

new CEOs. See a video interview with Porter.Most new chief executives are taken aback by the unexpected and unfamiliar new roles, the time and information limitations, and the altered professional relationships they run up against. Here... View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter, Jay W. Lorsch & Nitin Nohria

24 May 2021
Op-Ed

Can Fabric Waste Become Fashion’s Resource?

COVID-19 has broken fashion’s supply chain. As a result, an already wasteful industry has become more wasteful. Even before the pandemic, the global apparel industry was producing about 92 million tons of textile waste a year. That’s about one garbage truck’s worth of... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones and Shelly Xu; Fashion

14 Mar 2018
Research & Ideas

Feeling Stressed? Try Sniffing Your Romantic Partner's Shirt

they were smelling, but were asked whether they believed the shirt had been worn by their partner. Per instruction, the women repeatedly took one-minute whiffs of the sweaty clothing before, during, and after undergoing a psychological test meant to induce stress: a... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Dec 2019
News

Bridging the Gap

drew on the support of fellow YALPers to launch a successful bid to prevent the city’s professional soccer team from moving to Austin, Texas. In Salt Lake City, YALP participants enlisted area companies to commit to Parity.org’s pledge to View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Josh Cochran; photographed by Melissa Golden; cross sector collaboration; local government; nonprofits; education; leadership; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

03 Nov 2014
Working Paper Summaries

Adding Value Through Venture Capital in Latin America and the Caribbean

Keywords: by Josh Lerner, Ann Leamon, James Tighe & Susana Garcia-Robles; Financial Services

May 2021
Article

Choice Architecture in Physician–patient Communication: A Mixed-methods Assessment of Physicians' Competency

By: J. Hart, K. Yadav, S. Szymanski, A. Summer, A. Tannenbaum, J. Zlatev, D. Daniels and S.D. Halpern

Background: Clinicians’ use of choice architecture, or how they present options, systematically influences the choices made by patients and their surrogate decision makers. However, clinicians may incompletely understand this influence.... View Details

Keywords: Choice Architecture; Health Care and Treatment; Interpersonal Communication; Decision Choices and Conditions; Competency and Skills

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State Activism and the Hidden Incentives Behind Bank Acquisitions

By: Christopher Marquis, Doug Guthrie and Juan Almandoz

A number of studies have shown that, as a result of the ambiguity of U.S. legal mandates, organizations have considerable latitude in how they comply with regulations. In this paper, we address how the different agendas of the federal and state governments increase... View Details