Group Perception - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2011
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Perception versus Reality

HBS doesn’t get the credit it deserves for nurturing the entrepreneurial ambitions of its MBAs. Too many people, MBA applicants included, still regard the School as primarily a powerhouse in financial services and consulting. While it excels in both, the View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; contests; awards; meta

01 Mar 2014
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Generation Next

generated an operational loss. "My feedback was, 'You're in trouble,'" recalls Kahn. By the spring, Kahn was in Mumbai, part of a team tasked with turning Agrovet around—the first foreigner the Godrej Group had ever hired in a leadership... View Details

Keywords: Mark Bergen; Godrej Group; Management

29 Sep 2020
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As it happened: The US debate 'cat fight'

01 Feb 2002
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It's academic. (Not!)

schools seeking to hire new professors. In the stories that follow, the Bulletin presents four members of the next generation of business education leaders, a group as diverse in their backgrounds and interests as they are committed to... View Details

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

19 Sep 2019
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Predicting Human Behaviors

Above: Sid Misra (MBA 2013) cofounder, Perceptive Automata (Len Rubenstein; courtesy of Perceptive Automata) Amid the hubbub of this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES), the world’s largest technology... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Feb 1997
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Leading the Way In Negotiation and Decision Making

sustainable deals can be applied to international and financial transactions. Also crossing unit lines is Professor Richard E. Walton who contributes expertise in strategic negotiation to the examination of economic and social contracts as well as intraorganizational... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

01 Sep 2009
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Make the Most of HBS Alumni Resources

wisely to meet those needs. The board, a diverse group of almost fifty MBA, Doctoral, and Executive Education graduates, works with the School’s leadership to develop programs and resources for alumni. Over the past year, and under the... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Oct 1997
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Short Takes

to several common organizational problems. For example, they examine how a majority group's perception that a minority group or individual is performing poorly can mushroom into a self-fulfilling cycle of... View Details

01 Jun 2017
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A Finger on the Pulse of the Financial System

on channeling the keen interest many of us have in financial stability.” There is consensus within the group that financial instability often follows periods when institutions, policy makers, and investors have underestimated risks. These... View Details

13 Jul 2020
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The First Five Years: Meaghan Fitzgerald (MBA 2016)

engineers, architects, and teachers to connect with people who need their services but live thousands of miles away, and more. “Of course, right now during COVID, it’s helping people stay connected in ways that help fill the gap of group... View Details

26 Apr 2011
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Do You See What I See?

often blindsided by their classmates’ differing interpretation of characters or situations. In other words, your Antigone may not be my Antigone. “The most important thing that leaders need to know how to do is understand individual people and View Details

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

01 Dec 2002
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What You Know Depends on Where You Go

and Palepu's research, however, showed that conglomerate-owned firms in these markets often outperformed comparable stand-alones. “These business groups appear to Wall Street as anachronisms, but in the context in which they operate, they... View Details

01 Aug 2001
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HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

throughout the year on four specific areas, and I'd like to summarize each committee's work. Communications Under the leadership of John Hoffmann (MBA '64), this group focused on segmentation, design and content, and delivery. The... View Details

Keywords: John Hoffman

01 Jun 1997
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MBA Program:Rapid Innovation in '96

revealed striking contrasts between students' perceptions of HBS before and after entering the MBA Program," he explains. "On the whole, they found HBS much less competitive than they'd expected and far more friendly, responsive, and... View Details

01 Mar 2008
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Innovation, Inc.

brainstorming groups to work on a problem. What they don’t know is that the groups have been assembled to create maximum diversity in cultures, disciplines, and backgrounds — the intersection where... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Mary Tripsas; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management

01 Jun 2009
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Dispatches from the Global Classroom

in small groups to spend an early January weekend at one of four villages outside Oaxaca City, 340 miles southeast of Mexico City. Travel in a foreign country is nothing new for this bunch. They come from every corner of North America and... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

10 Mar 2021
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Next Normal

However, the effects of professional isolation on job performance decrease with some face-to-face interactions and access to more communication technologies, such as video conferencing and dedicated voiceover IP lines. Even the perception... View Details

10 Mar 2015
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Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling

leadership, computer science education is a place to start. That’s the logic behind groups like Girls Who Code that combine the power of role modeling with an early introduction to computer programming and other science, technology,... View Details