Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2011

by David Silverman. Silverman's basic philosophy on cover letters? We all hate business jargon, but we can't stop using it. More people commented on this post than on any other in HBR.org's history. The Best Cover Letter I Ever Received. Don't bother. This was originally posted in 2009, and it remains one of our most popular posts.

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Blog Silverman Govindarajan Letter 16

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2010

Although David Silverman published this with us in 2009, it remained extremely timely this year. Peter Bregman learns how to do one thing at a time. Why I Returned My iPad. Here, Bregman finds a novel way to treat a device that's "too good.". The Best Cover Letter I Ever Received. How to Give Your Boss Feedback.

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Blog Silverman Competitive Advantage Letter 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2011

Either way, what are you doing reading the Harvard Business Review? David Silverman has had ten careers so far, including entrepreneur, executive, and business writing professor. Boring, yes, but you're not paid for excitement — and if you are, let me know, because that's pretty cool. Reading vs. scanning. Books are read.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2015

The book is co-authored by his colleagues Tantum Collins, David Silverman, and Chris Fussell.). Since his retirement in 2010 — brought about by intemperate remarks about Obama officials made by McChrystal and his aides in a Rolling Stone article — the former general has taught leadership at Yale University.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2012

Create working environments that encourage physical interaction; have small lunches that cut across hierarchical levels; include people who tend to shy away from group activities to participate in the softball team or fantasy football or Oscar pools.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2012

Silverman tells us to write shorter." Silverman is awesome!" I told the students I didn't care if they wrote something short, as long as it made a meaningful point. You might worry that I would have gotten a lot of "Prof. or perhaps the more gratuitous "Prof. or something less flattering in the first few weeks.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2013

As comedians like Ben Stiller, Sarah Silverman, and Michael Cera start production companies to develop and sell original content to digital distributors like Yahoo!, Will Holllywood figure out how to use the Internet to generate the big bucks? You have to go way, way down this Fast Company article to find much revenue to speak of.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2015

Generally speaking, the number of recipients dictates how many revisions you should do, according to author David Silverman : 1 to 5 recipients = 2 to 4 revisions. 5 to 10 recipients = 8 to 12 revisions. Company-wide or to Executive Committee = 30 to 50 revisions.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2013

As comedians like Ben Stiller, Sarah Silverman, and Michael Cera start production companies to develop and sell original content to digital distributors like Yahoo!, Will Holllywood figure out how to use the Internet to generate the big bucks? You have to go way, way down this Fast Company article to find much revenue to speak of.

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Silverman Insurance Fashion Content 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Perhaps more problematically, a study by Nick Argyres and Brian Silverman found that decentralized R&D produces innovations that have a smaller and narrower impact on subsequent innovation. My research indicates that companies in which R&D is decentralized have 40 to 65% lower RQ than companies with centralized R&D.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2012

The women of Dallas , Sarah in The Sarah Conner Chronicles , Samantha in Sex and the City , Christine in Old Christine , Sarah Silverman, Chelsea Handler, Whitney Cummings. A great wave of cultural innovation followed, giving us creatures of a different kind. Clearly, a change was upon us.

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