Dutch Leonard

Eliot I. Snider and Family Baker Foundation Professor
and Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus
George F. Baker, Jr. Professor of Public Management

Herman B. ("Dutch") Leonard is Eliot I. Snider and Family Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School and the George F. Baker, Jr. Professor of Public Sector Management at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. In addition, he serves as co-chair of the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative. He teaches extensively in executive programs at the Business School and the Kennedy School and around the world in the areas of general organizational strategy, governance, performance management, crisis management and leadership, and corporate social responsibility. His work on leadership focuses on innovation, creativity, effective decision-making, and advocacy and persuasion. His current work in leadership and management is focused on the relationship between governance, accountability, and performance, and emphasizes the use of performance management as a tool for enhancing accountability. He has also worked and taught extensively in the area of crisis management and on issues related to corporate social responsibility. He is the co-author Why Was Boston Strong? (2014) and of Capitalism at Risk: Rethinking the Role of Business (2011), co-editor of Managing Crises (2009), the author of Checks Unbalanced: The Quiet Side of Public Spending (1984), of By Choice or By Chance: Tracking the Values in Massachusetts Public Spending (1992), and (annually from 1993 through 1999) of The Federal Budget and the States (an annual report on the geographic distribution of federal spending and taxation).

Professor Leonard is a member of the American Repertory Theatre Board of Trustees, was a member of the Board of Directors of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, a 1,000,000-member Massachusetts HMO and is a former director of the Hitachi Foundation and of the ACLU of Massachusetts. He was for a decade a member of the board of directors of the Massachusetts Health and Educational Facilities Authority and of CIVIC Investments, and was a member of the Massachusetts Commission on Performance Enhancement. He has been a financial advisor to the Connecticut Governor's Office of Policy and Management, to the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority, and to the Central Artery-Third Harbor Tunnel Project. Professor Leonard was a member of the Governor's Council on Economic Policy for the State of Alaska, of the Governor's Advisory Council on Infrastructure in Massachusetts, and of the U.S. Senate Budget Committee's Private Sector Advisory Committee on Infrastructure. He served as chairman of the Massachusetts Governor's Task Force on Tuition Prepayment Plans, on the National Academy of Sciences Committees on National Urban Policy and on the Superconducting Supercollider, and on the New York City Comptroller's Debt Management Advisory Committee. In addition to his academic studies and teaching, he has been chief financial officer and chief executive officer of a human services agency and has served as a director of public, non-profit, and private sector organizations.

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Professor Leonard's research focuses on understanding the role of leadership in the development of strategy and processes for execution in private sector and socially-oriented organizations, including an emphasis on innovation, uncertainty, building successful adaptive response in rapidly-evolving environments, enterprise risk management, and crisis management.

Keywords: Strategy And Leadership; Social Business; Social Capital; Social Enterprise; Social Entrepreneurship; Risk Management; Crisis Management

Crisis Management

This project examines the special challenges of leadership in crisis situations and the associated challenges of leadership in preparing in advance for the possibility of crises to come. It includes both physical life safety crises (natural disasters, industrial accidents, and terrorism) and reputational crises (scandals, embezzlement, stock fraud, and so on). What behaviors and organizational structures perform best when crises strike? And what can leaders do in advance to create the structures and conditions that make high performance more likely in the event of a future crisis? This project includes work on designing organizational structures that are most likely to be able to handle both the technical challenges of crisis action and the political challenges that are likely to arise as well.

Governance, Accountability, and Performance for Social Enterprise

This project examines the relationship between governance structures, accountability relationships, and performance outcomes for social enterprises. Most previous work in this area has examined these topics separately, or in pairs; the purpose of this project is to explore the appropriate linkages and relationships among the three. The working hypothesis is that more carefully designed integration of systems of governance, accountability, and performance will improve all three.

Business Leadership and Corporate Social Responsibility

This project focuses on how business leaders can be most effective at creating better social outcomes and vibrant, successful businesses at the same time. What forms of leadership -- and in what venues (in the community, in the corporation, in politics, ...) -- turn out to be most effective at creating business value and social value simultaneously?

Featured Work

Capitalism at Risk: Rethinking the Role of Business

The spread of capitalism worldwide has made people wealthier than ever before. But capitalism's future is far from assured. The global financial meltdown of 2008 nearly produced a great depression. Economies in Europe are still teetering. Income inequality, resource depletion, mass migrations from poor to rich countries, religious fundamentalism--these are just a few of the threats to continuing prosperity. How can capitalism be sustained? And who should spearhead the effort? Critics turn to government. In Capitalism at Risk, Harvard Business School professors Joseph Bower, Herman Leonard, and Lynn Paine argue that while governments must play a role, businesses should take the lead. For enterprising companies--whether large multinationals, established regional players, or small start-ups--the current threats to market capitalism present important opportunities. Capitalism at Risk draws on discussions with business leaders around the world to identify ten potential disruptors of the global market system. Presenting examples of companies already making a difference, the authors explain how business must serve both as innovator and activist--developing corporate strategies that effect change at the community, national, and international levels. Filled with rich insights, Capitalism at Risk presents a compelling and constructive vision for the future of market capitalism.

