Dissent - Publications - Faculty & Research

07 Oct 2019
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How To Cultivate Thoughtful Dissent

23 Dec 2013
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Just How Independent are ‘Independent’ Directors?

13 Mar 2014
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When Companies Should—and Shouldn’t—Hire Outside CEOs

19 Nov 2019
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Lessons from IBM in Nazi Germany

01 Sep 2007
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counter basic assumptions. Several HBS professors consider the cost to organizations when dissent does not or cannot surface, and suggest ways to make sure it does. To the Rescue. In India, there’s no such thing as calling 911 in an... View Details

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Dec 2013
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Alumni News | Bookshelf: A Manager's Responsibility in the 21st Century

devote some detail to how managers should communicate. Dissenting managers must speak clearly, recognize opposing views, state the problem as they see it, and recommend a solution. "Your first few sentences, in either a verbal... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; oil spill; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Sep 2005
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Ideas: Books

executives from the aerospace and defense industries, Fortune 500 presidents, general managers in the Boston area, and heads of nonbusiness organizations about their decision-making. Based on his interviews, Roberto concludes that leaders must encourage constructive... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Sep 2020
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Righting the Ship

important, particularly in moments when hope frayed, pessimism sunk in, and dissention threatened. Shackleton always understood that instilling credible hope in his followers was one of his most powerful weapons for accomplishing his... View Details

01 Dec 2020
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Kill Groupthink

members should be cross-pollinated across other sectors: digital omnichannel, supply chain, and so forth. “You want a group dynamic that allows for fluid and thought-provoking discussion, where fact-based dissent is welcomed and heard.”... View Details

01 Sep 2015
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Feedback

while at the Law School in 1970, one of the last of the Harvard ROTC students for some four decades.) During our two-year stint at the Business School, Cambridge was a hotbed of antiwar sentiment, with police chasing dissenters with tear... View Details

01 Dec 1999
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From the Editors

New York City mayor Robert F. Wagner (MBA '36), elicited a torrent of dissenting letters in 1956 and was followed with a similar article from the Republican point of view. Fenn also increased the number of internationally focused articles... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Jun 2009
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Too Big To Fail

into Moss’s analysis and recommendations. Warren and two Democrats embraced Moss’s views on the need for a systemic risk regulator. But the two Republican members issued a dissenting minority report. The partisan clash of views... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; federal bailouts; Credit Intermediation and Related Activities; Finance

26 Feb 2020
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Phoenix Rising

law faced such bitter dissent from taxi drivers that Samaras thought it might never get off the ground. “Structural changes were very difficult because people had gotten used to playing with the old cards. Nothing was changing,” he says.... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Oct 1996
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Lasting Impressions

until many years later that I came to appreciate the dissenting view of the Vietnam War." Ed Mathias, now a managing director of the Carlyle Group, a merchant bank in Washington, D.C., came to HBS after serving as an officer in the Navy... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

01 Dec 2019
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John McArthur

co-founded, the AES Corporation, from 1997 to 2008. He was a fantastic director, always pushing us to excel but not afraid to express a dissenting opinion when he thought we were making a wrong turn. After some stunning growth in the 90s,... View Details

Keywords: Dean

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