Publications

Educators

October 1986 (Revised October 1987)
Background Note

Approaches to Leadership - Individual

By: Joseph L. Badaracco Jr.

29 Sep 2022
Op-Ed

Inclusive Leadership Advice: Get Comfortable With the Uncomfortable

we can come to prefer difference, with time—to become comfortable with being uncomfortable. We took on this idea while teaching Inclusive Leadership to first-year MBA students at Harvard Business School last academic year. I teach the... View Details

Keywords: by Francesca Gino

October 2011
Module Note

Feedback Framework for Rapid Leadership Exercises

By: Joshua D. Margolis and Anthony J. Mayo

Keywords: Leadership

27 Jul 2021
Op-Ed

What Pirates Can Teach Us About Leadership

In the deep heat of an 18th-century summer, a crew of pirates was sailing off the Virginia coast when a lookout spotted a merchant ship to the south. Springing into action, the pirates launched an attack, rocking the merchant ship with a cascade of musket balls and... View Details

Keywords: by Francesca Gino

2017
Book

Extreme Teaming: Lessons in Complex, Cross-Sector Leadership

By: Amy C. Edmondson and Jean-François Harvey

Today's global enterprises increasingly involve collaborative work by teams of experts operating across different professions, organizations, and industries. Extreme Teaming provides new insights into the world of complex, cross-industry projects and the ways... View Details

Keywords: Groups and Teams; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Leadership; Complexity

2009
Case

Kaiser Permanente Executive Leadership Program (Executive Education)

By: Julie Battilana

Keywords: Leadership Development; Personal Development and Career; Health Industry

December 25, 2011
Article

Leadership Lessons From the Shackleton Expedition

By: Nancy F. Koehn

Keywords: Leadership; Learning

Read Now

November 1990 (Revised August 1992)
Case

American Airlines (C): Committing to Leadership

In an effort to grow and contain costs, the airline initiates a series of cultural change programs designed to increase employee participation and decision-making, and accordingly decrease the proportion of supervisors. CTL is the most recent, and by far the most... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leadership Development; Organizational Culture; Air Transportation Industry; United States

Educators

March 1988
Background Note

Leadership and the Information Technology Organization

By: Lynda M. Applegate and Donna B. Stoddard

Keywords: Leadership; Information Technology; Organizations

April 2007
Teaching Note

Leadership Forum: Building Great Careers (TN)

By: D. Quinn Mills and Carole Winkler

Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Leadership

2016
Teaching Note

Advanced Leadership Pathways: Shelly London and Ethics Education

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Tessa Natanay Hamilton and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone

Teaching Note for Case 313-028. Following a successful career as a Senior Vice President, Vice President, and Chief Communications Officer at two large corporate companies, Shelly London became a Harvard Advanced Leadership Fellow. During her fellowship she set out to... View Details

Keywords: Ethics; Education; Moral Sensibility; Behavior; Decision Making; Leadership; Innovation and Management; Change Management; Social Enterprise; Education Industry; Service Industry; North and Central America

28 Jan 2020
Book

Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking

Change the World One Smart Innovation at a Time is to be published today. Kanter is the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. In addition to her many years of teaching and research at HBS, Kanter cofounded the Advanced... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

18 Mar 2003
Lecture

Panel: A Dialog on Corporate Leadership

By: Lynn S. Paine

Keywords: Leadership

Article

Leadership Is Associated with Lower Levels of Stress

By: Gary D. Sherman, J. J. Lee, A.J.C. Cuddy, Jonathan Renshon, Christopher Oveis, James J. Gross and Jennifer S. Lerner

As leaders ascend to more powerful positions in their groups, they face ever-increasing demands. This has given rise to the common perception that leaders have higher stress levels than non-leaders. But if leaders also experience a heightened sense of control—a... View Details

Keywords: Stress; Cortisol; Control; Leadership; Emotions; Power and Influence

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October 1998 (Revised March 1999)
Case

Microsoft in Transition: Bill Gates's Leadership

By: Christopher A. Bartlett and Takia Mahmood

Keywords: Leadership; Change Management; Computer Industry

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

Keywords: by James Heskett; Entertainment & Recreation; Media & Broadcasting

July – August 2011
Article

The New Psychology of Strategic Leadership

In this article, it is argued that today's dominant ideas about the practice of business strategy-defined by Porter three decades ago-hinge on a specific and therefore partial interpretation of competition. The result is an equally partial picture of the strategist's... View Details

Keywords: Cognition and Thinking; Leadership; Business Strategy; Training; Experience and Expertise; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Management Practices and Processes; Competition; Markets