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- 15 Nov 2016
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Cultivating the Next Generation of Thought Leaders
two reasons for management failures to heed shareholder proposals for greater action on ESG issues: processes within the organization may not be sufficiently developed, and performance incentives may be misaligned. “I went back to the...
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- 15 Apr 2011
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Students Hear Wall St. Critics
cited the FCIC’s January report that found failures in financial regulations and enforcement, corporate governance, risk management, and accountability and ethics at all levels. Overarching this, Angelides said, is a climate in which “too...
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- 01 Mar 2003
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Books
to new product and service failure rates of 80 percent or more, Zaltman urges market researchers to challenge the status quo. “The sinking of the Titanic resulted from a failure to question two-and-a-half...
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- 01 Sep 2005
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Predictable Surprises
in 1994 to turn an airplane into a missile aimed at the Eiffel Tower. And yet, post-9/11, then–national security advisor Condoleezza Rice talked about the impossibility of predicting that someone would use an airplane as a missile. So there was a communication View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
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The Camel and the Unicorn
we’re going to examine why Silicon Valley is at risk of losing its startup crown and what that could mean for the future of innovation. READ MORE If you were asked to name some of the greatest entrepreneurial failures in history, you...
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- 08 Apr 2011
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Management Matters In Health Care, Too
results in one in five Medicare patients who are admitted to the hospital ending up back in the hospital in less than a month after discharge. “The incentives are all wrong,” he added. “No one gets paid to do follow-up care.” Amid all the gloomy talk about View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
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Dot Vertigo
prices and market capitalizations, loss of market share, failure to innovate, and reactionary cost-cutting). Organized in three parts, Dot Vertigo addresses the issue of business disorientation; the execution of the I-Net infrastructure...
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- 01 Feb 1998
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Innovative Course Brings Students and Alumni Together
online dialogues with students via the Internet. Forty-three alumni - all with vivid and fresh insights into their own successes and failures - agreed to participate in the innovative pilot project, which proved to be an extraordinary...
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Meg Gardner; photo by Joshua Lavine
- 01 Mar 2005
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House of Bread on the Rise
McCANN: Former defense atforney learned the bakery business from scratch. The lessons Sheila McCann (OPM 24, 1996) learned from the surprising failure of her second House of Bread retail bakery turned out to be an essential ingredient in...
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- 01 Jun 2009
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Bright Future for Green Business
Partners — touched on several systemic problems that hold the green tech industry back. One is a failure to think about the interrelationship of resources: You can grow great biofuels, for example, but only if you have an abundant supply...
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- 01 Oct 1997
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Terence P. Stewart
materialize," says Stewart. "As a trade lawyer, I see missed opportunities for American firms caused by the West's failure to set up lines of credit to deserving enterprises and by the unimaginative approach to doing business in the...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2011
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Tax and Grow
a remarkably large pool of unmobilized capital is sitting within our firms, and managers appear frozen in their decision-making. A gentle nudge to break this coordination failure — through the combination of the fiscal carrot and stick...
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- 01 Oct 2001
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New Economy Notables: Peter C. Wendell
some companies fail. But after twenty years I still haven't learned to enjoy failure and defeat. Proudest of Building Sierra into a firm that has spawned some really great companies, attracted very talented general partners, and now has...
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- 01 Sep 2009
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How to Fix Wall Street
plan to restore confidence in the financial sector and prevent a repeat of past mistakes must address the leadership and organizational failures that led to shoddy ethics and careless judgment in so many firms. While external regulation...
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- 01 Feb 2002
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Europe Business Conference Forecasts the Future
again. "The Chinese say, 'Failure is the basis for future success.' I'd like to hire you if you've had a failure, and you realize what the reason for that failure was." Cochairs Peter Everett and Marijana Kolak (both HBS '02) thanked the...
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- 01 Sep 2020
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The Devil You Don’t Know
similar: “Our distress comes from no failure of substance. We are stricken by no plague of locusts. Plenty is at our doorstep, but a generous use of it languishes in the very sight of the supply.” Remarkably, Keynes says much the same...
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- 01 Jun 2007
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Alumni Books
Success Leads to Failure (and What to Do about It) by Michael E. Raynor (DBA ’00) (Doubleday Publishing) Managers make choices with far-reaching consequences based on assumptions about an uncertain future. This collision between...
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- 01 Mar 2010
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The Meaning of Ramadi
that failure is an inevitable and necessary part of life. It happens whether you like it or not — sometimes as a result of your own (or someone else’s) error in judgment and sometimes simply because time and circumstance had a vote. Once...
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- 24 Oct 2013
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Engineering a More Secure World
Purdue University in the early 1970s, Harris saw lots of classmates veer down the wrong path. Seeing the high failure rate among minority students, he joined a campus group of black engineers, where, he says, "Our entire objective was to...
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- 01 Dec 2017
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In My Humble Opinion: Truth Teller
than you would in a steady-state type of business. It’s exhilarating to see what’s possible when people look into the abyss of failure and take it into their own hands to create real change.” Industry intel: “I think the script is written...
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Julia Hanna