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- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
the government took so long to move could have been as simple as structure. “There are lessons to be gleaned from how the war on terrorism played out, post–9/11, where there were all these fiefdoms that sprang up,” says Josh Lefkowitz...
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Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 01 Apr 1999
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Spirit at Work
at the end of his Moral and Spiritual Inquiry Through Literature course, Scotty McLennan goes one step further. "I ask students to think about the lesson of Tolstoy's character Iván Ilych, who realizes that what he has been missing is...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Apr 2002
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Dot Vertigo
lessons from companies such as Cisco and drugstore.com and powerhouses such as Charles Schwab, Merrill Lynch, and Ford that have networked their organizations to a strategic advantage. The book ends with a discussion dispelling what Nolan...
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- 01 Mar 2011
- News
James McNerney Jr.
leap that we’d hoped for, and it will still keep us far ahead of our competition. It’s the best-selling airplane of all time during the preproduction phase. And we learned a lot of things that we won’t do next time. Do some of those View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
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World Class Learning
At the conclusion of the session, McCormick inquires, "So, how did this case method discussion feel to you?" "Frustrating," comes one response. "There are so many ideas and not enough opportunities to discuss or express them," says another. "There isn't one View Details
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Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Strategy is About People
points to a key lesson learned. “Strategy in an educational institution is in part about institutional mission and institutional objectives, and how you get to those,” Light explains. “But it’s also about what’s best for the people,...
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- 01 Jun 2008
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Greed, Gullibility, and Optimism
that up to 2 million people will lose their homes. The good news is that more recent proposals to license mortgage brokers and to require more disclosure by credit rating agencies and investment bankers will reduce the likelihood that we will make the same mistakes in...
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- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Banking on HBS
guaranteeing long-term debt from the market against government contractual obligations. "A big lesson I took away from the course," Shapiro says, "is the importance of gaining internal acceptance for specific change, even when almost...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Books
Business with Minimal Risk by Bob Reiss with Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (foreword by Howard H. Stevenson) (The Free Press) Entrepreneurs are not risk seekers; they are risk managers, risk sharers, and risk minimizers. This is a central lesson...
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- 01 Dec 2020
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Bounce Back from a Blunder
the assurance that you’ll share the hard truths quickly. “It ultimately catalyzed them to have more trust in me because they knew I’d be honest.” Victoria Montgomery Brown is CEO and cofounder of the digital media company Big Think. Her new book is Digital Goddess: The...
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- 01 Dec 2008
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Innovation as P&G’s Key
Charan (MBA ’65, DBA ’67) team up to show how P&G has reconnected with customers and primed a sustainable innovation engine. Charan contributes cases and lessons from companies he has worked with, including IDEO, Nokia, Shimano,...
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- 01 Mar 2015
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3-Minute Briefing: Angela Ruggiero (MBA 2014)
to evolve and grow. Right now I think I’m in an ideal place—applying management lessons from work to my duties for the IOC and Women’s Sports Foundation and using my experience in sports at the largest hedge fund in the world.
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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
lessons or definitive answers. But somewhere in the two-day span we spend talking with villagers, sharing their food, and sleeping in their homes, perceptions shift. It’s one thing to read a newspaper article about the impact of...
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- 24 Apr 2014
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'Paying it forward' by helping current students succeed
John Phelan (MBA 1990), a partner at MSD Capital, talks about providing opportunities for others, and lessons he learned at HBS. (Published April 2014)
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- 01 Jun 2011
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Faculty Books
Economics of Crime: Lessons for and from Latin America edited by Rafael Di Tella, Sebastian Edwards, and Ernesto Schargrodsky (University of Chicago Press) Although crime rates in Latin America are among the highest in the world,...
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- 01 Jun 2007
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New HBS, KSG Joint Degree
program,” said KSG professor Robert Stavins, who cochaired the Joint-Degree Faculty Task Force with HBS professor Carl Kester, deputy dean for Academic Affairs. “In developing a truly integrated joint-degree program such as this,” Kester added, “students will be able...
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- 01 Jun 2011
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Racial Bias Pervades Health Care
have serious ailments unnoticed during primary care exams. White learned the lesson early on. As a young medical student in Memphis, he watched a black woman being operated on for uterine cancer, a procedure botched by the white surgeon...
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- 02 Oct 2015
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The ‘F’ Word
as well as a relatively new handset technology. The capital intensity made the company vulnerable to external markets. Taken separately, these risks were manageable. Taken together, they added up to failure. The personal lessons ran even...
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Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Oct 1998
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Andresen Becomes First European and First Exec. Ed. Graduate to Endow HBS Professorship
identification with your job and the company are other important factors. Besides creative talents and the gift of logical thinking, you also need the best and most competent professional training in the world." Also in the article, Andresen - sharing a View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
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The View from the Pit
of the lessons continue to resonate. "They taught me to view the enterprise as a whole - and as something that was subject to lots of conflicting pressures and constraints from customers, investors, and em- ployees," says Baldwin. "Now...
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Judith A. Ross