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- 18 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Hazard Warning: The Unacceptable Cost of Toxic Workers
their numbers, but they weren’t a good corporate citizen essentially,” Minor says. “So what he basically says is you have to close your eyes to their great productivity and have the courage just to terminate them.” Minor echoes Welch’s... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 13 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Merck CEO Ken Frazier Discusses a COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk
to advance African Americans in that part of the company. And that's what we're doing, and we're going to have to tie it to people's compensation in a clearer way. Neeley: That's amazing. Those are clear examples that I'm sure people will appreciate hearing about and... View Details
- Portrait Project
Navroz D. Udwadia
to never take "no" for an answer. Above all else, I want to have the courage to never ever look away when confronted with the dignified poverty that grips my country. How can I afford to? 300 million people live on a dollar a... View Details
- Portrait Project
Wabantu Hlophe
pastime; it was a trusted teacher, imparting lessons of creativity, exploration, and resilience. In the worlds of God of War, Far Cry, and Uncharted, I internalized a simple truth: the power to affect change comes from imagination and the View Details
- 22 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
Does Spirituality Drive Success?
Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, who moderated the discussion. He invited the panelists to discuss how they have the courage to maintain their openness or naiveté when so many people around them look to them to... View Details
- 06 Nov 2008
- Op-Ed
Selling Out The American Dream
that enable them to do so. Hardly any politician has had the courage to call for restraint. Average household debt in the United States is currently 130 percent of average household income, up 20 percent since 2005 and double what it was... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books You Got This! A Straightforward, No-Nonsense Playbook for Crushing 130+ Workplace Challenges By Heidi Abelli (MBA 1993) Palmetto Publishing Stepping into the corporate world can feel like navigating a labyrinth, especially when... View Details
- 10 Nov 2015
- Op-Ed
Authentic Leadership Rediscovered
organizations who have a deep sense of purpose and are true to their core values who have the courage to build their companies to meet the needs of all their stakeholders, and who recognize the importance of their service to... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 12 Oct 2022
- Blog Post
11 Stories from HBS PRIDE for National Coming Out Day
though, I can confidently say they represent the best thing that could have ever happened to me. My first experience being “fully” out was here at HBS. On the first day of RC year, I mustered the courage to come out to my entire... View Details
- 11 Mar 2021
- News
Leading with Heart
simply an attitude. Chaudhary: Like they say, "As parents, we think we are teaching our children. But children actually end up teaching us a lot more." And I think in this case, it is absolutely true. One is courage. And to me, courage is... View Details
- 03 May 2024
- Blog Post
From Harvard to Miss New Jersey: A Journey of Perseverance and Self-Belief
immersed myself in a world of entrepreneurship, innovation, and leadership. Beyond the academic setting, the SVMP experience instilled in me a newfound sense of courage and determination to pursue my passions unapologetically. I found... View Details
- 17 Jun 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Excellence Comes From Saying No
counter-intuitive such as a focus on individual achievement." The Courage To Be Bad At the core of Frei's philosophy is an appeal that Harvard MBAs are not used to hearing: in order to achieve excellence, you need the View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 30 Apr 2020
- Book
Fighting Climate Change Requires a New Capitalism
Rebecca Henderson spent her young adult years living two lives. At work, she preached the risks of resisting change to MBA students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, drawing on lessons she learned while watching factories close as a management consultant.... View Details
- 27 Jun 2011
- Research & Ideas
Recovering from the Need to Achieve
own fallibility and limitations and that an opportunity to learn existed. From an interpersonal standpoint, it conveyed that he had the courage to show vulnerability, that he had gone through some internal process in which he had begun to... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Alejandro Ramirez: A Very Good Time for Mexico
of his greatest influences. “Professor Sen has changed the way governments and international organizations define and measure development. People who are intellectually courageous really move the frontiers of knowledge,” says Ramirez, who... View Details
- 30 May 2023
- News
Finding PRIDE
club. The name captures the fear that people felt: They weren’t willing to say that there’s gay people here, but everyone needed a place to be themselves. I didn’t have the courage to be completely out at HBS, though I remember saying to... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Banking on Success
Frightening. Frightening if you own them - and just as frightening if you don't. I think most people feel that it's awfully tough not to make an investment in this area. My hat's off to the Warren Buffetts of the world, who have the View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
A World of Difference
fearful because they don’t have a sense of how to unpack the problem and what steps to take to solve it effectively. In the third category, there is a clear desire; the leaders are courageous enough to take action; they recognize there is... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- Portrait Project
Ninad Kulkarni
succeeding simply meant failing less often. My ambition was just fear wearing a nice suit. That ends here. I will make mistakes again. I am sure I will fail. But I will value the failures as much as I value the successes. Because failure means having the confidence to... View Details
- Web
General Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Best-Performing CEOs in the World by Harvard Business Review in 2018. Hubert Joly : Named one of the Top 30 CEOs in the World by Barron’s in 2018. Nancy F. Koehn : Forged in Crisis: The Power of Courageous Leadership in Turbulent Times... View Details