MIT Sloan School of Management

Bursting the CEO Bubble

March 29, 2017

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Hal Gregersen for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, obtain subscription information, and receive HBR email alerts,…

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Why Strategy Execution Unravels—and What to Do About It

October 3, 2015

  Here is an excerpt from an article written by Donald Sull, Rebecca Homkes, and Charles Sull for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, obtain subscription…

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How to Make It OK for Employees to Challenge Your Ideas

May 18, 2015

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Hal Gregersen for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, obtain subscription information, and receive HBR email alerts,…

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Kara Penn: An interview by Bob Morris

March 29, 2015

Kara Penn is cofounder and principal consultant at Mission Spark, a management consulting firm dedicated to organizational change and improvement in complex and often resource-constrained settings. In guiding her clients’ thinking, planning, and action, Kara focuses on best practice and…

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How to Improve Your Business Writing

December 18, 2014

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Carolyn O’Hara for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, obtain subscription information, and receive HBR email alerts,…

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Fail Better: A book review by Bob Morris

October 20, 2014

Fail Better: Design Smart Mistakes and Succeed Sooner Anjali Sastry and Kara Penn Harvard Business Review Press (2014) “You can’t escape failure”: How to use it to achieve great success that would not otherwise be possible As I began to…

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Peter Weill on Digitally Driven Customer-Centricity

February 25, 2014

Peter Weill is chairman and senior research scientist at the Center for Information Systems Research (CISR) at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He recently spoke with The Boston Consulting Group’s Benjamin Rehberg about ways that financial services companies can…

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The Sources of Innovation: A book review by Bob Morris

September 8, 2013

The Sources of Innovation Eric von Hippel Oxford University Press (1988) In the “cave” of innovation shadows, here is a primary source of light To those of you who are unfamiliar with Eric von Hippel, here is an introduction: “I…

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Organizational Culture and Leadership: A book review by Bob Morris

June 1, 2013

Organizational Culture and Leadership (Fourth Edition) Edgar H. Schein Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2010) How and why organizational cultures, microcultures, macrocultures, and subcultures reveal multidimensional human nature This is the latest edition of a “business classic” that was first published in…

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