Dangerous - Publications - Faculty & Research

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

Keywords: Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

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

03 Oct 2007
Research & Ideas

Dealing with the ‘Irrational’ Negotiator

as irrational. We will also describe the dangers of doing so and explain how to avoid making such mistakes. Mistake 1: They Are Not Irrational; They Are Uninformed An executive (who is one of Deepak's students) was recently involved in a... View Details

Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra & Max H. Bazerman

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

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Energy

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

Keywords: Sarah Auerbach; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries; Information

01 Jan 2013
News

André R. Jakurski, MBA 1973

manages $3.8 billion As part of the Polish underground resistance during World War II, André Jakurski's father forged documents to help those in danger change their identities. "My parents lost everything during the war," explains the... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

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

28 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Supply Chain Risk: Deal With It

capacity, shelf life, and customer demand. Such risks aren't new. In fact, "the underpinnings of problems today started two decades ago," says Craig Holmes, director of business continuity planning for Aon Risk Consultants, Southfield, Mich. But the View Details

Keywords: by David Stauffer

25 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Why IT Does Matter

other area is it more important to have a sense of what you don't know than it is in IT management. The most dangerous advice to CEOs has come from people who either had no idea of what they did not know, or from those who pretended to... View Details

Keywords: by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan

21 Feb 2005
Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

dangerously blurred. The notion that those who lead and manage our society's major private economic institutions might provide, or be responsible for providing, a public good is quite foreign to our customary way of thinking about... View Details

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice

09 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

When Benchmarks Don’t Work

business partners with line executives. Finance spending as a percentage of revenues will increase, but the profit impact from these partnerships can repay the additional spending many times over. These examples collectively reveal the View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan; Service

18 Sep 2017
Research & Ideas

'Likes' Lead to Nothing—and Other Hard-Learned Lessons of Social Media Marketing

brands to it. If you’re just tacking your brand onto a current event that has no relationship to your brand or consumer, it’s dangerous because it can feel false, opportunistic, and inappropriate.” Imagine Cheerios sending this to you... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Advertising; Technology

23 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Overcoming Nervous Nelly

danger of failing before, now your anxiety has made failure a foregone conclusion. We've all experienced the crippling effects of job performance anxiety. But far from being uniquely relegated to nightmare scenarios like the one outlined... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

20 Oct 2010
Op-Ed

Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

dangerous if they become an addiction. The competitiveness framework can help to better distinguish export-oriented policies that make a contribution to long-term sustainable growth from those that do not. 4. Moving on from here There is... View Details

Keywords: by Christian Ketels

17 Aug 2021
Research & Ideas

Can Autonomous Vehicles Drive with Common Sense?

Lillo of Swiss Reinsurance Company. To get consumers to sign onto the technology, the industry must instill trust by focusing on programming the cars to behave with the “common sense” human drivers tend to apply when navigating complex or View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Auto

12 Dec 2011
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Clocky, the Runaway Alarm Clock

any entrepreneur looking to build a business around an unconventional product that elicits multiple reactions: How do you balance fun and function in order to avoid the danger of your product becoming a flash-in-the-pan fad? Clocky... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products

30 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Are You Supporting Your B Players?

who create the ballast for the organization," said DeLong. In his talk titled "The Power of Supporting Players in Organizations: What's Right with B Players," DeLong told a classroom filled with visiting alumni about the View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

18 Nov 2002
Research & Ideas

Where Morals and Profits Meet: The Corporate Value Shift

destroy health, wealth, and life itself. The issues span the ethical spectrum: falsified books and records, misleading communications, defective and dangerous products shipped without warnings or information, abusive behavior and unsafe... View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler

01 Oct 2000
News

Carlos A. Saladrigas: Hardworking Optimist

line the shelves of Saladrigas's office. In addition to fighting corruption in local government, he was involved in last spring's negotiations between Elián González's Miami relatives and U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno. That task proved more View Details