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The Moral Leader - Course Catalog
behavior that can derail leaders. In addition, fiction lets students see leaders from the inside. In real life, people in charge rarely give complete, unvarnished accounts of their thinking. In contrast, View Details
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Becca Carnahan
resumes, cover letters, and LinkedIn profiles and specializes in personal branding and storytelling. Becca is a proud working mom of two from Massachusetts and writes about her humorous parenting experiences for her blog and other top parenting websites. Work... View Details
- Portrait Project
Smriti Jayaraman
arms of Silicon Valley, the Oz I was fated to call home. Here, I grew up watching the rise of tech giants and developed my own tenacious confidence in the power of technology. Today, video-messaging is not science fiction but a speck... View Details
- 26 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
Climate Week NYC 2023
and Chief Solutionist Solitaire Townsend and Group CEO Lucy Shea were dynamic and insightful moderating the energizing panels I attended: Hollywood’s Starring Role in the Climate Economy and How Storytelling Advances Solutions, where Tory Stephens, Grist’s Climate... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Faculty Books
Questions of Character by Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. (HBS Press) Professor Badaracco argues that serious fiction provides us with memorable characters facing challenges similar to those that confront business leaders. Through analysis of the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
In Character: A Case Discussion Drama
the business but no day-to-day role). The case is fictional but is based on a combination of several real businesses encountered by Boris Tsimerinov (PLDA 16, 2017), managing director at Semper8 Capital, a Toronto-based investment firm.... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
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Linda Leung
In her junior and senior undergraduate years, Linda Leung fulfilled the dream job of nerds, or at least Star Wars enthusiasts, worldwide: she developed simulation models for ion propulsion engines, the real-world technology behind the View Details
- 23 Feb 2011
- News
A Capitalist in China
something,” he explained. “I couldn’t do sculpture or drawing on the road, but I could write.” The idea for a novel came to him one day in a Beijing bookstore when he discovered a paucity of fiction titles about China written for an... View Details
- Portrait Project
Laurent Chenot
companies or their lives. I want to write creative fiction that entertain people but also make them think. I want to raise my kids for whoever they are and not for what I want them to be. I want to be a true support for my partner,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Last Look
identify this photo as related to the Business Game competition. But what students, and when? Demer, who says it’s the 1960s, recalls that the game required small groups of students to make key budget decisions and “balance marketing, R&D, and other expenditures” for a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Buy the Book
industry, and the business of book clubs to analyze the success of various modes of marketing. Patterson, a former chairman of J. Walter Thompson, published his first mystery novel in 1976 and made fiction writing a full-time pursuit... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Faculty Books
Harder Than I Thought: Adventures of a Twenty-First Century Leader by Robert D. Austin, Richard L. Nolan, and Shannon O'Donnell (Harvard Business Review Press) This fictional narrative about newly minted CEO Jim Barton allows readers to... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Road Tested
Bookshelf: “I read sci-fi and fantasy fiction with my 15-year-old son. We really enjoy anything by V. E. Schwab. There’s also a Scholomance series, by Naomi Novik, that we enjoyed—just imagine Hogwarts meets the Hunger Games.” Local... View Details
- 11 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 11
a fictional case study on new product development and improvement after the successful launch of a first breakthrough product. Topics include business planning for brand name products, finance and investment for the development of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 20 Apr 2020
- News
To Build Connection in Quarantine, Clubs Go Virtual
Alumni Explore Challenge of Digital Shift More than 80 alumni around the world attended the HBS Healthcare Alumni Association’s Virtual Roundtable (VRT), “Digital Transformation – Facts, Fiction and Beliefs” via Webex on March 24.... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016
Broughton (MBA 2006) (Harper) A compendium of practical knowledge, trivia, and worldly wisdom for boys of all ages, designed as an informal full-color family scrapbook treasured by generations of one fictional family at their Adirondack... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Cast of Characters
Tsai’s (MBA 1989) Napa winery, Moone-Tsai. THE SAMURAI: Tōru “Decades of business memos” led Stephanie Spong (MBA 1992) to embrace the “freedom of fictional storytelling” under the pseudonym Stephanie R. Sorensen. Her first novel, Tōru:... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 06 Aug 2001
- Research & Ideas
Go Global—or No? Can You Make the Case?
Ever wanted to judge a Harvard Business Review case study? Here's your chance. In its June issue, Harvard Business Review published an account of the fictional company, DataClear, authored by Harvard Business School associate professor... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
- 18 Jun 2001
- Lessons from the Classroom
Why Leaders Need Great Books
"Blessed Assurance" is a story that often leaves a strong impression on the MBA students who take his course, called The Moral Leader. Like many other works of literature in The Moral Leader, both fiction and non-fiction,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 2
fictional three-party negotiation between a primary insurer and two reinsurers. It is appropriate for use in a wide variety of courses, including Financial Institutions, Negotiations, and courses related to the Insurance and Reinsurance... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne