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- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well By Amy C. Edmondson, Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at Harvard Business School Atria Books We used to think of failure as the opposite of success. Now, we’re often torn... View Details
- 04 Jan 2016
- News
Getting ‘Them’ Out of the Equation
dialogue. “I’ve been involved in an organization called Young Presidents Organization, or YPO, for international CEOs. Shortly after September 11, a few of us said, ‘This is crazy! We have members on opposite sides of all these conflicts.... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Creating a more just and celebrated multicultural world
a celebration of togetherness, diversity, and understanding, just the opposite of a civil riot. “Social change is embedded in our business model,” says Endline. “Every unit we sell impacts a farmer, a plant worker, or an artist. It’s a... View Details
- 11 Jan 2018
- News
Taking the High Road
lack of exposure. What you have to do is ignore what they say and watch what they do, because the opposite of that is a lot of people know how to be extremely politically correct and have no positive intent whatsoever. “So, let's just... View Details
- 10 Oct 2018
- News
Working with a Giver’s Spirit
will try to maximize every encounter for themselves, right? The question they ask is, What’s in it for me? whereas givers will ask the opposite question, How can I help this person? Not for any gain but just because it’s the right thing... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Research Brief: A $1.6 Trillion Rainy-Day Fund?
companies. It stood to reason that private firms, which tend to be highly leveraged, would hoard even more cash as a precaution. But according to a first-of-its-kind study by Joan Farre-Mensa an assistant professor in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit, the exact... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 02 May 2013
- News
Gil Kemp, MBA 1976 & Barbara Guss Kemp
HBS is the opposite of complacent. The School could coast on its reputation, but instead it con¬tinues to work to improve itself. The fellow¬ship program has been terrifically important in giving great students more choices, and the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
The End of the Noncompete Clause
Johnson say the clauses stifle innovation and hamstring employees. Currently, only three states largely ban noncompetes: California, North Dakota, and Oklahoma. Opposition groups in other states are working on several fronts. If they... View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Audit: War & Peace
QUESTION: “How did you ensure the talks didn’t fail because of internal strife?” —Alexandra Baranowski (MBA 2025) “I had to handle that with a lot of cold blood and not engage the opposition in every argument. I had to maintain the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Last Look
pennies. The game (called rayuela in Spanish, Henriquez points out) is a competition to see who can toss a coin closest to a wall or line (in this case, the opposite bricks lining the pathway) without hitting or crossing it. The winner... View Details
- 06 May 2008
- News
Small World? Read Nil about It
only vaguely aware of, the larger world. Today in the United States, I see the opposite happening, a closing-off of the world, in this the most media-intensive society in the world. If by “globalization,” we infer engagement with the rest... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Alumni Author: Thomas H. Fischgrund (MBA ’80)
under $100,000, 80 percent went to public schools, 25 percent were Asian, and 90 percent came from two-parent households. What are some of the surprising things about these kids? They are multidimensional. I thought they would be very focused on academics or... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Realities of the Refugee Crisis
How as a country should we deal with diversity? And I think this is actually a really good conversation for Turkey to be having. Hopefully it will be allowed to continue. GT: In some ways, exactly the opposite is happening in Europe.... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
What I Do: Minnie Ingersoll (MBA 2002)
it’s consistent from company to company.” Her new COO role at Code for America, a San Francisco–based nonprofit dedicated to improving civic tech and “strengthening America’s basic social safety net,” has proven this maxim true. “I actually own kind of the View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
The Bookshelf: Try As One Might
understand the necessary risks and how to manage them. Cultivating doubt becomes fundamental to that: We have to treat what we think is true as a hypothesis and doubt the things we’ve accepted as true. Because the opposite of true is not... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Strange Bedfellows
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 introduced,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Research Brief: If State Pensions Clean Up Their Books, Who Pays?
to a new working paper coauthored by Lecturer Abigail Allen, the opposite is often true. When the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) proposed stricter public pension accounting standards in 2012, many state governments balked.... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
The First Scrum
violating all the rules. Johnstone: Somebody's standing in the opposition line, and this 250-pound former American football player goes ramming straight in and knocks him over. Well, you're not allowed to do that in rugby. You can't knock... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Linda B. Kanner: All in the Family
"counterphobic move." Punch cards and mainframes were the technological order of the day when she enrolled at HBS, and a successful career in marketing -- including top-level positions at J. Baker Inc. and Bank of New England -- had required little direct experience... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 04 Jun 2008
- News
Whistle While You Work
Evil Empire once again, you won’t hear jukebox music that celebrates work and jobs. In fact, it’s a slam dunk you’ll hear the opposite (e.g., “Sixteen Tons,” “Get a Job,” “Workin’ for the Man,” “Take This Job and Shove It” .your favorite... View Details