Capitalism at Risk: An Interview with Dutch Leonard and Lynn Paine

(Harvard Business Review)

Dutch Leonard and Lynn Paine, Harvard Business School professors and coauthors of "Capitalism at Risk: Rethinking the Role of Business," describe how corporate leaders are responding to the forces challenging the free market.

Frameworks for Dialogue and Research about Social Impact Investing

Social Impact Investment is a rapidly expanding field, but terminology in the field is poorly defined and imprecise. This note suggests frameworks that help to clarify important dimensions of SII projects, distinguishing and clarifying key differences in approaches to social impact investments undertaken by different organizations and funders.

Books

Bower, Joseph L., Dutch Leonard, and Lynn S. Paine. Capitalism at Risk: How Business Can Lead. Updated and expanded ed. Boston: Harvard Business Review Press, 2020. View Details
Howitt, Arnold M., Dutch Leonard and David W. Giles, eds. Public Health Preparedness: Case Studies in Policy and Management. Washington, DC: American Public Health Association, 2017. View Details
Bower, Joseph L., Herman B. Leonard, and Lynn S. Paine. Capitalism at Risk: Rethinking the Role of Business. Boston: Harvard Business Review Press, 2011. (Published in Chinese as "Qi ye zai jing ji zhong de jue se," Beijing: China Machine Press, 2012. Published in Japanese as ハーバードが教える 10年後に生き残る会社、消える会社, Tokuma Shoten Publishing Co., Ltd., 2013.) View Details
Howitt, Arnold M. and Herman B. Leonard, eds. Managing Crises: Responses to Large-Scale Emergencies. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 2009. View Details
Wei-Skillern, Jane, James Austin, Herman Leonard, and Howard Stevenson. Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector. SAGE Publications, 2007. View Details
Leonard, Dutch. Checks Unbalanced: The Quiet Side of Public Spending. Basic Books, 1986. View Details
Leonard, Dutch, Janet K. Marantz, and Karl E. Case. Discrimination in Rural Housing. Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath and Company, 1976. View Details

