Clay Christensen, Harvard Business School professor and best-selling author, discusses his new book and explains why it's essential to follow your commitments 100% of the time. For more, read his article, How Will You Measure Your Life? Posting Guidelines We hope the conversations that take place on HBR.org will be energetic, constructive, and thought-provoking. To ensure the quality of the discussion, our moderating team will review all comments and may edit them for clarity, length, and relevance. Comments that are overly promotional, mean-spirited, or off-topic may be deleted per the moderators' judgment. All postings become the property of Harvard Business School Publishing Continue reading →
EVEN more private jets than usual landed at Santa Barbara airport on May 9th, as some 35 billionaires and a score or so of spouses flew in for a behind-closed-doors meeting in the luxurious Bacara resort. They included Warren Buffett and Bill Gates, America’s two richest men; Melinda Gates, Ted Turner and Steve and Jean Case, as well as youngsters such as Elon Musk, a founder of PayPal, Pierre Omidyar, the founder of eBay both in their 40s. Their mission: to help each other become better philanthropists. This was the second meeting, after last year’s in Tucson, Arizona, to be held under the auspices of the Giving Pledge, launched by Mr Buffett and the Gateses in June 2010 to encourage America’s billionaires to make a ... Continue reading →
EVEN more private jets than usual landed at Santa Barbara airport on May 9th, as some 35 billionaires and a score or so of spouses flew in for a behind-closed-doors meeting in the luxurious Bacara resort. They included Warren Buffett and Bill Gates, America’s two richest men; Melinda Gates, Ted Turner and Steve and Jean Case, as well as youngsters such as Elon Musk, a founder of PayPal, Pierre Omidyar, the founder of eBay both in their 40s. Their mission: to help each other become better philanthropists. This was the second meeting, after last year’s in Tucson, Arizona, to be held under the auspices of the Giving Pledge, launched by Mr Buffett and the Gateses in June 2010 to encourage America’s billionaires to make a ... Continue reading →