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Live from Klarman Hall - Alumni

made failure downright fashionable. Yet despite happy talk, most people would rather do anything but fail. Failure, it seems, is fine in theory, and fine for other people, but difficult to accept for ourselves. Professor Amy Edmondson... View Details

17 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

What the Stockdale Paradox Tells Us About Crisis Leadership

broken heart This is a very important lesson. You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end—which you can never afford to lose—with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams

15 Nov 2016
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November 15, 2016

payoffs differently than private households do. This gives the government a "social risk management" motive: projects that ameliorate market failures when household marginal utility is high are appealing. The second friction is that... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Feb 2022
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Digital Transformation: A New Roadmap for Success

processes and talent systems. [div class=infogram-embed data-id=_/eUdkBzKkQThcMS1T8PRn][/div] Embracing experimentation and the inevitable missteps and failures inherent to the innovation process is frankly nerve-racking for leaders and... View Details

Keywords: by Linda A. Hill, Ann Le Cam, Sunand Menon, and Emily Tedards

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Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

In this paper, the authors try to size up the coming surge of financial distress, list the challenges it presents in the current environment, and analyze potential policy solutions. Overall, their analysis suggests that the two key issues will be court congestion and... View Details

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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

revolution and the results are fairly damning. The Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well Professor Amy Edmondson (PhDOB 1996) + More Info – Less Info We used to think of failure as the opposite of success. Now, we’re often torn... View Details

31 Oct 2018
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What is the Function of Fear in Leadership?

of others, the manager has control and the leader does not. The manager can motivate with rewards and punishments, while the leader must win hearts and minds. Therefore, fear is a part of management but not of leadership. A smart and... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

09 Nov 2023
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The No. 1 Character Trait You Will Need to Succeed in Business

they saw their failures as learning experiences that proved to be useful in the future. As the author and aviator Anne Morrow Lindbergh said: “It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.” At... View Details

21 Aug 2000
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Inside the OR: Disrupted Routines and New Technologies

Why did a group of Harvard Business School professors become interested in an innovative new heart surgery technique? It turns out that a hospital's operating room provides an excellent controlled arena from which to explore the role that... View Details

Keywords: by Hilah Geer

10 May 2021
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Who Has Potential? For Many White Men, It’s Often Other White Men

settings feel compelled to prove their worth, hide failures and mistakes, and avoid taking risks. But they are especially challenging for white women and people of color, whose talents are often overlooked or underestimated because they... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

13 Feb 2020
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Open Your Organization to Honest Conversations

encourage fruitful conversations, according to Beer and Eisenstat, leaders should: Focus the conversation on the issues that matter most. Develop questions for workers that tap into the heart of the strategic and cultural problems that... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

Runner-Up X-COR Therapeutics is the lower-flow CO2 removal cartridge that saves lung failure patients, treating COPD and other acute respiratory failures in critical care and outpatient settings. Business... View Details

01 Sep 2023
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Alumni and Faculty Books

Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well By Amy C. Edmondson, Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at Harvard Business School Atria Books We used to think of failure as the opposite of success. Now, we’re often torn... View Details

23 Oct 2013
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Overcoming Nervous Nelly

A colleague is out sick, and suddenly it's fallen on you to deliver a crucial client presentation. The saliva dries up in your mouth, your heart races. You briefly consider heading home sick yourself, before moving into the conference... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

analyze potential policy solutions. Overall, their analysis suggests that the two key issues will be court congestion and excess liquidation and failure of small firms. See Robin’s other research here , Benjamin’s other research here ,... View Details

01 Dec 2023
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Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

human beings have faced a litany of existential hurdles that individuals have struggled to overcome. The inability or unwillingness to address both the root causes and symptoms of poverty and inequality ranks among the greatest failures... View Details

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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

religious thought within the Protestant world. Understanding the origins of this relationship between religious thinking and economic thinking also provides insights into our current economic policy debate in the United States. Slides Deep Purpose: The View Details

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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

28, 2024 10:00-11:15 a.m. EDT Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well Professor Amy Edmondson (PHDOB 1996) + More Info - Video Recording – Less Info - Video Recording As the push to innovate intensifies in many industries, the “fail fast, fail often” rhetoric... View Details

Portrait Project

Valerie Galinskaya

instead of hopeful. I want to use my love of language to articulate the big questions — about economic freedom, happiness, motivation, resilience, triumph, and failure — and develop a meaningful dialogue. I want to help others expand the... View Details

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