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- 07 Aug 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is There Still a Role for Judgment in Decision-Making?
perspective (for example, by asking "What information am I missing?"). I didn't Google the texts of these books, but there is no mention of the word...
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by James Heskett
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company
The following excerpt is taken from the "Lessons of Restructuring" section of Gilson's introduction to Creating Value through Corporate Restructuring. Although the case studies in this book span a...
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by Stuart C. Gilson
- 20 Oct 2015
- Blog Post
What to Expect Your First Year at HBS
management. Both of those expectations have turned out to be completely wrong. Now that I am entering my second year at HBS, I hope I can impart some of my knowledge and share what you can and can’t expect...
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- 18 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
Unethical Amnesia: Why We Tend to Forget Our Own Bad Behavior
word “taguan.” The researchers banked on the notion that most people have never heard of a taguan, which, FYI, is a type of East Indian flying squirrel. If participants claimed...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 06 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Are You a Level-Six Leader?
citizens," in the words of Howard Gardner's recent book, Truth, Beauty, and Goodness Reframed, who watch out not only for numero uno but for the wider public as well. There is no better example View Details
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by Mitch Maidique
- 17 Jan 2020
- In Practice
6 Traits That Set Top Business Leaders Apart
clarify the complex "They can communicate very clearly and succinctly—usually with short words and short sentences—and even on complex issues. They've developed the skills necessary to really get to the heart View Details
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by Danielle Kost
- Web
Becoming a Board Member - Alumni
needed and then create a list of organizations and their directors. After that, you'll be ready to: Get the word out - inform your network of your interest in joining a board...
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- 14 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
Meet the HBS Jewish Student Association
the broader community. The Hebrew word kesher, meaning link or connection, serves as our North Star for the coming school year as we develop a diverse array of programming to bring people together through...
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Board Use - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning
headings as a means for reinforcing and supporting the structure and flow of the discussion. They also use boards to acknowledge student comments and to highlight, summarize and connect contributions by underlining, circling or drawing...
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- 19 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Is Wikipedia More Biased Than Encyclopædia Britannica?
For more than a century, the long, stately rows of Encyclopædia Britannica have been a fixture on the shelves of many an educated person's home—the smooshed-together diphthong in the first View Details
- 14 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
LOVE At HBS
Love. #LongDistanceLove When I decided to plunge my life into the U.S. 10 years ago, it never truly dawned on me the space that would be created in my heart by not having my family close by - my mum's Trini cooking, dad's sense of humor...
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- 30 Jul 2007
- Research & Ideas
Repugnant Markets and How They Get That Way
Unfair. Undignified. Inappropriate, unprofessional, distasteful—and most of all, repugnant. To the wonder and surprise of Alvin E. Roth, a Harvard economist, these harsh words...
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 2010
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Luxury Prime’: How Luxury Changes People
to do a word recognition exercise. The task was to write down the first word that came to their mind when given a string of scrambled letters. These strings View Details
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by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 04 Jan 2022
- Research & Ideas
Scrap the Big New Year's Resolutions. Make 6 Simple Changes Instead.
Ambitious New Year’s resolutions often end in disappointment. So instead of setting unrealistic goals in 2022, business leaders should consider making smaller, simpler changes—and they just might see better results, says Harvard Business...
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by Kristen Senz
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Happier-ness at Work
Professor Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey get the good news/bad news out of the way on page 5 of their new book, Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier. “If the secret to total happiness existed, we would have all found it by now,” they write....
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- 01 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
Team Success Starts with the Individual—and with Love
from a place of love. That’s not a word you would normally identify with a football coach, but if Carroll’s record of success is any indication, it’s one that leaders in the...
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Generative AI - Alumni
output you want. If it doesn’t do it right the first time, ask again with added direction. There is always a randomness built into the model, so keep trying. Examples from the prompts above would be: The cover letter should be around 400 View Details
- 23 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
As Climate Fears Mount, More Investors Turn to 'ESG' Funds Despite Few Rules
Investor interest in social responsibility has skyrocketed in the past three years, even as US regulations to hold companies accountable remain in flux and the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) label itself draws backlash. Investors are willing to pay a...
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- Portrait Project
Dallin McKinnon
I stood at the pulpit struggling to speak. I could string only a few words together before punctuating them with sobs. My wife’s arms came around me, steadying my stance and helping me breathe. I was speaking at the funeral View Details
- 06 Feb 2020
- Research & Ideas
What We Learned from Reading Jeff Bezos’ Patents
previously in our analysis of his Amazon shareholder letters. 4. Jeff Bezos’ patents are customer-centric For a more granular look at Bezos’ inventions, we performed a word frequency analysis using the...
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