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- 07 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Fail—and How Their Founders Can Bounce Back
Failure Can Be An Asset, But Personal Failure Is Ruinous Still, stubborn entrepreneurs continue to found companies, in spite of the failure rates, which raises the question of why. It's not as if any of them harbored childhood dreams of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 20 Aug 2020
- Book
From the Plow to the Pill: How Technology Shapes Our Lives
them. Yet as we consider our creations, it is crucial to remember that the machines that we have fashioned have no goals beyond our own. No lives, no loves, no passions. Their dreams are whatever we impose on them. Therefore, as we hit... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Jun 2022
- Research & Ideas
All Those Zoom Meetings May Boost Connection and Curb Loneliness
useful way to reduce loneliness and improve their wellbeing and productivity.” You Might Also Like: Outrage Spreads Faster on Twitter: Evidence from 44 News Outlets Blissful Thinking: When It Comes to Finding Happiness, 'Your Dreams Are... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 21 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
You Don’t Have to Quit Your Job to Find More Meaning in Life
its own still helps toward making your life seem more meaningful,” De Freitas says. “With that said, if you must choose, go with what makes you happy.” You Might Also Like: Blissful Thinking: When It Comes to Finding Happiness, 'Your View Details
Keywords: by Shalene Gupta
- 06 Feb 2020
- Research & Ideas
What We Learned from Reading Jeff Bezos’ Patents
From an early age, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos had a passion for inventing. In The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon, journalist Brad Stone wrote that even as a child, “Bezos had dreams of becoming an inventor like Thomas... View Details
- 07 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Customers Need to Hear from You During the COVID Crisis
admonished, “If you ever dreamed of playing for millions around the world, now is your chance: play inside, play for the world,” to reinforce the need for people to stay home, while McDonald’s team in Brazil decided to redraw the iconic... View Details
Keywords: by Jill Avery and Richard Edelman
- 28 Jan 2020
- Book
Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking
practical as well as visionary—to know how to pin down a big dream into actionable first steps. But advanced leaders don’t confuse the details of their prototype or pilot project with achieving the goal. They continue to be... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Consumer Appeal of Underdog Branding
winning. Carrying the hopes and dreams of the disenfranchised on his shoulders, Braddock rocketed through the ranks, until he took on the heavyweight champion of the world. Shirley Temple was the Hollywood darling of the Great Depression,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 04 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Shackleton: An Entrepreneur of Survival
under less than ideal circumstances that Shackleton had to marshal resources: He had to find men, money, a ship, dogs. He had to find someone to help them learn to ski. He had to figure out how to do all this—how to make his dream real,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 May 2022
- Research & Ideas
Being Your Own Boss Can Pay Off, but Not Always with Big Pay
For generations, American workers have dreamed of striking out on their own, starting their own business, being their own boss—and ideally making a lot of money in the process. That sentiment appears to be alive and well today, amid an... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 21 Jun 2022
- HBS Case
Free Isn’t Always Better: How Slack Holds Its Own Against Microsoft Teams
operating system for the office—the centerpiece of how we do work? That is open at this point. It’s the dream of both Microsoft and Salesforce.” Yoffie and a group of MBA students at HBS used public information to analyze the competition... View Details
- 03 Oct 2017
- Sharpening Your Skills
7 Effective Ways to Lead Teams
making a simulated climb up Mount Everest. ‘Big Teaming,’ Audacious Innovation, and the Uncompleted Dream of a Smart City How do you organize a project that spans professions, industries, and even nations? Related Research Papers Research... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Oct 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters
Use this period as an opportunity to take stock of your own life. Does your work reflect your values? Have you let some important relationships languish? Did you give up on a dream too soon? You're not going to be a good business leader... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jul 2007
- Research & Ideas
Five Steps to Better Family Negotiations
to a mutually acceptable agreement. Some families are exceptional at encouraging family members to dream and explore their authentic interests and to express these interests within the family. These families have cultures where family... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Davis and Deepak Malhotra
- 05 Oct 2020
- Book
Want to Be Happier? Make More Free Time
or free time and family? Soon after settling into her dream job, Whillans worked and traveled constantly, but her partner was miserable, with no job or friends nearby. During one work trip, the couple was fighting long distance, and... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Smart Cities are Complicated and Costly: Here's How to Build Them
Chombosan Much promotion of smart cities assumes that municipalities will take a proactive, top-down, technology-first approach to urban progress. Thus far, these initiatives look for some forward-thinking city official (or immensely deep-pocketed private investor) to... View Details
- 11 Jul 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Deconstructing 'Customer Experience'
dream come true. But then Amazon's data-driven efficiency met the customer-driven culture at Whole Foods—and the shelves began to empty. How an Order Views Your Company Managers should imagine the customer is watching as their order moves... View Details
- 04 Nov 2010
- What Do You Think?
Why Do We Chase Stars?
and agony of doing the hard work themselves." (Phil Clark); "It's about selling the dream that the star will add to the bottom line fast with new clients, etc." (Jacoline Loewen); "Rather than create succession plans... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 23 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
Lessons on Life, Graffiti, and Value: 'It's in That Darkness That You Can Actually Develop and Evolve'
sociologist at Harvard Business School. His parents were an interracial couple who fell in love in the 1960s, when mixed marriages faced scorn and sometimes worse in many parts of the US. Even so, he said, they always believed in the promise and potential of the... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 06 Mar 2020
- Book
A Great Teacher's Lessons for Leading
this years ago.” So, recognizing the complexity of people’s real lives around us, a question that I want managers to ask themselves is: “What do I need to do specifically to honor the dreams of my subordinates?” Because what we’re really... View Details