Journal Articles

Howitt, Arnold M., Dutch Leonard, and David W. Giles. "Leadership in Routine Emergencies and Crises: The Deepwater Horizon Incident." Special Issue on Game Changers: Turning the Tide on Maritime Challenges. Proceedings of the Marine Safety & Security Council, the Coast Guard Journal of Safety at Sea 74, no. 2 (May–December 2017): 108–115. View Details
Leonard, Dutch, Arnold M. Howitt, Christine M. Cole, and Joseph W. Pfeifer. "Command under Attack: What We've Learned Since 9/11 about Managing Crises." The Conversation (September 9, 2016). View Details
Leonard, Dutch, Arnold M. Howitt, Christine M. Cole, and Philip B. Heymann. "Making Boston Stronger." ICSS Journal 2, no. 2 (July–August 2014): 15–23. View Details
Leonard, Dutch, Christine M. Cole, and Arnold M. Howitt. "Why Was Boston Strong? Law Enforcement Lessons from the Boston Marathon Bombing." Gazette (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) 76, no. 4 (2014): 14–16. View Details
Leonard, Dutch, and Arnold M. Howitt. "Boston Marathon Bombing Response." Crisis Response Journal 8, no. 4 (2013): 18–21. View Details
Leonard, Dutch, and Arnold M. Howitt. "The Medical Response to the Boston Marathon Bombings." ICSS Journal 1, no. 2 (June 2013): 74–77. View Details
Howitt, Arnold M., Haruo Hayashi, Hiromi Akiyama, David W. Giles, and Dutch Leonard. "An Incident Management System for Japan?" Crisis Response Journal 9, no. 1 (2013): 17–19. View Details
Rashid, Faaiza, Amy C. Edmondson, and Herman B. Leonard. "Leadership Lessons from the Chilean Mine Rescue." Harvard Business Review 91, nos. 7/8 (July–August 2013): 113–119. View Details
Leonard, Herman B. "Dutch", and Arnold M. Howitt. "Working Together in Crises." Crisis Response Journal 7, no. 4 (2012): 50–51. View Details
Bower, Joseph L., Herman B. Leonard, and Lynn S. Paine. "Capitalism's New Agenda: Do Wall Street Protesters Have a Point?" HBS Alumni Bulletin 88, no. 1 (March 2012). View Details
Leonard, Herman B., Douglas Ahlers, and Arnold M. Howitt. "Preparing in Advance for Disaster Recovery." Global-is-Asian, no. 12 (October–December 2011): 40–41. View Details
Bower, Joseph L., Herman B. Leonard, and Lynn S. Paine. "Global Capitalism at Risk: What Are You Doing About It?" Harvard Business Review 89, no. 9 (September 2011). View Details
Leonard, Dutch, and Arnold M. Howitt. "Organising Response to Extreme Emergencies: The Victorian Bushfires of 2009." Australian Journal of Public Administration 69, no. 4 (December 2010): 372–386. View Details
Leonard, Dutch, and Arnold M. Howitt. "The Strategic Balance of Disaster Risk Management." Administration Reform 16, no. 8 (2010): 27–29. View Details
Austin, James E., and Herman B. "Dutch" Leonard. "Can the Virtuous Mouse and the Wealthy Elephant Live Happily Ever After?" California Management Review 51, no. 1 (Fall 2008): 77–102. View Details
Leonard, Herman B. "Dutch", and Arnold M. Howitt. "Routine or Crisis: The Search for Excellence." Crisis Response Journal (June 2008). View Details
Leonard, Dutch, and Arnold M. Howitt. "Against Desperate Peril: High Performance in Emergency Preparation and Response." Chinese Emergency Management 1 (2007): 34–37. View Details
Leonard, Dutch, and Arnold M. Howitt. "In the Eye of the Storm." Threshold (September 2006). View Details
Howitt, Arnold M., and Herman B. "Dutch" Leonard. "Katrina and the Core Challenges of Disaster Response." Fletcher Forum of World Affairs 30, no. 1 (winter 2006): 215–221. View Details
Leonard, Herman B., and Arnold M. Howitt. "Beyond Katrina: Improving Disaster Response Capabilities." Crisis Response Journal (June and September 2006). View Details
Leonard, Herman B., and V. Kasturi Rangan. "Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy and Boards of Directors." Directors & Boards 3, no. 4 (First Quarter, winter 2006). View Details
Leonard, Dutch, and Arnold Howitt. "A Command System for All Agencies?" Crisis Response Journal 1, no. 2 (June 2005): 40–42. View Details
Leonard, Dutch, and Thomas Axworthy. "Accountability in Hong Kong: Transiting from Colony to Democracy." Canada in Asia (January 2005). View Details
Leonard, Dutch, and Arnold Howitt. "In the Heat of the Moment." Compass 2, no. 1 (fall 2004): 18–23. View Details
Leonard, Dutch. "Shadows in Time: The Perils of Intergenerational Transfers." Generational Journal (1988). View Details
Leonard, Dutch, and William B. Tye. "The Derivation of the Bayesian Ramsey Pricing Rule." Transportation Research Part B: Methodological 20, no. 1 (February 1986). View Details
Leonard, Dutch, and Richard Zeckhauser. "Financial Risk and the Burdens of Contracts." American Economic Review 75, no. 2 (May 1985). View Details
Leonard, Dutch. "Measuring and Reporting the Financial Condition of Public Organizations." Research in Governmental and Non-Profit Accounting 1 (1985). View Details
Tye, William B., and Dutch Leonard. "On the Problems of Applying Ramsey Pricing to the Railroad Industry with Uncertain Demand Elasticities." Transportation Research Part A: General 17, no. 6 (November 1983). View Details
Leonard, Dutch. "Elicitation of Honest Preferences for the Assignment of Individuals to Positions." Journal of Political Economy 91, no. 3 (June 1983): 461–479. View Details
Leamer, Edward, and Dutch Leonard. "The Fragility of Econometric Reporting." Review of Economics and Statistics 65, no. 2 (May 1983). View Details
Leonard, Dutch, and Richard Zeckhauser. "Cost-Benefit Analysis Defended." QQ: Report from the Center for Philosophy and Public Policy 3, no. 3 (1983). View Details
Leonard, Dutch, and Richard Zeckhauser. "Public Insurance Provision and Non-Market Failures." Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance 8 (1983). View Details
Leonard, Dutch, and Elisabeth H. Rhyne. "Federal Credit and the Shadow Budget." Public Interest (1981). View Details
Leonard, Dutch, Richard A. Musgrave, and Karl E. Case. "The Distribution of Fiscal Burdens and Benefits." Public Finance Quarterly 2 (1974). View Details

