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- 01 Mar 2023
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Fostering a Supportive Community
Rules: Secrets to Starting Your Career Off Right. “Navigating norms and rules in the workplace and on campus can be difficult for people from different socioeconomic backgrounds,” says Insik Kim (MBA 2023), who is copresident of the club...
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Jennifer Mele
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Short Takes
winners and losers?" he asks. Bradach will continue to study these issues in future work. Coordinating Patient Care With tight hospital budgets and shorter hospital stays the norm today, hospitals must not only improve the coordination of...
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Judith Ross
- 24 Apr 2014
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Managing the challenges faced by a local nonprofit
Norm Merritt (MBA 1988) talks about using his management expertise to assist his local Audubon Society solve some complex operational issues. (Published April 2014)
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- 01 Jun 2001
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HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
The last few months have been exciting ones at the School. We have witnessed the announcement of a new Harvard president, sponsored another dynamic Global Alumni Conference, welcomed club officers along with current and emeriti board members for their annual meetings,...
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- 01 Dec 2012
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Alumni Book Briefs
authors examine how 20th-century shifts in global governance norms and structures eventually left the high seas open for predatory attacks. Reviewing contemporary debates about how best to combat piracy, they conclude that the solution...
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- 01 Jun 1999
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Joel Bines
chair of the ad hoc student-faculty Committee on Section Dynamics, he helped resolve controversy over a faculty-written document outlining norms for HBS classroom behavior that students perceived as proscriptive in nature. The committee...
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Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Jun 1999
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Sheila Lirio Marcelo
grueling to most people, for Lirio Marcelo it has been more or less the happy norm since she matriculated atHLS in 1995. "The busier I am, the more motivated I get," explains the active dynamo, whose interest in business prompted her to...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
WSA Speakers Kick Off W50
All." Slaughter cited the importance of flextime and of having a longer-term perspective on the arc of one's career, adding that she believed a "huge norm shift" in attitudes toward work-life balance is entirely possible in a short period...
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- 01 Dec 2015
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Giving Advice
(courtesy of Susan Wolf Ditkoff) The philanthropy economy is booming. Last year, America’s charitable giving totaled $358.38 billion, equaling 2.1 percent of GDP—a number last attained in prerecession 2004. With that growth have come a number of new options, including...
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- 10 Mar 2021
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Sister Soldier
Author Gayle Tzemach Lemmon (MBA 2006) has been here before—speaking with palpable enthusiasm and urgency about women who have defied cultural norms and changed the world around them through acts of bravery and heroism. In her first book,...
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- 29 Apr 2022
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Clean Slate
to bring the private, public, and nonprofit sectors together to work on making India cleaner and greener. In this special edition of Skydeck honoring recipients of the Alumni Achievement Award, associate editor Julia Hanna talks to Kidwai about how to change cultural...
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- 01 Jun 2009
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Insights from the Post-Macho Workplace
— is the first condition. Second, you need to cultivate an atmosphere of psychological safety, where people are assured that behaving in ways that aren’t stereotypically masculine won’t result in ostracism or punishment. And third, through its View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
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Books
that are far from the norm in most organizations today. The authors take their own advice and deliver this message with vivid images of innovative, real-life change in action. A broad range of stories drawn from the military and...
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- 01 Sep 2014
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Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
the elders over a cup of tea to explain what you’re doing, he was told. Notify a village two days before beginning tower construction—that way the men can ensure their women will be inside and not visible over compound walls. “Two years later, our competition didn’t...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2018
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Research Brief: A Path to Moral Management
people with good intentions do things that look, for a lack of a better word, stupid,” he says. Finally, Soltes suggests creating opportunities for norm reinforcement throughout careers, allowing people to really live what they learn in...
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Jennifer Myers
- 28 May 2019
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Look Again
Toilette (above) and Young Woman with Peonies (below) demonstrate the influence of social norms on artists’ choices, Murrell says: Frédéric Bazille’s La Toilette (right) and Young Woman with Peonies (below) demonstrate the influence of...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2011
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Noted & Quoted
day, a year of global immersion before college will become the norm rather than the exception.” — ABIGAIL FALIK (MBA ’08), founder and CEO, Global Citizen Year. (Christian Science Monitor online, April 11, 2011)
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- 01 Jun 1998
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Investigation Leads to Sanctions, Recommendations
sanctions on the offending students as a condition of graduation. It also recommended continued training for faculty, staff, and students on managing section norms and behavior more effectively, specifically in the area of sexual...
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- 01 Sep 2020
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Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2020
When Johnson was born, social norms and her government-issued birth certificate said she was Negro, nullifying her mother’s white blood in her identity. Later, as a Harvard-educated business executive feeling too far from her black roots,...
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- 10 Mar 2021
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Next Normal
planning, she writes: agreeing on team goals; gaining clarity on each member’s role, function, and constraints; understanding the available resources, ranging from budgets to information; and identifying shared norms that map out how...
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