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- 02 Jul 2014
- What Do You Think?
Are Today’s Business Heroes Challenging Our Ideas About Leadership?
formal leadership training nor thought of cashing out. Are founders and entrepreneurs a separate breed? Should they be excused from a discussion of great leadership? Or are the most successful among their ranks a harbinger of the future...
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by James Heskett
- 06 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
How Small Wins Unleash Creativity
finally, affiliation—any action that serves to develop mutual trust, appreciation, and even affection among coworkers. Amabile acknowledges that financial constraints can impede some of the catalysts, especially when it comes to sufficient material resources. But...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Effective Communication in the Age of Zoom
“It's not you, it's me.” Well, today, the workforce equivalent is "My Wi-Fi isn't working right now." You know, this is an excuse that we're starting to see pop up everywhere because people, you know, are finding a time and place for...
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- 05 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 5, 2016
measure of carbon embedded within their institutional clients’ assets under custody to help clients understand the climate risk in their portfolios. Download working paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51261 Finding View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 15
reaffirmed his commitment to these targets, sending a clear signal to Henkel employees and external stakeholders that excuses were no longer acceptable. Rorsted next introduced a new set of five company values-replacing the previous list...
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Carmen Nobel
- 04 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009
actions and concurrent strategies for reframing uncomfortable situations, forgoing decisions, and forgetting those decisions altogether. Key concepts include: Because people do not want to be perceived as (or feel) unethical or immoral, they make View Details
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by Staff
- 17 Dec 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
‘Ted Levitt Changed My Life’
group decided that I would be the social director!" The benefit was having a good excuse to invite Levitt, who was not teaching in the AMP program, to dinner. "We became good friends," she recalls, adding that she applied a...
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- 10 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 10
culture of making excuses for performance shortfalls. These issues not only plagued Mekong, but also the portfolio companies that they took positions in. The case recounts how the founder and managing partner of Mekong undertook a process...
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Martha Lagace
- 17 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility
providing managers with a convenient excuse when they fail to achieve economic objectives. Mismanagement can be attributed to efforts to be "socially responsible." We elaborate these criticisms and respond to them in another...
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by Manda Salls
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Inside Intel
find excuses to visit Fab 3 just so they could put a bunny suit on.” Fab 3 was also important because it introduced the “McDonald’s approach” to erecting fabs. They were to be made as similar as possible. In the world of “McIntel,” exact...
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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
good excuse to invite Levitt, who was not teaching in the AMP program, to dinner. “We became good friends,” she recalls, adding that she applied a number of Levitt’s insights over the years in her role as president and CEO of Estée Lauder...
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- 13 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Create Winning Streaks
performance levels. Tough is OK. Fear is not a great way to build confidence, but being tough, setting high standards, and not accepting excuses is effective at driving people and organizations to higher performance. Biographies Rosabeth...
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by Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Walter Kiechel
- 19 May 2022
- News
Leading to Salvation
we did not have anyone to help us. Oh, excuse me. I get emotional because Bob kept us, you know, my husband, I knew my husband would be unhappy without a funeral chapel, because when he got ready to die, I was asking him, I said, what do...
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- 14 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Thriving in the Turbulence of Emerging Markets
through turbulence. In particular, she and her family emphasized maintaining strong capital equity structures to deal with currency volatility, seeking reliable local partners, and never forgetting long-term opportunities. "For managers and for the leadership,...
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- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
fateful day in 1977. “We started to chat, and the phone rang,” recalls Rogers. When Cook hung up, he had tears in his eyes. “I offered to excuse myself, but he said, ‘No, no, let me tell you what just happened.’ ” Wells Fargo Bank had...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
to get better at. Similar to many organizations—whether you’re remote, hybrid, or fully in-person—we are always optimizing for the best ways for global teams to work together. We don’t get to excuse ourselves from the complexity of time...
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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
(which are often legal and unavoidable), while maintaining a strong anti-corruption and anti-capture stance. HBS professor Lou Wells, with many years of experience working on mining agreements and as a negotiator in Africa and Indonesia, has witnessed a variety of...
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- 12 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting
very hard to develop. This can be an excuse for not doing the hard analytical work necessary to specify and validate the relationships that are believed to exist. The better response is to improve poor measurement methodologies and invent...
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by Martha Lagace
- 09 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale
inside that matters. There was an 8086; there was an 8186, which had a very brief history. There was the 8286. IBM, which was the king of the industry, always insisted that there be multiple sources. The excuse for this was that in case...
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- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
executive branch a credible political excuse not to act. Maurer cautions that these institutions are now under strain and that a collapse might open the empire trap once more. With shrewd and timely analysis, this book considers American...
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Carmen Nobel