Leading Change - Publications - Faculty & Research

21 Aug 2024

Forté Forum: Seattle

HBS is participating in the Forté MBA Forum in Seattle. This forum is held annually to empower women — whether you're looking to change careers, a college student planning for the future, or a professional ready for career advancement.... View Details

13 Aug 2024

Forté Forum: Chicago

HBS is participating in the Forté MBA Forum in Chicago. This forum is held annually to empower women — whether you're looking to change careers, a college student planning for the future, or a professional ready for career advancement.... View Details

25 Feb 2020
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020

Press In Leading in the Digital World, Amit Mukherjee argues that since digital technologies are changing everything else, how could they not change leadership ideologies and... View Details

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Navigating Your Worth: AI, Negotiations, and the Nature of Expertise - Course Catalog

to make in an AI enabled world. These could include how you should negotiate your employment contracts or other business agreements, how to consider choices in your personal life and how to rethink the power of collective action in securing these rights in a View Details

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South Asia - Global Activities 2020

Economic Zone to learn how business and trade laws within special economic zones can increase investment, trade, and jobs in their host countries. Hong Kong The lack of traffic on the Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macao Bridge, a $20 billion feat of engineering, illustrated how a... View Details

01 Sep 2014
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Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2014

He analyzes each type of comedy piece in the late-night TV playbook and takes you step-by-step through the process of writing it. Leading Digital: Turning Technology into Business Transformation by George Westerman (DBA 2003), Didier... View Details

Keywords: faculty research; Alumni Research

11 Aug 2014
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The First Five Years: Melissa Fensterstock (MBA 2012)

with a healthy alternative.'" Which HBS case study had the greatest impact on you, and why? "'NuCor Steel' changed the way I evaluate innovation. I am now very much on the lookout for low-end disruptors as well as aware of incumbents'... View Details

16 Dec 2020
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Faculty Books Published in 2020

its Parthenon and Rome its Colosseum, the United States had its River Rouge Factory in Detroit..." How did business come to assume such power and cultural centrality in America? Capitalism at Risk: How Business Can Lead by Joseph L.... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

23 Apr 2016
News

Tipping His Cap to Open Source

As COO at Delta Airlines, Jim Whitehurst (MBA 1994) helped bring the legacy carrier back from the brink of bankruptcy in 2006 while fending off a takeover bid by US Airways. That feat accomplished, he moved on to lead Red Hat, which... View Details

01 Mar 2006
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HBS Reverses Policy On Grade Disclosure

you will lead in the future.” Under the new policy, students have the option to authorize the School to release their transcripts to potential employers. While broadly supported by the faculty, the policy View Details

Keywords: grades; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 1996
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New Releases

in their organizations." restructuring -- innovations intended to make companies more competitive -- routinely fall short, says HBS professor John Kotter, because they fail to alter behavior. In his new book, Leading Change, Kotter, one... View Details

01 Dec 2002
News

HBSAAA Conference Addresses Pathways to Power

conferences, held in a different U.S. city each year, have provided access to an impressive roster of corporate executives and public-sector officials, often drawn from the host city's leading industries and institutions. Observed HBSAAA... View Details

June 2014 (Revised February 2017)
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Kathy Giusti and the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation

By: Richard G. Hamermesh, Joshua D. Margolis and Matthew G. Preble

What do you do when your rising professional career is cut short by an unexpected cancer diagnosis? Kathy Giusti shifted careers, built a new organization that transformed how cancer research is done, and now faces the challenge of sustaining the organization and its... View Details

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01 Jun 2005
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NFL Players Tackle Cases at HBS

Making a point: Professor Joe Lassiter leads a class on developing and evaluating business plans. On the field, they can be the fiercest of competitors. Off the field, thirty veteran NFL players teamed up to work toward a common goal... View Details

Keywords: NFL; Ted Johnson; Todd Collins; Mike Haynes; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 2016
News

Ink

Strategy for Leading Innovation. We talked to him about those boxes and how they apply to everything from bottom lines to personal health. —Dan Morrell You write about the need for strategies to be simple. When people ask you what the... View Details

October 2000 (Revised July 2001)
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Avon Products (A)

By: Lynn S. Paine and Greg Rogers

The general manager of Avon Mexico, Fernando Lezama, must decide whether to promote a woman to the position of vice president of sales. If appointed, the candidate would be the first female in all of Latin America to hold an executive position and one of the first... View Details

Keywords: Business or Company Management; Leading Change; Salesforce Management; Organizational Culture; Job Design and Levels; Gender; Management Teams; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Mexico

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04 Oct 2021
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Tapping into “Nontraditional” Private Equity and Venture Capital Talent at HBS

offer a different and productive path forward. The philanthropic consulting portfolio Mbanusi led at MDC, along with his experience founding and leading a city-wide youth organizing initiative focused on educational completion and... View Details

Keywords: Private Equity; Venture Capital

20 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

Globalization Hasn’t Killed the Manufacturing Cluster

began making hiking boots. The cluster later expanded into ski boots and sneakers, and drew investments from major brands like Nordica and Nike. Lead firms started offshoring production to cheaper economies like Romania and China,... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Manufacturing; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion

06 Dec 2021
News

What's the Word?

relatively high costs for labor and energy as well as the investment and time required to build factories in a country that has much more stringent environmental standards. “COVID-19 has changed only a few of the variables across... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustrations by Martha Rich; Manufacturing; Finance; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

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Laura Sandoval

together.” Seeking the skills necessary to lead companies toward all three objectives, Laura came to HBS. “There are business skills I need to refine in accounting, finance, and leadership,” she says. “The network is also important. This... View Details

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