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- 07 Mar 2023
- HBS Case
ChatGPT: Did Big Tech Set Up the World for an AI Bias Disaster?
for a slowdown in AI development. The work questioned whether AI language models, with hundreds of billions of words, had grown too large to effectively deal with issues of bias. “And we saw this race of just trying to train larger and larger and larger language... View Details
- 27 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Hard Work Isn't Enough: How to Find Your Edge
control, and the people pulling them tend to make decisions based on their view of our competence and character. Huang says you need to be aware of how others see you and guide their perceptions, redirecting them when necessary to influence whether they appreciate your... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Jan 2024
- News
Great Heights
challenge that experienced mountaineers say is greater even than Mount Everest. “It was the biggest, most vast, most intimidating mountain I had ever beheld in my life,” Kostova says, recalling the first time she set eyes on Denali. “I... View Details
Keywords: Amy Crawford
- 07 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Right Way to Cry in Front of Your Boss
full-time jobs, were asked to recall a recent time when a colleague was visibly distressed, and how that demonstrated either passion or emotion. The study also teased out whether the type of profession or relationship between participant... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 08 Dec 2021
- Blog Post
The Drive to Succeed: Silvio Memme (MBA 2020) and the Transition to Venture Capital
technical and industry experience have been helpful in his new role in VC and allow him to have fruitful conversations with technical founders. Yet while Memme recalls that he included these skills and elements of his experience as part... View Details
- 10 May 2021
- Research & Ideas
Who Has Potential? For Many White Men, It’s Often Other White Men
when they slip up? Or are they tearing people down by nit-picking over every misstep? Ely recalls one manager’s efforts to become a better supervisor to a Black female employee who was smart and hard-working, but made a lot of mistakes.... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Counter Intelligence
When Pano Christou (AMP 195, 2018) was hired at Pret A Manger in 2000, the idea that he would one day run the entire company could not have been further from his mind. At the chain’s Carnaby Street shop, in London’s Soho district, the 22-year-old had enough work just... View Details
Keywords: Amy Crawford
- 09 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Professional Networking Makes People Feel Dirty
found that people felt physically dirtier after recalling past transgressions than after recalling good deeds. The study's authors called it the "Macbeth effect," referring to the Shakespearean scene in... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Dissent in Decision-Making
McNamara had hired to be comptroller of the Defense Department. "Unfortunately, McNamara himself contributed to the very shortcoming he speaks of—his domineering style led him to shut out other voices," recalls George. It was a... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
W. Hall Wendel, Jr.
an oxygen mask, Wendel spent ninety minutes on the mountain's tiny peak. "Even now, it's difficult to describe my exhilaration when I realized I was going to make it," recalls Wendel, seated in his office at Minneapolis-based Polaris... View Details
- 21 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Are You Sabotaging Your Own Company?
scheduling frequent meetings to seek feedback on projects or by subjecting important decisions to large and diverse groups to reach consensus. Thomke recalls working with a company recently where the working group was so large, it became... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Curb Appeal
put up cameras and pair them with a license-plate reader,” she recalls thinking. A pilot project with 50 cameras proved so successful that the agency is now installing hundreds more. Tisch also developed a new data platform, TrashDash, to... View Details
- 06 Feb 2020
- Research & Ideas
What We Learned from Reading Jeff Bezos’ Patents
time breaking through the corporate shields that Bezos has erected. (A former analyst recalled to us that on a trip to the company, she saw the World War II slogan “Loose Lips Sink Ships” on a bathroom wall.) So we wondered if there... View Details
- 14 Aug 2006
- HBS Case
On Managing with Bobby Knight and “Coach K”
players beyond the basketball court. Feelings about Knight also follow generational lines. While younger students often see Knight as little more than a bully, older participants tell stories of doing their best work under a mentor with Coach Knight's tough-love... View Details
- 03 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Rituals in Life, Death, and Business
ex-boyfriend, taking them to the park where they met, and tearing them up-she made a point of saying 'even the ones where I looked good,' which I loved." After the writing exercise, all the participants completed a questionnaire, using a numbered scale to View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 20 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
Three Stories from HBS PRIDE for National Coming Out Day
spent too much time in the closet. I can still vividly recall the time, place, and reactions of those dear to me when I came out. To my parents, it was on September 17th, 2021. We were having dinner when I said, "I have a boyfriend in... View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Hiroshi Mikitani, MBA 1993
describes seeing the destruction—combined with the loss of relatives and friends—as a turning point. “It made me realize that I wanted to revitalize Japan’s economy,” he says, recalling his decision to resign from the Industrial Bank of... View Details
- 30 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why Ethical People Become Unethical Negotiators
fraudulent fund, even though many suspected something was strange, since the low-risk fund had defied reality by dramatically outperforming the stock market several years in a row. “We were all aware of this hedge fund that had had great returns for 20 years,” View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Meet the HBS Women's Student Association
meetings in the office. Recalling my own experiences in the workplace, I try to empower the women around me. While pursuing my undergraduate degree, I led a branch of SheCodes, an organization that helps women to learn how to code. Before... View Details
- 31 Oct 2023
- News
Securing a Resilient Future for Senegal
changed rapidly. “When I decided to take on that role, the world looked very different than it did later that spring,” recalls Diagne. “I had no idea that job would turn into pandemic response and economic recovery.” Worldwide, crisis... View Details