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- 04 Aug 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Dangerous Is Common Sense to Managers?
Common sense had its defenders. C. J. Cullinane commented that "Common sense and experience for all their faults are fast." Phil Clark added that "how man reacts to a situation is driven by habit and choices gained through...
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by James Heskett
- Profile
Samuel Racana
more about how tackle these problems as an investor and an entrepreneur. HBS was the natural choice to explore that, build relationships, exchange ideas, and learn before going back out. Coming to HBS is like... ...reaching a plateau ski...
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- 11 May 2011
- News
The PMD 70 Tree and Other Memorials at HBS
academe: a tree planted near Burden by the PMD 70 class at their graduation. The class may have been inspired by the Partners Association, which had planted a tree in front of Soldiers Field Park apartments. PMD 70 donated the money for the tree but left the View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
The Physical Campus in a Virtual World
winner of this contest, and it closely resembles the buildings that went into construction in 1925. I keep these drawings on display as a reminder that the institution we inhabit today is the result of a discrete series of choices made...
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Nitin Nohria
- 19 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
innovations might impact—and be impacted by—workers, consumers, organizations, and society. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55845 March 2019 Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes Choice...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Chick-fil-A Foundation, lists some simple but powerful ways people can affect others and create a legacy of service. His stories aim to help people demonstrate life-changing compassion, understand courage, make brave choices every day,...
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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Letters to the Editor
Regarding Debbie Rosenbaum’s March column “On the Outside at HBS,” I was one of those minorities at HBS. I am of Mexican-American descent. My ancestors have been in this part of the world for over 2,000 years. I went to HBS as an View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
A Life by Design
created the distinctive Studebaker Hawk automobile. “Years later, I realized what an amazing place I had grown up in,” says Ross, who acknowledges her father’s influence on her own choice of careers — fashion product design. Over the past...
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Managing Human Capital - Course Catalog
and thrive? While the question is simple in concept, it is remarkably difficult to execute—proven most recently by the Great Resignation. Future graduates of HBS, like the population at large, will have more and more choices about how to...
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- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Put Meaning Back into Leading
work and the favorable public reception of the Hawthorne studies, the idea that the central concern of leadership was to create meaning for organizational members was not significantly advanced. We've identified two possible reasons. The leader is both View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town
thoughtful and entertaining talk on "Prospects for Stability in Sub-Saharan Africa." Slabbert, one of the architects of the first democratic elections in South Africa in 1994, is a former leader of the opposition in the old South African...
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Susan Young
- 09 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 9
systems evolve in different ways—in some, the core is stable, whereas in others, it grows in proportion to the system, challenging the ability of an architect to understand all possible component interactions. Our findings represent a...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Choose the Best Deal
presents special strategic and tactical challenges. (See the sidebar "Linked Negotiations" for descriptions of three categories of such talks.) This article focuses on "birds in the bush"—situations in which, like Jim, you have more than one...
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by Michael Wheeler
- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
cream), controlling for customer fixed effects. These findings are all consistent with theories suggesting that people's should selves exert more influence over their choices the further in the future outcomes will be experienced....
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
residence in more than 30 states, and I couldn't marry the person of my choice in all but a handful of states. I knew that at the current pace of change, it could be years before I would have the same rights as my straight classmates. I...
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- 26 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 26
that individuals who are given time to reflect on a task improve their performance at a greater rate than those who are given the same amount of time to practice with the same task. Our results also show that if individuals themselves are given the View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
taking control of its own evolutionary future. We aren't just watching it—we're the architects who are making it happen. I'm awed by what's going on; for me it's mostly about trying to understand the implications of the technologies that...
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Podcast - Forum for Growth & Innovation
public think tank Populace and is the bestselling author of The End of Average and, most recently, of Dark Horse, both of which we'll talk more about in a minute. Shaye Roseman: Bob Moesta is, along with Clay Christensen, one of the principle View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
been stationed on the East Coast, rather than its Portland headquarters, and the choice was deliberate. Between her presence and experience, as well as her particular brand of service leadership, McKenna is already shifting the...
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Podcast - Forum for Growth & Innovation
is one of the principle architects of the Jobs-to-be-Done theory, and the founder of the Rewired group, and we had an excellent discussion about his book this morning, and I am looking forward very sincerely to continuing that discussion...
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