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- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Ex-Con Talks Ethics with HBS Students
been given to me years ago. I chose to ignore the warning signs. I want to show you how to pay attention and recognize those signs before you, your loved ones, and/or your employees become lured in — before seemingly unimportant decisions... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Faculty Retirements
One of them, "Managing Our Way to Economic Decline," a 1980 piece coauthored with the late William Abernathy, became a classic for its warnings about the dangers of sacrificing long-term technological competitiveness in favor of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Making History, Starting Over
investing. As a student at HBS, Cohen was fascinated and troubled by the thesis of a best-selling book, The American Challenge, that warned of American cultural, technological, and economic domination of Europe. “My feeling was that... View Details
- 25 Mar 2008
- News
Whistling Past the Graveyard
with, and research inside the corporate and financial sectors, know firms’ operations and industry practices well. They have a pretty good hunch where the corporate O-Rings are located — those potential pressure points that could explode without View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Rankings Game
and expense involved in data collection. Deans complained that focusing on rank diverted prospective students from the truly important question: Which school is the best fit? Academics who studied the rankings challenged their methodology and View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Leading Boston and Beyond
Koh’s fifth floor office, cooking up a communications strategy ahead of the looming Boston winter. “We want to avoid what happened last year,” warns Koh, Chief of Staff to Mayor Marty Walsh. Last winter, the Hub’s snowiest on record, left... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Q&A: Wrestling with the Unthinkable
you have to make a judgment. If government receives credible intelligence of a possible attack and says nothing and an attack occurs, then its credibility suffers. Same thing if government officials issue warnings and nothing happens. So... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
An Economy Undermined
our HBS professors had always warned that if we spent $5,000 today, we would be giving up a fortune ten or twenty years down the road, given the stock market’s rate of return. A famous futurist of the day was predicting that U.S.... View Details
- 29 Jul 2013
- News
Opening New Markets for Black South African Winemakers
warnings that it was dangerous for foreigners to enter the township. Along with good food, camaraderie, and jazz, she discovered some fabulous wines with an added, rare distinction: they were produced by black South African vintners.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Unleashed
travel.” Seeing the CEO treat a passenger like a human being was a warning shot to everyone that no one flies steerage on this airline. That’s how things are really done around JetBlue. Another way to describe culture is that it’s our... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
sculpt your body and help you prevent back pain and sleep better; and a holistic mind-body approach that really works. Faculty Books Varieties of Green Business: Industries, Nations and Time by Geoffrey Jones Edward Elgar Publishing Published at a time of... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
December 2021 Alumni and Faculty Books
kidnappings in West Germany over many years. But can the General count on the RAF to create the rioting, the excuse he needs, to invade? Graham Smith, the CIA’s new Chief of Station in Bonn, shoulders the burden of giving the United States prior View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
GM invested half a billion dollars last year. Shen, at WM in China, is thinking along similar lines. In fact, his entire business model hinges on selling drivers smart, cloud-connected, mass-market electrics ready-made for ridesharing. Those cars won’t just View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Covering the Issues
wrote in 1935 that Hitler's government "dominates through the medium of fear," and Professor Philip Cabot warned of widespread conflict in "The Crisis Which Confronts the Nation" in 1940. Even while reporting on HBS and alumni... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014
Culture by Bozidar Novak (OPM 43, 2013) (Brodschneider & Kotnik) A collection of short essays centered on the topic of Maribor, Slovenia, a city of about 100,000 that was named one of the two European capitals of culture for 2012. The Book: The Kohler Strike of 1954;... View Details
- 20 Apr 2020
- News
To Build Connection in Quarantine, Clubs Go Virtual
“This content is on the bleeding edge,” she says. “When the pandemic was starting to spread, we were able to give expertise from someone at the front lines. After that first session, in which David warned people not to travel and to do... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Predictable Surprises
political biases in preventing leaders from recognizing and acting on warning signs of impending disasters. Could you give an example of each? In the book, we talk about the cognitive biases of those involved in the fishing industry who... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
storyteller—I had been warned about that!—but rather to create an economic analytical framework that made sense.” As a starting point, he drew on Poorvu’s and Stevenson’s prior work, which focused on four elements: people, opportunity,... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 07 Apr 2021
- News
Road Work
the motorcycle down into the snow because they had warned me that they have no idea what it's going to be like to ride. I'm on a 500-pound motorcycle, plus my weight, and think about it, that only hits two small points where the tires... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
John McArthur
have made it to the other side without John. Even though some of our problems stemmed from things John warned us against, he rolled up his sleeves and did everything he could to help us survive and be a better company thereafter. We could... View Details
Keywords: Dean