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- 30 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 30
intra-division confidence to facilitate cross-selling. While the joint managing director, Vineet Agarwal, under the guidance of his father D.P. Agarwal, vice-chairman and managing director, TCI, in conjunction with TCI's executive... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Clearing the Air
rest of those properties that are important to you. Then you use that to invent molecules we haven’t yet used for direct-air capture. What gives you confidence there’s a market for these solutions? So, at HBS and elsewhere, they’ll teach... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
or specific job history. Like Shackleton, today’s leaders need team members and other stakeholders who can acknowledge turbulence, embrace its opportunities, and meet its challenges with confidence and effect. Abraham Lincoln When Doing... View Details
- 05 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
It’s Alive! Business Scholars Turn to Experimental Research
hypothesis in a lab setting that involved recalling the Ten Commandments, and then performed a similar ethical field study at an insurance company, where they successfully replicated the findings they saw in the lab. "This was nice, since it gave us View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 09 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times
another million dollars into the [culture] and DLU it created a high degree of comfort and confidence that we're focused on what really matters," observed the VP of Sales."3 The company's revenue, profits and stock price... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 28 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 28, 2007
Business School Note 808-004 Firms that aspire to develop two-sided platforms face a formidable challenge. Prospective users on each side will not invest in the platform until they are confident there will be enough users on the other... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
Both personally and professionally, right? So I wonder, where do you see opportunity and what gives you hope? TS: Yeah. What gives me hope is my great confidence in human ingenuity and innovation and capitalist incentive that will reward... View Details
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
from the United Kingdom and Hong Kong partnered with public universities to form joint-ventured "independent colleges." Buoyed by the success of XAIU, Huang was confident that despite these setbacks, his franchise model would... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care
have a proposal that seems to lean pretty heavily in one direction distributionally, I think there is going to be a further loss of confidence or buy-in with how the system is working. "I think the detachment of the current debate... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009
include: How does a team leader win the confidence of the group? What's the best method for developing team goals? How can individual performers be developed into team players? How do teams learn? When Goal Setting Goes Bad If you ever... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 14 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 14, 2007
This, in turn, had an impact on De Beers' reputation and consumer confidence in the diamond as a product that represented integrity, love, and commitment. In 2000, De Beers' sustainability depends on the ability of its leaders to shift... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
How to Pick Managers for Disruptive Growth
little experience competing for resources and bucking inappropriate processes within a stable, efficiency-oriented operating culture. In order to be confident that managers have developed the skills required to succeed at a new... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Raynor
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Light Looks Back on Forty-Year HBS Career
When you became Dean, were there surprises for you nonetheless? It wasn’t a complete surprise, but one of the interesting things was to see how information dries up when you become the head of an organization. For years I had been a close adviser and View Details
- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
confident that shareholders will approve changes made to the company’s executive incentive plan (EIP) and steps taken to accelerate the turnover of long-serving directors, but he wonders how much longer the company will be able to... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively
such a context is a very difficult balance to strike for any company. During our interviews for the case, Jerome Schmitt, Total's head of IR, told us: "We want to be confident with analysts and the financial community and say, 'Look... View Details
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
and a place that valued the environment, he says. “And frankly, it used to be the best place in the world to live or work or retire or come for holidays. So I set my ambitions very high.” Mitsotakis is confident that capital won’t be the... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
says. “We would be in Mrs. Bradley’s library with the card tables set up, and the phone would ring. We’d pick up and say, ‘Research Counsel of Washington, may I help you?’ The absurdity of the situation is inescapable, right? But you have to project forward with the... View Details
- 22 May 2020
- In Practice
Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?
the world after COVID-19 and will perhaps expand further. I believe that startups that offer technology and software that enable physicians to confidently practice medicine from afar will become more valuable. My sense is that this trend... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 09 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 9, 2015
are high. With more time and capital, the cofounders are confident they can resolve operational problems. But will they be able to persuade investors to provide more capital? Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
2016 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland where she spoke about the role of confidence in women's economic empowerment. In 2012 and 2013, she partnered with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to study a decade of gender in the... View Details