article thumbnail

10 Remarkable People on Having a Career That Matters

Harvard Business Review

Every year, HBR interviews 10 people who’ve had fascinating careers. My career would not have been the same had the crash not occurred.” We asked her how she knew when a dramatic career move was the right one. Fired from that firm in 2002, he now runs a nonprofit and two biotech companies.

Career 13
article thumbnail

What Watching Too Much Star Trek Gets You

Harvard Business Review

August 2002: HBR's special innovation issue hits the street, and my contrarian article about the fickle nature of corporate innovation sits sandwiched between stories by the likes of Peter Drucker, Henry Chesbrough, John Seely Brown, and Richard Florida. Breaking Out of the Innovation Box" was not the title I had wanted, but it worked.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Strategy Lessons From Jean Tirole

Harvard Business Review

Gans wrote right after the Nobel announcement that he has “a whole shelf … and not a decorative shelf” of such books by Tirole and has relied on them throughout his career. Game-theoretic models of industry did indeed often offer wonderfully explicit advice. Sheesh, when did he do it?”.

article thumbnail

What Alan Greenspan Has Learned Since 2008

Harvard Business Review

Greenspan had a long career as a private economic analyst and forecaster behind him when he was appointed Federal Reserve chairman in 1987. In this view, the “soft landing” engineered by the Fed in 1994-1995, hailed at the time as a masterpiece of monetary policy-making, may have actually set the stage for the wild times that ensued.