Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 22, 2013
It’s all part of a plan for President Kennedy to make the most critical decision in his life—how to respond in the Cuban Missile Crisis. Eighteen months earlier, he’d made arguably the worst decision he ever made, to support an ill-conceived covert operation to unseat Fidel Castro, known today as the Bay of Pigs fiasco.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 8, 2015
In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, U.S. “For the military,” Petraeus observed, “learning faster than the enemy meant deploying lessons learned teams and ensuring commanders are focused on identifying the need to make changes to our big ideas, campaign plans, organizational structures, equipment, and operational bases.”
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 28, 2014
In 1922, Sears’s rural mail-order catalogue business was already facing an existential crisis. On those grounds, he says, things look bad not just for Sears and all large chain stores, which before the war were considered a threat to so many Americans’ dreams of setting up their own independent local retail operations.
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