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- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
now facing the consequences of the many failures of American and world leadership in the previous century. It appears likely that we are now in the position of standing on the deck of a sinking ship, and all we can do is argue about the... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Vision: A Unicorn Evolves
could restore the data in a couple of hours. That solution didn’t satisfy the client, whose sales team would be idle until the system was fixed. That was the moment things shifted for Medina. Outreach had moved beyond the fledgling startup stage. “It was no longer a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016
regions. Lessem makes the case for “integral advantage,” a philosophy including nature and culture, technology and economy, all accommodated by an integral polity. Around the world, the failure of a society to develop is not due to its... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Homeschooled
Leadership Project, a collaboration of HBS and Harvard Graduate School of Education. Here, Khan and Kim talk about the successes and failures of online education brought to light by the pandemic—and what education might look like on the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Screen Tested
Taylor Jenkins Reid with Amazon. “They were both supposed to be filming now; we’re obviously waiting to see when it’s safe to come back.” Thumbtack North Star: “At graduation, Dean Kim Clark told us, ‘No success in business will ever make up for a View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Not Your Typical Business Conference
all, don't fear failure," she stressed. "Remember, the fear of failure is a sure formula for not achieving success." The theme of risk taking was echoed throughout the day, starting with the first morning panel on corporate leadership... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
the lives of other women like her, providing advice and concrete examples of how to succeed without feeling overwhelmed or compromised. How to Lose Friends and Irritate People: The First Satirical Self-Help Book to Lead You to Failure by... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
belief in the power of imagination, and by his relationships with people who had provided encouragement when he most needed it. When he left Dell Computer Corporation to teach, Walker discovered that the stories he took with him—of his aspirations, of his View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
At Your Service
be true in service organizations. Morriss: But so often, it isn’t. We argue that the failure to make necessary tradeoffs is the number one obstacle to excellence in service organizations. Why is that such a difficult concept for service... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
One-on-One with Robert McNamara
seen. In these recent cases, while there’s talk of regulation and of laws, there’s very little reference to the word ‘integrity.’ That’s the key to it! Integrity is the fulfilling of one’s responsibility to all constituents. Greed, of course, was part of the problem,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Books
failures as well as successes. A final chapter examines how some companies — even whole industries, like integrated circuits — literally have shifted the locus of experimentation to their customers and created billions of dollars of new... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Rich Wilson
initiative a natural for asthma-drug companies, as well as for AARP, to support. We were not successful in that. I do think it’s a failure of imagination and a missed opportunity for those organizations. I’ve since talked to a PR outfit... View Details
- 10 Mar 2017
- News
The Business of Lego Batman
own, obviously, the rights to the brand, the Lego brand. And it's going to impact them in a very, very big way. This is not a subbrand. This is not a Ninjago movie, or a Bionicle movie, or Chima movie. What I asked them for The Lego Movie was their core brand. The... View Details
- 02 Feb 2023
- News
Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?
the world. I would invent a way for us to stop emitting carbon dioxide. But that problem is just so, so hard. So we have to build direct-air capture capability to cover for our failures to decarbonize now. DM: In the next episode, we're... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
percent or more. But VCs and entrepreneurs are human—and with the US startup failure rate hovering at around 60 percent (according to a 2015 Cambridge Associates study) those home runs are far from the norm. That makes it even more... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
new information technology and summarized the "root causes" of unsuccessful implementation. "The good news," Tobkin stated, "is that the problems are not in the technology. Most of the causes of failure have to do with management."... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 30 Sep 2016
- News
Competing Against Luck
Actually, I need to help them have experiences where they fail. Because only if they experience failure can they experience success. And I think a lot of us in my generation think that, oh, well, I just have to be sure that they always... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
success and failure include lessons on funding, team development, strategy, performance, and allocation. Some large funds do not survive their founders, and large sums are reallocated to a broader selection of managers. Seides outlines... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Inside Intel
demoralizing to have one customer after the next lecture you about your employer’s failures and your competitors’ strengths. Many customers actually relished the opportunity to stick it to the famous Intel.” Yesterday’s feisty underdog... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
thirty years earlier - a story in product failure immortalized in an HBS case that impressed this maxim upon legions of Harvard MBAs: ketchup that must be spooned out of a jar, instead of banged out of a tall, skinny bottle, just won't... View Details