Book Chapters

Austin, James E., Megan Epler Woods, and Herman B. Leonard. "Key Success Factors in Environmental Entrepreneurship: The Case of Wilderness Safaris." Chap. 7 in World Scientific Encyclopedia of Business Sustainability, Ethics, and Entrepreneurship, Volume 1: Environmental and Social Entrepreneurship, edited by Peter Gianiodis, Maritza I. Espina, and William R. Meek, 175–196. World Scientific Publishing, 2022. View Details
Leonard, Dutch, and Richard J. Zeckhauser. "Amnesty, Enforcement, and Tax Policy." In Tax Policy and the Economy, Volume 1, edited by Lawrence Summers, 55–85. NBER and MIT Press Journals, 1987. View Details
Leonard, Dutch. "Paying for College After 2000: What Can We Do for the Access-Endangered?" College Board Review (1989). View Details
Leonard, Herman B., and Mark H. Moore. "Pursuing Public Value: Frameworks for Strategic Analysis and Action." Chap. 5 in Ports in a Storm: Public Management in a Turbulent World, edited by John D. Donahue and Mark H. Moore, 84–115. Innovative Governance in the 21st Century. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2012. View Details
Leonard, Herman B., and Arnold M. Howitt. "Leading in Crises: Observations on the Political and Decision-Making Dimensions of Response." Chap. 3 in Mega-Crises: Understanding the Prospects, Nature, Characteristics and the Effects of Cataclysmic Events, edited by Ira Helsloot, Arjen Boin, Brian Jacobs, and Louise K. Comfort, 25–36. Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas, 2012. View Details
Leonard, Dutch, and Arnold M. Howitt. "Advance Recovery and the Development of Resilient Organizations and Societies." In Integrative Risk Management: Advanced Disaster Recovery, edited by Simon Woodward. Zurich, Switzerland: Swiss Re, Centre for Global Dialogue, 2010. View Details
Leonard, Dutch, and Arnold M. Howitt. "Understanding and Coping with the Increasing Risk of System-Level Accidents." In Integrative Risk Management: Advanced Disaster Recovery, edited by Simon Woodward. Zurich, Switzerland: Swiss Re, Centre for Global Dialogue, 2010. View Details
Leonard, Herman B., and Arnold M. Howitt. "Acting in Time Against Disasters: A Comprehensive Risk Management Framework." Chap. 2 in Learning from Catastrophes: Strategies for Reaction and Response, edited by Howard Kunreuther and Michael Useem, 18–41. Wharton School Publishing, 2009. View Details
Leonard, Herman B. "Measuring Performance." In Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector, by Jane Wei-Skillern, James Austin, Herman Leonard, and Howard Stevenson. Sage Publications, 2007. View Details
Leonard, Dutch. "When is Doing Business with the Poor Good - For the Poor? A Household and National Income Accounting Approach." In Business Solutions for the Global Poor: Creating Social and Economic Value, edited by V. Kasturi Rangan, John A. Quelch, Gustavo Herrero, and Brooke Barton. John Wiley & Sons, 2007. View Details
Leonard, Herman B. "Against Desperate Peril: High Performance in Emergency Preparation and Response." In Communicable Crises: Prevention, Response, and Recovery in the Global Arena, edited by Deborah E. Gibbons. Information Age Publishing (IAP), 2007. View Details
Leonard, Dutch, Ezequiel Reficco, Jane Wei-Skillern, and James E. Austin. "Social Entrepreneurship: It's for Corporations, Too." Chap. 8 in Social Entrepreneurship, edited by Johanna Mair, Jeffrey Robinson, and Kai Hockerts. Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. View Details
Austin, James E., Dutch Leonard, Ezequiel Reficco, and Jane Wei-Skillern. "Corporate Social Entrepreneurship: A New Vision for CSR." In The Accountable Corporation, Vol. 3: Corporate Social Responsibility, edited by Marc J. Epstein and Kirk O. Hanson. Praeger, 2006. View Details
Leonard, Dutch. "Leadership in Crisis Situations." In The Encyclopedia of Leadership, edited by James MacGregor Burns, George R. Goethals, and Georgia J. Sorenson. Great Barrington, MA: Berkshire Publishing, 2004. View Details
Leonard, Dutch. "The Role of Policy Analysis and Evaluation." In Ecole Nationale d'Administration: L'impact de l'evaluation sur des Decisions Publiques., 1992. View Details
Leonard, Dutch. "Learning About Learning from Data: The Work of Edward Leamer." In New Horizons in Economic Thought, edited by Keith E. Maskus. Aldershot, U.K.: Edward Elgar Publishing, 1992. View Details
Leonard, Dutch. "Financing Sub-National Government Expenditures: Perspectives from the United States Experience." In Will Decentralization Succeed? National, Regional, and Local Development in Multi-Party Democracies, edited by Robert P. Beschel Jr. and Kerry S. McNamara. Taubman Center for State and Local Government, 1991. View Details
Leonard, Dutch. "Why Massachusetts Struggles." In Massachusetts Business Yearbook., 1991. View Details
Leonard, Herman B. "With Open Ears: Listening and the Art of Discussion Learning." In Education for Judgment: The Artistry of Discussion Leadership, edited by C. R. Christensen, David A. Garvin, and A. Sweet. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1991. View Details
Leonard, Dutch. "Private Time: The Political Economy of Private Prison Finance." In Private Prisons and the Public Interest, edited by Douglas McDonald. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1990. View Details
Leonard, Dutch. "In God We Trust: The Political Economy of the Social Security Reserves." In Social Security's Looming Surpluses: Prospects and Implications, edited by Carolyn L. Weaver. Washington, D.C.: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 1990. View Details
Leonard, Dutch. "Investing in the Defense Workforce: The Debt and Structure of Military Pensions." In Public Sector Payrolls, edited by David A. Wise. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986. View Details
Leonard, Dutch. "Promise Them Anything: The Incentive Structures of Local Public Pension Plans." In Public Sector Payrolls, edited by David A. Wise. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986. View Details
Leonard, Dutch. "The Federal Civil Service Retirement System." In Pensions, Labor and Individual Choice, edited by David A. Wise. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985. View Details
Leonard, Dutch, and Richard Zeckhauser. "Cost-Benefit Analysis Applied to Risks: Its Philosophy and Legitimacy." In Values at Risk, edited by Douglas MacLean. Totowa, NJ: Roman & Allanheld, 1985. View Details
Leonard, Dutch, and Helen F. Ladd. "Taxation and the Poor." In The State and the Poor in the 1980s, edited by Manuel Carballo and Mary Jo Bane. Boston: Auburn House, 1984. View Details
Leonard, Dutch. "Matrix-Weighted Averages: Computation and Presentation." In Proceedings of the Eleventh Symposium on the Interface of Computers and Statistics, edited by Ronald A. Gallant and Thomas Michael Gerig. Raleigh, NC: North Carolina State University, Institute of Statistics, 1978. View Details

