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  • 03 Jul 2008
  • What Do You Think?

Are Followers About to Get Their Due?

leadership styles." And H. C. Garner stated, "If you can't be led, you certainly can't effectively lead." And Bruce Duncil commented, "Leaders can only be defined by and through their... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 25 Apr 2011
  • Research & Ideas

What CEOs Do, and How They Can Do it Better

chooses to spend his or her time has much more of an effect on a company's success or failure than if a middle manager spends a half hour more at lunch. With that in mind,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 17 Jan 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Being the Boss

between management and leadership in the age of globalization and remote offices. Carmen Nobel: Your book discusses three imperatives for becoming a great leader: managing yourself, managing your network,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 12 Feb 2018
  • News

More and More CEOs Are Taking Their Social Responsibility Seriously

  • 04 Jun 2012
  • Research & Ideas

The Business of Life

have steered huge strategy shifts at Intel Corp. and the Pentagon, for example. In 2011, Thinkers50 named him the world's most influential business thinker. At the same time, he has held major leadership... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 14 Jul 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Understaffed and Overworked: What Now?

focus, effective communication, and more than a pinch of dynamism. Those were certainly apparent in Andrus's response to her rather large dilemma. "I had a problem," she says, "but there were... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
  • 24 Nov 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Boards and Corporate Governance: A Balanced Scorecard Approach

Companies can create shareholder value through more effective governance, and through boards that do not simply ensure compliance, but focus their time and efforts on the most critical strategic areas. Past... View Details
Keywords: Re: Robert S. Kaplan & Krishna G. Palepu
  • 30 Oct 2015
  • Blog Post

4 Takeaways from HBS

I never expected the school to care so much about my values. For example, in Leadership & Organizational Behavior (LEAD), a first year Required Curriculum course on how managers become View Details
  • February 2020 (Revised February 2022)
  • Case

Sustainable Product Management at Solvay

By: George Serafeim, Vincent Dessain and Mette Fuglsang Hjortshoej
In November 2019, Ilham Kadri, CEO of Solvay, a Belgian specialty chemicals and advanced materials group, with annual revenues of more than €10 billion in 2018, announced the group’s mid-term strategy, eight months after she took the helm as Solvay’s 11th CEO. The case... View Details
Keywords: Sustainability; Sustainable Business And Innovation; Sustainability Management; Sustainable Development; Management Accounting; Innovation; Carbon Emissions; Sustainability Reporting; Sustainability Targets; Target-setting; Product; Management; Transformation; Growth and Development Strategy; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Chemical Industry; Europe; Belgium
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  • 07 Apr 2003
  • Research & Ideas

How the U.S. Army Develops Leaders

center of gravity is not Iraq's military units, but rather the political leadership and hearts and minds of the people. At the same time that some leaders are engaging enemy tanks View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • June 2010 (Revised June 2010)
  • Case

Virginia Mason Medical Center (Abridged)

By: Richard M.J. Bohmer
In 2000, Dr. Gary Kaplan became CEO of the Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle, Washington. The hospital was facing significant challenges: it was losing money for the first time in its history, staff morale had plummeted, and area hospitals presented ardent... View Details
Keywords: History; Competition; Operations; Leadership Style; Problems and Challenges; Change Management; Health Care and Treatment; Business Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Health Industry; Seattle
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  • 07 Jul 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron

for natural gas, and to create derivative supply contracts that could help customers manage the risks of demand volatility and price swings more effectively than before. In this way, Skilling and his... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities

    Gerald C. Chertavian

    Gerald Chertavian is the Founder of Year Up, one of the nation’s largest and most effective youth workforce development programs. Chertavian was a successful technology entrepreneur and Wall Street banker, but it was through his many years as a Big Brother... View Details

    • February 2024
    • Case

    Innovation Strategy at Stanley Black & Decker: Setting the Direction for Growth

    By: David L. Ager and Antonio Manuel Oftelie
    On July 1, 2022, Don Allan was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Stanley Black & Decker (SBD). Although Allan had been with the firm for 23 years, most recently serving as President and Chief Financial Officer, he recognized that he was stepping into his new role as... View Details
    Keywords: Health Pandemics; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation Leadership; Growth Management; Business and Stakeholder Relations
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    • 05 Feb 2009
    • What Do You Think?

    Why Can’t We Figure Out How to Select Leaders?

    As Stevan Trooboff put it, "... the problem in picking leaders lies as much with definition of what types of leadership is required as in the process of selection... View Details
    Keywords: by Jim Heskett
    • 18 Oct 2021
    • Blog Post

    Embracing Activism for Social Change

    behavioral health professionals in situations where their expertise would make a critical difference in resolving crisis situations, or even preventing them in the first... View Details
    • 10 Aug 2009
    • Research & Ideas

    High Commitment, High Performance Management

    too top-down or laissez faire in his or her approach to leading. They do not engage people in a way that allows an honest problem-solving dialogue. An ineffective leadership... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • 16 Dec 2013
    • HBS Case

    D’O: Making a Michelin-Starred Restaurant Affordable

    the restaurant, failing to fill seats nightly, starts operating at a loss. But then there's D'O, a restaurant in Cornaredo, Italy, that opened in 2003 and received a Michelin star only one year later. Under... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel & Joanie Tobin; Food & Beverage
    • 23 Apr 2019
    • Blog Post

    HBS Shares Their Favorite Books for HR Leaders

    future success. Forged in Crisis: The Power of Courageous Leadership in Turbulent Times A book for managers who... View Details
    Keywords: All Industries
    • 03 Aug 2016
    • What Do You Think?

    How Can We Hold the “Leadership Industry” Accountable?

    context of organizations. In total, however, this month’s comments provide little hope for change of the kind that will enable the leadership industry to become more effective... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett; Education