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11 Apr 2023
Op-Ed

The First 90 Hours: What New CEOs Should—and Shouldn't—Do to Set the Right Tone

employees, is no longer appropriate. In fact, it’s downright dangerous to the leader and to the organization. After three months of dithering, naysayers on the inside will have figured out your weak spots and will be organizing to slow... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

12 Sep 2023
Book

Successful, But Still Feel Empty? A Happiness Scholar and Oprah Have Advice for You

working memory, and less anxiety. Keep friendships in person and offline. “Social media is dangerous if it’s a substitute for in-person relationships,” Brooks says. Don’t be transactional. Value family and friends for who they are, not by... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

30 Apr 2024
Book

When Managers Set Unrealistic Expectations, Employees Cut Ethical Corners

the United States. In that work, I learned that company management had known about the dangers of asbestos since the 1930s but had actively suppressed information linking it to cancer to protect the business. I became deeply curious about... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

26 Aug 2002
Research & Ideas

High-Stakes Decision Making: The Lessons of Mount Everest

control that particular day. Several explanations compete: human error, weather, all the dangers inherent in human beings pitting themselves against the world's most forbidding peak. A single cause of the 1996 tragedy may never be known,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael A. Roberto

14 Feb 2022
Research & Ideas

Curiosity, Not Coding: 6 Skills Leaders Need in the Digital Age

to ask the right questions about opportunities, risks, and legal and ethical danger zones, and set the boundary conditions to guide the deployment of digital tools and data. Roundtable participants who are digital natives expect... View Details

Keywords: by Linda A. Hill, Ann Le Cam, Sunand Menon, and Emily Tedards; Technology

23 Aug 2011
First Look

First Look: August 23

PublicationsChallenges to Business in the Twenty-First Century Authors:Gerald Rosenfeld, Jay W. Lorsch, and Rakesh Khurana, eds. Publication:Cambridge, Mass.: American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2011 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Book:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 May 2013
Working Paper Summaries

Clusters of Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Keywords: by Aaron Chatterji, Edward Glaeser & William Kerr

06 Jun 2011
Research & Ideas

Why Leaders Lose Their Way

position of leadership, there is a very real danger of getting caught up in the hype surrounding that status Surround yourselves with people who will be honest with you about how you really are and what you are becoming, and then make... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

23 May 2005
Research & Ideas

What Could Bring Globalization Down?

avert the danger of a clash with China over the future of Taiwan. There is a real danger that Taiwan could be what Belgium was in 1914: the small state over which two great powers went to war without either... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

2023
Book

Precarious Ties: Business and the State in Authoritarian Asia

By: Meg Rithmire

Developing Asia has been the site of some of the last century's fastest growing economies as well as some of the world's most durable authoritarian regimes. Many accounts of rapid growth alongside monopolies on political power have focused on crony relationships... View Details

Keywords: Business and Government Relations; Developing Countries and Economies; Economic Systems; Crime and Corruption; China; Indonesia; Malaysia

27 Jun 2005
Research & Ideas

Asian and American Leadership Styles: How Are They Unique?

significant in the minds of top executives. Asia is bedeviled by official corruption that reaches far into business. America has less of this, but has in its place considerable financial reporting fraud. Both are very dangerous to the... View Details

Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills

29 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

Time Pressure and Creativity: Why Time is Not on Your Side

I don't think it's a continuum, but rather a set of conditions that seem to determine whether time pressure will have positive or negative effects on creativity. I don't think there's much danger of too little time pressure in most... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education; Fine Arts

11 Feb 2002
Research & Ideas

The Quiet Leader—and How to Be One

fly too close to the sun, and there is the suggestion that there is something dangerous about the pursuit of greatness. And at the same time while you read books and plays—Death of a Salesman is such a clear example, where Willy wants to... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

20 Aug 2020
Book

From the Plow to the Pill: How Technology Shapes Our Lives

fear. Reverence for the power we have mustered and its looming ability to free us from the bodily constraints that have bound us for so long. And fear that we may have stumbled into something wrong. Something dangerous and final,... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

29 Nov 2022
Research & Ideas

Is There a Method to Musk’s Madness on Twitter?

traffic for the World Cup and stay operational when the most eyes are on it. On that front, it’s a very dangerous situation because Twitter has lost a lot of people, both through the layoffs as well as a significant amount of people... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Technology

2021
Chapter

Multinationals' Need for State Protection: The Creation of the Swiss Investment Risk Guarantee in the 1960s

By: Sabine Pitteloud

This chapter focuses on the role of Industrie-Holding, the Federation of Swiss Industrial Multinational Companies, in the introduction of an investment risk guarantee during the 1960s. The chapter therefore contributes to a) the growing body of literature on how... View Details

Keywords: Investments; Multinational Companies; Political Risk; Business ＆ Government Relations; Investment; Multinational Firms and Management; Risk and Uncertainty; Business and Government Relations; Switzerland

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04 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Is Government Just Stupid? How Bad Decisions Are Made

its stance on specific issues. Why do we judge government by one standard and the private sector by another? In this book, we argue that the way citizens and government currently think about real-world problems is dangerously narrow. We... View Details

Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman, Jonathan Baron & Katherine Shonk

07 Mar 2023
HBS Case

ChatGPT: Did Big Tech Set Up the World for an AI Bias Disaster?

employees and supporters in academia, industry, and civil society groups signed a petition calling Gebru’s “termination” an “act of retaliation” that “heralds danger for people working for ethical and just AI—especially Black people and... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis; Technology

21 Mar 2019
HBS Case

The Ferrari Way

company was run in a more casual way, with a great deal of informality,” he says. Being accountable to shareholders caused Ferrari to have to get serious about setting performance targets and professionalizing its organizational chart. The View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Auto

20 Sep 2017
Research & Ideas

The Three Types of Leaders Who Create Radical Change

" Take, for example, marine biologist Rachel Carson, who alerted the public to the dangers of pesticides in the 1950s; Donald Trump, who, throughout 2016, rallied citizens around the slogan “Make America Great Again;” or Teresa... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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