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Tag: Stanford Graduate School of Business

Harvard Can Count Its Unicorn Founders, But Can It Prove It Made Them?

For years, business schools have been good at counting the unicorns among their alumni. The next challenge is demonstrating the role they played in creating them. Maybe what matters is the ability to connect: management with engineering, ideas with capital, researchers with operators, people who want to start something with people who already have.

Should You Ever Tell People They Need To Be Grateful?

Gratitude can motivate, bond, and uplift. But it can also be weaponised, hollowed out, and turned into a form of control. Research shows that gratitude works best when it is freely expressed and modelled from the top. When it is demanded, prescribed, or used to shut down dissent, it often backfires.

What Makes The Perfect Professional Headshot?

The business headshot has evolved. And the psychology behind it has become far more interesting. What once felt like a purely cosmetic exercise is now part of what organisational psychologists increasingly describe as digital first-impression management. Your headshot is no longer just a photograph. It is your opening sentence.

Why Working Through The Holiday Season Can Backfire For Everybody

It usually starts with a short email. “Just checking in over the break…” Sometimes it’s framed as helpful. Sometimes as dedication. Occasionally as reassurance that nothing is falling through the cracks. But over the holiday season, that message carries more meaning than its sender often realises. Not dedication, but dysfunction.

What the Office Party Really Reveals

In the run up to the holiday season, calendars quietly filled with events that no one quite knows how to feel about. The office party. Everyone has a story. What if the office party isn’t a sideshow but one of the most revealing leadership moments of the year?