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- 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
- 16 Oct 2023
- HBS Case
Advancing Black Talent: From the Flight Ramp to 'Family-Sustaining' Careers at Delta
“birthplace of the Civil Rights Movement.” “And only 2 percent of the poorest residents ever managed to get out of poverty,” Hill recalled discussing in her conversations with Delta employees when researching and writing the cases. At the... View Details
- 04 Jan 2024
- News
Great Heights
In 2019, after more than a decade scaling the heights of product management in Silicon Valley, Lisa Kostova (MBA 2009) decided to take on a different kind of climb. Over a sabbatical year, Kostova trained for and summited Denali, which, at 20,310 feet, is the tallest... View Details
Keywords: Amy Crawford
- 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
- 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
- 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 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
- 06 Jul 2023
- News
Lessons from Major League Baseball's Game-Changing Innovations
discuss implementation. And the reception could be chilly. Marinak recalls longtime skipper Tony La Russa, for instance, being adamant that replay would require something like 10 lengthy play reviews per game, given all the blown calls he... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Counter Intelligence
percent. Within a few weeks, a decade of growth had been wiped off the books. “It was quite a baptism by fire,” Christou recalls of the painful need to lay off a third of his workforce. “Suddenly, there was no business. So we had to do... View Details
Keywords: Amy Crawford
- 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
- 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
- Portrait Project
Jamie Gong
mess and imperfections of life. Grandma may no longer recall the wild bouquets we gathered or our clandestine ice cream feasts. But she taught me what matters most: that we can lose ourselves in joyfully caring for others—and in so doing,... 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
- 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
- 04 Apr 2011
- HBS Case
Reinventing the National Geographic Society
recalls the remark about magazine piles. "That has come back to haunt us," Fahey says. "People today don't want clutter." It turns out that many things that made National Geographic one of the world's top brands during... 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
- 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
- Portrait Project
Olga Sokolova
I remember the moment when the country I was born in ceased to exist. A 7-year-old Soviet kid, I clearly recall the unusual heaviness of the air, my parents' eyes full of both fear and excitement, and a feeling that something impossible... View Details