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2009
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Let Me Explain: Eugene G. Fubini's Life in Defense of America

There is no necessary relationship between fame and power, and great influence is often wielded in willful obscurity. So it was with the irascible, indomitable Eugene Fubini. A physics prodigy who fled Italy when the fascists came to power, his searing intelligence and... View Details

Keywords: Biography; Personal Development and Career; National Security; United States

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2011
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The Institutional Logic of Great Global Firms

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Theories of the firm have been dominated by a legacy of ideas from early industrialization that pose zero-sum opposition between capital and labor (or capital and nearly everything else), differentiating the economy from society and often posing irreconcilable... View Details

Keywords: Economy; Capital; Globalized Firms and Management; Labor; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Practice; Conflict of Interests; Social Issues; Theory

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February 2016
Teaching Note

Akın Öngör's Journey

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone

The case of Akın Öngör's Journey describes a highly successful former CEO with stellar leadership skills, who transformed a bank in Turkey into one of the world's best, steered it to contribute to his country's social agenda, influenced business practices of other... View Details

Keywords: Leadership; Change Management; Social Entrepreneurship; Business and Community Relations; Turkey

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October 2012 (Revised January 2014)
Case

Building Brand Infosys

By: Rohit Deshpandé and Vidhya Muthuram

Infosys Limited was India's second largest exporter of IT services with annual revenues of $7 billion and a market capitalization of nearly $26 billion in 2012. The company, headquartered in Bangalore, India, had built its reputation as the Indian IT bellwether whose... View Details

Keywords: Marketing; Information Technology; Information Technology Industry; India

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May 2009 (Revised June 2011)
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Going to the Oracle: Goldman Sachs, September 2008

By: Clayton S. Rose and David Lane

On September 23, 2008, in the midst of an historic crisis in the U.S. financial markets, Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway invested $5 billion in Goldman Sachs. Goldman CEO, Lloyd Blankfein, said: "We are pleased that given our longstanding relationship, Warren... View Details

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Financial Crisis; Capital Structure; Financial Liquidity; Financial Markets; Investment; Performance Capacity; Financial Services Industry; United States

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HBS Working Knowledge – Harvard Business School Faculty Research

George 24 JAN 2024 | Op-Ed Aggressive cost cutting and rocky leadership changes have eroded the culture at Boeing, a company once admired for its engineering rigor, says Bill George. What will it take to repair the reputational damage... View Details

03 Oct 2023
HBS Case

Layoffs Can Be Bad Business: 5 Strategies to Consider Before Cutting Staff

have to be this way. “If companies I know and admire are doing this, it can’t be that bad, or else they wouldn’t do it.” Layoffs are an example of “hope triumphing over science,” says Sandra Sucher, the MBA Class of 1966 Professor of... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Telecommunications; Technology; Financial Services; Manufacturing

17 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

What the Stockdale Paradox Tells Us About Crisis Leadership

be.” — Admiral James Stockdale. In August, while most developed nations’ rates of COVID-19 infections are falling, the rate in the United States continues to rise. States that had reopened or begun to, such as California and Texas, have... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams

The Money of Invention: How Venture Capital Creates New Wealth

When the economy was booming and dot-coms were flying high, venture capitalists were admired as impresarios of innovation. Then the market tanked, start-ups fizzled, and those same deal-makers were rebuked as predators out for a quick score. So... View Details

03 Oct 2023
Research Event

Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips

internet exposure, Instagram followers, admiration of strangers. You fill in the blanks. You know what I'm talking about, worldly rewards, right? But that's wrong. The real formula for satisfaction that endures is all the things that you... View Details

Keywords: by HBS Staff

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Rafaella Mazza

feed the cows. Who is one person from your life that you admire the most today? My mom. She has had a very rough life but always showed unconditional love. She also always prioritized my education. I would not be here if not for her.... View Details

11 Aug 2022
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When Parents Tell Kids to ‘Work Hard,’ Do They Send the Wrong Message?

“Work hard, and you’ll be successful.” How often do we tell children that the key to success is putting forth effort? That advice might seem like admirable inspiration to encourage kids to work hard as they pursue their goals. However,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education

26 Aug 2002
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High-Stakes Decision Making: The Lessons of Mount Everest

to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past seems like an admirable goal. Naturally, some observers attribute the poor performance of others to human error of one kind or another. They blame the firm's leaders for making critical... View Details

Keywords: by Michael A. Roberto

05 Jan 2024
Blog Post

Meet The HBS African American Student Union

exposure to VCs, mentors, and advisors. Held at the end of February every year, the conference and pitch competition serves as a culmination of our club's Black History Month programming. “My first exposure to AASU was in 2020 through the H. Naylor Fitzhugh conference.... View Details

12 May 2021
Book

The Hard Truth About Being a CEO

looks like,” he says. Here, Fubini explains five key pieces of advice for business leaders. 1. Avoid half-truths and misperceptions “When you are an advisor to an organization, as I was for three decades,” he says, “this is one that always seems to be relevant. In the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Adrian Obleton

your life that you admire the most today? My mother, Stephanie Allen, is the person I admire most. When my sister and I were growing up, she worked as a lunch lady making almost no money so that she could be... View Details

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Soltan Bryce

“broad and deep” “The leaders I admired were HBS alums,” Soltan says. “It was such a clear choice – HBS creates the kind of leadership I respect. The virtue of the general management approach is that it allows you to see broad and deep.”... View Details

05 Dec 2018
Research & Ideas

Why Managers Should Reveal Their Failures

that comes with envy and move people toward admiration instead,” she says. “One way to do that is to acknowledge your struggles or shortcomings.” Brooks co-wrote the February 2018 working paper, Mitigating Malicious Envy: Why Successful... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 Mar 2024
News

In Harmony

it, I found myself admiring the energy and the anger at the world’s injustices that come through in the writing. I turned 60 last year and can’t hope to recapture that.” Anger is not a word that comes to mind in meeting Kim today—a... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographs by Jun Michael Park; private equity; fiction; financial crisis; leadership; Korea