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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
Holger Rathgeber (Portfolio) The authors use a parable of a stressed meerkat community in the Kalahari Desert to consider why organizations rise and fall and how they can rise again in the face of adversity. Ashley's War: The Untold Story of a View Details
- 04 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 4
whether the fruits of a positive macro-level shock have been expropriated by insiders. Using the example of Indian firms, we show that an influential finding is reversed when we take these differences into account. We further argue that the conventional View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
Abstract—Seven experiments explore people's decisions to share or withhold personal information and the wisdom of such decisions. When people choose not to reveal information—to be "hiders"—they are judged negatively by others...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Life Is a Startup
discussions about the pitfalls that might cause that high rate of failure? The ways in which we resist architecting prenuptial agreements or other ways that could be where we see a lot of analogs from founding teams, the founding teams...
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- 03 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 3
And wise leaders use apprenticeship and mentoring to cultivate practical wisdom in others. Read the article: http://hbr.org/2011/05/the-big-idea-the-wise-leader/ar/1 Extreme Productivity Authors:Robert C. Pozen Publication:Harvard...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
it, you would quit once a week." If the gypsies were to bring their road show to Macondo again, surely the Internet is the latest wonder they would be trumpeting. The conventional wisdom is that Internet development in the region is four...
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- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
skills to attract funders for his ships, lifeboats, supplies, and food. He also recognized the importance of assembling a team that could work together and embrace high levels of risk and uncertainty—qualities that proved particularly...
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- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
adjacent parking lot, which he hopes will be part of a redevelopment project when the nearby Joe Louis Arena, where the Detroit Red Wings hockey team plays, is demolished. “This is an area that eventually is going to get developed. It...
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April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
sanctification, contributing to the growing literature on social construction of value. 2013 pub Six Ways to Sink a Growth Initiative By: Laurie, Donald L., and J. Bruce Harreld Abstract—The conventional wisdom about how best to pursue...
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Anna Secino
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Middle Way
a room. He’s gregarious without being dominating. He’ll ask that you tell him to shut up if he’s being an idiot before delivering wisdom that sounds as if it came from the oracle itself. His laugh can fill a space. He asks about a...
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Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
The rise of e-commerce. Big data. AI. Given these trends (and many others), there’s no doubt that sales is changing. Yet much of the current conventional wisdom is misleading and not supported by empirical data. In this no-nonsense book,...
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- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
managing some of the most dangerous mercenaries in Africa, battling rebels with a crew of anti-Castro Cuban exiles, and learning what the rest of the intelligence world was dying to know: the location of Che Guevara. He describes how he and his View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
from whence and why they came, we edge closer to the wisdom that makes being 60-something pretty damned interesting. Jeffrey Jenest (MBA 1978) One student’s teachings Eight years ago, I was a math teacher and principal of a school in...
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Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
surprised us, both by revealing the extent of entrepreneurial involvement among HBS alumni and by giving clear evidence of the path to entrepreneurship," observes Stevenson. "It debunked the common wisdom that some people are born to be...
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- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
founder and CEO, J.B. Schramm; Chief Strategy Officer, Mora Segal; and the College Summit team must now decide whether or not to dramatically redefine their organization's theory of change. College Summit could continue to "get...
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Martha Lagace