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- 16 May 2023
- In Practice
After Silicon Valley Bank's Flameout, What's Next for Entrepreneurs?
life of an early-stage business. When a situation is declared code red, startups should know who’s on point for communication with each stakeholder, who’s leading a process and how each process will be led. Also, plan for retrospectives...
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- 02 Apr 2020
- What Do You Think?
What Are Lessons for Leaders from This Black Swan Crisis?
in my condo recently, I took the opportunity to reread Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s book, The Black Swan. In it, he defines a Black Swan (always capitalized) as having three characteristics: “rarity, extreme impact, and retrospective (though...
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by James Heskett
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Events - Business History
variety of scholarly and practitioner perspectives. This conference focused on the roadblocks to sustainability since the 1960s and developed a research agenda for scholars seeking to overcome those roadblocks. In addition to offering a View Details
- 11 Apr 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching a ‘Lean Startup’ Strategy
painfully." “Lean startups don't try to scale up the business until they have product market fit, a magical event-more easily recognized in retrospect than in the moment-when they finally have a solution that matches the problem.”...
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- 17 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
Welcome to Retirement. Who Am I Now?
he bought a new motorcycle to reawaken his biker identity. Retrospectively revising a pre-transition identity: After retiring, some people reframe who they were while working to mesh with their new identity. One man who said in an early...
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- 07 Feb 2019
- Book
How Big Companies Can Outrun Disruption
managers for missing disruptive threats, but I don’t think it’s entirely fair. Leaders making decisions are staring in a foggy lens into the future. In retrospect these disruptive threats look painfully obvious, but they are not obvious...
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by Martha Lagace
- 06 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Innovator’s Battle Plan
process: Step 1: Entrants enter behind a shield of asymmetric motivation; early incumbent response leads to cramming. Incumbents pass over what in retrospect turn out to be multibillion-dollar opportunities because attackers take...
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Louise Bourgeois Eye Benches II 1996-1997 | About
quality of your eyes and the strength of your eyes that are expressed here. Nobody is going to keep me from seeing what is instead of what I would like.” In 1982, Bourgeois was the first female artist to have a retrospective at New York’s...
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Melvin Edwards Searching for the Word 1989/2019 | About
Melvin Edwards moved to New York in 1967. In 1970, he became the first African American sculptor to have a solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and in 1978 he had a retrospective at The Studio Museum in Harlem. Best...
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- 02 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: May 2, 2017
Asante Should Governments Demand Equity in Foreign-Owned Extractive Projects? By: Wells, Louis T. Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52573 2016 The Challenge of BRIC Multinationals Third World...
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Carmen Nobel
- 11 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
Economic Jitters Push Pandemic Job Seekers to Big Companies, Not Startups
and consider your long-term career path. “The career trajectory is quite path-dependent. And the choices that you're making today are going to affect the choices that you're going to make tomorrow,” he says. It’s important to recognize that over the long haul, “things...
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by Rachel Layne
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
David Horgan: Iraqi Briefing, 21st November, 2003
different approach. But Iraq can still be fixed, if we change policy now: How to fix Iraq Restore the national police, army and even security services. If you’ve evidence of wrongdoing against individuals, prosecute the individuals. But no collective or View Details
- 06 Feb 2006
- What Do You Think?
Should CEOs of Public Companies Offer Earnings Guidance?
retrospective data compensate for projections? What is "real information"? And do conservative estimates of the future lead organizations to underperform? What do you think? Original Article This question is not as innocuous as...
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- 09 Jan 2020
- Blog Post
Navigating Grey in the Ever-Evolving Tech Community
perhaps a bit self-congratulatory, but in retrospect this has certainly been 100% true. There’s a reason everyone always remembers the Erik Peterson case. I ended up spending the second semester of my second year with that very...
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- 03 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Facebook’s Future
posted, occasionally offering a comment, but often just scrolling down through content. As such, Facebook is a retrospective medium, a place to share experiences already completed and then put them on display. But the company does little...
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by Mikolaj Piskorski
- 01 Oct 2009
- What Do You Think?
Can the “Masks of Command” Coexist with Authentic Leadership?
mask." What do you think? Original Article In a new retrospective of his work titled The Essential Bennis, leadership guru Warren Bennis raises questions about the nature of leadership that are related to some we considered several...
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by Jim Heskett
- 07 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Can Brand Trump Win a Presidency?
Ronald Reagan's vision of a shining city on a hill. "The world of commerce has never seen a brand insult its way to market share leadership" Superficially, Trump's call to make America great again offers a similar aspiration. But, unlike Reagan's vision,...
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- 07 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 8, 2018
process-improvement strategies. We used TDABC to evaluate the cost of providing pain control to patients undergoing thoracic surgery and to estimate the impact of specific process improvements on cost. Retrospective healthcare utilization...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017
concerned citizens. These case studies strongly portray the challenges that public health faces in our times. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52269 forthcoming Journal of Human Hypertension A Retrospective...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, July 11
patients with laryngeal cleft seen between 2008 and 2013 at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary Pediatric Aerodigestive Center. Retrospective chart review was performed to identify clinic utilization by patients as well as patient...
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Sean Silverthorne