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- 10 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Legacy of Boaty McBoatface: Beware of Customers Who Vote
public. Boaty blowback highlights the potential danger of giving consumers the power to vote, even though customer engagement is a primary goal of almost every social media strategy. The problem: Even though NERC never explicitly promised... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- What Do You Think?
Thinking Slow: An Argument for Bureaucracy?
objective observer, non executive board members) serves as an effective moderator of (thinking fast) on the part of executives. The relationship between the Independent Non-Executive Chairman of a Board and the CEO is particularly important." Some saw a View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 19 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 5/5
street as fear instantly consumed your eyes. I saw as you tried to distance yourself from him because of the color of his skin and condition of his clothing. The fact that you consider someone dangerous purely based on the way they look... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Digital Health Care: Empowering Consumers
very important marker for COVID-19. When they debuted, smart watches seemed like sort of silly pieces of technology people used to count 10,000 steps, but they are becoming very important in giving early warning signs about dangerous... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Rx for Too Big to Fail
last summer, by the House in legislation passed in December, and by Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT) in his original draft bill. While the ultimate legislation must be even tougher than what has been proposed thus far, the true danger now is... View Details
- 16 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
Transitions of Power Are Difficult. What Joe Biden and Other Incoming Leaders Need to Know.
a human tendency but not an inevitability. Leaders can do something about this. When people belong to more than one overlapping group (what is technically called pluralism), it’s harder to put “others” into a box and categorically hate them all. Getting stuck in silos,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 29
crisis, several commentators concluded that the continuing expansion of risk measurement is dysfunctional (Taleb, 2007; Power, 2009). This paper asks whether the expansion of measurement-based risk management in banking is as inevitable and as View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
What’s Next for Japan
competitive Japan, he said. But an undercurrent throughout the post-war period emphasized a second, noncompetitive Japan, as well, according to Porter. "Consumer packaged goods, chemicals, agriculture, software, and aircrafts were flat out. That was a View Details
Keywords: by Hilah Geer
- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
plans-epitomized by the ubiquitous 401(k)-which transfer the investment risk from the company to the employee. With that transfer has come a dangerous shift in investment focus, argues Nobel Laureate Robert C. Merton. Traditional pension... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 29 Apr 2025
- News
Challenge Accepted
but a little bit of paranoia about danger and displacement and disruption and dramatic change is healthy in keeping people on their toes because again, you’re humble. You listen to small signals. You need to really be constantly thinking... View Details
- 18 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 18, 2008
and regulations in exchange for reduced sanctions. We find that facilities are more likely to self-disclose if they were recently subjected to one of several different enforcement measures and if they were provided with immunity from prosecution for self-disclosed... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
called Edelnor that was in danger of becoming insolvent within months. Fernando had six months to restructure the company before it would become completely insolvent, and his headache was compounded by the fact that the process for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path out of Polarization
calamity, world war—that there was a collective, societal, postwar understanding that what we had done in the 1920s and 1930s was so dangerous and so harmful, we just needed to agree to live in the center of the political spectrum. The... View Details
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
and cool-headed they were, as was typical of men in other dangerous workplaces, platform workers readily acknowledged their physical limitations, publicly admitted their mistakes, and openly attended to their own and others' feelings.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Football Stars Debate ‘The Social Capital of the Savvy Athlete’
nonprofits. Twitter's Tug Sherman noted that while Twitter can be a valuable way to learn about potential philanthropic investments, it also can be dangerously overwhelming. If he responds to one inquiry on Twitter but not another,... View Details
- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
inflation nor deflation, a remarkable number of new banks have appeared, the top income tax rate is 35%, and the S&P 500 stands at 976. Because the world has become more dangerous as well as poorer, everyone looks to the United States... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 May 2018
- News
What I Learned from Visiting All 54 African Countries
of dangerously close to the job I left? Tapon: Yeah, there's certain things like that. I agree. It sometimes can get in that danger zone where I'm like this is becoming a job that I regret. But a job, to me,... View Details
- 19 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018
optimal action paves the way for incidental learning, while being dogmatic creates a barrier. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54567 Harvard Business School Case 717-035 Turkey and Russia: Dangerous... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Oct 2013
- Op-Ed
Response to Readers: Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
emissions. Perhaps, the opposite is also true. Are things that were once seen as quite dangerous now potentially relatively safe as result of new understandings and innovations? My own concerns about climate change have led me to put... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
partnerships to personal relationships. She documents how we often silence our differences, believing it is the best way to preserve relationships and get work done as expeditiously as possible, and yet, these very acts of silence build, creating a View Details