Filter Results:
(1,496)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(1,496)
- People (28)
- News (493)
- Research (539)
- Events (1)
- Multimedia (22)
- Faculty Publications (232)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(1,496)
- People (28)
- News (493)
- Research (539)
- Events (1)
- Multimedia (22)
- Faculty Publications (232)
- 18 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 18
Most Successful CEOs Come from Within By: Bower, Joseph L. Abstract—The financial crisis of 2008 and the Great Recession caused a crisis of public confidence in business and American-style capitalism, with its focus on maximizing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 17
2004, DaVita acquired arch-rival Gambro Healthcare, whose 12,000 employees would nearly double DaVita in size once the integration is completed in fall 2005. Confident that the deal makes business sense but worried about potential adverse... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 May 2021
- Blog Post
Meet the MoMBAs – Persisting Through a Difficult Year
What has been the best part of being a mom at HBS? Going through the HBS experience with my daughter has been the best part of the journey. She was one year old when I started RC year. It has been fulfilling witnessing her blossom into a talkative, outgoing, View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Rival Visions
hardest assignments. He drafted plans to institute new military regulations, to reform the inspector general's office, and—most remarkably—to reorganize the entire army . Despite his emotional insecurities, he had total confidence in his... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Innovation Takes Center Stage
educating leaders whom others declare to be leaders, we have to recognize that people only call someone a leader if they feel confident about his or her competence and character.” Competence comes from mastery of specific knowledge,... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
Downsizing? By: Cohen, Lauren, Joshua D. Coval, and Christopher J. Malloy Abstract—While we commend the initiative of Snyder and Welch (2017), we lay out in this short reply why we remain highly confident in our results and our... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
Step outside Your Comfort Zone, Rise to the Challenge, and Build Confidence by Andy Molinsky (PhDOB, 1999) (Avery) What often sets successful people apart is their willingness to do things most of us fear. We may have the false notion... View Details
- 26 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 26
abstract, and articulate the key lessons taught by experience. In particular, we argue that purposeful reflection on one's accumulated experience leads to greater learning than the accumulation of additional experience. We explain this boost in learning through... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Team MBA
stressors of the HBS model is speaking in class. The learning team gave me a sounding board to try out a comment before bringing it to class. I was always more confident in discussing a topic in section that had been fleshed out by the... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
Sarita expanded to a second school in Shanghai; Western businesspeople and diplomats account for 10 percent of the growing business. “When you have the knowledge and you know the protocol, then you have the confidence to focus on things... View Details
- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
received theory; and/or (3) reinforce the findings of more systematic investigations, giving greater confidence in their validity. Learning from such accounts calls for a "Bayesian" mindset, in which a given case study, of the... View Details
- 10 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet
to defeat preconceptions so they didn't fall into any rote pattern. They made fresh choices that they were completely prepared to make. If players were truly experiencing the music anew, they wouldn't be confident enough to make skillful... View Details
- 17 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Brazil Teaches About Investor Protection
What gave investors the confidence to risk their money? In a recent monograph, Musacchio reports that Brazilian companies were transparent about their operations, including the disclosure of executive compensation—something not even done... View Details
- 07 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Biotech
nervous. Several days before the Biotechnology Industry Organization's (BIO) annual conference convened this past March in Boston, opponents held their own forum of seminars and talks under the banner of BioDevastation 2000. Obviously, advances in biotechnology are not... View Details
- Web
A Message from Dean Srikant Datar | About
responded magnificently. It is this community and its commitment to do whatever it takes to achieve our mission that gives me confidence that we can draw on all our past strengths and look forward to a remarkable future. I grew up in... View Details
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
confidence in the value of trust that he relentlessly worked to establish. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/419031-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 419-032 The Global-Local Tension: Vodafone CEO Vittorio Colao... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
Tracleer, which Actelion sold and marketed worldwide. However, Tracleer's looming patent expiry in a few years and recent late-stage pipeline setbacks had put the company under pressure from investors. While Clozel was confident in their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
shake my confidence in the industry and its potential to work with entrepreneurs to create massively exciting and valuable companies. There’s just as much entrepreneurial energy out there as there ever has been. If anything, it’s... View Details
- 27 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 27, 2007
the legal inconsistencies that arise in a multi-jurisdiction bankruptcy. In addition, they must determine if Butters has sufficient information about, and control over, operations at Navigator to be confident engaging in a lengthy set of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
analysis, but I was never asked to present." Part of this, Osmo notes, is because she is simply great with people. Meeting Sender, this becomes obvious quickly. She operates with a ready smile and the kind of authentic ease that demonstrates View Details