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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Leadership in the Digital Age
Administration and faculty chair of the Leadership Initiative. That’s because the challenges that executives face today aren’t issues of technology but a question of “how to create an organization that can actually utilize digital tools and data to drive View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Alumni News | Bookshelf: A Manager's Responsibility in the 21st Century
managers to prevent harm to society. They begin with a controversial definition of managerial responsibility. Managers must first act to protect individuals, employees, and society from the mistakes made by managerial decisions and... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Leading Quietly
In Leading Quietly: An Unorthodox Guide to Doing the Right Thing, HBS professor Joseph Badaracco takes an unconventional look at leaders and leadership. Rather than focusing on those men and women whose bold acts of courage and insight... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
The School that Donham Built
various courses by getting regularly from industry problems which are current and illustrative?” By 1923, two-thirds of the School’s courses were taught by the case method, supported by field-based research that had already begun to influence business scholarship and... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Pitfalls, Trade-Offs, Dreaming Big
Noam Wasserman (MBA 1999) spent his MBA summer internship working for a VC firm, he observed important universalities in the decisions that founders faced. He also saw that the “fundamental implications of those View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Taking Care of Business
natural course of things is often upended by someone saying, ‘This is what I really need right now,’” says Mahesh. “That tends to change the priorities of your plan and development cycle.” Knock out!, an NVC winner in 2012, brought... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Latin Flair
Kushner (MBA ’11), the company’s 25-year-old chief strategy officer told the FT. “So we pivoted to gaming.” That decision changed everything. Now, Vostu is the largest social game developer in the Brazilian market, with games like Mini... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Nancy J. Karch
years later, it's clear that she made the right choice. As a director of the Atlanta office of McKinsey & Company and managing partner of McKinsey Southeast United States, Karch has become an expert on numerous business topics, such as... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Neil MacKenna on Effective Job Search Strategies
even though there may not be a payoff. Feel Upbeat. These days, there is very little stigma attached to being out of work. If you don’t have a job, you are in an ideal position to find the right position. Remember that looking for a job... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
One-on-One with Carter Roberts
sustainable use of resources. Wal-Mart, for example, just committed to buy seafood only from MSC-certified fisheries. This decision has rocked the industry because Wal-Mart is the second-largest buyer of fish in the United States. We’re... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Road to Recovery
prompt action—more so than when you frame a decision in terms of what you stand to gain,” John explains. These subtle design choices “can help you to make a good decision while preserving your free will,”... View Details
- 17 Oct 2019
- News
Venturing Away from Venture Capital
potential to return their entire fund through acquisition or IPO. In the process, she says, VCs can be “forced to make investment decisions that don’t benefit the company, the entrepreneur, or the entrepreneurial landscape.” For example,... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 15 Jun 2018
- News
Skydeck Live: The Science of a Meaningful Life
sophisticated that it can basically fly itself. If everything goes right in an Airbus A380 flight, the pilot will fly the plane for about eight minutes-- four minutes when it takes off, four minutes when it lands. The other 14 hours it... View Details
- 11 Aug 2020
- News
Find Your Allies
making decisions to issue millions of dollars of bonds,” she says. Today, Harris is vice chairman of global wealth management and a senior client adviser at Morgan Stanley in New York, which she joined in 1987. Harris says she wasn’t... View Details
- 03 Mar 2016
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Pamela Meyer (MBA 1986)
enforcement, and intelligence—that had never been brought in a systematic way to the business world. We all make high-stakes decisions that can punctuate the course of our lives—who to hire, who to work for, who to vote for, which deal to... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Where Are the Innovators in Health Care?
brilliant, effective innovators have forced sluggish U.S. industries to become more productive. Sam Walton’s exquisitely detailed supply chain management, coupled with his daring decision to locate Wal-Marts in rural areas, kick-started... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Predictable Surprises
and Gore heroes for solving a problem that, at the time, very few knew existed. Shouldn’t we be able to look to our political and business leaders to make decisions that are in our long-term best interest, regardless of how popular those... View Details
- 29 Sep 2022
- News
Securing a Resilient Future for Senegal
with enough oil, gas, and food supplies, given supply chain disruptions. Important, too, was being mindful of budget deficits and encouraging investments from international partners. “We had to do it all purposefully, accurately, and quickly,” says Diagne. Data drove... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Ruling from the Bench
time. The decision was practical and personal: Her goal upon graduation was to land a well-paying job to support her fiancé through law school; once he’d completed his degree, it would be her turn to attend. The engagement ended, but... View Details
- 31 Jul 2019
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Skydeck Live: The Rise of the FOMO Sapiens
the big things from the small; I call them high stakes, low stakes and no stakes decisions. No stakes decisions are not worth any of your time. So what I do actually, when it's literally choosing that sandwich flavor, it's sort of like I... View Details