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- Portrait Project
Omar A. Abou-Sayed
for me: a chance to get past the fear of failure and commit to a dream for myself that I can pursue with all my heart and energy. And it has made my one precious life truly a wild one, which, I think, is the... View Details
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Zachary Surak
My palms were sweaty. My heart raced. A million questions flew through my mind. Did I do well enough to get in? Would they even want someone like me? I was about to meet my high school guidance counselor to begin crafting a path to my... View Details
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VBHCD Initiative - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
kidney disease Diabetes Congestive heart failure Care transition patients to reduce frequency of readmission Primary and psychiatric care for patients with intellectual and behavioral disabilities Behavioral... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Books
The Heart of Change by John P. Kotter and Dan S. Cohen Searching for a Corporate Savior by Rakesh Khurana Making Markets: How Firms Can Design and Profit from Online Auctions and Exchanges by Ajit Kambil and Eric Van Heck Leading Terms:... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: Capital Architect
opposing spiritual identities and ethical codes. Ethics and spirit are all too often overlooked and underestimated in our digital-driven, metrics-defined, “quant” world—yet they are at the heart of it all. When regimes turn to being more... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
in ways that are easily defined and rewarded by society,” says Steven Carpenter (MBA 2004). “But as you get older, you learn that the line between success and failure is razor thin, oftentimes invisible.” Currently executive-in-residence... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Three Steps for Crisis Prevention
to actually mobilizing the resources required to stop it. We term this the "RPM process": recognition, prioritization, mobilization. Failure at any of these three stages will leave a company vulnerable to potentially devastating... View Details
Keywords: by Michael D. Watkins & Max H. Bazerman
- 06 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
Socioeconomic Inclusion at HBS: Alexis Jackson (MBA 2021)
financial aid offer, the decision then became one she described as “heart versus head”—her heart was set on HBS but her financial aid package was less than those from other schools. “From my college major to my first job, every decision... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Where Are the Innovators in Health Care?
had difficulty obtaining peer-reviewed government research funds for nearly a decade. Third parties’ lock-hold on reimbursement punishes innovators. When the Duke University Medical Center’s innovative new program for people with congestive View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019
investment. Detailing a half-century of stock market hits and misses, often with brutal honesty, the book relays lessons learned from both the crucible of failure and the elation of success. The Disruption Mindset: Why Some Organizations... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Better Mousetraps: At Product Design Fair, Student Ideas Get Real
Internet. And yes, Carraway said her team had its share of failure in the process. "After we conducted our market interviews, we realized that some of our questions were leading and that we hadn't thought to talk to people while they were... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Alumni Books
essence, doing the right thing. Each major character in the epic embodies a moral failing or virtue. Das compares their successes and failures with those of prominent contemporary players in economics, business, and politics and finds... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Digital Health Care: Empowering Consumers
symptoms of diseases like diabetes or congestive heart failure. Before the implantable congestive heart failure monitor, for example, we had very poor diagnostic tools to alert... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 25 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018
operations. Product failures are, therefore, likely to impact firms’ subsequent innovation activities. Using 13 years of Food and Drug Administration data, we examine the effects of firm and competitor medical device recalls on subsequent... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Books
Business School Press) Risk taking is an integral building block in developing organizational learning. IBM founder Thomas J. Watson, Sr., understood the value of creating an environment in which errors -- and even failures -- are... View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean
- 16 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 16, 2015
Business Review You Need an Innovation Strategy By: Pisano, Gary P. Abstract—Why is it so hard to build and maintain the capacity to innovate? The reason is not simply a failure to execute but a failure to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
Foreign Multinationals in the U.S.: A Rocky Road
A: Many of the case studies in the volume identified the issue of control at the heart of the management problems experienced by foreign firms in the United States. For considerable periods of time, European firms such as Unilever, Shell,... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston & Martha Lagace
- 05 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Vanguard Corporation
being values-based, led by principles and a sense of purpose at the heart of the enterprise. They are dealing with the crisis of capitalism by offering a new and different model. Q: Why do we need a new corporate model? A: There have been... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Oct 2016
- News
Adding Muscle to the Fight Against Disease
Cytokinetics, Inc., a South San Francisco–based company that focuses on treatments for debilitating diseases that compromise muscle function, such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), heart failure, and spinal muscular atrophy.... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Avoiding a Succession Crisis
begin with, some CEOs find the prospect of succession downright depressing. For them it means failure or organizational death. They love the job; it is their identity. They think of building a cohort of potential leaders, not as the path... View Details