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- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Street Singer
million shares raising $5.47 billion. “In addition to the financial analysis there’s a lot of judgment involved in deciding where to price an offering. You may have an oversubscribed deal, but how far should you push it? It’s not a simple... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
business judgment rule, directors must have “knowingly and completely failed to undertake their responsibilities” or had “an actual intent to do harm” — a standard that has let thousands of failed boards off the hook over the years. While... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
overcome, and when a door closes another one often opens. Alan Horn (MBA 1971) Chairman, Walt Disney Studios Bottoming out in Brazil Five of the six businesses I’ve helped build over 32 years since HBS have been successful, with one selling for $10 billion. One... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Classroom Legend
Harvard’s commitment to the quality of teaching.” HBS Dean John McArthur observed, “Chris has been at the forefront in the search for better ways for faculty to develop insight and judgment in their students and, not incidentally, in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Faculty Books
Dilemmas, Social Values, and Ethical Judgments edited by Roderick M. Kramer, Ann Tenbrunsel, and Max H. Bazerman (Routledge) In honor of David Messick, emeritus professor of management and organizations at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Dean Clark Addresses Journalists
meet market measures of success, he said, sound judgment and principles were suspended by individuals and governance institutions alike. In seeking solutions to these problems, Clark suggested a two-pronged approach. “The first step will... View Details
- 17 Jan 2019
- News
The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition
experience was..." Pradhan: “All about the people I met and the time I spent with them.” Gandhi: “Challenging, energizing, empowering, and rigorous.” Tucker: “All about adding perspective. I think your judgment improves as you gain... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
competitors often lead to overcompensation and lull executives into a false sense of superiority. Pay-for-performance systems that ignore rigorously applied subjective judgments often promote gaming behavior and otherwise provide... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
MBA Class of 2004 Celebrates Class Day and Commencement
audience. Imagine, he asked, that you could carry in your pocket a miniature governing board composed of several individual voices and characters whose collective judgment could be called on in times of need. For his own “pocket board,”... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
If its purpose is to train “hands,” or technicians, or merely successful money-makers, in my judgment the course has no place in a graduate department of a university. On the other hand if its purpose is to train “heads” or future leaders... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
My HBS Eureka Moment
uncomfortable with the ethnic background of the proponents, who were proposing to start a pharmaceutical company in Mexico. I could never get comfortable, and missed a huge opportunity. The product was the birth control pill." The lesson to me was obvious: You can't... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
Management (Harvard Business Press, 1992), coauthored with HBS professor Robert Eccles, with James Berkley. “We tried to identify what is truly essential about management even as management always changes,” says Nohria. The book proposes a new way of thinking that... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
Inclusiveness, often seen as a female trait, has a business benefit in complex situations: get more data, solicit more diverse opinions, draw on different types of talents, and then decide. Don't rush to judgment in order to appear... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Preparing Leaders to Leverage Artificial Intelligence
Administration, made educating students “to use data for judgment, and judgment for data” one of the top three priorities guiding the MBA curriculum. “AI is not just displacing human workers—it is changing the nature of firms, how they... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Power of Imperfect Eating By Kavita Bhatnagar (SELP 11, 2022) Penguin Enterprise Rather than dictating which foods are good or bad, this book weaves together stories that mirror the intricate, emotional, and often imperfect... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
better than the risk for getting into the Internet." Startup Smarts Previous work experience is often the critical factor in helping an aspiring entrepreneur make the judgment calls necessary to spot and develop a good business... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
The Meaning of Ramadi
that failure is an inevitable and necessary part of life. It happens whether you like it or not — sometimes as a result of your own (or someone else’s) error in judgment and sometimes simply because time and circumstance had a vote. Once... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
A Safer—and Speedier—Way to Name Your Startup
compare your name to existing and pending trademarks, based on a variety of characteristics, including phonetic similarity, similarity of goods, and status of existing trademark applications and registrations: “We’re capturing the View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Feb 2013
- News
Growth Strategy Has Double Bottom Line
thing for our investors, our conservation partners, and our employees. One has to make tough judgment calls and strategic decisions and figure out how aggressive to be in negotiations. But the principle of having a place to draw your... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Karen Tumulty Reports on America
1993 Edwin M. Hood Award for Diplomatic Correspondence. "My biggest adjustment in leaving the LA Times, a daily newspaper, for Time, a weekly magazine," notes Tumulty, "was that here we have to make judgments days in advance about what... View Details