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- 20 Feb 2024
- News
The Executive Hubris Driving Five-Day In-Office Mandates
- 30 Aug 2013
- News
Insight: Batista's Brazilian empire was sunk by more than hubris
- Article
Don't Let Power Corrupt You
By: Julie Battilana and Tiziana Casciaro
Although power is essential to taking charge and driving change, it makes leaders vulnerable to two traps that can not only erode their own effectiveness but also undermine their teams. Hubris—the excessive pride and self-confidence that can come with power—causes... View Details
Keywords: Humility; Empathy; Hubris; Leadership; Power and Influence; Moral Sensibility; Performance Effectiveness
Battilana, Julie, and Tiziana Casciaro. "Don't Let Power Corrupt You." Harvard Business Review 99, no. 5 (September–October 2021): 94–101.
- 29 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Uber Is Worth Saving and How To Do It
Credit: Nicolas McComber Uber’s roller coaster ride from ride-sharing pioneer to shunned bad boy should be a lesson to other disruptive startups: Fighting hard is good, while fighting unfairly loses you respect, customers, and perhaps your company. “A company can fight... View Details
- 29 Jun 2017
- News
Why Uber Is Worth Saving and How To Do It
- 13 Apr 2011
- News
Learning to love the irrational mind
- September 2005 (Revised June 2012)
- Case
New Songdo City
By: Arthur I Segel, Brandon Blaser, Gerardo Garza, Albert Kim, John Richard and Andrew Murphy
The government of South Korea has chosen John Hynes and Gale International to construct New Songdo City. This is an entirely new city, about the size of Boston, between the new Incheon airport and the capital of Seoul. The proposed city is the government's attempt to... View Details
Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Urban Development; Construction; Design; Climate Change; South Korea
Segel, Arthur I., Brandon Blaser, Gerardo Garza, Albert Kim, John Richard, and Andrew Murphy. "New Songdo City." Harvard Business School Case 206-019, September 2005. (Revised June 2012.)
- 2019
- Book
The Business of Platforms: Strategy in the Age of Digital Competition, Innovation, and Power
By: Michael A. Cusumano, Annabelle Gawer and David B. Yoffie
The Business of Platforms explores the strategic, economic, and technology management challenges of digital platform businesses. We have five major themes in the book: 1) The world’s most valuable companies are all platforms, in part because platforms have... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Technology; Platform; Internet and the Web; Management; Competitive Strategy; Digital Platforms
Cusumano, Michael A., Annabelle Gawer, and David B. Yoffie. The Business of Platforms: Strategy in the Age of Digital Competition, Innovation, and Power. Harper Business, 2019.
- 06 Sep 2017
- News
The Book Making Us Re-think the World of Finance
- February 2004
- Case
Note on Human Behavior: Reason and Emotion
By: Nitin Nohria and Bridget Gurtler
Human beings are driven by reasons and emotions. On the one hand, as rational choice theorists assert, human beings are resourceful and evaluative as they strive to maximize their own interests. An individual's interests can converge or diverge from the interests of... View Details
Keywords: Behavior; Cognition and Thinking; Emotions; Interests; Organizations; Organizational Design; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
Nohria, Nitin, and Bridget Gurtler. "Note on Human Behavior: Reason and Emotion." Harvard Business School Case 404-104, February 2004.
Business of Platforms
The Business of Platforms is an in-depth look at platform strategy and digital innovation. In this book, we explore how a small number of companies have come to exert extraordinary influence over every dimension of our personal, professional and political... View Details
- 01 May 2024
- What Do You Think?
Have You Had Enough?
month’s column What’s Enough to Make Us Happy? Don McLagan, MBA 1967, framed the subject for us with the first poem posted in 24 years as a response to one of my columns. It began with: “Somewhere between empty and excess, between meager and mansion, humble and View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 07 Mar 2023
- HBS Case
ChatGPT: Did Big Tech Set Up the World for an AI Bias Disaster?
that, at the end of the day, those are also the communities with the least amount of power.” Is short-term hubris clouding my judgement? As a market leader, Google might have felt invincible enough to ignore major shortcomings in key... View Details
- 01 Aug 2022
- What Do You Think?
Does Religious Belief Affect Organizational Performance?
Katherine Lawrence put it: “The current JIT rose out of both hubris and myopia.” Citing the Ukranian War and its impact on logistics, she points out that “our transportation networks and systems are susceptible to variables we cannot... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Come Sail Away
requisite startup hiccups. “We had no experience in the clothing industry, which is probably what gave us the hubris to try it at all,” says Sard. Their first run of size-small shirts fit like a large. When shirts didn’t arrive in time... View Details
- 31 Aug 2021
- Book
Feeling Powerless at Work? Time to Agitate, Innovate, and Orchestrate
“Having once been wary of power is no guarantee that you will be immune to abusing it. [It] is another reminder that we are all susceptible to its intoxicating effects. The challenge is finding a balanced relationship that avoids the strictures of dirtiness and the... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 12 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Enron’s Lessons for Managers
that incompetence is inexperience, naiveté, an ends-justify-the-means attitude toward life, and so on. And most importantly, an inability to face reality when painful problems arise." Pride Goes Before A Fall Before fraud, he said, there was impressive innovation... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace