Authentic Leadership Development - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2012
News

Faculty Books

True North Groups: A Powerful Path to Personal and Leadership Development by Bill George and Doug Baker (Berrett-Koehler Publishers) Incorporating recent research in psychology and sociology, George and his... View Details

Keywords: Professor Bill George; Professor Joseph L. Bower; Professor Herman B. Leonard; Professor Lynn S. Paine; Professor Howard Stevenson; Professor Noam Wasserman; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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Faculty - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

and CEO of Medtronic and author of True North: Discover Your Authentic Leadership and Authentic Leadership: Rediscovering the Secrets to Creating Lasting Value . He serves on... View Details

Runa Khan

Keywords: NGO; Development

01 Dec 2018
News

Adapting to Meet Changing Needs

program participated in an intensive summer seminar on systems engineering before beginning their first-year studies in the MBA Program. HBX Course Development Stretches and Energizes Faculty In developing... View Details

24 Apr 2014
News

A business career comes full circle

Henry McGee (AB 1974, MBA 1979) spent 34 years at Home Box Office, helping to develop the television company into an international powerhouse. As president of HBO Home Entertainment, the DVD and digital program distribution division, he... View Details

16 Jul 2024
Op-Ed

Corporate Boards Are Failing in Their No. 1 Duty

discipline to its operations. That direction enabled him to move forward with clarity. If the board is serious about its responsibilities, it should form a committee to oversee the company’s leadership View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

01 Sep 2013
News

Faculty Opinion: No Magic Bullet

improve your capabilities, and follow your own convictions. In True North, Professor of Management Practice Bill George describes a process to help you in this effort. At HBS, we teach his methods in the second-year course Authentic View Details

07 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders

course, VCs I interviewed didn't use the word "career imprint"; still, what they did point to were important differences in the kinds of capabilities, connections, confidence, and cognition that people developed at these... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

01 Mar 2019
News

City Hall’s Headbanger

notice: heavy metal mayor. READ MORE Keller on the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative's impact on homelessness in Albuquerque READ MORE Keller on the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative's... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

Sir Fazle Hasan Abed

Keywords: Microfinance, Development

01 Jun 2013
News

Coach for Life

his Authentic Leadership Development elective, Hurley hit the court for some impromptu coaching and informal hoops with section intramural teams. He later joined members of the... View Details

Keywords: Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

01 Mar 2017
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017

combination of beliefs and preferences that drives his or her motivation, decision making, and leadership style. The authors discuss four types of highly successful “business builder” personalities: the Driver, the Explorer, the Crusader,... View Details

26 Jan 2017
News

Turning Millennials into Leaders

Garrett Gravesen (PLDA 20, 2015) is a leadership coach and cofounder of ADDO Worldwide, a brand and experience consultancy based in Atlanta, Georgia. In this video, he talks about working with Chick-fil-A to View Details

01 Sep 2017
News

Alumni on the Best Business Advice They’ve Ever Received

“You should not jump at the first solution that comes to mind. You should consider alternatives and figure out how to apply them.” —Ken Fettig (MBA 1957) “All leadership is very close in nature to friendship. “All View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Skydeck; podcast; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

14 Sep 2017
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Google Engineer Deserved to be Fired by the CEO

correctness, free speech, or affirmative action. It is relating to people as authentic human beings, not as representatives of a group or class. Great harm is done when groups of people are stereotyped as having certain characteristics,... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

21 Dec 2021
Blog Post

Promoting Diversity at Sundance and Beyond

of the Executive Leadership Council, a prestigious membership organization dedicated to developing an inclusive business leadership pipeline for top-level black executives. At... View Details

01 Dec 2010
News

Students Serve the Community

In September, as part of an “Impact Initiative,” some 130 first-year HBS students visited two Boston public schools to discuss leadership with small groups of seventh graders. “We wanted the middle-school students, or Super Sevens as we... View Details