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- 17 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Trial of Elizabeth Holmes: Visionary, Criminal, or Both?
billion. A 2015 Wall Street Journal exposé, which became the bestseller “Bad Blood,” led to several criminal and civil probes, and sanctions imposed by the Securities and Exchange Commission. Theranos dissolved in 2018. Prosecutors must... View Details
- 12 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 12
interactivity, inclusion, and intentionality. Intimacy shifts the focus from a top-down distribution of information to a bottom-up exchange of ideas. Organizational conversation is less corporate in tone and more casual. And it's less... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Apr 2022
- Op-Ed
Let’s Move Forward from COVID—Without Forgetting What We’ve Learned
The pandemic is winding down, and the world is moving toward an endemic approach. In the world's COVID-19 epicenter, New York City, businesses, restaurants, and Broadway have reopened now that 4 million New Yorkers have been vaccinated. Testing centers have begun to... View Details
Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and MaShon Wilson
- 06 Dec 2017
- What Do You Think?
Is It Time To Break Up Amazon, Apple, Facebook, or Google?
entity be able to thrive if denuded to some extent from the parent platform economies and technologies?” LockedOnLeaders asked how Google or FB could actually be broken up. “They own the virtual real estate, and I don’t see how you take... View Details
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Organizational Leadership Course | HBS Online
department, or organization. "I found the content of the course to be extremely informative and applicable to the real challenges of being a leader. I loved the frameworks and the case study model of the course, and I thought the course... View Details
- 20 Jan 2022
- Op-Ed
3 Steps to Help Companies Rebuild Trust During the Pandemic
including unintended impacts. Acknowledging these impacts demonstrates that leaders recognize that their decisions have had real consequences and are aware of what employees have endured, which is the first step in repairing trust. A... View Details
Keywords: by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta
- 02 Nov 2021
- Research & Ideas
Why COVID-19 Probably Killed More People Than We Realize
As the number of casualties from COVID-19 ballooned at an alarming rate last year, some feared that government officials were failing to report several coronavirus-related losses and the actual death toll was much higher worldwide. While... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 07 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
Who Pays For Wildfire and Hurricane Damage? Everyone.
New Mexico homeowners might think their inland location buffers them from the financial toll of climate change, but they’re still paying for climate-related property damage occurring in coastal states. New research finds that homeowners in New Mexico and other states... View Details
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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
Why Startups Fail Professor Thomas R. Eisenmann (MBA 1983, DBA 1998) + More Info – Less Info Most startups fail. About two-thirds of venture capital investments do not earn a positive return. Surprisingly, late-stage startups fail at the same high View Details
- 04 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Maersk’s Journey to Decarbonize Shipping
production, our group visited Maersk, one of the world’s largest shipping companies with 707 vessels and Denmark’s largest company ($81.5B in revenue in 2022), 206th on the Fortune global 500 rankings. Maersk was at the epicenter of recent supply chain turbulence, with... View Details
- 20 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Family Business: Survival’s Secret Sauce
faster than your family or business consumes them. Of course, growing families and businesses are both good at consuming assets. For many family companies we have researched, their sustainable real growth View Details
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Failure Analysis
real organizations, we review a few case study examples below. Examples Of Systematically Analyzing Failure Edmondson et al. report how Julie Morath, the Chief Operating Officer at the Minneapolis Children's Hospital, implemented... View Details
Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon
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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information
Consistent with the long-term goal of preserving the endowment’s value in real terms (after inflation) and generating a predictable stream of available income, the University’s targeted annual payout ratio is 5.0 to 5.5 percent of market... View Details
- 12 Jan 2023
- News
‘Debiasing’ Debt with Data
repaid in 98.2 percent of instances. “That’s an implied default rate of about 1.8 percent,” Ballard says. For comparison, one SBA loan program included in the data had a trailing 10-year default rate of 17.6... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 17 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why a Blended Workforce May Be Key to Lasting Competitive Advantage
In recent years, companies have been anxious about the lack of skilled workers to fill pivotal jobs. But then came COVID-19 and a subsequent recession. The ensuing business turmoil and record-high unemployment may have temporarily distracted companies from their... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller
- 18 Feb 2020
- Blog Post
A Vision of Love@HBS in 2020
professors, who began cold calling us to scare us out of having distracting personal discussions during class. On this foundation, we fortified our relationship with trust and (often brutal) transparency. Finding someone willing to be View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
My First Job
the rest of the employees were safely leaving the building and that the fire was contained. I learned that real leadership means running toward the fire and being concerned about the safety of others before your own. —John Fees (MBA 1999)... View Details
- 04 Feb 2014
- What Do You Think?
Has Listening Become a Lost Art?
people feel they can't afford." That is why, she continued, it is so important to have real friends with good memory who can be our sounding boards. "Listening to others works better if you can show empathy and put yourself in the other... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 03 Jul 2008
- What Do You Think?
Are Followers About to Get Their Due?
followership dynamics are really one and the same. Those who lead in one instance may follow in another." As C. J. Cullinane put it, "... to be a great leader you first have to be at some time in your career a great follower." Jeremy Vogan added,... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 25 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Feeling Stuck? Getting Past Impasse
pressures? A: Impasse is a familiar experience for them. Business professionals, particularly if they are working in dynamic markets, will be, perhaps at a rate more frequent than most people, exposed to situations where their jobs are... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace