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  • Feb 29 2024
  • Testimonial

Leading with Self-Awareness

  • Aug 20 2018
  • Testimonial

Sharpening Your Self-Awareness

  • 26 Feb 2011
  • News

Leadership skills start with self-awareness

  • Jan 29 2015
  • Testimonial

Greater Self-Awareness for Greater Success

  • Aug 23 2017
  • Testimonial

Gaining the Self-Awareness That Fosters Growth

  • Jun 23 2017
  • Testimonial

Gaining the Self-Awareness That Fosters Growth

  • 23 Aug 2017
  • Video

Gaining the Self-Awareness That Fosters Growth

  • August 2009
  • Case

Life Stories of Recent MBAs: Developing Self-Awareness

By: Nitin Nohria, Matthew D. Breitfelder and Daisy A Wademan Dowling
Keywords: Business Education; Personal Development and Career
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Nohria, Nitin, Matthew D. Breitfelder, and Daisy A Wademan Dowling. "Life Stories of Recent MBAs: Developing Self-Awareness." Harvard Business School Case 410-030, August 2009.
  • April 17, 2025
  • Article

How to Build a Life: The Key to Critical Self-Awareness

By: Arthur C. Brooks
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Brooks, Arthur C. "How to Build a Life: The Key to Critical Self-Awareness." The Atlantic (April 17, 2025).
  • 24 Jul 2024
  • News

For Americans Confronting the Push to Retire, Self-Awareness Makes All the Difference

  • 25 Apr 2014
  • News

Self-awareness is important if you want to be a good general manager

environmental engineering and his graduate degree in advanced polymer chemistry, but he wants to go into general management, a direction an HBS class in authentic leadership development solidified: “It helps you discover your true north, what motivates you,” says Yuan.... View Details
  • winter 2003
  • Article

Ad Schema Incongruity As Elicitor of Ethnic Self-Awareness and Differential Advertising Response

By: Claudiu V. Dimofte, Mark R. Forehand and Rohit Deshpandé
Keywords: Advertising; Social Psychology
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Dimofte, Claudiu V., Mark R. Forehand, and Rohit Deshpandé. "Ad Schema Incongruity As Elicitor of Ethnic Self-Awareness and Differential Advertising Response." Journal of Advertising 32, no. 4 (winter 2003): 7–17.
  • June 2021
  • Case

Chris Ernst: Purpose, People, Progress

By: Boris Groysberg, Robert Cross, Robin Abrahams and Katherine Connolly Baden
Executive Chris Ernst uses a unique personal strategy to define his six life roles (spiritual explorer, natural being, development pioneer, global/local citizen, thriving family, true friend) and achieve harmony among them. View Details
Keywords: Self-awareness; Self-discovery; Self-affirmation; Life Satisfaction; Work-Life Balance; Identity; Personal Development and Career; Family and Family Relationships; Happiness; Technology Industry; United States
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Groysberg, Boris, Robert Cross, Robin Abrahams, and Katherine Connolly Baden. "Chris Ernst: Purpose, People, Progress." Harvard Business School Case 421-097, June 2021.
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How to (Inadvertently) Sabotage Your Organization

By: Stefan Thomke
Some of the biggest threats to organizational performance can and do come from within. In an age when companies are told to be agile, to learn from experiments, and to be entrepreneurial, we are still vulnerable to actions — deliberate or unintentional — that stem from... View Details
Keywords: Management Practices; Effective Managers; Self-awareness; CIA,; Organizational Behavior; Management Practices and Processes; Organizations; Behavior; Performance
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Thomke, Stefan. "How to (Inadvertently) Sabotage Your Organization." MIT Sloan Management Review (website) (September 4, 2019).
  • 2016
  • Article

Buying to Blunt Negative Feelings: Materialistic Escape from the Self

By: Grant Edward Donnelly, Masha Ksendzova, Ryan Howell, Kathleen Vohs and Roy F. Baumeister
We propose that escape theory, which describes how individuals seek to free themselves from aversive states of self-awareness, helps explain key patterns of materialistic people’s behavior. As predicted by escape theory, materialistic individuals may feel dissatisfied... View Details
Keywords: Materialism; Escape; Self; Negative Emotions; Self-awareness; Emotions; Consumer Behavior; Identity; Motivation and Incentives
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Donnelly, Grant Edward, Masha Ksendzova, Ryan Howell, Kathleen Vohs, and Roy F. Baumeister. "Buying to Blunt Negative Feelings: Materialistic Escape from the Self." Review of General Psychology 20, no. 3 (2016): 272–316.
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Developing Yourself as a Leader

By: Ethan S. Bernstein
This course is an online leadership development program for the next generation of leaders (high-potential emerging leaders with rougly 7-15 years of work experience). Over 12 dynamic, high-impact weeks, a cohort of emerging leaders from around the globe engages... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Leadership Development And Career Planning; Self-assessment; Self-awareness; Design Thinking; Communication; Career Advancement; Leadership Development; Personal Development and Career
  • 07 Sep 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Mindful Leadership: When East Meets West

teamed with Tibetan Buddhist meditation master Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche to present a conference on "mindful leadership," a secular process to explore the roles of self-awareness and self-compassion in developing strong and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • Jul 03 2014
  • Testimonial

Strategies for Continuing the Leadership Journey

  • Jul 28 2015
  • Testimonial

Building the Best Possible You

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FIELD Foundations

By: Alison Wood Brooks

FIELD Foundations is a course for first-year MBA students in the Required Curriculum. As a complement to case method courses that students take in the first year of the MBA program, FIELD Foundations offers hands-on leadership practice and immersive team... View Details

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