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- 01 Jun 2004
- News
An Ethical Fitness Quiz for Negotiators
value. The “something like the truth” scenario involves one party not being totally candid about facts that could negatively affect the outcome of a deal. The “doing the devil’s bidding” scenario pits one’s personal values against the expectations of an employer. To... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Fellowships Have Impact
Leadership and Innovation “The fellowship was helpful in making decisions for my life in the sense that by minimizing my student loan burden, I was able to really pursue the career that I was most excited about.” Josue Zapata (MD/MBA... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Inside Modern HR
pulled into the middle of a difficult business issue or a white-hot decision moment as a kind of internal coach. That is incredibly fulfilling from an impact perspective—being trusted as an advisor when it... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
mortgage-backed securities were greatly overvalued, giving investors and bank CEOs a false sense of security. “The cycles of optimism and pessimism in financial markets will always exist, but we can help people make better informed View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Beyond the Numbers
the business environment has become much more competitive," Robinson says of the firm, whose CEO, Doug Mellinger, has been hailed by Inc. magazine as the next Bill Gates. "Some difficult decisions lie ahead... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Steven C. Watson
Massachusetts, classroom. Explaining the decision that led him to this radical midcareer transition, Watson, an engaging veteran entrepreneur with a long and successful record of cofounding and running early-stage companies all over the... View Details
- 30 Mar 2017
- News
Negotiating Peace in Canada's Largest Rainforest
was acceptable although individual parts of that agreement may be difficult for the decision-maker. That's different than saying everybody is 100% on every part of the agreement, which would be wonderful if it could happen, but that's not... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Q&A - Mark Fields
proceeded to close an assembly plant last year to take down capacity by 25 percent. We also reduced our indirect workforce by 20 percent, becoming one of the first major Japanese companies to take such a decisive step. Lifetime employment... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Full Circle
a new career path that required a daunting nine years of additional schooling and training to become a board-certified surgeon. “It was difficult, as are most decisions when you make a significant course correction,” he says. “The most... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019
down on the outskirts of Moscow, and the Eastern Front proved to be the decisive theater in the defeat of the Third Reich. Ever since, historians have agreed that this was Hitler’s gravest mistake. In Hitler’s Great Gamble, James Ellman... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Dream Job: Higher Ed’s New Hire
will perform in different environments. Essentially, we can boil the ocean in a way that would be much more difficult if we didn’t have this infrastructure, which saves a huge amount of time and resources. The quicker you can make a View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Case Study: Citizen Buffett
compliance with its loan covenants. The decision to sell its newspapers—a move that would help raise the cash necessary to comply with a time-sensitive refinancing agreement—was announced in February 2012. "The company's View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Righting the Ship
circle and said, "Well, lads, ship and stores are gone. Now we’ll go home." “The decisions you make in a life-and-death crisis have a new, lasting importance. You can choose to ignore that, but you do so at your own peril.” —Nancy Koehn... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Alumni Books
Leadership in the Era of Economic Uncertainty: The New Rules for Getting the Right Things Done in Difficult Times by Ram Charan (MBA ’65, DBA ’67) (McGraw-Hill) Economic turbulence has arrived with a vengeance, and only companies that... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Happy New Year: The HBS Alumni Board's Newest Members Look to the Future
made during those years have sustained to this day, and it's a group I continue to learn from every year. I've never viewed HBS as simply a school or a place. I view it as a living and evolving institution gifted to us by those who came before us. So volunteering was... View Details
- 13 Mar 2018
- News
Leadership Lessons from the “Lone Survivor” Mission
they found a good place to hide in the mountains. The next day, though, that team was attacked, and here, Brady tells the story of the last-minute decision that kept him from the subsequent, ill-fated rescue mission, the View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Why Layoffs are a Losing Strategy
into these outliers began in the late 2000s, after teaching the Malden Mills case in the MBA required course Leadership and Corporate Accountability. Most in the class believed Feuerstein had made a grave mistake; the decision had cost... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Karmic Kickstart
that year of treatment, I could barely function at all. After considerable discussion with my wife, Janet, a psychology professor at the University of Pittsburgh, we decided to start over in a distant place with a very different context. This was a View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Trade Off
local politicians went all the way up to Washington, which imposed a series of trade barriers. The costs are borne by diffuse interests, including the consumer, who ends up paying higher prices. Illustrations by John Ritter How are trade wars typically resolved—and why... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Hands-on Simulations Complement the Case Method
learning on campus and—by partnering with Harvard Business Publishing—in business classrooms around the world. The required Strategy course, for example, includes the “Strategic Brew” simulation, which puts all 900 first-year MBA students through an intensive,... View Details
Keywords: Educational Innovation