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- 04 Feb 2014
- What Do You Think?
Has Listening Become a Lost Art?
Summing Up When Is Listening Not a Good Strategy? Like a good case debate, the discussion of the question of whether listening is a lost art was not one-sided. What was clear was how important people felt... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
believed in pure evil, as personified in the psychopath Max Cady (Robert De Niro, in the 1991 film Cape Fear). This and the 1962 original were based on MacDonald's The Executioners and were among the few successful film or TV adaptations... View Details
- 10 Sep 2001
- What Do You Think?
Do MBAs Need More Street Smarts?
think? Original Article In recent weeks, I have encountered several situations in which senior managers and investors of all ages have said, "(name) is a really sharp person with a good MBA, but (he or... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Nov 2022
- What Do You Think?
Why Aren’t Business Leaders More Vocal About Immigration Policy?
gone on for decades as a giant skimming effect that benefits the US while reducing the talent pool of countries offering the least opportunity. Few groups have been as maligned or as poorly portrayed as our... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Profile
Enrico Ferrari
Born and raised in a small northern Italian town, Enrico Ferrari was the first in his family to attend college. Driven by an entrepreneurial mindset and a desire to write his own destiny, Enrico moved to Berlin, where he joined an ad technology startup. Enthusiastic... View Details
Keywords: Tech
- Profile
Bryan Stromer
my section mates from the country we discussed share their perspectives from growing up in that country. I love these testimonials because they add a more human element to the case studies and remind me of... View Details
- 03 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Dealing with the ‘Irrational’ Negotiator
to ensure that she understands why the offer is in her best interest. She may simply have misunderstood or ignored a crucial piece of information. Mistake 2: They Are Not Irrational; They Have Hidden Constraints In 2005, the U.S.... View Details
Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra & Max H. Bazerman
- 06 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Innovator’s Battle Plan
results. Cramming explains why so many disruptive innovations originate from within incumbents but are ultimately commercialized by separate organizations. When a firm develops the germ of a disruptive idea,... View Details
- Web
Connell House | About
White as part of the original 1920s campus plan, but its construction was delayed until 1940. Unnamed for many years, the administrative office building was renovated in the late 1960s under Dean George P.... View Details
- 18 Dec 2019
- Book
6 Skills That Wise Companies Harness for World-Changing Innovation
management tome, The Knowledge-Creating Company. Now, the book’s recently published sequel, The Wise Company: How Companies Create Continuous Innovation, elevates their original ideas, outlining six practices that enable leaders to steer... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- Portrait Project
Carol Lin
I cried watching Michelle Kwan skate to “Fields of Gold” in the 2002 Winter Olympics after she just missed the gold medal—not out of sadness for her, but out of joy over seeing... View Details
- 23 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
Lessons on Life, Graffiti, and Value: 'It's in That Darkness That You Can Actually Develop and Evolve'
James W. Riley has been confronted with questions of identity and alienation since he was a teenage graffiti artist navigating 1990s Los Angeles. “I’ve always had this notion of going places and being in... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 03 Dec 2021
- Blog Post
Physicians Off the Beaten Path
positioned to expose everyone else to this.” “At the end of the day, it wasn’t necessary that I needed to treat patients. But I needed to have impact.” — Dr. Dan Gebremedhin (Physician, Venture Capital Investor, Entrepreneur) Listen to... View Details
- Web
Rare Disease Day – Small Numbers, Big Challenges… and Big Opportunities - Blog: Health Supplement
my brother and I inherited from our mother. Thanks to her relentless efforts, we are part of the fortunate few that have been properly genetically tested and diagnosed. While rare, HHT is the second most common inherited bleeding... View Details
- Web
Understanding Entrepreneurial Opportunity in Kazakhstan - Global Activities 2020
(pictured with Vyacheslav Kim, Chairman of the Board, Kaspi.kz) Introduction to Kazakhstan Along with Esel Çekin, executive director of the HBS MENARC, Ivashina wrote a case study on Kaspi.kz with the goal... View Details
- 09 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
OneTen: Creating a New Pathway for Black Talent
$4,000; the average white family has net worth of $140,000. A lot of that has to do with disparities in employment that exist, which have their origins in the education... View Details
- 20 Feb 2019
- Research & Ideas
Rocket-tunity: Can Private Firms Turn a Profit in Space?
hopes to take a suborbital trip on SpaceShipTwo in July 2019 to mark the 50th anniversary of the famed Apollo 11 launch to the moon. “They've had a lot of setbacks over the last decade, so their having made... View Details
- 15 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
What You Don’t Know About Making Decisions
stages and managers feel the pressure of deadlines and the rush to close, they often compromise or adjust the criteria they originally created for judging the appropriateness View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto
- 04 Nov 2010
- What Do You Think?
Why Do We Chase Stars?
Summing Up Three themes appear to characterize many of the responses to this month's column: (1) leadership talent is portable, (2) the reasons that we chase stars are traceable to human nature, and (3) women have qualities that explain... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 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... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett