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Educating Leaders - Georges F. Doriot:Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Margaret Rudkin, founder of Pepperidge Farms; and John Deutsch, chemist and provost of MIT, and later Deputy Secretary of Defense and Director of the CIA. For fieldwork assignments, teams of eight to ten students studied and consulted... View Details
- 16 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How to Compete Like a Judo Strategist
stay a leader," as Donna Dubinsky (CEO of Handspring, Inc.) says. Once a smaller or weaker firm starts to play defense, the game is usually over. So "play offense and play to win," is the advice of Intuit founder Scott Cook. "If you play defense,... View Details
Keywords: by David B. Yoffie & Mary Kwak
- 14 May 2014
- News
(Re)moving the Needle
and the bar is set very high in the medical field. Third, it has to have defensible intellectual property. The timelines are stretched so much that it's hard to raise investment capital if there isn't the potential of a substantial reward... View Details
- 27 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
Meet the PRIDE Club
Washington, DC and London offices, where he worked in the aerospace & defense and retail practices. A native of New Rochelle, New York, he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2015 with a B.A. in Near Eastern Languages and... View Details
- 24 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Finance in Africa: Health, Self-Interest, Avoided Future Cost
But, in contrast, it appears that bad events like droughts or floods may turn the curve very far down bad cost events. What if one invests ahead in defenses like raising bridges, expanding drainage systems, planting different crops?... View Details
- 09 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 9, 2016
the leading proxy advisor Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS). Lastly, the case discusses the critique and defense of the board's role and is designed to allow for a discussion of the causes and consequences of the cyber breach and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Disruption: The Art of Framing
When we perceive a competitor's groundbreaking innovation as a threat, we may act defensively and hastily. But if we see that same event as an opportunity, our response might be more deliberate and unhurried. As a leader, how you frame... View Details
Keywords: by Clark Gilbert & Joseph L. Bower
- 31 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The New CEO’s Wrong Message
defensiveness in colleagues and subordinates. Second-guessing a senior manager can demoralize and demotivate not only that person but others around him, while eroding his authority and confidence. What's more, the need to overrule a... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Christensen and Vernon Remembered
highest honors bestowed on a foreigner. In 1952, while acting director of the Office of Economic Defense and Trade Policy, he was in charge of controlling the trade of the Soviet-bloc countries and promoting trade in the free world. In... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Up Against The Firewall
policies, and procedures to detect if anyone successfully intrudes, and then to know how to respond. Security is not just firewalls.” Indeed, a reliance on technological defenses can breed a false sense of security, since constant... View Details
- 28 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
traditional means such as raises and team outings. Uncertainty around the pandemic itself, and its effect on industries and governments, have increased people’s comprehension and defensive drives. The implicit, almost unconscious ways we... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 08 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
traditional means such as raises and team outings. Uncertainty around the pandemic itself, and its effect on industries and governments, have increased people’s comprehension and defensive drives. The implicit, almost unconscious ways we... View Details
- 13 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Turning a Moment into a Movement: How the Anti-Racism Fund Co-Founders are Fighting Racism and Encouraging Other Companies to Do Their Part
Legal Defense and Educational Fund, The Loveland Foundation, Reclaim the Block, and The Bail Project.” The GoFundMe page for the newly formed Anti-Racism Fund raised $40,000 in less than 12 hours, with donations quickly reaching over... View Details
- 17 Jul 2000
- What Do You Think?
Where Is the Microsoft Board?
Microsoft caused by (2) a defense personally led by Bill Gates and (3) by the failure of the company's board to provide counsel. In the case of a high-tech company where significant ownership rests in the hands of management (e.g... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 20 Mar 2019
- News
Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire
in a World on Fire. Opening remarks from Alan Horn (MBA 1971), chairman of Walt Disney Studios and chair of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) Board of Trustees, underscored the night’s charge: “There is an opportunity, if not a... View Details
- 29 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 29, 2015
evolved in those markets. New business processes had to be created from scratch as a network originally intended for research and military defense had to deal with network interconnectivity, the needs of commercial users, and a host of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 28, 2015
inventors. However, the model also shows that as NPEs become effective at bringing frivolous lawsuits, the resulting defense costs inefficiently crowd out some firms that, absent NPEs, would produce welfare-enhancing innovations without... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 29 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degrees World of Inventors
categorize as trust or litigate. Since I am an engineer and not a lawyer, I fall into the trust camp, but there are obviously minimal legal defenses that you absolutely have to build. If things become overly litigious, however, it really... View Details
- 09 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
A Simple Way for Restaurant Inspectors to Improve Food Safety
Restaurant inspectors can be the last line of defense between you and moldy bread. (HighLaZ) Simple tweaks to the schedules of food safety inspectors could result in hundreds of thousands of currently overlooked violations being... View Details
- 30 Nov 2018
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?
Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system... View Details