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- 13 Feb 2024
- Research & Ideas
Breaking Through the Self-Doubt That Keeps Talented Women from Leading
participants’ beliefs about how qualified they were; how high they considered the bar for the expert job; and how objective, specific, and clear the required qualifications were in the job ad. Echoing the results of the first study, when...
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by Kara Baskin
- 06 May 2024
- Research & Ideas
The Critical Minutes After a Virtual Meeting That Can Build Up or Tear Down Teams
and other team members would agree and echo the concerns, grousing about the lack of respect from headquarters. It wasn’t that Team Radius’s leader was a bad influence—"he’d previously been a loyal ‘company man,’” Perlow says. Early on,...
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by Michael Blanding
- 14 Nov 2023
- What Do You Think?
Do We Underestimate the Importance of Generosity in Leadership?
learn.” Others echoed a similar sentiment. Akash Pant commented that leaders learn from failure when they adopt the right attitude. As he put it, “Once the leader becomes the student, then they would be more open to embrace the failure...
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by James Heskett
- 14 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
Curiosity, Not Coding: 6 Skills Leaders Need in the Digital Age
important leadership quality in these times. Roundtable discussions with about 200 executives echoed those findings. Our survey respondents also ranked creativity, curiosity, and comfort with ambiguity as highly desirable traits. "It’s...
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Questioning, Listening & Responding - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning
discussion leader can listen at multiple levels. Transcript Teaching Students to Listen to One Another David Garvin Professor Garvin offers tips on getting a discussion back on track when students mishear. Transcript Echoing David Garvin...
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- 14 Feb 2023
- HBS Case
Is Sweden Still 'Sweden'? A Liberal Utopia Grapples with an Identity Crisis
same time, she says the current problems aren’t likely to dim the high regard other nations place on the Swedish model, in part because none of them have managed to replicate it. While she sees strong echoes of the model in Taiwan, and...
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by Lane Lambert
- 04 Jan 2017
- What Do You Think?
How Much Bureaucracy is a Good Thing in Government and Business?
Hare echoed Wittenberg's opinion: “(Bureaucracies) are far too often, about themselves and expanding the power and influence of the people who head them.” Tom commented, “Most governmental bureaucracy is the result of crossed purposes:...
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by James L. Heskett
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Cold Calling - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning
Keynesian economist explain the Great Depression? How and how often to intervene with a follow-up probe, a question of clarification or echo of a substantive point is situational and subjective. In general, the instructor should engage...
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- 01 Mar 2024
- News
In Harmony
Kim at Seoul’s government-built Hoehyeon “Citizens’ Apartments.” Opened in 1970, it stands as a reminder of a Korea from a very different era. Like so many South Koreans of a certain age, Michael ByungJu Kim (MBA 1990) lives in a country where the past lingers,...
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- 07 Jul 2019
- HBS Case
Walmart's Workforce of the Future
be our people. It will be our humanity that drives our creativity, powers our competitive spirit, and keeps us out in front.” Technology changes the nature of work But at the same meeting, McMillon also acknowledged how technology changes the nature of work itself, a...
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New Venture Competition | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Foundation, Echoing Green, Invested Development, and The Bridgespan Group. In-kind Awards Fast-tracking and in-kind awards for winners and runners-up, in addition to financial awards totaling $75,000. INITIATIVES focus on societal...
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- 09 Nov 2023
- Blog Post
The No. 1 Character Trait You Will Need to Succeed in Business
of FrameBridge. You need to decide whether to expand into a market your business knows almost nothing about or stick with providing a service that you know will eventually become obsolete. This choice echoes the challenges tackled by John...
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- 13 Feb 2020
- Book
Open Your Organization to Honest Conversations
underlying reason why: Leaders often get stuck in echo chambers that merely reinforce their own ideas, says Harvard Business School Professor Michael Beer. Meanwhile, lower-level employees are often fully aware of the problems that plague...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Sep 2019
- Book
6 Steps to Building a Better Workplace for Black Employees
race was no longer relevant or that we had somehow collectively moved beyond race in the workplace,” Roberts says. The picture that emerges from the essays in Race, Work, and Leadership echo the same message: Race not only still matters...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Feb 2018
- Book
The New History of American Capitalism
perennial topic for writers on capitalism, from Progressive historians who argued that elites used the advantages of wealth to skew political structures in their favor to consensus historians who found more widespread support for a market-oriented liberal political...
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Manufacturing
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Past Issues - Alumni
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling How the HBS community is taking on the tech industry’s “brogrammer” CEO stereotype. A Boomtown's Echo The effects of the American energy boom, in North Dakota and beyond Complete Table of...
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- 09 May 2023
- Blog Post
Celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS (part 1)
stories on TV, I frequently felt like an almost-shameful afterthought. And yet, I’m relatively lucky; my personal struggle is a mere echo of a long history of Chinese Exclusion Acts and Japanese internment camps and murders of Vincent...
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- 15 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
Looking For a Job? Some LinkedIn Connections Matter More Than Others
broaden opportunities, but not bogging them down with an echo chamber of more than a dozen friends in common. A moderately weak tie might be someone three or four years ahead of a job-seeker in the same industry, whom the job-seeker met...
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by Michael Blanding
- 18 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Hazard Warning: The Unacceptable Cost of Toxic Workers
their numbers, but they weren’t a good corporate citizen essentially,” Minor says. “So what he basically says is you have to close your eyes to their great productivity and have the courage just to terminate them.” Minor echoes Welch’s...
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by Roberta Holland
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Remix
center her, she says. Later on she made elaborate mix-tapes, borrowing tracks from her mother’s record collection (Luther Vandross, Anita Baker, Hall & Oates, and Billie Holiday), grabbing new songs off the radio, and adding her own alternative tastes, from View Details