Working Papers

Kaplan, Robert S., Herman B. "Dutch" Leonard, and Anette Mikes. "Novel Risks." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-094, March 2020. (Revised May 2020.) View Details
Leonard, Dutch, and Karthik Ramanna. "What Is Corruption?" Working Paper, March 2015. View Details
Austin, James E., and Herman B. Leonard. "Can the Virtuous Mouse and the Wealthy Elephant Live Happily Ever After?" Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-047, September 2008. View Details
Rangan, V. Kasturi, Herman B. Leonard, and Susan McDonald. "The Future of Social Enterprise." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 08-103, June 2008. View Details
Curran, Daniel, and Herman B. "Dutch" Leonard. "Recovery in Aceh: Towards A Strategy of Emergence." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 05-082, May 2005. (Revised May 2006.) View Details
Austin, James, Herman Leonard, Ezequiel Reficco, and Jane Wei-Skillern. "Social Enterprise Series No. 31--Corporate Social Entrepreneurship: A New Vision of CSR." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 05-021, October 2004. View Details
Leonard, Dutch, and Monica E Friar. "Variations in Costs of Living Across States." Taubman Center Working Paper, February 1998. View Details

Cases and Teaching Materials

Edmondson, Amy C., Herman B. Leonard, Michael W. Toffel, and Michael Norris. "Building a Mishap-Free U.S. Navy." Harvard Business School Case 622-116, July 2022. (Revised November 2022.) View Details
Leonard, Herman, Mitch Weiss, Jin Hyun Paik, and Kerry Herman. "SOFWERX: Innovation at U.S. Special Operations Command (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 820-047, September 2019. (Revised September 2020.) View Details
Austin, James E., Megan Epler Wood, and Herman B. "Dutch" Leonard. "Wilderness Safaris: Responses to the COVID-19 Crisis." Harvard Business School Case 321-077, November 2020. View Details
Austin, James E., Megan Epler Wood, and Herman B. "Dutch" Leonard. "Wilderness Safaris: Impact Investing and Ecotourism Conservation in Africa." Harvard Business School Case 321-020, October 2020. (Revised November 2020.) View Details
Leonard, Herman, Mitchell Weiss, Jin Hyun Paik, and Kerry Herman. "SOFWERX: Innovation at U.S. Special Operations Command." Harvard Business School Case 819-004, July 2018. (Revised December 2018.) View Details
Austin, James E., Megan Epler Wood, and Herman B. "Dutch" Leonard. "Wilderness Safaris: Ecotourism Entrepreneurship." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 319-042, August 2018. View Details
Leonard, Herman B. "Dutch", Emilie Billaud, and Arnold M. Howitt. "Ce Soir-Là, Ils n'Arrivent Plus Un par Un, Mais par Vagues: Coping with the Surge of Trauma Patients at L'Hôpital Universitaire La Pitié Salpêtrière—Friday, November 13, 2015." Harvard Business School Case 319-032, July 2018. View Details
Austin, James E., Megan Epler Wood, and Herman B. "Dutch" Leonard. "Wilderness Safaris: Ecotourism Entrepreneurship." Harvard Business School Case 318-040, April 2018. View Details
Leonard, Dutch, James Honan, and Kerry Herman. "Boston University: Managing Reputation and Risk (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 313-100, February 2013. View Details
Leonard, Dutch, James Honan, and Kerry Herman. "Boston University: Managing Reputation and Risk (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 313-099, February 2013. View Details
Leonard, Dutch, James Honan, and Kerry Herman. "Boston University: Managing Reputation and Risk (A)." Harvard Business School Case 313-087, February 2013. View Details
Leonard, Herman B. "Dutch". "Frameworks for Dialogue and Research about Social Impact Investing." Harvard Business School Technical Note 312-091, May 2012. View Details
Bower, Joseph L., Lynn S. Paine, and Herman B. "Dutch" Leonard. "Global Economic Prospect: A précis." Harvard Business School Background Note 312-074, November 2011. (Revised May 2012.) View Details
Edmondson, Amy C., Faaiza Rashid, and Herman B. "Dutch" Leonard. "The 2010 Chilean Mining Rescue (A)." Harvard Business School Case 612-046, November 2011. (Revised October 2014.) View Details
Edmondson, Amy, Faaiza Rashid, and Herman B. "Dutch" Leonard. "The 2010 Chilean Mining Rescue (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 612-047, November 2011. (Revised October 2014.) View Details
Leonard, Herman B., Daniela Beyersdorfer, and Simon Harrow. "Utilis: Designing, Producing, and Selling Rapid Deployment Shelters for a Troubled World." Harvard Business School Case 311-096, February 2011. (Revised May 2011.) View Details
Leonard, Herman B. "Grand Circle Travel: Where Risk Comes with the Territory." Harvard Business School Case 311-105, March 2011. View Details
Leonard, Herman B., and YiKwan Chu. "The Tzu Chi Foundation's China Relief Mission." Harvard Business School Case 311-015, November 2010. (Revised January 2011.) View Details
Leonard, Herman B., and Qahir Dhanani. "Roshan: Light at the end of the tunnel in Afghanistan." Harvard Business School Case 310-041, October 2009. (Revised July 2010.) View Details
Leonard, Herman B., Marc J. Epstein, and Melissa Tritter. "Absolute Return for Kids." Harvard Business School Case 309-036, August 2008. (Revised December 2009.) View Details
Leonard, Herman B., Marc J. Epstein, and Melissa Tritter. "The Home Depot: Leadership in Crisis Management." Harvard Business School Case 309-055, March 2009. View Details
Leonard, Herman B., and Peter Brannen. "The Northwest Passage." Harvard Business School Case 309-067, October 2008. (Revised February 2014.) View Details
Leonard, Herman B., and Peter Brannen. "The Northwest Passage (Epilogue)." Harvard Business School Supplement 309-068, October 2008. (Revised February 2014.) View Details
