blindness - Publications - Faculty & Research

13 Mar 2018
News

Leadership Lessons from the “Lone Survivor” Mission

as the protagonist? What were you valuing at the time? Where were your blind spots? And really being clinical about it helps process these past experiences, and helps you learn from them. Unfortunately, sometimes people don't do that at... View Details

01 Dec 2018
News

Hard Choices

sometimes be skirted, frauds sometimes perpetrated, society’s resources misallocated, and the environment sometimes damaged. Managements are sometimes tolerated or even embraced who should not be—managements preoccupied with self-interest, managements View Details

Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)

15 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

High Ambition Leadership

dramatically reducing preventable blindness worldwide. United Stationers, not in our sample but a higher-ambition company, has been able to use higher purpose to do good: Employees want to help others through community projects they... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

02 Oct 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018

innovation processes could be a major blind spot and a potential liability. Fewer than one-third (30%) of respondents see innovation as one of the top three challenges their company faces in achieving its strategic objectives, and just... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

05 Feb 2008
First Look

First Look: February 5, 2008

and unintentional, resulting from informational and procedural blind spots. We show that the forecasting process, together with the supporting mechanisms of information exchange and elicitation of assumptions, is capable of managing the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

30 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers

eastern Europe. We tend to forget this sort of entrepreneurialism, somewhat blinded by the light of the start-up culture of the United States and Silicon Valley. Q: Some great but autocratic German entrepreneurs including Alfred Krupp and... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

05 Sep 2012
First Look

First Look: September 5

simultaneously match three features of U.S. policy: substantial income redistribution; rejection of gender, race, and height tags; and acceptance of a blindness tag. Additional implications increase the appeal of this revision to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity

blind them to other goals that don't come with a bonus attached. In the search for other solutions, Lakhani and London Business School professor Kevin J. Boudreau started with a simple hypothesis: instead of seeing the individuality of... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Mar 2017
News

A Summit Higher Than Everest

days of trekking through the rains, they reached the blinding sunshine of Sangay’s snow line. It took three attempts to cut a path into the frozen slope to climb the remaining 2,500 feet, but on August 4, 1929, Moore and his father stared... View Details

Keywords: April White; mountain; climb; climbing; adventure

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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 observe how both successes and failures have common antecedents. We... View Details

01 Sep 2018
News

September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

gender for a man, or education for a college graduate. This part of our identity may bring blind spots, but it is the best tool for influencing change. She introduces the psychological reasons that make it hard for us to see the bias in... View Details

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