Rationalization - Publications - Faculty & Research

14 Nov 2024
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How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Liberty Mutual CEO Tim Sweeney (MBA 1991) says that 2012 was the year that climate change started really showing up on the balance sheet. “This is a horrible... View Details

01 Sep 2020
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The Devil You Don’t Know

just be the product of some kind of anxiety of unknown origins. Rational or not, if people begin to become pessimistic about their economic future and the economy in general, one of the first things they typically do is start scaling back... View Details

01 Feb 1997
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Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management

transcend rational thinking." The course, which debuted in 1995, is designed to optimize the marketing efforts of entrepreneurs, who typically lack the time and resources for conventional marketing activity. The course is organized around... View Details

16 Dec 2016
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An Environmental Epiphany

philanthropic foundation, it struck me how much we could benefit from importing in that community, the management skills, and rational decision making, and the logic that I had been trained in, in the business world for the first 18 years... View Details

01 Dec 2006
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Inside Intel

looked at the situation as a fantasized, rational actor would. This was a cognitive tour de force. It was made possible by Grove’s capacity to frame issues differently from the way others do. Grove said that even after this moment of... View Details

Keywords: Richard S. Tedlow; Hanna, Julia; technology; manufacturing; innovation; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing

02 Sep 2018
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Havana Rising

work for CET. “I never feel like I’m working for them,” she says, as we walk in Old Havana, streets awash with uniformed school children and shoppers visiting state stores for rationed food staples and licensed farmer’s markets. “I feel... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North

01 Oct 1996
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Leading In a New Era

"Today's top management needs to move beyond its focus on strategy that defines a rational product-market position to a sense of purpose that captivates employees' attention and commitment," Bartlett asserts. Managers, he says, "need to... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

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