Confidence - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Sep 2005
News

Clark Bids Farewell to HBS

students. As an individual, I believe I’ve become less quick to speak and more inclined to listen. In many ways, I’m more confident about grasping situations but also a lot more aware of my own limitations. I’ve learned to multitask and... View Details

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

01 Jun 2023
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Turning Point: Sum of the Parts

Gregory K. Tanaka (MBA 1974) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Gregory K. Tanaka (MBA 1974) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) In a kind of twisted and sometimes painful way, I learned from a Japanese norm how to achieve great things in life, even if the path I took wasn’t... View Details

Keywords: happiness; purpose; meaning; work-life balance; social pressures

01 Jun 1998
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Short Takes

outset of their careers and expect to train them through a lifetime of experience. "Guaranteed employment allows Japanese firms to pursue more confidently an experience-based, rather than experiment-based, approach to knowledge creation... View Details

Keywords: Orna Feldman and Caroline Chauncey

01 Dec 2006
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Rowing Upstream

Embarrassing losses to the JVs have the varsity crew members dispirited and complaining about one another. Confidence is fading fast. The national rowing tournament is a week away. Should Coach P simply declare the JV boat to be the new... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

08 Aug 2013
News

Cause Marketing Gets Personal

not have been her strength, the experience gave Langer confidence to establish herself as a force in both the business and not-for-profit worlds. At HBS's W50 Summit on women and business in April 2013, Langer spoke candidly about her... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken; Health, Social Assistance; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

01 Sep 2012
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Hierarchy's Last Stand

author of Confidence and SuperCorp. This article first appeared on the “HBR Blog Network,” June 25, 2012. Connect with Kanter on Facebook or at Twitter.com/RosabethKanter. View Details

Keywords: Rosabeth Moss Kanter; Corporate Services

01 Dec 1996
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Meditations on the Bottom Line

order that has survived this kind of transition." Despite ongoing challenges such as establishing cash flow, keeping up employee morale, and maintaining the organization's core spiritual values in the face of fiscal uncertainty, Bothwick is View Details

01 Jun 2010
News

Alumni Books

You Want by Tamara Erickson (MBA ’78) (Harvard Business Press) Erickson shows how members of Generation X — the 30–45 age cohort sandwiched between Boomers (who refuse to retire) and Gen Ys (with their relentless confidence and demands... View Details

Keywords: mathematics; statistics; Finance

27 Mar 2023
News

A Sporting Chance

and to be better, and it's a great tool to help them succeed in school, a profession, university, or whatever," he explains. Sometimes the biggest change isn't in the kids but in the parents. The more the young people succeed at their chosen sport, the more View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

10 Oct 2018
News

Building Paths to Success

kid. He was struggling at school, but he loved his football and it gave him the self-esteem and confidence that he missed at school. So I decided to make him captain for the day,” Traill says. “He really stepped up and played well, and it... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Oct 1996
News

The Drive for Excellence: An Interview with Jim Henderson

technical competence to lead change in that direction. Because of our global perspective, we're looking for managers with overseas experience and multicultural skills. Finally, our managers must be able to inspire the trust and confidence... View Details

01 Mar 2016
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Ink

Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges, Cuddy highlights her personal experience to introduce the concept of “presence,” the ability to generate an inner calm, authority, and confidence during times of potential... View Details

19 Feb 2021
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A Playbook for Progress

adopters of new technology. Our younger Black and Brown respondents said their work contributes to the social good to a far greater degree than the white or Asian women said. And overall, these women are confident that they will control... View Details

30 Sep 2016
News

Competing Against Luck

they have to do is, they need to feel confident in themselves that they can take complicated problems and solve them. And they don't know what job they're going to have yet in their lives, but they know that whatever it is, they need to... View Details

07 Sep 2021
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Alumni Perspective: The Morning After 9/11

dictates that success often derives from predictable patterns so that people know how to plan and where to follow. But twenty years after sitting through her class that morning, I can confidently say that I’ll never forget the lesson... View Details

01 Jun 2009
News

Inside the Partnership

how those problems and opportunities are changing and might change as time passes and circumstances develop; to keep all the relevant people at each client fully informed about and confident in the firm’s special ability to serve... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

28 May 2019
News

Broken Link

is planning to sunset EducationSuper-Highway at the end of August 2020 and says he’s confident they’ll reach their goal of connecting 99 percent of schools before then. That doesn’t mean he’s underestimating the challenge in the year... View Details

Keywords: Nicole Torres; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

01 Mar 2004
News

Curb Your Overconfidence

threatened with a multi-million-dollar lawsuit. You feel 90 percent confident that the firm will not lose in court. Is this degree of certainty sufficient for you to recommend rejection of an out-of-court settlement? “Now suppose you... View Details

Keywords: HBS professor Max H. Bazerman; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

02 Nov 2015
News

Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans

challenging, painful at times, and really satisfying. I knew I always loved business, but it gave me the toughness and confidence to know I could go out and perform at a higher level.” At HBS, Royster also found his entrepreneurial... View Details