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- 10 Jul 2007
- What Do You Think?
How Much of Leadership Is About Control, Delegation, or Theater?
are always on stage being watched, analyzed, and interpreted." But as Adam Lawrence, an actor, warns us, " acting, or theatrics, is never about pretending to be...
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by Jim Heskett
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Extraordinary People
role that is most important to Harf is being the cofounder and chariman of DKMS, the blood cancer cure bank. Now the most successful organization of its kind in the world, he launched it in 1991 after losing...
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- 20 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 20
performance measurement with the goal of increasing a nonprofit's ability to serve more people more effectively. This note discusses the full set of venture philanthropy practices and their impact on grantees. It also explores what could...
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Anna Secino
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
High Fives
learned at HBS: “I developed a sense of confidence in myself and in my ability to go out and compete in the business world.” Inspirations & role models: “As a woman, there were no role models!” Best business advice ever received: “When I...
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- 16 Jul 2021
- Op-Ed
For Entrepreneurs, the Benefits of Slowing Down
moment of candor, he confided to me, "I hope the new investors will let me slow down. We need to make sure we are building for scale and to do that, I need View Details
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by Jeffrey Bussgang
- 29 Aug 2023
- News
Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we’re going to be highlighting an episode of another HBS podcast: Climate Rising, which focuses on what businesses are doing, can do, and should do...
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- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
program With the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine, a massive humanitarian crisis threatens millions of lives. Michael VanRooyen, director of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, discussed with Elana Gordon of The World the greatest humanitarian challenges right now...
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- 26 May 2016
- News
W. James McNerney Jr., MBA 1975
learned how to be a team player on the ice or off of it is hard to say, but it is a winning formula that has led to exemplary leadership in three...
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- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Stephen Covey's Successful Habits
conflicts, and interdepartmental rivalries. That's the high cost of low trust. What can be done about this trust problem? Companies have to change their paradigms and recognize...
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- 01 Dec 2006
- News
One-on-One with Jeff Hicks
working from hotels, and we got as much work done that week as any other. We realized, wow, this agency is not about the space. It’s about the people and everyone being connected View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Generation Next
says by phone in New Delhi, home to the venture's headquarters. "And I get the opportunity to be an entrepreneur." Next-generation leaders, more so than their progenitors, must...
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- 01 Jun 2022
- News
The Exchange: Same Great Price, Now with Fewer Chips
while, everyone else in the ground-coffee market had done something similar, and it’s been going on ever since. You tend to see this happen at times of increasing costs of raw materials, wages, and energy...
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- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Building a Better Buyer-Seller Relationship
thing we found, unlike what others have done in marketing, is that trust and commitment form at two different levels. Trust forms between people, between individuals. But commitment forms between firms." A positive feedback loop can...
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by Martha Lagace
- 14 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 14
cohorts who first attended them. Rather than partner with a university to develop an accredited program, the firm decided it would be better off developing the program itself, with the help of an outside...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Harvard Climate Leaders Program
an immense amount of work to be done across both the public and private sector, often times working hand in hand together, and I’m sure I will continue have different answers...
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Scaling Work - Research Computing Services
work done in less time. But only under certain circumstances! There two basic ways to use multiple cores: implicit parallelism built in to your application or library, and...
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- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Money (Actually) Can Buy Happiness
cliché that “money can’t buy happiness” and shown it to be false. MN: My collaborator, Elizabeth Dunn [of the University of British Columbia], and I started out looking at whether giving money View Details
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April White
- 08 Aug 2016
- Lessons from the Classroom
Panic Management: Keep Your Eyes on the Road
panic rise, his wife, sitting in the passenger seat, said calmly: “It’s going to be fine. Just relax. Exhale. Keep your eyes on the road.” The scare was eye-opening for Margolis, perhaps because it occurred...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Dec 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
‘Ted Levitt Changed My Life’
illness in June 2006 at the age of 81, the Bulletin's Class Notes were flooded with dozens of tributes from alumni who recalled his passion and commitment in the classroom and his lasting influence on their careers. "I was clueless going into Professor Levitt's...
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- 18 Jan 2018
- News
The Lessons of All-Day Breakfast
And that's, I think, what gave folks confidence that it could be done in their own restaurants. Morrell: As you're putting together strategy for this, what was the hardest challenge that you had View Details