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26 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Manager or Mentor? Why You Must Be Both

to talk with him about things I hadn't talked with anybody about." Thomas's experiences had been giving him "a sense of risk and marginality," he said. By discussing it with the older professor, the two of them were able to... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

02 Dec 2019
What Do You Think?

How Does a Company like Boeing Respond to Intense Competitive Pressure?

Hans-Peter Sebregondi, quoting from a Deloitte thought piece, wrote, “If your executive suite is like most discussion usually centers on the positive aspects of the company’s strategy and the need to rally around said strategy, with scant... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Air Transportation

February 2007
Module Note

The Prince Summary: Exercising Authority

By: Sandra J. Sucher

A summary of the major themes discussed in the ninth class of The Moral Leader (EC curriculum). View Details

Keywords: Leadership; Moral Sensibility; Business Education

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09 Oct 2013
News

Is J.C. Penney Going to Make It?

01 Oct 2009
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Can the “Masks of Command” Coexist with Authentic Leadership?

masks of command force the leader to be something other than his or her true self? Can a leader both act and be real?" (To underline questions about the theatrical nature of leadership that Bennis raises, he selected actress Glenn... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

June 2020 (Revised September 2020)
Case

Shellye Archambeau: Becoming a CEO (A)

By: Tsedal Neeley and John Masko

With the economy in a freefall, MetricStream is losing customers, hemorrhaging cash and struggling to make payroll. Several board members are threatening to quit. Others are pressing to sell the company even at dismally low valuations. It’s 2008 and lightning has... View Details

Keywords: Leadership; Race; Gender; Leadership Style; Risk and Uncertainty; Change; Prejudice and Bias; Decision Making; Personal Development and Career; Technology Industry; California

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21 Oct 2022
News

Trust - How Companies Build It, Lose It & Regain It

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Huge loss for Priceline

20 Apr 2015
News

Chelsea Clinton on Using Data to Eliminate the Gender Gap

February 2007 (Revised March 2007)
Module Note

Truman and the Bomb Summary: Balancing Benefits and Harms

By: Sandra J. Sucher

A summary of the major themes discussed in the eleventh class of The Moral Leader (EC curriculum). View Details

Keywords: History; Leadership; Ethics; Decision Choices and Conditions; Government and Politics

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Peter Tufano is a Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School and Senior Advisor to the Harvard Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability. From 2011 to 2021, he served as the Peter Moores Dean at View Details

06 Mar 2013
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Women MBAs at Harvard Business School

brunt of the work/family trade-off decisions. And classroom discussions indicate that students just assume that's the way it goes. In the case, Nohria recalls his experience teaching the first-year required View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

08 May 2017
Blog Post

Learning through the Case Method

leadership in the private sector. HBS was my top choice both because of the unrivaled opportunities it could lead me to, but also because of the renowned case method. View Video The case method, for those who aren’t familiar, is a... View Details

15 Mar 2017
News

What's Your Favorite Case to Teach?

07 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders

course, VCs I interviewed didn't use the word "career imprint"; still, what they did point to were important differences in the kinds of capabilities, connections, confidence, and cognition that people developed at these different firms. And these differences... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

14 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Andy Grove on the Confident Leader

Christensen and Walter Kiechel, editorial director of Harvard Business School Publishing, to discuss these and other questions confronting business leaders today. Kiechel: You've spoken of high-tech companies, Intel included, moving... View Details

Keywords: by Walter Kiechel; Technology

March 2021
Case

Astralis Group: Determining a Brand Strategy

By: Benjamin C. Esty, Mette Fuglsang Hjortshoej and Emilie Billaud

After launching a Danish esports company in July 2019, and going public in December 2019 with multiple brands associated with different games, the Astralis leadership team was contemplating a shift to a single, corporate brand. While the original arguments for... View Details

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January 2009 (Revised February 2009)
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Pitney Bowes: Employer Health Strategy

By: Michael E. Porter and Jennifer F Baron

Pitney Bowes, a Fortune 500 mail and document management firm, offered its first health plans in the years following World War II. Over the ensuing decades, Pitney Bowes adapted its approach to employee health amid rising health care costs, shifting employer attitudes... View Details

Keywords: Cost; Insurance; Policy; Health Care and Treatment; Compensation and Benefits; Employees; Corporate Strategy

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