Authentic Leadership Development - Publications - Faculty & Research

February 2025
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Kwame Spearman at Tattered Cover

Keywords: Retail; Leadership; Leading Change; Competitive Strategy; Personal Development and Career; Publishing Industry; Retail Industry; United States

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09 Oct 2015
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Balancing Progress and Preservation

Street Partnership was an amazing way to start a career,” says Zuckerberg, whose job included facilitating interactions with city agencies. “Dan is a dynamo. Nothing’s impossible to him. His leadership made us feel as if there was nothing... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

24 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

Who Sets Your Benchmarks?

Editor's note:When it comes to improving your leadership abilities, Professor Robert Steven Kaplan is a big believer in starting with a look in the mirror. In fact, he wrote a book on that subject: What To Ask The Person In The Mirror:... View Details

08 Oct 2007
Research & Ideas

Management Education’s Unanswered Questions

addressed, business schools risk being seen as largely places where students come to develop elite social networks and acquire a credential that helps them access particular types of jobs. To make sure that faculty does not lose their... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

August 2010 (Revised January 2013)
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Avi Kremer

By: Joshua D. Margolis and Mark Wetzel

If you were diagnosed with a terminal illness, how would you respond and what would you do with your remaining time? Avi Kremer contemplates four options for how to devote himself 18 months after being diagnosed with ALS. His experience thus far and the choices he... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Values and Beliefs; Health Disorders; Leadership Development; Personal Development and Career; Social Enterprise; Personal Characteristics

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01 Sep 2017
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History’s Lessons

to complete the manuscript of Silent Spring, which documents the effects of pesticides such as DDT on the environment and the campaign of misinformation surrounding their use. “Leaders are obligated...to translate information into knowledge, to use this knowledge to... View Details

Keywords: Abraham Lincoln; Ernest Shackelford; Rachel Carson

06 Dec 2021
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HBS Curricula Explore the Complexities of Innovation

Digital Initiative, was how to develop the skills and insight to become a leader in the digital age. Today’s MBA Program has multiple electives designed to help students conceive, lead, and execute digital innovation initiatives and View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Sep 2016
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Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016

family-run enterprises must develop leadership and entrepreneurial skills. But they must also manage family dynamics. The authors show how enterprising families can transmit the hunger for excellence across... View Details

26 Mar 2021
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Planning for a Hybrid Workforce

17 Apr 2017
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Jeff Immelt Wants a Radical Transformation of GE

plastics, appliances, NBC, much of its finance operation, and soon, it’s rumored, even the lighting division. The reason for this, according to Immelt, is what’s drawn him to Boston—the city’s leadership position in technology, medicine,... View Details

Keywords: Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Feb 2001
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New Fitzhugh Professorship Celebrated

department, served as an advisor to a number of business and marketing clubs, and organized the school's Small Business Center. In 1965, Fitzhugh left Howard to accept a position at Pepsi-Cola, where he developed the first marketing... View Details

Keywords: H. Naylor Fitzhugh (MBA '33); Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

16 Mar 2022
Blog Post

Taking Your Shot in the Sports Industry with Adam Laitsas (MBA 2016), SVP, Head of Marketing for Madison Square Garden Sports

their roles for 10, 15, 20 years. There is always something you can learn from them – be a sponge.” Furthermore, live the principles of servant leadership to understand your team and empower them. “My team will get it to the 10... View Details

20 Apr 2018
Working Paper Summaries

Executive Education in the Digital Vortex: The Disruption of the Supply Landscape

Keywords: by Mihnea Moldoveanu and Das Narayandas; Education

01 Dec 2010
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The Transformers

Zone (HCZ) and Youth Villages. The HCZ started modestly in the early 1990s with the idea of providing a range of support services to address the problems of poor families living in a single block of New York City. As one of Bridgespan’s early clients, HCZ needed help... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

05 Jun 2017
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Women on Boards: A Course Becomes a Movement

value for the program participants.” Groysberg’s leadership of the W50 celebration in 2013, marking 50 years of women’s admission to the full-time MBA Program at HBS, combined with his recent case study on the rand* construction company... View Details

Keywords: Margaret Kelley

30 Jun 2016
Blog Post

4 Ways I've Changed at HBS

opportunities that seem more fulfilling and sustainable in the long term. 2. My leadership style One of the biggest surprises I’ve had at HBS is how much personal growth I have undergone. A lot of self-reflection came about from... View Details

01 Feb 2001
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Ready for Take-Off

WorldClinic, Inc., a "virtual ER," providing U.S.-quality health-care services to Americans traveling abroad. Cynthia A. Fisher (MBA '90) of ViaCell, Inc., which combines the banking of stem cells from umbilical cord blood with technology to View Details

Keywords: Spingboard

08 Aug 2016
Lessons from the Classroom

Panic Management: Keep Your Eyes on the Road

place.” None of it helps clean up a workplace mess. ADVERSITY TOOLKIT Managers can soup up resilience in themselves as well as their teams by making a shift in how they size up a challenge. Rather than dwelling on their misfortune, resilient managers move quickly to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

19 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Funding Innovation: Is Your Firm Doing it Wrong?

Here's a cautionary tale of innovation woe: Nokia has consistently outspent Apple on phone-related research and development over the past decade, especially in the years leading up to the launch of Apple's iPhone. Between 2004 and 2007,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

24 Feb 2019
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