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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
- 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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- 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
- 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
- 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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- 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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- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 24 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 24
explain service performance. This paper provides a brief retrospective of some of this research and illustrates the directions that this work will take in the future through the vehicle of a field study conducted by the author. The study...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019
brings together a prestigious group of international experts who were tasked with choosing, introducing, and commenting on seminal texts focused on creativity, invention, genius, and imagination from the period of 1850 to 1950. This volume is at once View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Europe Wrote the Rules of Global Finance
rewrite the rules of the international financial architecture and thereby force capital liberalization on developing countries. Indeed, in retrospect it is surprising that so many observers thought that the U.S. Treasury or Wall Street...
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by Ann Cullen
- 02 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
Modern Indian Art: The Birth of a Market
helped define the value of modern Indian art, and as public documents, these texts helped disseminate the same valuation system among broader audiences. Museums and galleries in the West began to take notice of the new genre, holding View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 19, 2016
efficiency and long-term survival in standard cardiac surgery procedures. Methods: Utilizing a prospectively collected retrospective database, we identified patients who underwent isolated CABG (n=3726), AVR (n=1626), MV repair (n=731),...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?
however, that it should not be a political one. The role of scholars is to provide the empirical input to inform the political debate. References Agthong, S., and V. Wiwanitkit. 2002. "Cadaver donation: A retrospective review at the...
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