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- 01 Jun 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is Stakeholder Management Facing New Headwinds?
concluded that this thinking gained momentum after the scandalous failure of organizations like WorldCom and Enron 20 years ago. These companies supposedly were led and managed for the primary benefit of shareholders (and the top executives themselves). My View Details
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by James Heskett
- 18 Sep 2019
- Op-Ed
WeWork—The IPO That Shouldn’t?
which Softbank previously invested in WeWork. The ultimate lesson: Any corporate leader with the intent of going public must let the company, not the individual, be the focus of attention. One needs to establish the corporate mission,...
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Should You Pursue the Certificate of Management Excellence?
Intent, in which you explain your reason for pursuing the certificate. HBS Executive Education ">program advisors can provide you with the Statement of Intent form and answer any questions you might have about the CME. They can also help...
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- 12 Nov 2018
- Blog Post
Student Portraits - Armed Forces Alumni Association
intention of commissioning. I just wanted to do something challenging and different from the normal path. After my first year, I realized that every single cadet I admired and respected at the school had View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
even if it doesn’t, she has no intention of backing down. “It would be nice to get public subsidies, and I’m still hoping to get some because the project needs it,” she says. “But I’m committed to it regardless.” Standing next to the...
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- 10 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Do You Have Change Fatigue?
get heard. Unclear intent is another problem. A change effort at Xerox foundered amid mutual recrimination and finger-pointing when an economic downturn revealed a lack of clarity about who was really in charge. Change leaders must...
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by Nick Morgan
- 11 Mar 2021
- News
Leading with Heart
learner's mindset and learn, unlearn, and relearn. And the third one is about courage. Of course, the courage to articulate what you believe in. But I would say even more importantly, it's the courage to have the humility to listen to other people with the View Details
- 10 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot
21 years. Nowitzki refined his skills by breaking them down into their component parts and focusing intently on the elements that needed improvement—not just practicing jump shots, but watching videos and breaking down the movements and...
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- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Generation Next
"performance-oriented culture" to the 117-year-old firm. "No one," she says, "wants to take on people who've worked [at the company] for 25 years." Why Nisa could challenge entrenched employees and the historical norms at Godrej underscores the unique situation facing...
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- 13 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Consumer Appeal of Underdog Branding
purchase intentions and consumers' real choices. “Brand biographies can be used to avoid anticorporate consumer backlash and mitigate the 'curse of success.' ” Because the underdog narrative is an underexplored topic in consumer research,...
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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information
individual donors, corporations, and reunion classes; and cash transfers by the School to the endowment reserve. The School budgets the use of endowment distributions to support operations in accordance with the donors’ intentions and the...
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- 19 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?
while “applied” research sets out specifically to address a practical problem, with the intent of solving it. That poses a potential dilemma for scholars who want to influence business practice and achieve the requisite journal...
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- 03 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Is the Future of MBA Education?
with several years at the firm who was intent on a career in consulting whether an MBA would be valuable for his future, answered, "Definitely not." In the past, deans and business school faculty had a ready response to questions about...
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Revisiting the Meaning of Leadership
By: Joel Podolny, Rakesh Khurana and Marya Lisl Hill-Popper
Podolny, Joel, Rakesh Khurana, and Marya Lisl Hill-Popper. "Revisiting the Meaning of Leadership." Research in Organizational Behavior 26 (2004).
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Ideas That Stick
CHIP AND DAN HEATH: What makes messages memorable? Photo COURTESY THE HEATH FAMILY Everyone “knows” that strangers have tampered with children’s candy on Halloween. But actual examples of this are hard to come by. It is, however, an idea that sticks, as Dan Heath (MBA...
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- 09 Dec 2022
- News
The Best Public Speakers Put the Audience First
- 12 PM – 1 PM EST, 05 Mar 2019
- Webinars: Career
Starting a New Position? How to Ensure You're Successful
About to begin a new role at a new company or one within your existing organization? Inflection Point Partners' Matt Spielman (MBA 1999) shares the five-step process that he has put into practice with executives across the globe to help ensure success in those first...
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- 28 Jul 2023
- News