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- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Right from the Start: Common Traps for the New Leader
because they are incapable or outdated, or even wish to mislead. Falling Prey To Successor Syndrome At greatest risk is the new leader hired as second-in-command with the expectation that success will lead to promotion to the top... View Details
Keywords: by Dan Ciampa & Michael D. Watkins
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Knowledge Coach
organization viable. As they put it, "Deep smarts are the engine of your organization. You cannot progress without them, and you will manage more effectively if you understand what they are, how they... View Details
Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
- 20 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Activist CEOs Are Rising Up—and Their Customers Are Listening
When former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz announced earlier this year he was thinking about running for president of the United States, it wasn’t a new idea. Past CEOs seeking the White House have included Carly Fiorina, Ross Perot, Herman Cain, Steve Forbes, Mitt... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 02 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Food Stamp Entrepreneurs: How Public Assistance Enables Business Bootstrapping
This means the distribution shifted: There are more firms overall because of the policy, but there are proportionally more incorporated firms. These were new ventures that people were serious enough about that they were View Details
- 24 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Is Your iPhone Turning You Into a Wimp?
tell anyone not to interact with those devices just before doing something that requires any kind of assertiveness," Bos says. "Mostly because people won't listen: They will do it anyway. But if you realize... View Details
- 02 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Digital Initiative Summit: Freeing Patient Data to Enable Innovation
mending information gap in health care. Majmudar, whose own company is working at the intersection of health data and wearables, pushed future innovators to focus on ideas that will have measurable impacts... View Details
- 25 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Incubators Take Notice: Your Entrepreneurs Are Networking with the Wrong People
engineering Koning’s research might be sobering to the cities and institutions that invest in startup-focused events and programs in the hopes of stirring innovation and prosperity. Even if a fledgling community emerges from the... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 25 Jun 2001
- Lessons from the Classroom
Machiavelli, Morals, and You
was "Fortune favors the bold," he noted. "He was thinking of Florence under the Medici in particular. He was saying, 'Look at people who were willing to take prudent risks, who were View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Sorting Out the Patent Craze
setting body are an important audience: If they don't feel satisfied with the body, there are typically many hundreds of other standard setting bodies they can bring the technology to. On the other hand, standard setting bodies must be... View Details
- 07 Aug 2019
- Research & Ideas
Big Infrastructure May Not Always Produce Big Benefits
Governments and policymakers often assume that infrastructure development is key to jumpstarting economic growth for citizens, an “If we build it they will come” chain reaction of new jobs, more efficient... View Details
- 19 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Your Customers: Use Them or Lose Them
"palatable" way to have customers pay for their own service, Frei said. Reduce Costs Not every industry, however, is set up so it can persuade customers to sacrifice more money for better service. Customers of most auto... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 20 Dec 2006
- Op-Ed
Investors Hurt by Dual-Track Tax Reporting
decipher from public filings. Their proposal, which will likely meet fierce opposition from accountants, lawyers, and managers, is a laudable first step in restoring sanity to U.S. corporate profit reporting. When the corporate tax was... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir Desai
- 29 Apr 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Use Personal Experience to Pick Winning Stocks
Let's face it: in most cases, the stock market knows what it's doing. With millions of people performing their homework and investing money in stocks they hope will pay off, it's hard for any one person to... View Details
- 04 Oct 2007
- What Do You Think?
Has Managerial Capitalism Peaked?
Summing Up The clear consensus of those responding to this month's column is that managerial capitalism, as John Bogle terms it, has peaked. But what will follow it is less clear. Many doubt that the form... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 31 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
State and Local Governments Peer Into the Pandemic Abyss
Cities and states are feeling the financial pain of this recession more quickly than in past downturns after pandemic-induced lockdowns swiftly decimated sales tax revenue that helps fund their operations. In fact, new research finds that... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 01 Sep 2003
- What Do You Think?
To Whom Should Boards be Accountable?
toward short-term thinking in general among corporate directors of U.S. firms. George's view brings to mind the story of a well regarded, widely read, influential regional newspaper that was forced into a... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 11 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
How Do You Grade Out as a Negotiator?
self-knowledge." After all, much of the "fog of negotiation" is due to the fact that we can never completely know the mind of the other person with whom we are negotiating. We... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 02 Dec 2019
- What Do You Think?
How Does a Company like Boeing Respond to Intense Competitive Pressure?
will take place.” The departure of Dennis Muilenburg, Boeing’s CEO, was announced on December 23. Boeing’s stock rallied on the news. Clearly, the departure of one person is... View Details
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
A Fast Start on Your New Job
about the first ninety days? Michael Watkins: Leaders, regardless of their level, are most vulnerable in their first few months in a new position. They lack detailed knowledge of the challenges they View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 Dec 2013
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Remember Nelson Mandela
impact. Professor Linda Hill, Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration and faculty chair of the HBS Leadership Initiative: As part of a January 2008 Harvard... View Details