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- 30 Jan 2009
- News
What’s It Worth to You?
firefighter $44,130, despite the fact that they, unlike the rest of us, are expected to give up their lives, if necessary, to do their jobs. CEOs often talk about leadership and values, but can a CEO who espouses a values-oriented...
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- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Minding The Gap
MBA Class of 1957 Professor of Management Practice, was a driving force in PELP's creation. He stresses that raising educational outcomes across the board is at the heart of the initiative's mission. "The challenge is to build great...
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- 23 Apr 2014
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A corporate leader’s legacy in India
When Ratan Tata (AMP 71, 1975) joined his family’s business in 1962, it was on the Tata Steel shop floor in Jamshedpur, India. From the ground up, Tata learned how to be an effective manager and a corporate leader who understands the...
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- 05 May 2010
- What Do You Think?
Is Denial Endemic to Management?
Summing Up How best is denial managed? Denial is endemic to management. It is a natural part of human nature, closely related to the survival instinct. It can be useful or disastrous. And it can be managed. That sums View Details
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by Jim Heskett
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Winston to Lead the Global Initiative
graduate, Winston has held senior marketing and strategy positions at a number of high-tech firms and more recently worked as a research associate for HBS professor Myra Hart, who retired in June. Winston grew up in Karachi, Pakistan,...
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- 04 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Inside CEOs' Pandemic Worries: Uncertainty, Employees, and Kids
Employee well-being. CEOs were concerned about their employees: their safety on the job; overall well-being; and their own task as leaders of “keeping up morale and managing people’s fears.” Having to make...
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- 13 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Shouldn't Delay Software Updates—Even After CrowdStrike's Flaw
software update to the Falcon security platform managed by CrowdStrike, the giant cybersecurity company. “What happened in CrowdStrike is an illustration of the risk of picking up an upgrade immediately.”...
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- 04 Apr 2005
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Can an Organization’s “Deep Smarts” Be Preserved?
Summing Up This month's column appears to have struck a chord with those who lament the continuing loss of implicit knowledge buried inside the heads of experienced leaders (termed "deep smarts" by Dorothy Leonard and Walter...
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by James Heskett
- 08 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
The Critical Computer Science Principles Every Strategic Leader Needs to Know
says. Not only that, but “increasingly, the tech architectures inside firms are a source of competitive advantage.” Wu suggests executives study up on these five computer science principles—and leave the rest to their tech teams. 1. Think...
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- 11 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating When the Rules Suddenly Change
analyze data as it comes in so that you can confirm or reorient your strategy, if necessary. That way, you can align your tactical decisions with your larger objectives. The more efficiently you manage this process, the more View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Sahlman Heads External Relations
contributed important ideas to the study of business. But the manifestation of those ideas is in what the alumni and the people touched by our alumni end up doing with that knowledge.” Sahlman (MBA ’75), who assumed his new role July 1,...
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Nathalie du Preez
Why was getting a HBS MBA important to you? HBS, in particular, appealed to me for its general management focus, the diversity and quality of its people, its close alumni network, and of course, the case study method. I believed this...
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- 01 May 2013
- News
Experience of a Lifetime
Growing up in rural North Carolina between two towns with fewer than 300 people combined, Duke Buchan dreamed big. After living in Spain during high school and college, and earning a BA in economics and Spanish at the University of North...
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Monica Dodi
As a cofounder and managing director of the Women’s Venture Capital Fund (WVCF), Monica Dodi (MBA 1984) backs female-led, early-stage ventures in digital media and sustainable products and services. Dodi says these emerging consumer...
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- 21 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
It Matters That Your CEO Doesn't Know Much About Sales
CEOs need to roll up their sleeves and learn more about the customer-facing sides of their businesses, like sales. Source: AlexBrylov Let’s face it: To most C-suite executives, sales processes are often an afterthought or a somewhat...
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by Michael Blanding
- 04 Jan 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Sustain Organization Diversity?
about why else this could happen. With little evidence to support a theory, it occurred to me that one additional issue that hasn’t shown up in the press might be that of sequencing; in a sense, putting the cart before the horse. When I...
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by James Heskett
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Sheila Marcelo
As a child in the Philippines, Sheila Marcelo grew up watching her parents run a variety of entrepreneurial endeavors. At age seven, when she accompanied her mother and father to the rice mill they ran, she spent her time asking the...
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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
was typical for an HBS Leadership Fellow. The program catapults new grads into high-level positions at nonprofit and public-sector organizations, offering access to CEO-level management and decision-making. Meanwhile, organizations...
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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Trade Off
consequences of distribution. DR: There is no doubt that there is an overall gain. But the question is, who gains? Who loses? The concentrated interests affected negatively by free trade in some industries or regions lead to requests for protection through trade...
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- 06 Dec 2021
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In My Humble Opinion: Come Clean
have missed a cracked button in inspection, we didn’t fold the collar up as requested by the customer, etc.” “No second grader says, ‘I want to work in dry cleaning when I grow up.’” “No second grader says, ‘I want to work in dry cleaning...
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