Risk Taking - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Feb 1998
News

Not Your Typical Business Conference

all, don't fear failure," she stressed. "Remember, the fear of failure is a sure formula for not achieving success." The theme of risk taking was echoed throughout the day, starting with the first morning... View Details

18 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

Unspoken Cues: Encouraging Morals Without Mandates

risks, without higher authorities specifying what such a risk might entail, is de facto silent. More generally, whenever an employer calls for a member to pass a judgment without specifying how to do so, silence prevails. But if this... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education

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Online Entrepreneurial Marketing Course | HBS Online

Unpack the entrepreneurial marketing toolkit and apply the paid, owned, and earned media (POEM) framework. Identify a brand’s four components and the potential benefits and risks of marketing channels and platforms. Highlights The... View Details

01 Sep 2016
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016

Moran (MBA 1989) (St. Martin's Griffin) Moran tells the story of Caterina Rosetta, heir of her family’s vineyards in California, and the complications—involving an old murder and the revelation of her and her mother’s secrets—that develop when she moves to Tuscany to... View Details

20 Mar 2025
Blog Post

Scaling Climate Tech Innovation with Lee Scott (MBA 2023)

uncertainty for project finance risk appetite, leaving a capital gap for FOAK projects. Trellis Climate was founded to help startups deploy their FOAK climate projects. In my role, I lead pipeline development, project diligence, and... View Details

29 Mar 2010
Research & Ideas

Ruthlessly Realistic: How CEOs Must Overcome Denial

denial as a particular risk for large, established organizations as much as for young, entrepreneurial firms? Is denial a predictable downside to success? A: Denial is more endemic to older firms because it so often results from stubborn... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Auto; Retail; Technology

Profile

Omowale Casselle

distribution platform, in high traffic retail locations, that will help consumers trial, discover, and ultimately make more informed choices about their most important purchase decisions in health, wellness, beauty, and household—and now we are View Details

Keywords: Technology; Consumer Products

28 Feb 2014
News

The First Five Years: Omowale Casselle (MBA 2009)

traffic retail locations, that will help consumers trial, discover, and ultimately make more informed choices about their most important purchase decisions in health, wellness, beauty, and household—and now we are taking steps to bring... View Details

Keywords: General Merchandise Stores; Retail Trade

18 Sep 2007
First Look

First Look: September 18, 2007

Working PapersOptimal Reserve Management and Sovereign Debt Authors:Laura Alfaro and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract Most models currently used to determine optimal foreign reserve holdings take the level of international debt as given. However,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

13 Sep 2019
News

Hollywood Ending

into an $8 billion behemoth 10 years later, and most recently leading a massive turnaround at Hewlett-Packard—Whitman has left her beloved Bay Area for a stand-up desk in Hollywood’s media district. There she finds her phone and hotfoots it back to View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photo by Christina Gandolfo

14 Feb 2019
News

Plotting a Path Forward on Climate Change

Boston Green Ribbon Commission, a group of business, institutional, and civic leaders developing strategies to fight climate change and meet Mayor Marty Walsh’s 2050 carbon-neutrality goal. However, McCarthy added, “the city is slow to respond, and it View Details

10 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

The Negotiator’s Secret: More Than Merely Effective

Review excerpt below, Professor James K. Sebenius describes number six on the list, "Failing to correct for skewed vision." Negotiators are often too confident of their own position and too quick to demonize the other side, he writes. The good news: Savvy... View Details

Keywords: by James K. Sebenius

15 Feb 2017
Op-Ed

What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects

bankers’ preferred conditions exist there. Revenues are sketchy, exchange rate risk is real, political uncertainties abound, and expertise is thin. Yet projects get funded and built. Capital lessons What can be learned? First, direct... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction

31 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

The Dow at 20,000: What's That All About?

with the United States’ main trading partners--the European Union, China, and Japan. So far, however, the markets don’t seem very concerned about that, perhaps because the power of the president has limitations or perhaps because the markets think that this where the... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

11 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing

time-driven ABC projects pay back in less than a year. It's quite impressive to take companies with millions of transactions and customers, and be able to prepare detailed and accurate profit and loss statements, at various levels of... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

15 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

The Lessons of New-Market Disruption

the superportable market seemed the right choice for the Kittyhawk. But it wasn't. Kittyhawk did not succeed in either the ultrathin laptop or in the PDA market. When the PDA market failed first to materialize in the early 1990s—the market for handheld devices did not... View Details

Keywords: by Clark Gilbert; Technology

13 Nov 2007
Research & Ideas

Six Steps for Reinvigorating America

easier answer than yes. The cynics and the critics can look really smart because it's possible to poke holes in anything. I decided to take a risk by being positive. It's possible to get attention by being... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

17 Oct 2006
First Look

First Look: October 17, 2006

firms such as Elliot and Dart as "vultures" or "rouge creditors" who sought to profit on sovereign debt restructurings at the expense of countries suffering economic hardship and of the majority of bondholders whose cooperation allowed the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 Mar 2010
First Look

First Look: March 9

match between firms, managers, and incentives using a new survey that contains information on managers' risk preferences and human capital, on their compensation schemes, and on the firms they work for. The data is consistent with the... View Details