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  • 13 Jul 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Diagnosing the Public Health Care Alternative

of its inadequate payments. In the end, the Democrats' health care reform will require drastic rationing of health care for the sick to control its costs. The government-controlled UK health care system points the way because it features,... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Health
  • 01 Sep 2009
  • News

How to Fix Wall Street

rules and oversight, they are driving up reliance on regulation far beyond anything that is rationally sustainable and, in the process, generating new risks. If we truly want to prevent another financial crisis, we need a corrective... View Details
Keywords: Lynn Paine; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 11 Sep 2018
  • Blog Post

Care for the Elderly: Process is More Important Than the Destination

grandpa (someone who means a lot to me) had been hospitalized almost at the same time that I started studying at HBS. Witnessing what he has experienced, now not just the rational part of me is calling, the emotional part is urging me to... View Details
Keywords: Health Care
  • 09 Jan 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Excerpt: ’Fortune Tellers’

"disenchantment of the world," as scientific rationality displaced older, magical, and "irrational" ways of understanding. Indeed, the forecasters profiled in this book certainly saw themselves as systematic empiricists and logicians who... View Details
Keywords: by Walter A. Friedman
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Entrepreneurial Sales 101: Founder Selling - Course Catalog

not made. Every organizational activity leverages off that single fact. Markets are not totally rational organizations and the firms with the best sales teams will usually win. “Superior sales and distribution by itself can create a... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2020
  • News

Ink: The Habit of Innovation

view the process as being as rational as possible. These criteria will be guidelines, not rules, as final decisions will always require subjective judgment. Involve outsiders. Parents can attest to how hard it is to be objective about... View Details
Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management
  • 01 Mar 2004
  • News

Ex-Con Talks Ethics with HBS Students

breaking, a law. That is followed by subsequent decisions driven by elements such as greed, a belief that one won’t get caught, a sense of entitlement, or rationalizations that “everyone else is doing it.” Of his presentation and the... View Details
Keywords: Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government
  • 19 Dec 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Climbing the Great Wall of Trust

colleagues investigate two types of trust: cognitive trust, which is based on confidence in a partner's technical competency, and affective trust, which is based on a shared concern for a partner's welfare and personal interests. "Cognitive trust is trust from the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 19 Aug 2010
  • News

Classroom Hijinks: Catchphrases, Mottos, Cheers, and Mascots

the section as a socialization substitute for in-dorm dining facilities when they proved to be too costly. And it’s true that the MBA Class of 1949 was the first to assign students to sections. Perhaps having all of a section’s courses in one room was just the most... View Details
Keywords: Keith Larson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 01 Jun 2010
  • News

Get Well Soon

takeaway for students is the power of transparency as a mechanism for change,” says Tucker. “Another is the motivational value of benchmarking themselves to an internal standard of zero accidents instead of rationalizing poor perfor-mance... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance
  • 01 Dec 2001
  • News

BOOK: You Can't Enlarge the Pie

expose these fallacious attitudes in order, they write, "to encourage citizens to adopt a new way of thinking about political issues that will inspire them to work for positive social change." "Thinking and acting more rationally about... View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 01 Dec 2010
  • News

Money and Markets Dominate New Course Offerings

and rational process but through a subjective process. Launching Technology Ventures is for students who plan to work at start-ups and at established companies launching information technology products. Sustainable Cities: Urbanization,... View Details
Keywords: curriculum
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Read excerpts from DENIAL

By: Richard S. Tedlow

The Edifice Complex: Denial at Sears

Book Excerpt: Denial at Sears (BusinessWeek.com, February 26, 2010)

 

From Denial: Why Business... View Details

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Rocio Parra

program. But the skills I wanted to build — to speak up, to make rational points and defend them — I wouldn't get anywhere else. Here, the constant speaking and interaction develop important leadership qualities. You build courage. On the... View Details
  • 19 Dec 2018
  • Sharpening Your Skills

New Year, New Habits

bad behavior causes memories of those acts to gradually become less clear—a phenomenon they call “unethical amnesia.” Research Papers Habit Formation and Rational Addiction: A Field Experiment in Handwashing This study in rural West... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Feb 2022
  • News

Turning Point: Ready or Not

small lemon tree in the graveyard where his father and uncle had been buried. His death made me realize my own mortality, but it was more of a rational response than an emotional one. My grandmother’s death felt different. Like so many... View Details
Keywords: reflection; life experience; leadership
  • 01 Jun 2008
  • News

Alumni Books

Johnson. Understanding College and University Organization: Theories for Effective Policy and Practice. 2 vols. by James L. Bess (MBA ’60) and Jay R. Dee (Stylus Publishing) The authors aim to show how college and university administration can be made more effective... View Details
Keywords: Management
  • 01 Oct 1996
  • News

Tedlow on Tires and the Meaning of Life

step" toward death. As Peter Gay, Freud's biographer observed, "Freud's inability to give up smoking underscores the truth in his observation of an all-too-human disposition he called 'knowing-and-not-knowing,' a state of rational... View Details
  • 01 Dec 1996
  • News

Organizations and Markets: A Challenging View of the World

emotional reaction that leaves the conscious brain incapable of making a rational response. Understanding the irrationality of human behavior is essential for understanding how people relate - or do not relate - to each other, which is... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 01 Jun 1998
  • News

Chai Ling

Freedom. Democracy. For five days, as Chai Ling lay in the suffocating darkness of a nailed-shut crate, these words sustained her more than her meager ration of bread and water ever could. Hidden in the hold of a leaky boat, waiting to... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; photograph by Webb Chappell
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