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- August 2019 (Revised August 2024)
- Module Note
Why Aspiring Executives Should Care About Management Theory
By: Clayton M. Christensen, Rory McDonald and Shaye Roseman
Managers often make significant business decisions based on little more than convincing book jacket blurbs. They should hold themselves—and the experts—to a higher standard. View Details
Christensen, Clayton M., Rory McDonald, and Shaye Roseman. "Why Aspiring Executives Should Care About Management Theory." Harvard Business School Module Note 620-011, August 2019. (Revised August 2024.)
- April 2007
- Case
Leadership Forum: Building Great Careers - Video
By: D. Quinn Mills and Carole Winkler
Leadership: Can I learn it, how do I do it, and how can I use it to advance my career? How is today's world different from the one our teachers entered years ago, and how does that affect me? The two videos on this DVD address these and other questions typically asked... View Details
Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Work-Life Balance; Leadership Development; Talent and Talent Management; Leadership Style; Knowledge Dissemination; Teaching; Executive Education; Decision Choices and Conditions; Management Style; Education Industry
Mills, D. Quinn, and Carole Winkler. "Leadership Forum: Building Great Careers - Video." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Case 307-708, April 2007.
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Katharine Graham Offers Advice on Leadership
Introduced by HBS Dean Kim B. Clark as a business leader who "exemplifies the character and values that we hold dear at Harvard Business School," Katharine Graham, chairman of the executive committee of the Washington Post Company, spoke... View Details
- 06 Nov 2017
- News
Smart Leaders Focus on Execution First and Strategy Second
- 28 Jan 2020
- Book
Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking
University, where senior and retired executives learn to develop leadership skills in the service of solving large social problems. Many of the examples in the book come from her experience leading that... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 2015
- Article
What's so Institutional about Leadership?: Leadership Mechanisms of Value Infusion
By: Ryan Raffaelli and Mary Ann Glynn
Leaders are important social actors in organizations, centrally involved in establishing and maintaining institutional values, a view that was articulated by Philip Selznick (1957) nearly a half-century ago, but often overlooked in institutionalists' accounts. Our... View Details
Raffaelli, Ryan, and Mary Ann Glynn. "What's so Institutional about Leadership? Leadership Mechanisms of Value Infusion." Research in the Sociology of Organizations 44 (2015): 283–316.
- 01 May 2019
- What Do You Think?
What Should the Leadership of YouTube Do?
responsibility, even if that comes at the expenses (sic) of growth.” Original Column On April 2, 2019 the leadership team at YouTube, headed by CEO Susan Wojcicki ( “The most powerful woman on the internet,” according to Time magazine),... View Details
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Harvard Business Review: Executive Education Access | Baker Library
Help Center Harvard Business Review: Executive Education Access Detailed directions on how Executive Education participants can access Harvard Business Review. HBS Executive... View Details
- 29 Jul 2022
- Research & Ideas
Will Demand for Women Executives Finally Shrink the Gender Pay Gap?
so they can seek higher salaries, Healy says. “You have a little bit more power than you might have thought,” he says. Indeed, one search executive interviewed by the researchers noted that this knowledge can translate to big payoffs for... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 16 Sep 2022
- News
Softbank’s Executive Exodus Leaves Masayoshi Son in a Bind
- 23 May 2018
- News
Why the Number of Female Chief Executives Is Falling
- 07 Mar 2017
- News
How Executives Should Really Respond to Trump’s Controversial Moves
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Looking for a Leader: The Role of Executive Search Firms
At a recent gathering of chief executives in New York City, the heads of two companies shared pleasant dinner conversation. The first led a large, successful corporation; the second also happened to serve as a director of a... View Details
- 03 Apr 2012
- News
Just Compensation
Ferracone: Specializing in executive compensation and performance consulting. Courtesy Robin Ferracone Robin Ferracone (MBA 1980) is the founder (in 2007) and executive chair of Farient Advisors... View Details
- 03 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The State of Customer Service Leadership
examine the most up-to-date best practices and explain how companies can put a smile on customers’ faces and keep them coming back for more. In a recent interview, they explained some of their findings. Aisner: Why is it so important to look closely at View Details
- February 1980 (Revised September 1994)
- Case
General Electric Co.: The Executive Manpower Operation -- David Orselet
By: Wickham Skinner and David C. Rikert
Keywords: Leadership Development
Skinner, Wickham, and David C. Rikert. "General Electric Co.: The Executive Manpower Operation -- David Orselet." Harvard Business School Case 680-122, February 1980. (Revised September 1994.)
- 18 Aug 2017
- News
The Case Some Executives Made for Sticking With Trump
- December 2011
- Article
Manager-Specific Effects on Earnings Guidance: An Analysis of Top Executive Turnovers
By: Francois Brochet, Lucile Faurel and Sarah McVay
We investigate how managers contribute to the provision of earnings guidance by examining the association between top executive turnovers and guidance. Although firm and industry characteristics are important determinants of guidance, we conclude that CEOs participate... View Details
Keywords: Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Management Teams; Policy; Decisions; Change; Risk and Uncertainty; Leadership
Brochet, Francois, Lucile Faurel, and Sarah McVay. "Manager-Specific Effects on Earnings Guidance: An Analysis of Top Executive Turnovers." Journal of Accounting Research 49, no. 5 (December 2011).