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- 01 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Choose the Best Deal
other. Consider the experience of a friend who was recently shopping for a new car. He'd always had good luck with Fords and was inclined to stick with them, especially after driving the latest model. After some back and forth, the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
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Commencement 2017 Address | About
your time with us. We celebrate you, and we wish you good luck as you begin your next adventures. We encourage you to be mindful of your RESPONSIBILITY as leaders at a time when businesses must work to rebuild public trust. We remind you... View Details
- 10 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 10, 2015
success, for example, leads to an unreasonable fear of failure, a mindset that inhibits risk taking, a focus on past performance rather than potential, and blindness to the role of luck in successes and failures. Managers, therefore, need... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
December 2021 Alumni and Faculty Books
coming-of-age memoir, Riehl offers a colorful range of diverse adventures as he leverages his sense of humor, hard work, the support of others, and just a bit of luck to chase down his dream. Sacred Rhythm: A Christian Spirituality for... View Details
- 09 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation
Would-be innovators know that one of their biggest challenges is systematically identifying the innovations with the greatest likelihood of creating disruptive growth. Pick the wrong one, and squander a year or more of focus and investment. The good news is that it... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Winning Season
players like Bob Gibson, Stan Musial, Lou Brock, and Red Schoendienst.” Times have changed since those days, of course, with player loyalty coming at an increasingly steep price. That can make it hard to hang on to star players, but DeWitt Jr. believes the Cardinals... View Details
- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
document that firms report more negative discretionary accruals when financial markets are less certain about their future prospects. Stock-price responses to earnings surprises are moderated when firm-level uncertainty is high, consistent with performance being... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 22 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 22, 2016
Acceptance of Morally Arbitrary Luck and Widespread Support for Classical Benefit-Based Taxation By: Weinzierl, Matthew C. Abstract—Public moral reasoning is shown to differ in three specific ways from what is conventionally assumed in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
generally granted to those who do their homework, though luck still plays a major part." "Sometimes God will fool you," agrees James Hackett. "You'll think you have something, and the readings confirm it, but when you drill down it's... View Details
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Great American Leaders Teach Us
luck that made the difference between being merely successful and being wildly successful. In contrast, Breakers were business leaders who succeeded in breaking through the contextual mold of their times. They sought not to be constrained... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
firm's future value, the firm reports more negative discretionary accruals. Stock-price responses to earnings surprises are moderated when firm-level uncertainty is high, consistent with performance being attributed more to luck rather... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
are less certain about their future prospects. Stock-price responses to earnings surprises are moderated when firm-level uncertainty is high, consistent with performance being attributed more to luck rather than skill and effort, which... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
by Reebok, an upstart competitor. Knight closeted himself in his office, faced the wall, and sat there, weak and sick and devastated for hours. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/810077-PDF-ENG Moral Decision-Making: Reason, Emotion & View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
Glover says she feels lucky, she also notes that more than luck has been involved in creating a life that brings her satisfaction. "We've been very conscious about the decisions we've made," she explains. "We've avoided acquiring... View Details
- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
unexpected event in turn. Luck played a part, but so did smart leadership and sensemaking. Until the last reactor went into cold shutdown, Masuda's team took nothing for granted. With each new problem they encountered, it recalibrated,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/ffoley/BFSWIPO.pdf Luck or Cheating? A Field Experiment on Honesty with Children Authors:Alessandro Bucciol and Marco Piovesan Publication:Journal of Economic Psychology (forthcoming) Abstract We run an... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
where poverty and human suffering are so widespread, you realize it is in part luck that you are not one of those emaciated faces staring out from the television screen. Such good fortune makes it incumbent upon me to assume a responsible... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
ability to persevere when others might give up. Important, too, are a large measure of luck and some help from those who have already traveled the entrepreneurial road... The Stories Behind the Startups So I'm on the red-eye from LAX to... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
and mentors—were the key to engaging and inspiring his students. Here, Walker records those stories in a memoir that spans five decades and reveals a man whose curiosity, resourcefulness, and luck led him out of South Texas and into... View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
refuel—her pre-meeting “good luck sandwich” is an Italian bahn mi on multigrain. But despite her best efforts, she knows that the school board could go into state receivership within the next year or two. And it’s clear she hasn’t been... View Details