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- 29 Apr 2015
- Blog Post
2+2: Challenging Conceptions of Business
business, I knew I had to apply. The 2+2 Program reaffirmed my belief that business has the potential to impact all industries and all aspects of life. What was your undergraduate background?I attended NYU’s Gallatin School of View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
My Real Career
Moldow Photo Courtesy Charles Moldow Last spring, my husband, Charles Moldow (MBA ’93), and I attended our 15th HBS reunion. Suffice it to say, it was rather different from our 5th. At that time, I was newly married; had a fabulous job... View Details
- 24 May 2018
- Blog Post
Win/Win Board Assignments: Expert Advice from Board Recruiter Julie Norris
for both parties," observes Julie Norris, Senior Client Partner, Board & CEO Services Practice, Korn Ferry International. Individuals seek service roles they value; boards want to reinforce the bench they have with perspectives they... View Details
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Operations and the Competitive Edge
and leadership, there are different approaches that can be taken in seeking improvement. One has to adopt a strategy for improvement that fits the specific needs of the organization at that point in its life. Slow, steady improvement is... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 22 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 22, 2015
field experiment on Airbnb, we find that requests from guests with distinctively African-American names are roughly 16% less likely to be accepted than identical guests with distinctively White names. The difference persists whether the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
In Venture Capital, Birds of a Feather Lose Money Together
like-mindedness lead to narrow decision-making, to the detriment of the deal? Working with people similar to yourself can lead to poor decisions.Photo: iStockPhoto The research began with a database of 3,510 individual venture capitalists... View Details
- 19 Jul 2021
- Blog Post
Building a Powerful Network of Talent at American Tower
Linder explained. “Our CEO and the head of Human Resources said that we need to think about talent in a different way to infuse bright capable people who can come in, roll up their sleeves, and jump into management positions to help us... View Details
- 10 Jan 2020
- Blog Post
PRIDE in the HBS Community
different struggles, love, and paths people went through during their coming out journeys. No one story was the same. Yet each story was as inspiring as the next. The following week, sections took turns over the course of two days... View Details
- 27 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes
social and cultural contexts that shape how men make sense of themselves as men—the stories they tell themselves about what it means to be male—and in the effect this sense-making has on how they behave at work. Much research on gender in organizations documents how... View Details
- 08 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 8, 2019
indifferent attitude towards the country and felt that Israelis were dissimilar to them. In an attempt to change the situation, several individuals and entities embarked on various initiatives aimed at branding Israel View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Leadership Groups for Staying on Track
Command-and-control leaders are finding it difficult to motivate frontline employees and take advantage of their knowledge and wisdom. This is especially true in global organizations that require collaboration between people of many View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 12 Feb 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
‘UpTick’ Brings Wall Street Pressure to Students
ideas," Coval says. Over the course of a simulation, students input their decisions on networked computers; once trading is halted, the program automatically generates a slideshow summary of individual and overall performance. The... View Details
- 26 Mar 2020
- Blog Post
Make Work from Home Work For You (And Your Team)
with all of her colleagues to work from home due to COVID-19. Stephan has worked remotely since 2001 in various roles in banking, recruiting, and education and was the first ever remote employee at Morgan Stanley. Their two different... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
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Trade Cards - The Art of American Advertising
giveaway, whether tucked into products at the factory by wholesalers or inserted into packaged goods by retailers. Traveling salesmen had the opportunity to distribute trade cards to individual customers, general stores, retailers, and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Alumni News | Bookshelf
individual flips from being a passionate advocate of an idea to offering realistic viewpoints of the challenges in the way of success." Other behaviors to scout for include a bias toward creating data rather than getting it, a willingness... View Details
- 18 Mar 2020
- Blog Post
Make Work from Home Work For You (And Your Team)
with all of her colleagues to work from home due to COVID-19. Stephan has worked remotely since 2001 in various roles in banking, recruiting, and education and was the first ever remote employee at Morgan Stanley. Their two different... View Details
- 13 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees
Prior research suggests that stress is a function of the difference between job demands and job resources. Even with high job demands, if employees feel they have the resources to meet these demands, they are likely to feel less stressed... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 5
access to more candidates, initially positive indirect network effects decrease in strength, reach their limit, and eventually turn negative. The limit to network effects is different for different types of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 May 2019
- What Do You Think?
Is There a Distinctive West Coast Style of Management?
of this group of individuals has ushered in a necessary style of management that is different from the traditional ‘conservative’ approach that we see on the East Coast.” Scocimara added, “From the early... View Details
- 01 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 1
behavioral ethics as the study of systematic and predictable ways in which individuals make ethical decisions and judge the ethical decisions of others that are at odds with intuition and the benefits of the broader society. By focusing... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel