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- 26 Nov 2001
- Op-Ed
Why Corporate Budgeting Needs To Be Fixed
encourage customers to place orders by year-end so they could hit their annual sales goals. But the price increase was out of line with the competition and undoubtedly ended up costing the company sales and...
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by Michael C. Jensen
- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
As 2022 gets underway we asked our faculty to highlight some trends worth watching in the coming year. Ariel Stern: A new future for digital health care While 2020 and 2021 were years of rapid innovation and deployment of new health care technologies and delivery...
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- 04 Aug 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Dangerous Is Common Sense to Managers?
Tharian, for example, said "common sense is quite often related to wisdom (from accumulated experience vs. the knowledge that the younger generation acquires so rapidly through social networks)."...
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by James Heskett
- 14 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
A Pathway to Pursue Aspirations
service. “I turned to Leadership Fellows because I was interested in contributing to the social good,” says Mizuho. “For those of us entering the View Details
- 16 Oct 2018
- Blog Post
A Pathway to Pursue Aspirations
service. “I turned to Leadership Fellows because I was interested in contributing to the social good,” says Mizuho. “For those of us entering the View Details
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- 15 Feb 2016
- Blog Post
Coming to HBS with a Non-Finance Background
were quickly allayed when she visited HBS for a class visit – and she discovered that the student admissions rep who picked her up was a former TFA teacher. She soon came to find that HBS is a place that...
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- 05 Oct 2020
- Book
Want to Be Happier? Make More Free Time
long commutes, household chores, and mindless scrolling on social media. We must make deliberate, sometimes difficult choices that protect the precious hours in our days, Whillans says, whether it’s a big decision like pursuing a...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
China’s 60-Year Road from Revolution to World Power
cause of a combined economic stagnation and social backwardness that only socialism could cure. In the early and mid-1950s this would lead to the expropriation of the property...
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by William C. Kirby
- 12 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
It’s Time To Relaunch Your Remote Team
routines calls for relaunches to help leaders and team members understand how each member has been affected, figure out how to address concerns, and ultimately get everyone back on the same track View Details
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by Tsedal Neeley
- 19 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Analyzing Institutions to Solve Big Problems
passion for his work, his deep attachment to both rigor and relevance, were our inspiration," said Associate Professor Julie Battilana, who organized the conference with colleagues Shon R. Hiatt, Mukti...
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by Carmen Nobel & Anna Secino
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Up to the Highest Heights
reveals: “My style says I’m super-versatile. I’ll do everything.” “The wind isn’t always blowing”: Off the water, Tai is focused on harnessing the resources and influence of the ACTAI nonprofit to support ocean conservation, among other...
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April White
- 15 Feb 2022
- Book
When Working Harder Doesn’t Work, Time to Reinvent Your Career
professional peaks occur on average some 20 years into a career. Brooks calls this the fluid intelligence curve. An additional rub is that the better people perform, the steeper the decline they likely face. And the more attached they are...
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by Avery Forman
- 11 Sep 2018
- News
Bringing Government Up to Code
the foundations of our social safety net—making it easier, for example, for people to apply for food assistance or for probation officers to communicate with their parolees. On...
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- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Turning Point: Coming to Cambodia
director, and started small by simply updating the museum’s English-language entry on Wikipedia. That led to conducting strategy, management, and proposal-writing workshops for, among others, the National Museum, the Royal University of...
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- 25 Jan 2016
- Blog Post
3 Tips on Coming to HBS with a Partner
actual class taking part (but that does not mean they cannot still come to a class or two!). They join in for all social events, join clubs, and participate on our intramural sports teams. A partner in our...
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- 17 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
Why Quiet Quitters Need More Than Money to Re-Engage
Employees are feeling alienated Abdelal and DeLong see all of these phenomena as stemming from a common cause: the rise of contractual relationships with employees in place of emotional investment. “We’ve moved more and more from the...
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by Michael Blanding
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Leaning In to Gender Equity
but also help each other. "It is a painful truth that one of the obstacles to more women gaining power has sometimes been women already in power," Sandberg writes. Other sections of Lean In take a broader look at women's...
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- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Fast Lane to Country Lane
Boston-based Internet company in 2001. But she cut her time there short “because we wanted a change of lifestyle and to move to a place where we could raise a family,” says...
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- 21 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Pandemic Conversations That Leaders Need to Have Now
means closeness, and while social distancing remains important to mitigating the spread of COVID-19, psychological proximity—interpersonal trust, alignment on values and strategy, shared understanding of key...
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- 17 Apr 2019
- News
Give It to Me Straight
direction on caring personally and moving up to radical candor, we move the wrong direction on challenging directly, and we wind up in the worst place of all, manipulative insincerity. This is where the...
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