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- 13 Apr 2021
- News
Face Value
simmering in the family kitchen. During her twenties, travel broadened Tsai’s perspective. On a trip to Japan, drawn to the country’s approach to well-being, she adopted geisha skincare rituals based on rice, green tea, and algae. In...
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- Portrait Project
Brendan Sullivan
elderly Japanese women and men. They respond with curiosity by stroking my blonde, almost white, hair. My reluctance during this weekly ritual led to protests that my parents dismissed. My mother, a Colombian immigrant, and my father, an...
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- 21 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research
“We think as grownups we don’t need rituals anymore, but that’s not the case. They help us calm our nerves.” "People need the familiar things that bond them even more during this crisis." Now people are adapting old rituals—by holding...
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by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost
- 27 Apr 2015
- News
“A Unique Leadership Experience”
walk—“To see the sunrise I saw colors I had just never seen before”—and his nightly ritual of watching thunderstorms over Central Africa from the space station’s observation cupola. The lightening is so bright, Virts said, “you can watch...
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- 01 Apr 2011
- News
My First HBS Class
more interested in the classroom dynamics. Both classes had several visitors, who were introduced and applauded at the beginning. In the first-year class, visiting relatives of one student were given a standing O. This was the sole bit of section View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
The Nature of Change
Before this year’s class of MBAs departed Soldiers Field, they sat down one more time and prepared for a ritual now in its fourth year. For this “Cap-stone Class,” all graduating students read an annually updated case that compares data...
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- 01 Jun 2017
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Jen Wong (MBA 2004)
wake up, read the news, and then check my traffic and see what’s happening on the Time Inc. sites.” News sources: “I’m on Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, and Apple News all the time.” Print indulgence: Reading People magazine, a View Details
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April White
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Jeffery E. Sagansky: That's Entertainment
For most of the past 25 years, Jeff Sagansky has followed the same ritual every morning. He gets up early and pores over the previous day's Nielsen ratings, those omnipotent numbers that detail who's watching what on television from dawn...
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- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Taylor R. M. Keen
readjusting to the academic world, however, Keen became as much a teacher as a student. On two occasions he performed tribal rituals for his section, playing the sacred water drum and sharing songs and wisdom from his tradition. "You have...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 19 Aug 2010
- News
Classroom Hijinks: Catchphrases, Mottos, Cheers, and Mascots
were accompanied by arm gestures à la “YMCA” by the Village People. The high point, let’s say, of cheers may have come with the Class of 1999, where all sections had cheers and some had cheerleaders. Some of the 1999 cheers were little View Details
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Commencement 2012 Address | About
with my own children. I have two daughters, who are now ages 17 and 15. Unfortunately, at this age they no longer let me read them bedtime stories or tuck them into bed at night. But for many years, before they became too cool for that, this was a daily View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Yoga Inc.
phenomenon it pretty much created. “From the foundation of yoga wear, we started a category that before us did not exist,” says Vivien Yeung (MBA 2001), Lululemon’s chief strategy officer. Understanding the public consumption ritual...
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Deborah Halber
- 25 May 2021
- Blog Post
The Surprising Power of Nostalgia at Work
burnout reconnect with what made their jobs meaningful in the past, which can provide guidance for how to restore meaning at work in the present. Developing organizational social rituals and traditions can help create organizational...
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- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Let Customers Call the Shots
offerings and consumer needs has been challenging the effectiveness of both mechanisms. Q: What kinds of consumer habits does consumer empowerment work against? A: Consumers typically tend to adopt ritual lifestyles, and to develop...
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Teaching for the Ages: the MBA Classroom in the 21st Century
Early — much too early — on a rainy March morning, I find myself once again among a throng of bleary-eyed students trooping toward Aldrich Hall. The ritual of the herd, familiar to me and every HBS alum, certainly brings it all back. It’s...
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- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Up from the Ashes
an unremitting love for company and conversation. Given the choice between being right and being memorable, Schumpeter never hesitated.” Each morning, after the elaborate ritual of dressing himself, Schumpeter would walk the six blocks to...
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Commencement 2020 Address | About
relationships, and life satisfaction. So, consider adding this simple ritual to your day. It may bring you as many benefits as other life-enhancing habits like regular meditation or exercise. To get you started, let us engage in this...
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- 01 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Choose the Best Deal
"Comparison-shopping" was the genial answer. "Look," my friend said, "the Durango actually has better headroom." Desperate not to lose my friend's business, the Ford salesperson went through the ritual of...
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by Michael Wheeler
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Commencement 2015 Address | About
interesting things to say about leadership and the future of space travel. But what stuck with me was one of his comments that dealt with Perspective. He described a nightly ritual where he unwinds by listening to music and looking out at...
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- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Put Meaning Back into Leading
structure the organization, design jobs, and allocate roles and responsibilities—that shape how people who work in the organization experience their jobs. Second, leaders engage in symbolic actions—through the stories they tell, the symbols and View Details
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by Martha Lagace