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- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Conducting Business
list in his hand—it must have had our names and backgrounds. He fixed each person with a brief knowing gaze, nodding his head occasionally as if to say to himself, Oh, yes. I see. Farmer. Former Naval officer. Knows absolutely nothing. The View Details
- 06 Feb 2006
- What Do You Think?
Should CEOs of Public Companies Offer Earnings Guidance?
forecast dispersion increases and forecast accuracy decreases." For those wishing the full story, read "Is Silence Golden? An Empirical Analysis of Firms that Stop Giving Quarterly Earnings Guidance." What is to be done? A...
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- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Fine Print: Alumni Recommend Their Best Reads
Memoir, by Anna Wiener The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company, by Robert Iger —Kurt Daniel (MBA 2000) Silence and Beauty: Hidden Faith Born of Suffering, by Makoto Fujimura A reflection on...
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- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Faculty Books Published in 2020
Michael Beer Is silence killing your strategy? In his thirty years of working in corporations, Harvard Business School professor Michael Beer has witnessed firsthand how organizational silence derails...
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- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Hansjörg Wyss, MBA 1965
class for the first five weeks," he recalls. "My classmates were all the crème de la crème, with button-down shirts I had never seen before." He finally broke his silence during a discussion of the International Monetary Fund. "I had a...
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- 23 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
Distressed Employees? Try Resilience Training
times more likely to experience work-related problems than employees with chronic physical illnesses like diabetes or heart disease. So why do many companies fail to help their workers battle mental health disorders? “There’s a silence...
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- 01 May 2019
- What Do You Think?
What Should the Leadership of YouTube Do?
YouTube Executives Ignored Warnings, Letting Toxic Videos Run Rampant, Bloomberg, April 2, 2019, Bloomberg.com Kevin Roose, YouTube’s Struggle To Silence the Stars Who Sell Conspiracy, The New York Times, February 19, 2019, pp. B1-B2.
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- 11 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018
acknowledged, oral history can still be seen as a critical source of data on opinions, voices, and judgements on events in which there was often silence in written records. Download working paper:...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 23
Publications 2006 University of Chicago Press Manufacturing Morals: The Values of Silence in Business School Education By: Anteby, Michel Abstract—Corporate accountability is never far from the front page, and Harvard Business School...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Stories 2007
determination of compensation and, if so, how? Encouraging Dissent in Decision-Making Our natural tendency to maintain silence and not rock the boat, a flaw at once personal and organizational, results in bad—sometimes deadly—decisions....
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Bright Ideas: The Creative Power of Groups
fruition. The typical pitfalls encountered in group decision-making are all too familiar. Who hasn't witnessed, for instance, the silence around a conference table as meeting participants turn suddenly speechless, unable to generate novel...
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by Laurie Joan Aron
- 19 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 5/5
after the slaying of Ahmaud Arbery, the actions of Amy Cooper, and the killing of George Floyd, the anger and frustration regarding racial inequity in America had reached a boiling point. As student leaders, I felt like it was their role to take action instead of...
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IFC: Japan; Exploring Japan's Innovation Ecosystem - Course Catalog
Students will come to appreciate unique business protocols practiced in Japanese companies - e.g., exchange of name cards, silence in elevators, empathy to co-workers, being on time, etc. - that contribute to Japan’s unique approach to...
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- 24 Nov 2014
- Research & Ideas
Corrupting Silence: Companies Must Speak Up Against Bribes
offering more ways of tracing and communicating such activities," says Healy. (He wrote an article article on such initiatives in the Harvard Business Review with HBS Associate Professor Karthik Ramanna.) If the most egregious forms of corruption are going to be rooted...
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by Michael Blanding
- 16 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 16, 2008
theoretical explanation for workplace silence based on implicit theories of voice. Cases & Course MaterialsASUSTek Computer Inc. Eee PC (A) Harvard Business School Case 609-011 ASUSTek Computer was the world's largest manufacture of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Oct 2019
- Blog Post
6 Steps to Building a Better Workplace for Black Employees
officer, Ryan emailed his employees with a plea to keep talking. Yet, the explicit discussion of race is considered taboo at many companies, and, more often than not, business leaders remain silent on the issue. That cloak of silence from...
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- 25 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 25
silence from top executives and vague, misleading public statements—frustrated U.S. government officials and the public. Not until weeks after the news first broke did Toyota organize a clear message around its commitment to return to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Are Creative People More Dishonest?
In his 1641 treatise, Meditations on First Philosophy, philosopher René Descartes introduced the concept of an "evil genius," a powerful force of nature who is equally clever and deceitful. Since then, the world has given us plenty of examples—Hannibal Lecter...
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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Get Creative
are worth pursuing. When most people hear a new idea, it’s human nature to see its flaws, so during the brainstorm processing, no criticism should be allowed. I know of a manager who brings along a squirt gun to brainstorming sessions. After a few squirts, people learn...
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- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Code name: Miesiąc
his fellow activists didn’t know at the time how scared the Communist government was of the voices of mere students and the resources it committed to silencing them. Attempts were even made to expel Maj from the university and when that...
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