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- 01 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
Dying to Lead: How Reaching the Top Can Kill You Sooner
other positions, such as physically demanding blue-collar jobs. “No one is saying CEOs have more dangerous jobs than loggers,” Nicholas says. "We need to do more work to find what mechanisms are causing health problems." Some studies... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 14 Jan 2019
- Op-Ed
These 4 CEOs Created a New Standard of Leadership
leadership roles at Procter & Gamble and Nestlé before becoming CEO of Unilever in 2009. Observing the dangers of global warming, Polman focused on sustainability, introducing Unilever’s Sustainable Living Plan and applying it to... View Details
- 16 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Advice on Advice
tendency to forget it's not about you, how smart you are, and how helpful you feel you can be, but it's about being experienced by the advisee as helpful," Margolis says. "The danger is that you immediately jump to a conclusion... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- Web
Events - Business History
how "all three regimes enjoyed periods of high growth and supposed alliances between autocrats and capitalists. Over time, however, the relationships between capitalists and political elites changed, and economic outcomes diverged. While state-business ties in... View Details
- 30 Jun 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
The Role of Emotions in Effective Negotiations
Happiness can be dangerous as well, since happy negotiators tend to accept less than they might otherwise be able to get. "You don't want your happiness to hijack other emotions," says Wasynczuk. "What we teach is not to... View Details
- 21 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Common Strategy Mistakes
transportation, however, is that railroads are clearly a distinct industry with distinct economics and a separate value chain. Any sound strategy in railroads must take these differences into account. Defining the industry as transportation can be View Details
Keywords: by Joan Magretta
- 08 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: A Sense of Urgency
took away dozens of a firm's key customers. The crisis could have been anticipated. But because the management believed that only an unexpected burning platform could help push a complacent organization out of its comfort zone, it didn't pay attention to the View Details
Keywords: by John P. Kotter
- 28 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
The FDA’s Speedy Drug Approvals Are Safe: A Win-Win for Patients and Pharma Innovation
that are dangerous being released to the public.” You Might Also Like: Can Amazon Remake Health Care? Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape? A Rare Find in Health Care: A Simple Solution to Racial Inequity Feedback or ideas... View Details
- 19 Jan 2024
- News
The Values and Virtues of a Quick Fix
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Speed has gotten a pretty bad rap, says Anne Morriss (MBA 2004). The Silicon Valley mantra of moving fast and breaking things has led to waves of high-profile... View Details
- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround
1917 and 1920. Strikes hit the canal in 1916 and 1917. World War I practically closed it to commercial traffic, and work continued on clearing dangerous hills, fixing locks, and finishing all the ancillary construction required by the... View Details
- 09 May 2023
- Blog Post
Celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS (part 1)
and reject my Asianness altogether. With every self-hating joke I made, I turned away from self-actualization in a gambit to numb myself against further pain. Luckily, I was steered off this dangerous path; going to college, building an... View Details
- 26 Jun 2013
- News
How a Trivial Pursuit Became a Significant Case
without anybody taking dangerous risks." The case was a breakthrough for Stevenson and helped him formulate his now-famous discipline-defining description of entrepreneurship as "the pursuit of opportunity beyond resources currently... View Details
- 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
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
John Crowley’s Extraordinary Measures
Aileen learned that Megan, fifteen months old, and Patrick, seven days old, had Pompe disease, which destroys muscles, degrades breathing, and dangerously enlarges the heart. They were told that Megan and Patrick wouldn’t live past their... View Details
- 09 Jul 2007
- Research & Ideas
Five Steps to Better Family Negotiations
affect the negotiation. Before you negotiate, it is critical that you consider the interests, the power, and the constraints facing each party. In the case of family businesses, many of the parties affected by a negotiation, or able to affect it, will be around for a... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Davis and Deepak Malhotra
- 06 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Problem with Hedge Funds
Hedge funds sell short. Short selling is always speculation, not investment. The growth of hedge funds thereby injects a much larger speculative element into the market. This makes the market much more dangerous for investors who are... View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
- 01 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Systemic Racism Can Threaten National Security
the social apparatus may not work well because of discrimination." “The government and the bureaucracy and the social apparatus may not work well because of discrimination,” he says. “The state might be in danger because the state itself... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- Web
Invention of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
increasing danger of highlight glare at night. Land entered Harvard College in 1926. After the fall semester, he took a leave of absence to live in New York City. Over the course of the next three years, in the reading room of the New... View Details
- 25 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy
macroeconomic crisis. Once the biggest dangers are behind us, Mr. Bernanke will have to figure out how to get things back to normal. His aggressive stimulation of the economy could easily prove inflationary if he doesn't bring rates back... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Mar 2019
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Antidote to Surveillance Capitalism?
Future at the New Frontier of Power, author Shoshana Zuboff identifies surveillance capitalism as the danger in our midst—not totalitarian government or even business institutions that practice surveillance capitalism. She presents... View Details