Leonard, Herman B., Marc J. Epstein, and Wendy Smith. "Digital Divide Data: A Social Enterprise in Action." Harvard Business School Case 307-106, May 2007. (Revised May 2008.) View Details
Leonard, Herman B., Srikant M. Datar, Marc J. Epstein, and Melissa Tritter. "Opportunity International: Measurement and Mission (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 308-031, September 2007. View Details
Leonard, Herman B., and Melissa Tritter. "National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 307-103, June 2007. View Details
Datar, Srikant M., Herman B. Leonard, Marc J. Epstein, and Thomas Goodwin. "AARP Foundation (A)." Harvard Business School Case 107-051, June 2007. View Details
Datar, Srikant M., Herman B. Leonard, Marc J. Epstein, and Thomas Goodwin. "AARP Foundation (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 107-052, June 2007. View Details
Leonard, Herman B., Marc J. Epstein, and Melissa Tritter. "Playgrounds and Performance: Results Management at KaBOOM! (TN) (A), (B) and (C)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 307-127, June 2007. View Details
Leonard, Herman B. "Strategy, Leadership, and Performance Management in the Social Enterprise Sector (FSS)." Harvard Business School Class Lecture 307-105, March 2007. View Details
Leonard, Herman B., Marc J. Epstein, and Melissa Tritter. "Opportunity International: Measurement and Mission." Harvard Business School Case 307-067, December 2006. (Revised February 2007.) View Details
McFarlan, F. Warren, Herman B. Leonard, and Melissa Tritter. "Dana Hall: Funding a Mission (A)." Harvard Business School Case 306-090, June 2006. (Revised January 2007.) View Details
McFarlan, F. Warren, Herman B. Leonard, and Melissa Tritter. "Dana Hall: Funding a Mission (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 306-100, June 2006. (Revised January 2007.) View Details
McFarlan, F. Warren, Herman B. Leonard, and Melissa Tritter. "Dana Hall: Funding a Mission (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 306-106, June 2006. (Revised January 2007.) View Details
Leonard, Herman B., and Orson Watson. "Integrated Packaging Corporation: Struggling to Do the Right Thing (A)." Harvard Business School Case 307-064, October 2006. (Revised November 2006.) View Details
Leonard, Herman B., and Orson Watson. "Integrated Packaging Corporation: Struggling to Do the Right Thing (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 307-065, October 2006. (Revised November 2006.) View Details
Leonard, Herman B., and Orson Watson. "Integrated Packaging Corporation: Struggling to Do the Right Thing (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 307-066, October 2006. (Revised November 2006.) View Details
Austin, James E., Herman B. Leonard, and James Quinn. "Timberland: Commerce and Justice (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 306-089, February 2006. View Details
Leonard, Herman B., Marc J. Epstein, and Melissa Tritter. "Augusta National Golf Club Controversy, The (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 306-048, October 2005. (Revised January 2006.) View Details
Leonard, Herman B., Marc J. Epstein, and Melissa Tritter. "Augusta National Golf Club Controversy, The (A)." Harvard Business School Case 306-029, October 2005. (Revised January 2006.) View Details
Leonard, Herman B., Marc J. Epstein, and Melissa Tritter. "Augusta National Golf Club Controversy, The (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 306-050, October 2005. (Revised January 2006.) View Details
Leonard, Herman B., Marc J. Epstein, and Melissa Tritter. "The Augusta National Golf Club Controversy (TN) (A), (B) and (C)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 306-060, January 2006. View Details
Leonard, Herman B., Marc J. Epstein, and Laura Winig. "Playgrounds and Performance: Results Management at KaBOOM! (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 306-056, November 2005. View Details
Leonard, Herman B., Marc J. Epstein, and Laura Winig. "Playgrounds and Performance: Results Management at KaBOOM! (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 306-055, November 2005. View Details
Leonard, Herman B., Marc J. Epstein, and Laura Winig. "Playgrounds and Performance: Results Management at KaBOOM! (A)." Harvard Business School Case 306-031, November 2005. View Details
Austin, James E., Herman B. Leonard, and James Quinn. "Timberland: Commerce and Justice." Harvard Business School Case 305-002, July 2004. (Revised December 2004.) View Details
Leonard, Dutch, and Arnold Howitt. "The Forest Service and Transitional Fires." 2004. View Details
Leonard, Dutch. "First Night 2004." 2002. (crisis management.) View Details
Leonard, Dutch. "David Ellwood's First Senior Staff Meeting." 2000. (strategy, analysis and advocacy.) View Details
Leonard, Dutch. "The CendralExpo Export Processing Zone Project (A) and (B)." 1998. (organizational strategy and advocacy.) View Details
Leonard, Dutch. "The Situation at Warehouse 7." Simulation and Teaching Note. 1998. (crisis management simulation exercise.) View Details
Leonard, Dutch. "The Situation at Research Lab 26X." Simulation and Teaching Note. 1995. (crisis management simulation exercise.) View Details
Leonard, Dutch. "South Africa Civil Service Simulation Exercise." Simulation and Teaching Note. 1995. (computer modeling and policy analysis and advocacy exercise.) View Details
Leonard, Dutch. "NEO 2394 Karensky." Simulation and Teaching Note. 1994. (risk analysis crisis management simulation exercise.) View Details
Leonard, Dutch. "Rock Harbor Workshop 1970 and 1990." 1990. (financial management.) View Details
Leonard, Dutch. "Town of Holden Health Insurance Procurement." 1981. (financial management.) View Details

