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Changing the World: Life Choices of Influential Leaders

By: Robert Simons

This project studies the life choices made by a variety of people who have left a lasting legacy. Using biographical data, we are examining the choices that high-impact individuals faced in their lives and the paths they chose to follow. The leaders we study come... View Details

Keywords: Leadership Style; Personal Characteristics; Work-life Balance; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Success
  • 01 Oct 2014
  • What Do You Think?

Is Too Much Focus a Problem?

Summing Up What Are the Antidotes to Too Much Focus? Individuals and organizations suffer from too much focus much of the time. That was the sense of the majority of responses to this month's column. Respondents didn't stop there. They... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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Dean Srikant Datar | About

he holds two masters degrees and a Ph.D. from Stanford University. Datar’s research and course development have been in the areas of cost management and management control,... View Details
  • November 2010
  • Article

Stress-Test Your Strategy: The 7 Questions to Ask

By: Robert Simons
An economic downturn can quickly expose the shortcomings of your business strategy. But can you identify its weak points in good times as well? And can you focus on those weak points that really matter? I identify seven questions all executives should ask in order to... View Details
Keywords: Business Strategy; Creativity; Success; Customers; Employees; Business and Shareholder Relations; Performance; Risk and Uncertainty; Decision Choices and Conditions
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Simons, Robert. "Stress-Test Your Strategy: The 7 Questions to Ask." Harvard Business Review 88, no. 11 (November 2010): 93–100.
  • 15 Nov 2022
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Stop Ignoring Bad Behavior: 6 Tips for Better Ethics at Work

opioid crisis?” asks Bazerman. “We think the Sackler family. What caused the number of sexual assaults at Miramax? Harvey Weinstein. And it's not that these answers are wrong. It's just that it's taking... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
  • 02 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

What Makes a Good Leader?

When discussing business leadership, a distinction is often made between good management and good leadership. Managers are thought to be the budgeters, the organizers, the controllers — the ants, as one observer puts it — while leaders... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg & Susan Young
  • 01 Apr 2025
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  • November 2021
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Steve Schwarzman on Dealmaking II: When They Hold All the Cards (A)

By: James K. Sebenius and Alex Green
Blackstone Co-founder, Chairman, and CEO Stephen A. Schwarzman, whom Forbes has called “Wall Street’s Greatest Dealmaker,” played a major role in the negotiations that transformed Blackstone from a fragile startup in 1985 with $400,000 in capital into a dominant... View Details
Keywords: Dealmaking; Bargaining; Conflict Resolution; Negotiation; Private Equity; Entrepreneurship; Conflict and Resolution; Problems and Challenges; Negotiation Tactics; Financial Services Industry
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Sebenius, James K., and Alex Green. "Steve Schwarzman on Dealmaking II: When They Hold All the Cards (A)." Harvard Business School Case 922-007, November 2021.
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The Business Case for Curiosity

By: Francesca Gino
Although leaders might say they value inquisitive minds, in reality most stifle curiosity, fearing it will increase risk and inefficiency. Harvard Business School’s Francesca Gino elaborates on the benefits of and common barriers to curiosity in the workplace and... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Culture; Employees; Creativity; Cognition and Thinking; Learning; Decision Making; Performance Effectiveness
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Gino, Francesca. "The Business Case for Curiosity." Harvard Business Review 96, no. 5 (September–October 2018): 48–57.

    Coming Through When It Matters Most

    All teams would like to think they do their best work when the stakes are highest—when the company’s future or their own rests on the outcome of their projects. But too often something else happens. In extensive studies of teams at professional service firms,... View Details

    • 27 Sep 2018
    • Research & Ideas

    Religion in the Workplace: What Managers Need to Know

    monkeybusinessimages How to handle religion in the workplace is a contentious and litigious issue that many business leaders struggle with. The subject is so third-rail hot that even Harvard Business School has devoted relatively few... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage; Apparel & Accessories
    • 26 Aug 2019
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    Lipstick Tips: How Influencers Are Making Over Beauty Marketing

    bonding with these influencers,” Vettese says. “They have regular conversations back and forth, and they think of the influencers as being directly ingrained in their... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Consumer Products; Beauty & Cosmetics
    • 23 Nov 2021
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    What It Takes to Build an Organizational Culture That Wins

    it.” I see it differently. Think of it as a glass-half-full vs. a glass- half-empty view. An effective culture embodies learning, innovation, and change. Cultures centered around transparency View Details
    Keywords: by Avery Forman
    • 18 Apr 2023
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    What Happens When Banks Ditch Coal: The Impact Is 'More Than Anyone Thought'

    Consumers who are eager to mitigate climate change can take many actions, such as reducing the number of airline flights they take or installing solar panels on their homes. But the planet is in a race against time, and individual action alone won’t help most countries... View Details
    Keywords: by Barbara DeLollis; Financial Services; Mining
    • 17 Dec 2014
    • Research & Ideas

    How Our Brain Determines if the Product is Worth the Price

    neon sign advertising $5 off a $20,000 car? That's going to turn customers away. "If it's an insignificant discount, then you're actually putting yourself at a disadvantage by highlighting the price first, because people are now View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail
    • 16 Apr 2020
    • Blog Post

    Am I Eligible for the 2+2 Program?

    eligible. I took a gap year (or two) between high school and college, am I eligible? Yes, you are still eligible. I served in the military and then pursued my undergraduate degree, am I eligible? You are... View Details
    • 2019
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    When Gender Diversity Makes Firms More Productive

    By: Stephen Turban, Dan Wu and Letian Zhang
    Does diversity make a company more productive? Many say yes—some researchers argue that gender diversity leads to more innovative thinking and signals to investors that a company is competently run. Others say no—conflicting research indicates that gender diversity can... View Details
    Keywords: Gender; Diversity; Performance; Performance Productivity
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    Entrepreneurial Management - Faculty & Research

    the company's shareholders and leaders. Some want to use the program as a fig leaf for laying off staff; others think it costs too much and might put the company at a... View Details
    • 10 Oct 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    In Empowering Black Voters, Did a Landmark Law Stir White Angst?

    rise in Black political efficacy that the [law] intended to achieve,” the researchers write Long shadow lingers today The findings have implications for the upcoming fall elections, and interpretation of the federal laws under recent... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne
    • 17 Jan 2020
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    6 Traits That Set Top Business Leaders Apart

    forthcoming book Step Back: How to Bring the Art of Reflection into Your Busy Life. 2. They embrace new thinking "They resist distilling their work into just one thing! Excellent leaders see nuances, contradictions, possibilities for... View Details
    Keywords: by Danielle Kost
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