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Power and Influence for Positive Impact - Course Catalog
power abuses that threaten our freedoms and well-being. Course overview: Designed for individuals at any stage of their career, this course is meant to debunk our fallacies about power and explore the fundamentals of power in View Details
- 02 Jan 2013
- What Do You Think?
Should We Rethink the Promise of Teams?
successful and unsuccessful experiences with teams. Improper uses of teams were cited. Phil Clark said that "Often teams are formed to 'look good' but truly are not teams Ownership of the outcome is directly related to the success of a... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 18 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 18
managers-firms with the greatest information frictions prior to the rule change. We report three changes related to compensation after 1992 for division managers. First, within firms with dispersed managers, division manager pay co-moves... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- Web
Leadership Execution and Action Planning (LEAP) - Course Catalog
objectives: To enable students to get things done successfully. To understand the risks, trade-offs, and constraints leaders face when tasked with achieving results under conditions where they have limited skills, time, and resources available. To develop the... View Details
- 16 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 16, 2007
schedules a meeting with three of his reports, whose interpersonal conflicts with one another are causing his business development function to falter. He struggles to know how to handle these conflicts and bring the three into a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
Know Your Audience: Recruiting HBS Students for Investment Banking
The “Know Your Audience” series on the HBS Recruiting Blog highlights trends in recruiting for various industries. Learn more about student interest, effective recruiting strategies, and best practices from HBS staff dedicated to your industry. Meet the Team Kurt... View Details
- August 1999
- Case
Leaving
By: David A. Thomas
A company supervisor listens to an employee, an African American woman, announce she is leaving the company and tries to understand the situation. View Details
Keywords: Resignation and Termination; Retention; Race; Behavior; Diversity; Interpersonal Communication; Labor and Management Relations
Thomas, David A. "Leaving." Harvard Business School Case 400-033, August 1999.
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Money (Actually) Can Buy Happiness
step back and asked, What’s the fundamental relationship between money and happiness? We were interested in answering that question in order to design interventions: What can we change for people? Professor Whillans, your research looks at a View Details
Keywords: April White
- 02 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 3, 2008
industry—as well as those that target other industries—increases the likelihood that the firm will acquiesce to shareholder requests to disclose related information. These findings extend existing theory by showing how organizational... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018
attained top positions in corporations or professional services firms. These women thrived, they found, because of three characteristics that are key to resilience: emotional intelligence, authenticity, and agility. The women were adept at reading View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade
Networks Published: September 14, 2009 Many business leaders are mystified about how to reach potential customers on social networks such as Facebook. Professor Mikolaj Jan Piskorski provides a fresh look into the interpersonal dynamics... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
Mitigating Malicious Envy: Why Successful Individuals Should Reveal Their Failures By: Brooks, Alison Wood, Karen Huang, Nicole Abi-Esber, Ryan W. Buell, Laura Huang, and Brian Hall Abstract—People often feel malicious envy, a destructive View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 10 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 10
interpersonal consequences of dodge attempts: When listeners were guided to detect dodges, they rated speakers more negatively (Study 2), and listeners rated speakers who answered a similar question in a fluent manner more positively than... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 8
positively related to attitudes of openness to others. In a third study, I conducted an interpersonal dyadic negotiation experiment with business school students and found that, as predicted, these effects... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement
variable analysis and use the differences in the likelihood of retirement driven by Social Security retirement incentives in the United States to find a sizable increase in purpose in life as an outcome of retirement.” Emotional Acknowledgment: How Verbalizing Others’... View Details
- 11 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
How Do You Grade Out as a Negotiator?
interpersonal skills, but not about how well you do in creating value and claiming your share. Maybe you are not giving yourself enough credit? Outcome-Focused Negotiator (20 percent): Good at both creating and claiming value, you are not... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Waking Up a Sleeping Company
shielded them from responsibility. The lack of performance standards related directly to the organization's inability to deal with conflict. Many managers could not abide open conflict in meetings. Disagreements over issues were... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Alumni Books
It Happened on the Way to War: A Marine’s Path to Peace by Rye Barcott (MPA/MBA ’09) (Bloomsbury USA) Barcott relates how as a college student he lived in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya, for part of a summer, seeing poverty he’d never... View Details
- 28 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Creating a Workplace That Supports Employees in Work and Life
company-wide communications, encourage employees to put their preferred pronouns in their signature, and create a culture that encourages the use of gender-neutral pronouns when asking folks about their private lives as it relates to... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
Abstract—Conversation is a fundamental human experience, one that is necessary to pursue intrapersonal and interpersonal goals across myriad contexts, relationships, and modes of communication. In the current research, we isolate the role... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne