Leading Blog
JUNE 1, 2025
As a lecturer in management at Stanfords Graduate School of Business, an operator, a venture capitalist, and a consultant, he sees countless teams of managers, at all sorts of companies, struggling to lead their companies into the future.
Great Leadership By Dan
SEPTEMBER 19, 2013
Then, only two months into the deal, the venture capitalists that controlled our board pushed out my friend and replaced him with a total stranger. It allows us to temper our competitive fire with a commitment to only the highest ethical standards. A few weeks later the former CEO flew in to see me.
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Strategy Driven
MAY 25, 2011
That’s when the usual ethical and moral constraints are sometimes abandoned – always for good reasons, and always ‘just this once’ – in the name of expediency. That’s why, inevitably, there is a constant pressure to let the end justify the means. Sometimes this strategy even works. About the Author.
Strategy Driven
MAY 25, 2011
That’s when the usual ethical and moral constraints are sometimes abandoned – always for good reasons, and always ‘just this once’ – in the name of expediency. That’s why, inevitably, there is a constant pressure to let the end justify the means. Sometimes this strategy even works. About the Author.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 28, 2011
If determining whether your employees are losing their ability to effectively process ideas and information costs next to nothing , aren't you ethically obligated to find that out? While personal and professional pain around the likely loss of one's faculties is unavoidable, the legal and ethical implications have only begun to be addressed.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 25, 2023
A conversation with the venture capitalist, serial entrepreneur, and artificial intelligence enthusiast.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 9, 2011
Imagine the remorse of a venture capitalist unwilling to back Steve Jobs in 1977, because the personal-computer pioneer never finished college. There's no forbearance, though for lapses in ethics, an inability to work with people, or a lack of motivation. The lost opportunities can be excruciating.
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