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Kayode Ogunro
all about one question: What does it mean to be a manager or leader?" Kayode reflects. "It's like a basic training that helps you find the blind spots. I came in as a number-cruncher and needed to look more toward leadership.... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Arnon Mishkin (MBA 1989)
question we’re trying to answer.” It was the HBS guy saying that. Consulting is very similar to journalism, because you go into a new situation or a new company and try to figure out what makes a place tick. It’s like the blind person... View Details
- 23 May 2019
- News
Michael G. Mullen, AMP 109, 1991
began on a blind date at the Army–Navy game in 1967, endured the long deployments of his early career and yielded two sons, both of whom chose to follow in their father’s footsteps and attend the United States Naval Academy. “Deborah and... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 08 Aug 2013
- News
Cause Marketing Gets Personal
was a moving experience. I had one woman talk to me who was blind in one eye, someone with a profound learning disability, another with a pain issue," she says. "They all said, 'I didn't think anyone would understand.'" But Langer has... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sea of Dreams
Then it got worse: He fell for an audacious Ponzi scheme that swallowed up much of his fortune. A mild-mannered man who began his career as an accountant, Von Allmen was an unlikely victim, but as he told me a couple of years later, "I was View Details
- 11 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is Group Loyalty a Force for Good or Evil?
or where they are crossing ethical boundaries for the good of their own group.” Gino and colleagues write about this paradox in a new paper forthcoming in the journal Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes with a decidedly unambiguous title: View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 04 Jan 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Sustain Organization Diversity?
you think? Share your insights in the comments below. References:Mahzarin R. Banaji and Anthony G. Greenwald, Blind Spot: Hidden Biases of Good People (New York: Delacorte Press, 2013). Jennifer Maloney and Lauren Weber, "Coke’s Elusive... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 03 Feb 2018
- Op-Ed
How to Heed BlackRock's Call for Corporate Social Responsibility
Larry Fink recently created a shockwave. As cofounder, chairman, and CEO of BlackRock, one of the world’s largest global asset management firms, in an open letter to CEOs he caught the attention of financial markets and beyond by insisting on the importance of... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Battilana
- 30 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Venture Investors Prefer Funding Handsome Men
to enlarge The researchers recruited a separate panel of 60 seasoned angel investors to watch the videos and code them across several measures, including physical attractiveness—rating the entrepreneurs on a scale of 1 (very unattractive) to 7 (very attractive). The... View Details
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Take a Trim Tab Approach to Climate Change
The "bully pulpit"—a term coined by Theodore Roosevelt back when the word "bully" meant terrific—originally referred to the US presidency and its tremendous potential for speaking out and influencing public opinion. Nowadays, the term describes any position with the... View Details
- 01 Feb 2008
- What Do You Think?
How Sustainable Is Sustainability in a For-Profit Organization?
Supply Chain Management Moving Toward New Theory" has crossed my desk. I receive these occasionally with a request for my blind (authors unknown to me) review for a juried academic journal with the equally unfortunate title... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 19 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 5/5
about how unjust this world is for me, my family and my future children. I want you to avoid turning a blind eye from my reality because it’s convenient for you. I want you to constantly think about ways to make Black people who “consume”... View Details
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Vanity and Virtue: Allegories on the Pursuit of Riches - Coin and Conscience – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
1589. 23 x 27.8 cm CF g1 xx First state. Gold coins form the wheels of a chariot, upon which is the World, while two noblemen blinded by money walk alongside. A group of peasants is held back by Poverty, standing on the wheel of Fortune.... View Details
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The Founder Mindset - Course Catalog
success. In this course, you will think about: How should teams be structured? How can a founder see his or her own blind spots? Can you augment a founder’s weaknesses by hiring a complimentary team? When should a CEO be replaced? We... View Details
- 18 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Breaking Through a Growth Stall
product and the activities associated with making and selling it. Selling becomes a function of individual "heroic" efforts, not a scalable platform for profitable growth. Equally important, this inhibits adaptive learning—a crucial requirement for a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Road Work
space at the i-Lab, where classmates Wombi Rose and John Wise of LovePop and Michael Martin of RapidSOS were neighbors. To date, Camino’s loans have totaled about $70 million, with average amounts of $16,000 per member (Camino’s term for its clients). “We started with... View Details
- 14 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations
Track attrition and tenure by gender. Combat flexibility stigma by focusing on measurable aspects of performance, and don’t turn a blind eye to high performers who harass. Despite these efforts, the authors stress that success is unlikely... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2014
thought experiments designed in his executive MBA classes, he challenges readers to explore their cognitive blind spots, identify any salient details they are programmed to miss, and then take steps to ensure it won’t happen again.... View Details
- 26 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 26, 2006
considered one for most management students, like many inexperienced managers, these students are often blinded to the realities of management by their personal motivation and ambition. Often, management students arrive at business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 24, 2006
political conflict and individual and group biases occasioned by organizational differentiation. We categorize the sources of functional bias into intentional, driven by misalignment of incentives, and unintentional resulting from informational and procedural View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne