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- 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
- 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
- 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 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Price Is Right
to pay anything they want for a product, a rational consumer should pay nothing, and that’s not a business model anyone can sustain. So how much do people tend to pay? First, most consumers pay more than zero, but beyond that our data... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Ideas: Faculty Research Online
What Drives Supply Chain Behavior? Surprise! Managers are not always rational decision-makers. In this interview, Assistant Professor Noel Watson and Rogelio Oliva discuss how human behavior affects supply chain coordination. Health Care... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Ink
Rational Blueprint for Success, by William N. Thorndike Jr. (Photos: Harvard Business School) “The author, a practicing physician and professor at Harvard’s Medical School and School of Public Health, argues that end-of-life quality is an... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Anand G. Mahindra, MBA 1981
that a collaborative management style in the real world would be equally effective and essential.” ADVICE TO STUDENTS “There is no substitute for good, old-fashioned planning and analysis. You can’t rationalize excessive use of ‘gut feel’... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Honoring HBS’s Organization Men
sole influence was rational self-interest. “We have acquisitive and social instincts. It’s not all or nothing, it’s both — that’s what makes us such interesting creatures.” Related Links A Modern-Day Classic View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Alumni News | Bookshelf: A Manager's Responsibility in the 21st Century
rational decisions whose results are understood to be part of society. What is good for General Motors, they recognize, is not necessarily good for society. —Sean Silverthorne View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
The Baby Business
parents and others are happy because somebody’s taking a rational look at all this. But there’s always a tendency for people to say, “You’re telling me I bought my child, and that’s a horrible thing to say.” — Garry Emmons View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
How to Spur Prosperity
LERNER: The federal government lacks a clear, rational process for spending $40 billion to boost the nation’s clean-tech industry. Across the decades and around the globe, governments have tried various approaches to kick-starting... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Get Ready for Saudi Oil Shock
been at for the last 50 years. It starts opening doors to rationalize a new economy that isn’t as dependent on oil as the economy we created. What steps should we take now to prepare for an oil shortage? You’ve really got to go to a sort... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Books
had built IBM to last,” explains Tedlow. (The company earned $7.6 billion in 2003.) In The Watson Dynasty, Tedlow shows in vivid colors the impact that emotion, rather than solely rational calculation, can have on business leadership. View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
The Class of 1977
then methodically proceeded to rationalize P&G's cost structure, sold some businesses, acquired Clairol, and delivered upside revenues and earnings surprises within months. Rick and A.G. are two shining examples of how capable company... View Details
Keywords: Desmond Wong
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Cleveland Global Alumni Conference a Sold-Out Success
said, in some cases even enabling patients to treat themselves. Resistance to such a scenario is strong in the rules-based world of medicine, he conceded. "Disruptive innovation has been ignored or opposed by the leading institutions in their industries for perfectly... View Details