Presentations

Leonard, Dutch, and Arnold M. Howitt. "Political Control and Operational Command: Building a Balanced Disaster Control System." Lecture at the U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, United States Senate, Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, March 22, 2006. View Details
Leonard, Dutch, and Arnold M. Howitt. "Katrina as Prelude: Preparing for and Responding to Katrina-Class Disturbances in the United States." U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, United States Senate, Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, March 8, 2006. View Details
Leonard, Dutch. "Four Divergent Challenges of Performance Management." Paper presented at the Kennedy School Executive Session on Performance Management, June 01, 2000. View Details
Leonard, Dutch. "Motivation, Learning, and Performance Management." Paper presented at the Kennedy School Executive Session on Performance Management, June 01, 2000. View Details
Leonard, Dutch. "What is Public Finance?" In Teaching Public Management: Proceedings of a Workshop to Assess Materials and Strategies. Paper presented at the Boston University School of Management Public Policy and Management Program for Case and Course Development, January 1, 1984. View Details

Other Publications and Materials

Koehn, Nancy F., and Dutch Leonard. "We Need a COVID-19 D-Day—and the Leadership to Execute it." FastCompany.com (September 24, 2020). View Details
Leonard, Dutch, and Arnold M. Howitt. "Preliminary Thoughts and Observation on the Boston Marathon Bombings." 2013. View Details
Leonard, Dutch, and Arnold M. Howitt. "Sudden Conflict: The Clash of Cultures at the Heart of Crisis Management." July 2004. View Details
Leonard, Dutch. "Firefighting and Fire Size: A Dimensional Analysis." April 2004. View Details
Leonard, Dutch, and Elizabeth Keating. "The Federal Budget and the States: Fiscal Year 2003." Taubman Center for State and Local Government, Cambridge, MA, January 2004. (in progress.) View Details
Leonard, Dutch. "A Short Note on Public Sector Strategy Building." September 2001. View Details
Leonard, Dutch, and Jay H. Walder. "The Federal Budget and the States: Fiscal Year 1999." Taubman Center for State and Local Government, Washington, D.C., January 2000. View Details
Leonard, Dutch, and John D. Donahue. "Taxes and Retirement in the State of Maine." October 1999. (Report to the Libra Foundation.) View Details
Leonard, Dutch, Jay H. Walder, and Jose A. Acevedo. "The Federal Budget and the States: Fiscal Year 1998." Taubman Center for State and Local Government, Washington, D.C., January 1999. View Details
Leonard, Dutch, Henry Lee, Jay H. Walder, Peter Zimmerman, and Wendy Vanasselt. "National Park Bonds: A Patch or A Panacea?: A Report on Meeting the Financial Needs of Our National Parks." Report, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, January 1998. View Details
Leonard, Dutch, and Jay H. Walder. "The Federal Budget and the States: Fiscal Year 1997." Taubman Center for State and Local Government, Washington, D.C., January 1998. View Details
Leonard, Dutch, and Jay H. Walder. "The Federal Budget and the States: Fiscal Year 1996." Taubman Center for State and Local Government, Washington, D.C., January 1997. View Details
Leonard, Dutch, Monica E. Friar, and Jay H. Walder. "The Federal Budget and the States: Fiscal Year 1995." Taubman Center for State and Local Government, Washington, D.C., January 1996. View Details
Leonard, Dutch, and Monica E. Friar. "State Poverty Rates Adjusted by Variations in Costs of Living Across States." January 1995. View Details
Leonard, Dutch, and Monica E. Friar. "The Federal Budget and the States: Fiscal Year 1994." Taubman Center for State and Local Government, Washington, D.C., January 1995. View Details
Leonard, Dutch, and Monica Friar. "The Value Choices in State and Local Spending: A Workbook." Council of Governors' Policy Advisors, Washington, D.C., January 1994. View Details
Leonard, Dutch, and Monica E. Friar. "The Federal Budget and the States: Fiscal Year 1993." Taubman Center for State and Local Government, Washington, D.C., January 1994. View Details
