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  • February 2004
  • Case

Note on Human Behavior: Reason and Emotion

By: Nitin Nohria and Bridget Gurtler
Human beings are driven by reasons and emotions. On the one hand, as rational choice theorists assert, human beings are resourceful and evaluative as they strive to maximize their own interests. An individual's interests can converge or diverge from the interests of... View Details
Keywords: Behavior; Cognition and Thinking; Emotions; Interests; Organizations; Organizational Design; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
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  • 01 Apr 1997
  • News

How Green Is the Valley: HBS Students Explore Booming California Industries

is that we're expanding quickly, and we're definitely in a recruiting mode." Recalling her own leap from HBS to Silicon Valley, Dubinsky adds, "This event was a great way to help students see more options on View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
  • 30 Mar 2016
  • News

Alumni in Middle East Connect Around a ‘Vision’ for the New HBS

challenges and opportunities facing Harvard Business School, but also the great opportunities we have to help create positive change throughout the world. “And View Details
  • July 2019
  • Article

'Forward Flow': A New Measure to Quantify Free Thought and Predict Creativity

By: Kurt Gray, Stephen Anderson, Eric Evan Chen, John Michael Kelly, Michael S. Christian, John Patrick, Laura Huang, Yoed N. Kenett and Kevin Lewis
When the human mind is free to roam, its subjective experience is characterized by a continuously evolving stream of thought. Although there is a technique that captures people’s streams of free thought—free association—its utility for scientific research is undermined... View Details
Keywords: Cognition and Thinking; Creativity; Forecasting and Prediction
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  • 2012
  • Book

The Founders and Finance: How Hamilton, Gallatin, and Other Immigrants Forged a New Economy

In 1776 the United States government started out on a shoestring and quickly went bankrupt fighting its War of Independence against Britain. At the war's end, the national government owed tremendous sums to foreign creditors and its own citizens. But lacking the power... View Details
Keywords: History; Sovereign Finance; Ethnicity Characteristics; Economics; Great Britain; United States
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  • 08 Dec 2014
  • News

Why CEO charisma really matters

  • 24 Oct 2014
  • News

Memories, Music, and Chef vs. Chef

  • 12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 10 Sep 2019
  • Webinars: Career

How to Succeed in Tech Product Management

YouTube product management director Tom Leung (MBA 2003) will share some of the key traits and skills that set great product managers apart as well as some of the tradeoffs when thinking about product management versus other common tech jobs for MBAs. View Details
  • 18 Jul 2018
  • Blog Post

Amira Rashad: An Ambidextrous Mind Meets Consumer Needs in the Middle East

Merrill Lynch's Middle East interests through its offices in Dubai. It was a two-year assignment, one that Amira embraced with enthusiasm. "It would be a great experience for us and the kids," says... View Details
  • 13 Jun 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Rescuing Products with Stealth Positioning

When firms adopt a reverse or breakaway positioning strategy, there is no pretense about what they're up to. Part of the appeal of their cleverly positioned product offerings comes from explicitly subverting convention through... View Details
Keywords: by Youngme Moon
  • 12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 16 Apr 2019
  • Webinars: Career

Why Your Pitch Isn't Working and How to Fix it

Whether you're pitching an idea, a project, or yourselfyou've got a tight window to hook your listener and pique their curiosity. Jodi Glickman, CEO of Great on the Job, shares a foolproof three-step strategy for pitching yourself in an authentic and compelling way. View Details
  • 17 Aug 2021
  • Blog Post

Applying the MBA Skillset to Global Health Challenges: Summer Fellow Vasilis Theodorou (MBA 2022)

in the process, meet amazing and inspiring people who have devoted their careers to the elimination of preventable and treatable diseases. Lastly, I want to take advantage of View Details
  • 28 Apr 2008
  • HBS Case

Negotiating with Wal-Mart

encounter someone with a great deal of power, like Wal-Mart, who is also the ultimate non-negotiable partner?" The case details how P&G executive Tom Muccio pioneers a... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail
  • January 2023 (Revised November 2023)
  • Technical Note

Ethical Analysis: Honesty and Self-Interest

By: Nien-hê Hsieh and Christopher Diak
Information asymmetry is pervasive in business and can often confer great advantage. This note distinguishes forms of deceptive behavior in the face of information asymmetry and aims to help students analyze their impermissibility. View Details
Keywords: Ethics; Analysis; Balance and Stability
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    Keywords: Cement
    • 15 May 2020
    • News

    Purposeful Leadership in a Time of Crisis

    • 17 Oct 2012
    • News

    Executives Lack Confidence in U.S. Competitiveness

    • Article

    Wage-Employment Contracts

    By: Jerry R. Green and Charles M. Kahn
    This paper studies the efficient agreements about the dependence of workers' earnings on employment, when the employment level is controlled by firms. The firms' superior information about profitability conditions is responsible for this form of contract governance.... View Details
    Keywords: Labor; Wages; Contracts
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    • 18 Oct 2018
    • News

    Why Global Talent Clusters Around Cities

      Linda A. Hill

      Linda A. Hill is the Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School and Faculty Chair of the Leadership Initiative. Hill is regarded as one of the top experts on leadership and innovation. Hill is... View Details