Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Of course, HBS hopes to educate leaders who make a positive difference in the world, but that's harder to do than it might seem. Gerstner, of course, led IBM to a historic turnaround. They can reject advice and they can listen and reverse course when they are wrong. Another key strategy is to match the person to the situation.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Although many business executives sat through one, or perhaps several, courses in economics while in school, most probably took away little more than the supply and demand graphs to which they were introduced early in their first course. Admittedly, better pricing of options has been a mixed blessing.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

I was thinking about that story by Thomas Merton during a recent board meeting. Early on in our careers, we might speak up without concern or context. Of course, underlying all that.does anything need to be said at all? The CEO and CFO were marching through their 112-slide presentation. than "when should I speak up?"

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