confidence - Publications - Faculty & Research

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

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

19 Aug 2024
News

Quantum Leap

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Quantum computing has long been talked about as one of the next big things—the kind of technology, like AI, that will change everything. But to our... View Details

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

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities

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

Keywords: Julia Hanna; digital media; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

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

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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

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Commencement 2018 Address | About

core of any vibrant capitalist system, and we should cherish it. At a time when people are losing trust in the role of business enterprise in society, it is your job to restore their confidence in this engine of human prosperity. You... View Details

01 Feb 1997
News

Doing It Your Way

analysis," Bhide smiles. Another is what he calls "smart arrogance" - "the confidence to believe in your ideas combined with the sense to bail out quickly if new information points in that direction." Yet a third characteristic of a... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso (profiles by Linda Goodspeed, Elaine Gottlieb, Nancy O. Perry, and Judith A. Ross)

29 Sep 2008
Research & Ideas

Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel

burdening the taxpayer? That's the question." Investment Banking Faces A Crisis Of Confidence Senior lecturer Clayton Rose shared insights on the turmoil gained in part from his experience at JP Morgan & Company for 20 years,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

06 Nov 2007
First Look

First Look: November 6, 2007

adopted by the gastroenterology professional organizations, that even if applicants had accepted offers prior to the match, they could subsequently decline those offers and participate in the match. This made it safe for programs to delay hiring until the match, View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Have Marketers Ignored America’s Man-of-Action Hero?

spectrum are rebels. Rebels are defiant individualists, mavericks who buck every institutional norm in following their inner muse. Rebels are potent figures because they have the confidence to reject what society deems important. A... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

01 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care

can state confidently that cancer is the most expensive disease to treat. Cancer patients and survivors account for about 0.5 percent of the US population, and about 6 percent of the nation's health care expenditures. He's aware that 46... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

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Online Digital Marketing Strategy Course | HBS Online

about a particular subject area or further develop their career. Corina Cristea Lavoie Corporate Services Manager at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP The course has given me the confidence to know that my suggestions have a solid business basis.... View Details

01 Apr 1999
News

An Eye to the East

access and connections to corporations in the region in order to develop case studies. "We must win the confidence of major companies in the region," Yoshino said. The Hong Kong Research Office with Camille Tang Yeh in charge is already... View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes

10 Mar 2009
First Look

First Look: March 10, 2009

regulation as a general theory of politics. George Stigler himself claimed that "temporary accidents aside," exceptions "simply will not arise: our extensive experience with the general theory in economics gives us the View Details