Leonard, Dutch, and Monica E. Friar. "Values in Transition: The Choices Embodied in State and Local Spending." Taubman Center for State and Local Government, Boston, MA, January 1992. View Details
Leonard, Dutch. "By Choice or By Chance? Tracking the Values in Massachusetts' Public Spending." Pioneer Institute, January 1992. View Details
Leonard, Dutch. "Good Ideas: What Makes for Quality in Innovation?" John F. Kennedy School of Government, January 1988. (Innovation Project.) View Details
Leonard, Dutch, Joseph P. Kalt, and Henry Lee. "Re-Establishing the Regulatory Bargain in the Electric Utility Industry." Boston Edison Review Panel, January 1987. View Details
Leonard, Dutch. "Opening the Window: Needs Analysis and Long Term Effort to Pay for College." College Board, January 1987. View Details
Leonard, Dutch, and Howard L. Frant. "Block Grants and the Accountability of Capital Spending." U.S. Urban Mass Transportation Administration, January 1986. View Details
Leonard, Dutch, and Richard Zeckhauser. "Legitimizing Risk Management for Toxic Chemicals." Interdepartmental Committee on Toxic Chemicals (Canada), Canada, March 1984. View Details
Leonard, Dutch. "Creative Financing of New York City Projects." New York, Office of Economic Development, New York, January 1984. View Details
Leonard, Dutch. "Theory S and Theory T." National Academy of Public Administration, January 1984. (project on public management.) View Details
Leonard, Dutch. "Theory S and Theory T, and Financial Management." National Academy of Public Administration, January 1984. (project on public management.) View Details
Leonard, Dutch, and Richard P. Nathan. "Federal and State Infrastructure Banking: Political and Institutional Issues." Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, November 1983. View Details
Leonard, Dutch, Arnold Howitt, Helen F. Ladd, and Ann B. Weeks. "Services from Public Capital: The Outlook for Boston's Physical Infrastructure." Harvard-MIT Joint Center for Urban Studies, Cambridge, MA, January 1983. View Details
Leonard, Dutch, Henry Lee, and Susan Bender. "Financing the Cleanup of Uncontrolled Hazardous Waste Sites." U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, September 1982. View Details
Leonard, Dutch. "Housing Regulation in Cambridge: Its Goals and Effects." Cambridge Chamber of Commerce, January 1981. View Details
Leonard, Dutch, J.F. Kain, and K.E. Case. "Condominium Conversion in Massachusetts: An Evaluation of its Benefits and Costs." January 1980. View Details
Leonard, Dutch. "Inference in Partially Identified Models." Diss., Harvard University, 1979. View Details
Leonard, Dutch. "Baseline Analysis of the Urban Homesteading Program." Urban Systems Research & Engineering, Cambridge, MA, January 1978. (co-author.) View Details
Leonard, Dutch, Gregory K. Ingram, and Robert Schafer. "Simulation of the Market Effects of Housing Allowance." National Bureau of Economic Research, New York, January 1976. View Details
Leonard, Dutch. "Barriers to Equal Opportunity in Rural Housing Markets." Urban Systems Research & Engineering, Cambridge, MA, January 1976. View Details

Research Summary

Overview

Keywords: Strategy And Leadership; Social Business; Social Capital; Social Enterprise; Social Entrepreneurship; Risk Management; Crisis Management

Crisis Management

Governance, Accountability, and Performance for Social Enterprise

Business Leadership and Corporate Social Responsibility

Teaching

Overview

Professor Leonard teaches about leadership and strategy for both private sector and social organizations. Topics covered in his courses include leadership and the design of strategy for social-mission organizations (including the corporate social responsibility efforts of private businesses), enterprise risk management, and crisis management.

Keywords: Leadership; Strategy; Social Enterprise; Social Entrepreneurship; Risk Management; Crisis Management; Innovation and Management; Decision Making

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