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- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How the Giants of Enterprise Seized the Future
"feeling tone" he engendered around himself. He truly—passionately—believed you could learn from anybody. Because ordinary people knew that, they taught him all they could. Humility was a trait which no one ever accused Charles...
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by Richard S. Tedlow
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Six Receive 2017 HBS Alumni Achievement Award
top of the curve, the learnings are humility and a sense of proportion. Because the thing you know is you’re coming down. At the bottom of the curve, what you know is it will turn again.” Long-Term Investment “If you can get people to...
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- 12 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
Investors Have More Than Money to Offer Entrepreneurs
yourself. I always appreciate the humility that comes from anyone who knows what they don’t know and asks for help. It is impossible for anyone to know everything. How to ask There are three ways every founder should interact with their...
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by Julia Austin
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
restrictive laws and authoritarian regimes. He found that these leaders were motivated by bedrock values and sometimes―but not always―driven by faith. They chose to operate in socially productive fields, interacted with humility with...
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- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
of risk talk the CRO can enable the real work of risk management to take place not in his own function but in the business. In both cases, facilitation involved a significant degree of humility on the part of the CRO, manifest in limited...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
productive fields, interacted with humility with stakeholders, and felt a duty to support their communities. While far from perfect, each one showed that profit and purpose could be reconciled. Inspired by these passionate and pragmatic...
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- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Teachable Moments
science. “When someone asked Sir Laurence Olivier what makes a great actor,” DeLong writes, “he responded, ‘The humility to prepare and the confidence to pull it off.’ This is the paradox of teaching for me.” It All Matters The first five...
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- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Around the World
the field about customer preferences for new products. Second, they learned how to function as a team to bring out the best in everyone (something they practiced in FIELD 1). Third, they learned a bit of humility by discovering that ideas...
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- 05 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017
behavioral ethics. I explore why some decisions are much more easily resolved in the classroom than in practice and offer three ways to more effectively prepare students: integrating ethical decision-making with core-discipline teaching, cultivating moral View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Reimagining the MBA
Ask The Power of Leadership Groups for Staying on Track Related Links Watch Professor Joshua Margolis on teaching business ethics to MBA students Watch Dean Nohria's TED Talk on practicing moral humility The sense of excitement...
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- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
also learned how not to mess up a sales force. So there's a lot of specific learning. I think there's a flip side to what Scott just said. There's a certain sense of humility that can come out of being at HBS, too, which is healthy. To...
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- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
reality, articulate the vision and set the strategic path to it, enshrine the institutional values, demand performance, empower the people, and then get out of the way and say thank you.” A leader should also be a good listener, encourage a team culture, and be willing...
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- 20 Feb 2006
- HBS Case
Oprah: A Case Study Comes Alive
surprisingly rare message from the public stage at this moment in history. And it was said so accessibly, with great inspiration but also with great humility. That combination of inspiration and humility I found absolutely...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
things, like what to do with defunct thermal plants. It took a certain amount of humility for them to actually move in this direction, as well as, very importantly, senior leadership to drive the organization to have a willingness to,...
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- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
motivated both to elicit sympathy and impress others. Despite the belief that combining bragging with complaining or humility confers the benefits of each strategy, we find that humblebragging confers the benefits of neither, instead...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
to a path of citizen awareness and action paved with humility and wisdom. She did all this with care, courage, dedication, and grace. Her life and work are indisputable proof of the enormous positive difference that one person can make....
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- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna. I'm a writer for the HBS Alumni Bulletin, and in July I flew from Boston to Omaha to spend a day with Taylor Keen (MPA 1996/ MBA 1997), a professor of entrepreneurship at...
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in the choices we ultimately make as leaders and strategic actors. Face the possibility that our strongly held views might be wrong-or of limited applicability in a new environment or shifting strategic landscape-and develop an appreciation for the View Details