Distribution Of Leadership Authority - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2016
News

Vive la Madeleine!

madeleines. The workforce is expected to increase from 19 to 25, possibly more. It’s the next phase of Jeannette—with added capacity, the company will be in position to expand its distribution exponentially... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustrations by Natalya Balnova

01 Jun 1998
News

Diversity and Community

first annual Ron Brown Award for Corporate Leadership to IBM CEO Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. (MBA '65) and Levi Strauss CEO Robert D. Haas (MBA '68). The two chief executives received the newly established award on behalf View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

Web

Flatiron School: Reflections from Summer 2020 - Recruiting

correct and factual, but truly useful to the client partners. Rocio Wu: I collaborated with Yuki Yaguchi (MBA 2021) on the client project the last two weeks of the program. The 12 hour time difference between us was challenging at first,... View Details

12 Jul 2020
Book

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020

authority who don’t like that. One joy of these series is that you can become deeply absorbed in the characters and their worlds and keep going for dozens of books—like one big... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

Web

Wartime Innovation - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

K-rations. "[I]n wartime, [Doriot] went through a unique, intense immersion in high-stakes product development, where human lives hung in the balance," author Jeffrey Cruikshank notes. "He experienced first-hand the astonishing innovative... View Details

18 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

Breaking Through a Growth Stall

increases," write the authors of How to Identify the Best Customers for Your Business, published in the Winter 2013 issue of the MIT Sloan Management Review. “Ineffective... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Feb 1998
News

Not Your Typical Business Conference

all, don't fear failure," she stressed. "Remember, the fear of failure is a sure formula for not achieving success." The theme of risk taking was echoed throughout the day, starting with the first morning... View Details

14 May 2020
Research & Ideas

What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog

“Having empathy in day-to-day interaction with employees, customers, vendors, investors, etc. is always an important leadership skill, but this empathy is dramatically heightened during a crisis that is impacting everyone personally and... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams

01 Sep 2022
News

Your Family, Your Work, Your Way

five continents, with clients ranging from top banks and law firms to Pfizer, Disney, and the US Air Force. A parent to two daughters, Dowling is also the author of Workparent: The Complete Guide to... View Details

01 Jun 1996
News

Class Acts

enhance the value of the MBA Program by creating a true partnership among faculty, students, and administrators. The Student Association seemed a good vehicle for implementing those ideas; in tandem with the School's MBA: View Details

12 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

Operations and the Competitive Edge

most overused and least understood words in the current management vocabulary. Why? A: We're not against "teams" per se. After all, the authors of this book are, in a sense, a team. What we argue... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace

times," he observes. Richard C. Whiteley (MBA '68), a management consultant and author who is writing a book titled "ReSpiriting Work," notes, "Another important factor is the aging of... View Details

Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso

01 Dec 1998
News

Africa's Way

Wildlife to Winetasting "The driving force behind the region's growth is South Africa," says HBS professor Richard H.K. Vietor, the faculty chairman of the conference and the author View Details

Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons

01 Oct 1999
News

The View from the Pit

authors are documenting a phenomenon in which the design of new products has created a corresponding number of new firms. Teacher, administrator, researcher, and mother View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

01 Oct 1996
News

Lasting Impressions

profound impact on me. Young, bright, respectable students were standing up against the police, the university, and our government. I was 22 years old. Seeing that people my age and younger could take a different point of view and speak... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

16 Dec 2020
Blog Post

Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement

Stewart (MBA 1983) address Black female leadership. Noting that a group of unicorns is called “a blessing,” the authors present “an unapologetic look at our often-overlooked role in America’s social,... View Details

21 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research

Life was hard enough for the one-third of Americans who had wrestled with anxiety prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, the disease that has killed almost 100,000 in the United States, left millions unemployed, and socially distanced many... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost

31 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration

of 1955 Professor of Business Administration: The immigration bans of the past week are potentially catastrophic for the United States’ View Details