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- 29 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Entrepreneurial Venture: A Conversation
Valentine's Day. For the first time, FedEx closed due to the storm and would not be able to deliver our flowers. In the flower business, you are given credit for making a marriage work, and you're also blamed for destroying a...
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by Susan Young
- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
what it is. I take the blame for it." I think people respect that. I make more mistakes than anybody, and that's my goal. If I'm making enough decisions, I'm making more mistakes. Sahlman: Thank you very much. We're very proud of you...
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- 04 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 4
with U.K. and U.S. regulators the firm agreed to pay $450 million in fines. Within a few days of the settlement, Barclays' CEO, Robert Diamond, had resigned under pressure from British regulators. Diamond blamed a small number of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
over the years. The importance of women as consumers, in particular, has led to a long-standing critique of the industry as an instrument for the oppression of women by men (and their corporations). Feminist writers have regularly blamed...
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- 14 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 14
may be passing them by. In short, they'd rather do the wrong thing well than do the right thing poorly. They get stuck in this unproductive and unfulfilling pattern and can't break free. Of course, leaders in organizations bear some of the View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Dean Srikant Datar’s 2023 Commencement Remarks | About
happens. They see failure not as something that weighs them down, but as something that teaches them valuable lessons. Third, they think of their organization ahead of themselves. It is never about them. They are willing to take the blame...
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- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
expense of longer-term investments―makes it difficult for firms to make the investments necessary to build competitive advantage. "Short termism" has been blamed for everything from the decline of the U.S. automobile industry to...
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Carmen Nobel
- 05 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 5, 2010
discussion suggests that an excessive focus on "managing the numbers"-delivering quarterly earnings at the expense of longer-term investments-makes it difficult for firms to make the investments necessary to build competitive advantage. "Short...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation
the long-term lending most borrowers need—is now performed outside the channels most visible to the Federal Reserve or the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. We should not blame anyone but ourselves for this. Almost 40 years ago, savers...
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by Staff
- 12 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
verdicts, increasing the probability of a favorable outcome. Download working paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54560 Motivated Errors By: Exley, Christine L., and Judd B. Kessler Abstract—Behavioral biases that cause errors in decision-making are...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?
Schumer's bill as a misguided attempt at reform and blamed stockholders, not management, for the fixation on short-term financial results: "Excessive stockholder power is precisely what caused the short-term fixation that led to the...
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by Roger Thompson
- 05 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments
often meant higher charges to the public for electricity, water, or other public services. Some increases in rates were no doubt needed to get governments out of subsidies, but large increases were blamed on the new private owners. This...
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- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
a jumper in 1997. A rider since the age of 10 (“I blame my mother for getting me into it”), Minard saw great potential in Westley. But the horse suffered from a degenerative eye disease that could lead to blindness. The vet advised Minard...
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- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
of the funds—at the state level the Massachusetts Transportation Authority will issue revenue bonds to finance construction. While it is true the cost of the project has risen from $2.2 billion in 1983 (not indexed for inflation) to $14.6 billion today, it is very...
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- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
ambiguity, motivated blindness, conflicts of interest, the slippery slope, and efforts of others to mislead us. As a manager, you can develop your noticing skills by acknowledging responsibility when things go wrong rather than blaming...
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Carmen Nobel
- 09 May 2021
- Blog Post
Meet the MoMBAs – Persisting Through a Difficult Year
classroom, so I took a semester off. What advice do you have for others thinking about starting a family? This is advice from one of my favorite professors at HBS: Don't take too much credit or too much blame for parenting. I parent very...
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Podcast - Forum for Growth & Innovation
dilemma because it's almost like the educational dilemma, right? Because at some point in time, the fact is that when people come to a school and they don't get what they wanted out of the school, who do they blame? Bob Moesta: They blame...
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- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
of US workers hate their jobs and don’t want to show up on Monday morning, and Slater lays some of the blame for this at the doors of leaders: When their selfish actions diminish the effectiveness of their teams, they commit the ultimate...
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- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
government blames the industrial sector, thus holding manufacturers responsible. The upcoming period of legislative meetings will tackle the new law on containers and packages. There are several proposals, and the last version I have...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
just individual humans. And technology is developed, and technology is deployed in a system that rewards certain deployments—and maybe others less. So people should not blame the tools if they’re worried about the future. They should fix...
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