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- 17 May 2017
- News
Nisa Godrej Takes Over
she met considerable resistance from the parent company chiefs, including her father. "Godrej has been one of those lifetime employers, and you don't change management," Nisa explains. "Within that year, I probably said I was quitting two... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
William H. Donaldson, MBA 1958
both arenas.” Having agreed to a five-year term at Yale, Donaldson returned to Wall Street in 1980 to run his own international investment fund. But when the NYSE came calling in 1990, he couldn’t resist another opportunity to upset the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Greed, Gullibility, and Optimism
will resist the urge to think of that little bungalow as a place to fix up and put back on the market in a year, and instead look at it as a good place to live. View Details
- 30 Jan 2012
- News
Shopping Around
quasi-judicial processes. Moreover the planning authorities in just about every country still dislike out-of-town retail developments.” Overcoming this resistance requires an “extraordinary” investment in soft costs to enable McArthurGlen... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
The Nature of Change
analyze the nature of change in a large institution such as HBS, adds Tedlow. “Change is important, but institutions tend to resist it. How do they resist it, and how does one get around that resistance? Why... View Details
- 13 Feb 2015
- News
Lessons in Perseverance
something completely different.” So Deza chose a third approach. She would merge the two schools and sell one of them. The plan was fraught with risks. One school was all-boys, and the other was all-girls. Her senior school administrators opposed the plan, fearful that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Additional alumni books for your consideration.
Resisting the impulse for drastic change, Bhidé offers a blueprint for correcting the historic misalignment between the numbers-driven financial sector and the innovation-driven “real economy.” He advocates tough, straightforward limits... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Ali Allawi
would have been formed, and then you let Iraqis, whether for good or ill, manage this process. For the first four months after the overthrow of the regime, there was very little resistance either from disbanded army units or from the... View Details
- 09 Jan 2020
- News
Your Whole Self
bit about each one of them? Amy Jen Su: Leader A and leader B was a heuristic that I created to try to describe what people were describing to me out in the trenches. Leader A is the part of all of ourselves—it's like a mode we have when we're our best self, we don't... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
The Exchange: The Tech Leader’s Tightrope
second set of tools concerns what you can do within a given legal environment. Students often don’t recognize how much discretion they have and what room there is for pushback. For example, in the San Bernardino case, it looked like Apple was View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Rural Renewal
Torrey Reade (MBA 1981) says hello to each of the ten vendors at the Salem, New Jersey, farmer’s market. From Al Dolinski, she buys sunflowers. After inquiring “How’s it going?” she can’t resist the heirloom tomatoes from the Hancocks.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
When No News Isn’t Good News
happen,” she observes. “When you’re doing something for the first time and are unsure if you’re on the right track, resist the tendency to put your head down and just keep going.” The sooner you open a dialogue with your supervisor or... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Digital Health Care: Empowering Consumers
sensors, like smart watches, and telemedicine, which is a companion to these sensors. Both have become more powerful and more acceptable to consumers and to the health care industry, which has resisted these innovations for a long time. I... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Cleveland Global Alumni Conference a Sold-Out Success
said, in some cases even enabling patients to treat themselves. Resistance to such a scenario is strong in the rules-based world of medicine, he conceded. "Disruptive innovation has been ignored or opposed by the leading institutions in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Down the Memory Chute
of the crowd, I was tackled by a security guard who charged me with resisting arrest and took me in for questioning. I was brought before the “board” (of which I happened to be a member) and made my only statement: “If I thought I was... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth
“helps businesses provide this increasingly important information in a more rationalized way.” Massie's energy and output is even more remarkable given the fact that some twenty years ago, he acquired HIV in the course of his many transfusions. Naturally, and without... View Details
- 14 Sep 2018
- News
Lessons Learned 10 Years After the Financial Crisis
Fight the Next Financial Crisis,” noting that to contain the damage of any future crises, “the Treasury and financial regulators need adequate firefighting tools.” They warn, too, of complacency, saying that, “We must also resist calls to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Unleashed
discretionary behavior, and they’re certainly not wasting time reading the company handbook. They even resist restrictions such as vacation or expense policies, which Netflix has essentially abolished. The company’s expense policy is,... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Victory Lap: Frazier, Olympics COO, Reviews the Games
body in the world is heavily sponsored by commerce, and commercial sponsorships are part of every major sporting event on the planet. The Olympic Games remain the only major competition of any sort that doesn't allow in-stadium signage. So I View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Core Values Keep Airline Flying High
getting internal systems to work together with other airlines and, culturally, has not adopted e-mail and voice mail as a means of dealing with customers and each other. "We resist nonhuman interfaces," commented John Denison, the... View Details