Leading Teams - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2017
News

Life in Lockdown

She decides to sleep on it. Come morning, Foalea is charged with leading a team of peers to turn one of these kernels of an idea into a business—in one day. This is Startup Lockdown, a small student-created,... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers; photography by Chris Churchill

11 Jan 2017
Blog Post

Leadership and Diversity at HBS

friendships and have found people to be genuinely interested in helping others. To that point, HBS reminds me a lot of my college football days at Indiana University. It was often common for two people aiming for the same starting position to train together. The... View Details

03 Mar 2009
First Look

First Look: March 3, 2009

and complementary effects across channels to provide sales forecasting, promotion planning, and customer relationship management guidance to multichannel managers. We investigate three contingencies in a sales analysis of a leading U.S.... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

02 Apr 2014
What Do You Think?

Has the Post-Capitalist Economy Finally Arrived?

to perception of the team members or subordinates or followers of the leader concerned." The importance of maintaining an open mind on the subject of leadership was stressed by several. Ronnie Kavuma commented that, "I think... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Service

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The Spiritual Lives of Leaders - Course Catalog

career aspirations with my own personal values and personal aspirations?” “I’m curious what I can learn from religions not my own to make me a better leader for the future teams I get the opportunity to lead.” Role of Spirituality in the... View Details

26 Jan 2021
News

Clubs See Wealth in FemTech; Health Care Alumni Look at COVID Response

them to forgo returns at all.” An Inside Look at Leading the UK and US Response to COVID As the US and the UK raced to develop a COVID vaccine this year, two HBS alums found themselves at the forefront of the effort. How they grappled... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

06 Dec 2021
News

Wheels Up

built in Europe in more than 20 years. As CEO of global airports and travel retail group daa plc, Dalton Philips (MBA 1998) leads operations in Dublin and airports in Cork, Riyadh, Dusseldorf, and Cyprus, as well as duty-free outlets in... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Sep 2015
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015

measurement tool, the Total Motivation Factor, enables managers to measure the strength of the company culture and track improvements over time. They explore their original research into how Total Motivation leads to higher performance in... View Details

01 Jun 2022
News

Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students

Kerr: There’s a lot of alignment between general management and entrepreneurial management. We define entrepreneurship following the early work of Howard Stevenson at HBS as “the pursuit of opportunity beyond resources controlled.” What entrepreneurs and their View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

16 Apr 2013
First Look

First Look: April 16

profitable investment decisions. During the last ten years, Wall Street research has been battered by a series of shocks. As concerns over conflicts of interest mounted, the integrity of research output was questioned, leading to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

Everyone Knows Innovation is Essential to Business Success—Except Board Directors

Spencer Stuart, directed by Julie Hembrock Daum; and independent researcher and management consultant Deborah Bell. The team worked for over a year before that to identify board members from more than 60 countries, in industries including... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

05 Apr 2017
Research & Ideas

For Women Especially, It Pays to Know What Car Repairs Should Cost

research results were analyzed. The team discovered that female callers who said they were uninformed about repair costs were quoted prices about $20 higher than male callers who presented themselves the same way. But when women indicated... View Details

Keywords: by Wendy Guild Swearingen; Auto; Service

13 Dec 2010
Research & Ideas

Managing the Support Staff Identity Crisis

overhead often causes support function employees to go on the defensive, attempting to prove their worth by becoming corporate bureaucrats who enforce sometimes meaningless rules in an attempt to affect the bottom line. This unfortunately View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

09 Sep 2013
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics

probabilities below present values," adding that failing to do so could lead to losses upwards of $1 trillion annually. "Most skeptics I have come across are not skeptical of global warming or climate change itself, but argue that we... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

30 May 2025
News

Galas in NYC and Mexico City; NFL Coach Shares Leadership Insights in Charlotte

HBS Club of Mexico Celebrates Connection with Gala Dinner The HBS Club of Mexico joined the Harvard Club of Mexico in celebrating the latter’s 75th anniversary with the Harvard Gala Mexico, held on May 12 at the Club de Industriales in Mexico City. Approximately 275... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

18 Aug 2017
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Courageous Leader Triggers a Moral Revolt of CEOs Against Trump

business community. It all came down to moral leadership. When the president refused to take the lead in speaking out against the demonstration in Charlottesville by neo-Nazis, Ku Klux Klan, and white supremacist groups, America’s CEOs... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

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South Asia - Global Activities 2021

leads a teaching team of 14 faculty members, whose expertise spans the breadth of the School’s research units. SELPI features global cases as well as those focused specifically on India and South Asia... View Details

23 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard

propositions that lead customers to do more business and at higher margins with the company Innovation and excellence in products, services, and processes The capabilities and alignment of employees and systems that enhance important... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton

03 Jun 2016
News

Again in a Great City

adjacent parking lot, which he hopes will be part of a redevelopment project when the nearby Joe Louis Arena, where the Detroit Red Wings hockey team plays, is demolished. “This is an area that eventually is going to get developed. It... View Details

Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly

07 Jul 2009
First Look

First Look: July 7

Author:Anette Mikes Publication:Chap. 5 in Enterprise Risk Management: Today's Leading Research and Best Practices for Tomorrow's Executives. John Wiley and Sons, Inc., forthcoming Abstract Enterprise risk management, under the leadership... View Details