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Avni Patel
Audacious. Is there more beautiful a word? I fell in love with it when we first met. I, a gangly, bookish 7 year-old and it, a misunderstood jumble of letters with polarizing meanings. But to me, this word embodies everything I strive to...
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- Mar 2012
- Article
Fixing What's Wrong with U.S. Politics
In America today there's a growing sense that the political system is broken and that its ineffectiveness is a major threat to U.S. competitiveness. Why do so many think the political system is not working? Research shows that in Congress, Republicans and Democrats are...
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- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Communicating the Language of Business Across Borders
organizations face when coordinating operations across linguistic and national boundaries. As a doctoral student at Stanford, she participated in a large-scale global teams study and identified language differences “as the most divisive, View Details
- 11 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Neuroeconomics: Eyes, Brain, Business
The children's classic The Polar Express tells the fanciful story of a young boy's journey to the North Pole on a train filled with chocolate and candy. But when Warner Brothers released a $165 million computer-animated version of the...
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by Carmen Nobel
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in ... How Americans from All Walks of Life Can Thrive in an Era of Political Polarization Sol Erdman 11 May 2017 Politicians are experts at selling emotionally-charged slogans as solutions for our country’s tro... HBS Names Winners and...
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- 23 Aug 2017
- News
Developing Leaders Behind Bars
area of focus as a photographer is environmental portraiture – especially humans in extreme environments. I mostly shoot in polar regions, but when I was given this opportunity, it occurred to me that humans in prison have a similar...
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Robert Bochnak
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Do Yoon Kim
interest in the causes and effects of increasing polarization of ideologies, but not as much in business. At HBS, I hope to pursue this topic by combining ideas from computational linguistics, game theory, and organizational economics....
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- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Mead Treadwell
involving fifteen federal agencies. In the private sector, Treadwell is chairman and CEO of Venture Ad Astra, which invests in and develops new geospatial and imaging technologies. “From 2007 to 2009, we are marking the International View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Providing an Environment for Ideas to Grow
polarizing barrier to collaboration,” Neeley says. “But no one was looking at that, even as global organizations were rapidly moving toward making English their lingua franca.” Since joining the HBS Organizational Behavior Unit nearly...
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- 23 Apr 2019
- Blog Post
HBS Shares Their Favorite Books for HR Leaders
respective challenges. Koehn profiles Abraham Lincoln, polar explorer Ernest Shackleton, Frederick Douglass, Nazi-resisting clergyman Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and environmental crusader Rachel Carson as they each faced unique leadership...
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- 23 Apr 2019
- Blog Post
Propel Your Career Forward with Some of Our Favorite Books
stories of President Abraham Lincoln, polar explorer Ernest Shackleton, Frederick Douglass, clergyman Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and environmental crusader Rachel Carson. Learn about each individual from their youngest days to understand how...
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- 03 Nov 2015
- Blog Post
Siblings at HBS: Katie and Tyler Harris
different? In many ways, our similarities and differences depend on the topic or context – sometimes we’re eerily similar and other times polar opposites. One of our biggest differences will become readily apparent as fall approaches....
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- 27 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
There Are No HBS People, Just People Who Happen to Go to HBS
recounted lessons she learned throughout her life gave me the sense I could pretty much do anything. During my final year of high school, I identified my love for science and beauty, but I didn’t know what I could do with these seemingly View Details
- 06 May 2015
- What Do You Think?
Are You Ready for Personalized Predictive Analytics?
added: "Predictive analytics could (provide) such specialized, repetitive solutions that society will become polarized into user niches that can no longer properly interact What a sad state of affairs." Philippe Gouamba...
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by James Heskett
- 26 Oct 2017
- News
Can Farming Save the Planet?
Photos by Marc Romanelli Climate change rightfully scares a lot of people. The changes already occurring—from the die-off of coral reefs and shrinking polar ice to increasing global temperatures—are almost too much to take in....
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- 16 Jul 2013
- News
Embracing Chaos
says Venkatesan. "The country is just massively corrupt, with seriously bad government and a society that is really getting polarized with inequality. So a lot of us in India are incredibly concerned. "The good news is, there are a lot of...
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- 05 Dec 2022
- Blog Post
2022 Climate Symposium: Tackling Climate Together
us achieve our goals. This year's theme 'Tackling Climate Together' is a nod to COP27 but also to our hopes for open collaboration and communication amid a further polarizing world.” The opening keynote address featured Irina Gerry, CMO...
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- 14 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Does December's Drug-Approval Dash Mean for COVID-19 Vaccines?
these vaccines. Kost: How can regulators maintain confidence in the drug review process, especially during such a politically polarized time? Cohen: That is probably the hardest question. I don't know the right answer. They’re between a...
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- 20 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 20, 2018
about “content moderation”—not for the easy topics like spam or copyright material—but for the hard things revolving around political points of view, hate speech, polarizing perspectives, etc. How will Facebook strike the balance between...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Apr 2010
- What Do You Think?
Why Are Fewer and Fewer U.S. Employees Satisfied With Their Jobs?
essentially treats them as means to an end. Why is that? Among other things, Pfeffer speculates that one reason is that we assume correctly that polar bears can't do much to affect their own well-being. Humans, on the other hand, can take...
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by Jim Heskett