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- 10 Jul 2007
- What Do You Think?
How Much of Leadership Is About Control, Delegation, or Theater?
image of General George S. Patton stepping in front of a huge American flag to deliver a stirring speech, whether it really happened or not, is carefully staged theater. When he was commissioner of the New York City Police Department,...
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by Jim Heskett
- 28 Oct 2022
- Blog Post
Latina Women in Leadership: Shirley Verónica Cardona (MBA 2012)
scale. HBS played a critical role in equipping me with a general management skill set. The case method, specifically, prepared me to confidently take on work across new industries from consumer goods to...
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- 22 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 22, 2008
risk-adjusted infant mortality (n=1061). The effects of collaboration vary by goal. Collaboration in unit management increases the chance of mortality, while collaboration in routine production and in process improvement is associated...
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Martha Lagace
- 05 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 5
Publications August 2014 Journal of Experimental Psychology: General Emodiversity and the Emotional Ecosystem By: Quoidbach, Jordi, June Gruber, Moïra Mikolajczak, Alexsandr Kogan, Ilios Kotsou, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—Bridging...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative
communication and encouragement, they can find the courage to try, fail, redo, and try again. Carliss Baldwin How can companies tap their customers for innovative ideas? Firms have a tendency to look at their navels. The first thing I would say to View Details
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Yaping Wang
lot of reflection after I became a mom," Yaping says. (Her daughter, Evelyn, is now five.) "Women shouldn't always have to compromise on a career. I saw my own mother's regrets, and I want to be a role model for my daughter." First, HBS appealed to...
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Crossing the Bridge from Program Learning to Practical Application
When you attend an HBS Executive Education program, you never know what opportunities the experience may present. In fact, you could even find yourself becoming part of the teaching team. Ask Deb Barnes, Senior Managing Director of Fund...
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Laura Sandoval
(WSA), and the Marketing & Advertising Club. “The people here are important to me. I had initially thought they would be unapproachable, but I feel so welcomed and supported by my classmates.” This summer, Laura will intern with Proctor & Gamble as a brand and...
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Emily Schlichting
issue," she says. "I'm somebody who's really good at managing processes and getting things done. The HBS curriculum is designed to explore all the different business functions, giving you a strong foundation in View Details
- 28 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
Can You Buy Creativity in the Gig Economy?
workers to get their creative juices flowing. “It turns out, on average, these gig workers are very responsive to competition,” says Zhu, who co-authored the forthcoming article Competition, Contracts, and Creativity: Evidence from Novel Writing in a Platform Market in...
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by Pamela Reynolds
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Full Court Press
Whitaker Peace & Development Initiative, and even former President Barack Obama. Strategic investors like Nigerian conglomerate owner Tunde Folawiyo and Tope Lawani (MBA 1995), co-CEO of Helios Fairfax Partners and cofounder and managing...
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Dan Morrell
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
information technology and management, or organizational behavior. That broad range of choices, coupled with the satisfaction of conducting research in the field, generates an extraordinary demand for the handful of available places each...
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- 23 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings
for lotteries into a demand for savings. These so-called prize-linked products have been extraordinarily effective in generating savings over many centuries, and one wonders how successful they could be in the United States. We have...
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- 26 Feb 2019
- News
Building a New Real Estate Investment Model
don’t want people who have been committed to and living in the community for generations to be displaced,” Davis says. “We can prevent that by creating rental opportunities for people who want to stay in their community.” MORE Watch a...
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- 05 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Benefit of Giving Back to Open Source Software
Linux without contributing. Learning by contributing When a programmer or engineer runs into a problem or an opportunity to improve the Linux Kernel code, they generally suggest a change to a Linux “maintainer”–an experienced user who...
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- 29 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
The History and Influence of Andy Grove
most fun place to work. He guided the company through one of the great transitions in tech history, changing a maker of memory chips into a microprocessor powerhouse, but also had failures such as Intel's response to the floating point issue. What do you think View Details
- 26 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
Two sides, same coin: How I left the Bay Area as an operator and returned as an investor
Janelle Teng is from the Class of 2020 and a proud member of Section C. From completing her undergraduate studies at Stanford University to working as a product manager at SalesforceIQ, Janelle has spent most of her academic and...
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- 07 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders
divisions or countries; many moved overseas where they became general managers. All were given line management experience early on. They were placed into "mini-CEO jobs," as they called them, at a...
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by Mallory Stark
- 30 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Upside of Highlighting a Product's Downsides
their products and downplay risks, fearing that any negative sentiment might hurt demand. But research led by Ryan W. Buell, a professor in the HBS Technology and Operations Management Unit, and doctoral student MoonSoo Choi found that...
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by Danielle Kost