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Don't Let Power Corrupt You
By: Julie Battilana and Tiziana Casciaro
Although power is essential to taking charge and driving change, it makes leaders vulnerable to two traps that can not only erode their own effectiveness but also undermine their teams. Hubris—the excessive pride and self-confidence that can come with power—causes... View Details
Keywords: Humility; Empathy; Hubris; Leadership; Power and Influence; Moral Sensibility; Performance Effectiveness
Battilana, Julie, and Tiziana Casciaro. "Don't Let Power Corrupt You." Harvard Business Review 99, no. 5 (September–October 2021): 94–101.
- 04 Oct 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Make Sure the Right People End Up with Power in Organizations?
Understand who controls what and the degree to which it is desired and you understand a great deal about a power relationship. Of course, power can be used for good or “dirty” purposes. “Power poisons,” according to the authors, are View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 29 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Uber Is Worth Saving and How To Do It
Credit: Nicolas McComber Uber’s roller coaster ride from ride-sharing pioneer to shunned bad boy should be a lesson to other disruptive startups: Fighting hard is good, while fighting unfairly loses you respect, customers, and perhaps your company. “A company can fight... View Details
- 2019
- Book
The Business of Platforms: Strategy in the Age of Digital Competition, Innovation, and Power
By: Michael A. Cusumano, Annabelle Gawer and David B. Yoffie
The Business of Platforms explores the strategic, economic, and technology management challenges of digital platform businesses. We have five major themes in the book: 1) The world’s most valuable companies are all platforms, in part because platforms have... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Technology; Platform; Internet and the Web; Management; Competitive Strategy; Digital Platforms
Cusumano, Michael A., Annabelle Gawer, and David B. Yoffie. The Business of Platforms: Strategy in the Age of Digital Competition, Innovation, and Power. Harper Business, 2019.
- September 2005 (Revised June 2012)
- Case
New Songdo City
By: Arthur I Segel, Brandon Blaser, Gerardo Garza, Albert Kim, John Richard and Andrew Murphy
The government of South Korea has chosen John Hynes and Gale International to construct New Songdo City. This is an entirely new city, about the size of Boston, between the new Incheon airport and the capital of Seoul. The proposed city is the government's attempt to... View Details
Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Urban Development; Construction; Design; Climate Change; South Korea
Segel, Arthur I., Brandon Blaser, Gerardo Garza, Albert Kim, John Richard, and Andrew Murphy. "New Songdo City." Harvard Business School Case 206-019, September 2005. (Revised June 2012.)
- February 2004
- Case
Note on Human Behavior: Reason and Emotion
By: Nitin Nohria and Bridget Gurtler
Human beings are driven by reasons and emotions. On the one hand, as rational choice theorists assert, human beings are resourceful and evaluative as they strive to maximize their own interests. An individual's interests can converge or diverge from the interests of... View Details
Keywords: Behavior; Cognition and Thinking; Emotions; Interests; Organizations; Organizational Design; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
Nohria, Nitin, and Bridget Gurtler. "Note on Human Behavior: Reason and Emotion." Harvard Business School Case 404-104, February 2004.
- 01 May 2024
- What Do You Think?
Have You Had Enough?
month’s column What’s Enough to Make Us Happy? Don McLagan, MBA 1967, framed the subject for us with the first poem posted in 24 years as a response to one of my columns. It began with: “Somewhere between empty and excess, between meager and mansion, humble and View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 07 Mar 2023
- HBS Case
ChatGPT: Did Big Tech Set Up the World for an AI Bias Disaster?
that, at the end of the day, those are also the communities with the least amount of power.” Is short-term hubris clouding my judgement? As a market leader, Google might have felt invincible enough to ignore major shortcomings in key... View Details
- 01 Aug 2022
- What Do You Think?
Does Religious Belief Affect Organizational Performance?
Katherine Lawrence put it: “The current JIT rose out of both hubris and myopia.” Citing the Ukranian War and its impact on logistics, she points out that “our transportation networks and systems are susceptible to variables we cannot... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- 31 Aug 2021
- Book
Feeling Powerless at Work? Time to Agitate, Innovate, and Orchestrate
“Having once been wary of power is no guarantee that you will be immune to abusing it. [It] is another reminder that we are all susceptible to its intoxicating effects. The challenge is finding a balanced relationship that avoids the strictures of dirtiness and the... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 12 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Enron’s Lessons for Managers
that incompetence is inexperience, naiveté, an ends-justify-the-means attitude toward life, and so on. And most importantly, an inability to face reality when painful problems arise." Pride Goes Before A Fall Before fraud, he said, there was impressive innovation... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 Jan 2016
- What Do You Think?
Why Do Leaders Get Their Timing Wrong?
bias toward short-term results, as well as any hubris on their part, and to discover blind spots, top management should cultivate and rely on its strategy team, including employees, board members and consultants, to reduce the chance of... View Details
- 17 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Pro Basketball Coaches Display Racial Bias When Selecting Lineups
isn’t any slack.” Bias in business In a business context, Zhang surmises that racial bias might similarly be more prevalent when performance is high. It’s been well documented that company managers sometimes show hubris when a firm is... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Right from the Start: Common Traps for the New Leader
fairness; others are motivated by arrogance ("I can make these people") or hubris ("All it takes is hard work, support, and leadership"). Whatever the rationale, retaining managers with a history of mediocre... View Details
Keywords: by Dan Ciampa & Michael D. Watkins
- 30 Jul 2008
- Op-Ed
Why the U.S. Should Encourage FDI
countries can be tempted to think that they have a unique capability that will allow them to generate returns through direct investment, most such arguments are founded on hubris rather than on solid advantages or capabilities. Indeed,... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Angels Face the Innovator’s Dilemma
we know for sure is that nobody knows the right strategy as the disruption takes root." A Healthy Fear Of Success Sounding a further note of caution, Christensen described the disquieting display of hubris that he'd witnessed a year... View Details
- 05 Jul 2017
- What Do You Think?
Can Innovation Save Us From Ourselves?
Summing Up Do We Need to Give More Attention to the Dark Side of Innovation? Innovation may be able to help us deal with problems such as famine, pollution, and even global warming. But unless it can prove to be just as effective in combating destructive human traits... View Details
- 08 Nov 2024
- HBS Case
What Wartime Service Taught These Historic Leaders
improve efficiency, but on the negative side, he misused those same tools in a way that was very problematic in the military,” says Simons. It’s important to “learn as much from your failures as from your successes” and challenge the View Details
- 30 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019
platforms, and hybrid platforms. We suggest that the world is moving towards more and more hybrids, and we identify the key steps in building a successful platform. 3) Failure is more likely than winner-take-all: mispricing, mistrust, mistiming, and View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman