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June–July 2014
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Language as a Lightning Rod: Power Contests, Emotion Regulation, and Subgroup Dynamics in Global Teams

By: Pamela J. Hinds, Tsedal Neeley and Catherine Durnell Cramton

Through an ethnographic study comprised of interviews with and observations of 96 globally distributed members in six software development teams, we propose a model that captures how asymmetries in language fluency contribute to an us vs. them dynamic so common in... View Details

Keywords: Equality and Inequality; Communication Intention and Meaning; Groups and Teams; Applications and Software; Emotions; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Power and Influence; Information Technology Industry

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01 Jun 2007
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More Faculty Honors

Professor Max Bazerman has received the 2006 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Aspen Institute’s Business and Society Program. The institute, dedicated to fostering enlightened leadership, recognizes exceptional professors who are leaders in integrating social and... View Details

Keywords: awards; Information; Information; Information; Information

10 Sep 2008
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Thanks for the Memories

If you haven’t already taken a look at the HBS Institutional Memory Web site, don’t miss it: http://institutionalmemory.hbs.edu/. Since it was launched in February in conjunction with the School’s centennial celebration, the site has steadily added to its treasure... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Sep 2007
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Unexpected Advice from Am Ex’s Chenault

the health and well-being of the communities in which you and your employees live and work.” Chenault grounded his advice in what he called the “unspoken compact” between business and society at large. “Society allows us to operate in... View Details

Keywords: commencement; speech; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

24 Apr 2014
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Working to improve California's public education system

I’d never actually experienced it firsthand. So what that showed me was that the problem must be statewide if our privileged community couldn’t survive on the funds that we were given. So we realized we needed to build the political will... View Details

02 Sep 2014
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Visionary leadership won’t get you to innovation

definition—exactly where to go or maybe even how to get there. Instead, a leader needs to create a community that is willing and able to do innovative problem-solving.” Willingness to innovate depends on cultivating a shared sense of... View Details

01 Oct 1999
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HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

online alumni directory. The committee's goal is to use technology to better communicate news and information to alumni and to facilitate communication between alumni.... View Details

01 Jun 2009
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Alumni Books

The People Factor: Strengthening America by Investing in Public Service by Linda J. Bilmes (MBA ’84) and W. Scott Gould (Brookings Institution Press) The authors argue that the federal government can achieve the same gains as the best private-sector and military... View Details

Keywords: Information; Information

15 Jun 2021
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HBS Addresses Racial Equity

summer with a greater sense of urgency and purpose in dealing with racial equity issues? Dean Nitin Nohria wrote to our community about the School’s need to redouble its commitment to combat racism, and he asked Professor Jan Rivkin,... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

26 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

How Electronic Patient Records Can Slow Doctor Productivity

that you might be changing existing communication patterns among staff” One likely reason for the decline: processing electronic records can change the way staff members communicate with one another,... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health

February 2012 (Revised June 2012)
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By: Paul Healy, Karthik Ramanna and Matthew Shaffer

What should business leaders do about corruption? In December 2011, four HBS alumni met to debate how to engage the unprecedented protests against Vladimir Putin's corrupt government, which had erupted in Russia in response to alleged fraud in the recent parliamentary... View Details

Keywords: Leadership; Crime and Corruption; Government and Politics; Social and Collaborative Networks; Blogs; Information Industry; Russia

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15 Jun 2021
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The Value of Difficult Conversations

Great Conversation In the virtual classroom, Ratajczak steered the conversation away from past harms to the Black community to the current issues that stem from them. He wondered how payments could address modern inequities and if such... View Details

Keywords: April White; Tulsa Massacre

12 Mar 2012
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Crowded at the Top: The Rise of the Functional Manager

game-changers such as e-mail accounts, intranets, and enterprise resource planning (ERP) software. "You might expect that advances in information technology would increase the number of people you could manage because it makes it... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

09 Jun 2015
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Lessons in perseverance lead to high-quality schools for Peru

private schools. It has grown to 1,022 students, drawn not only from Lima’s elite but also from 18 other countries. She also owns three other schools, licenses out another one, and has opened a center in a poor community that ensures... View Details

11 Jan 2016
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Guiding Students to Out-of-School Programs and Resources

Marie Schwartz (MBA 1985) is founder and CEO of TeenLife Media, which produces online and print directories of STEM, gap year, pre-college, overnight summer, and community service programs for students in grades 7 through 12. In this... View Details

18 Apr 2022
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Book Smart

library—and no one was particularly keen on using it. The books, the guide informed Risher, came by boat, were often well out of date, and were of little interest to the children. So one day the building had been locked, and the key had... View Details

24 Apr 2014
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Understanding how trust impacts delivering superior performance

Why does one company succeed, while another fails? The research of Rebecca M. Henderson (MBA 1985, AM 1988, PhD 1988), University Professor, indicates that a fundamental difference concerns informal relational contracts between employers,... View Details

01 Mar 2010
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Wind Shift

HBS professor George P. Baker, a finance expert, has in recent years become an alternative-energy change agent as well, spearheading community wind projects in Maine. Now on leave from HBS, Baker is the CEO of Fox Islands Wind LLC, which... View Details

Keywords: Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction; Construction; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

01 Jun 1997
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MBA Program:Rapid Innovation in '96

In its role as a leader in business education, the School has brought dynamic change and innovation to the MBA Program this past year, most notably in admissions, the cohort structure, the Foundations portion of the curriculum, and View Details

04 Feb 2016
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From Super Bowl to STEM Bowl

and give middle school students a window into the tech future. Members of the HBS Association of Northern California's Community Partners Program worked with the Santa Clara Office of Civic Innovation (OCI) to launch the Technology and... View Details

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