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02 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

What Makes a Good Leader?

to their sense of what is rational," he explains. "You can use pathos, appealing to their emotions, or you can make an argument based on their sense of values or ethos." Great leaders, he notes, "spend the bulk of... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg & Susan Young

07 Nov 2023
News

Love and Money

third chapter of your life in many of our cases. And I really think it's just about taking the time to pause and step back and asking those questions. I don't think it's a skill that people don't have, I think it's a muscle that they... View Details

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Business Fundamentals Course - CORe | HBS Online

pricing strategies Identify sources of competitive advantage through differentiation Evaluate the financial health of a business using financial statements Prepare and evaluate financial forecasts Who Will Benefit Professionals MBA... View Details

18 Apr 2011
Research & Ideas

It’s Not Nagging: Why Persistent, Redundant Communication Works

asking multiple times gets results. Titled "How Managers Use Multiple Media: Discrepant Events, Power, and Timing in Redundant Communication," Neeley and Northwestern... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

30 Sep 2019
Book

6 Steps to Building a Better Workplace for Black Employees

race, the authors say. It’s time for their white colleagues to stop pretending racial tensions don’t exist and start initiating conversations at work, even if they worry about feeling uncomfortable or saying the wrong thing. “We can’t... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

Research Summary

Emotional Experience, Expression, and Regulation

By: Alison Wood Brooks

Once considered irrational, emotions often exert a more profound influence on decision-making and workplace outcomes than logic or reason. Professor Brooks studies emotional experience, emotional expression, and how individuals can regulate their emotions... View Details

18 Nov 2014
First Look

First Look: November 18

how TV advertising influences changes in online shopping within two-minute pre/post windows of time. We use non-advertising competitors' online shopping in a difference-in-differences approach to measure the same effects in two-hour... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Human Relations and Harvard Business School – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

HBS Home HBS Index Contact Us A New Vision An Essay by Professors Michel Anteby and Rakesh Khurana Introduction The Hawthorne Plant Employee Welfare Illumination Studies and Relay Assembly Test Room Enter Elton Mayo Next Human Relations... View Details

16 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Breaking the Code of Change

corporate leaders about the purpose of and means for change. In effect these two approaches to organizational change represent theories in use by senior executives and the consultants and academics who advise them. By "theory in... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Beer & Nitin Nohria

March–April 2021
Article

Network-biased Technical Change: How Information Management Tools Overcome Some Biases but Exacerbate Others.

By: Gerald C. Kane and Lynn Wu

Organizations have long sought to improve employee performance by managing knowledge more effectively. In this paper, we test whether the adoption of digital tools for expertise search and access within an organization, often referred to as a support to an... View Details

Keywords: Digital Tools; Social Media; Social Networks; Transactive Memory Systems; Augmented Intelligence; Artificial Intelligence; Social and Collaborative Networks; Gender; Equality and Inequality; Technology Adoption; Knowledge Management; Performance Improvement; Power and Influence; Organizational Change and Adaptation

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12 Apr 2022
Research & Ideas

Swiping Right: How Data Helped This Online Dating Site Make More Matches

tell us what desirability is. If you’re more desirable, the theory is, you should be getting more attention via these messages,” McFowland says. Extremely attractive users might receive 100 messages, whereas middling users might land 50,... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin

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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work

in organizations, such as the World Management Survey, the Executive Time Use Study, and the first large scale management survey in hospitals, MOPS-H, conducted in partnership with the View Details

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Questioning, Listening & Responding - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

Teaching by the Case Method Questioning, Listening & Responding Preparing to Teach Leading in the Classroom Pre-Class Arrival Diversity and Inclusion Openings Cold Calling Questioning, Listening & Responding Transitions Closings Timing... View Details

24 Apr 2017
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Courage: The Defining Characteristic of Great Leaders

lagged PepsiCo’s. Since 2011, PepsiCo stock is up 70 percent, while Coca-Cola’s has increased only 15 percent. The courage cohort There are literally thousands of competent managers who can run organizations efficiently using... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George; Auto; Food & Beverage

02 Feb 2016
Blog Post

A Summer Internship in General Management

opposed to creating my own analyses from scratch. How did you use what you learned in your RC year in your summer internship? In a general manager role, I spent most of my time interpreting and synthesizing... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail

16 Apr 2020
Blog Post

Am I Eligible for the 2+2 Program?

in your final year of study, you are eligible to apply in the current application cycle. This timing applies to: Candidates from bachelor degree programs Candidates from joint bachelor/master's degree programs Candidates from master’s... View Details

06 Sep 2005
What Do You Think?

What are the Lessons of New Orleans?

Summing Up Management is a complex process. Good plans executed poorly may be worse than poor plans executed well. This is never truer than at times of disaster, in which plans made from afar have to be implemented by those on the scene... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

25 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

Incubators Take Notice: Your Entrepreneurs Are Networking with the Wrong People

time. “Let's say you do a hackathon in Delhi with 100 people who don’t really know one another,” he says. “That’s awesome, but now that you have formed a bunch of relationships, it will be harder to engineer relationships the second time... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

22 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Student Spotlight: Jesse Lou (MBA 2022) – Working to Change the Food System

Jesse Lou (MBA 2022) reflects on his decision to come to HBS, what motivates him to make a difference in the world by using technology to build a more sustainable food system, and how he has utilized resources at HBS to make this happen.... View Details

13 May 2015
Blog Post

Former Engineer Gives Consulting a Test Drive

The majority of HBS students choose to do an internship in between their first and second years. Some students choose to continue down paths they pursued prior to business school, while others use the summer to try out new function areas... View Details

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