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- 22 Nov 2017
- News
How to Build a Winning Culture on a Losing Team
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Between 2013 and 2016 the NBA's Philadelphia 76ers were one of the worst teams in the league. In 2014 they tied an NBA record with 24 consecutive losses. And... View Details
- 14 Jul 2023
- News
Three Ways to Reenergize Your Team When Morale Is Low
- 26 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
7 Leadership Principles for Managing in the Time of Coronavirus
uncertain situation. Confidence. You have to be calm, but not still-water calm. You have to project confidence that you’re going to be able to see this through successfully, with a minimum amount of hurt to the company, but also to all of the stakeholders who are... View Details
- 16 Mar 2023
- News
6 Questions to Ask Yourself When You’re Frustrated with Your Team
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
New Senior Executive Programme Strengthens African Managerial Leadership
demands a high level of leadership expertise," says W. Earl Sasser, Jr., HBS senior associate dean for Executive Education. "The need for strong management has never been more crucial if this region is to fulfill its economic potential."... View Details
- 2009
- Chapter
Creating Common Ground: Propositions about Effective Intergroup Leadership
Kanter, Rosabeth M. "Creating Common Ground: Propositions about Effective Intergroup Leadership." In Crossing the Divide: Intergroup Leadership in a World of Difference, edited by T. Pittinsky. Harvard Business Press, 2009.
- April 2003 (Revised December 2010)
- Case
Leadership in Crisis: Ernest Shackleton and the Epic Voyage of the Endurance
By: Nancy F. Koehn, Erica Helms and Philip Mead
Provides an opportunity to examine leadership and entrepreneurship in the context of Ernest Shackleton's 1914 Antarctic expedition, a compelling story of crisis, survival, and triumph. Summarizes Shackleton's career as an officer in the British Merchant Marine, his... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; History; Leadership; Crisis Management; Management Practices and Processes; Groups and Teams; Behavior; Antarctica
Koehn, Nancy F., Erica Helms, and Philip Mead. "Leadership in Crisis: Ernest Shackleton and the Epic Voyage of the Endurance." Harvard Business School Case 803-127, April 2003. (Revised December 2010.)
- February 2022 (Revised May 2022)
- Case
Buddy Valastro: Cake Boss
By: Boris Groysberg, Evan M.S. Hecht and Katherine Connolly Baden
Buddy Valastro, celebrity baker and business owner, inherited his father’s bakery—Carlo’s Bake Shop of Hoboken, New Jersey—at the age of seventeen. He had willed the shop to survive and gone on to fame through his television show, “Cake Boss”—the name most people now... View Details
Keywords: Bakery; Entrepreneur; Scalability; Digital; Systems; Process Improvement; Team Effectiveness; Team Building; COVID-19 Pandemic; Food; Entrepreneurship; Family Business; Crisis Management; Change Management; Leadership; Creativity; Operations; Groups and Teams; Brands and Branding; Food and Beverage Industry; United States
Groysberg, Boris, Evan M.S. Hecht, and Katherine Connolly Baden. "Buddy Valastro: Cake Boss." Harvard Business School Case 422-060, February 2022. (Revised May 2022.)
- Research Summary
The Evolution of Corporate Structure, Internal Governance, and Leadership
My research documents the evolution of the internal governance of senior management in large US firms over a 20-year period and explores, via multiple methods, the causes and consequences of these changes. My findings suggest that... View Details
- 24 Apr 2020
- Op-Ed
Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19
“combined leadership explained a remarkably high proportion of the success or failure of each team.” Just four leadership variables–quarterback, coach, general manager, and owner–explained 68.2 percent of... View Details
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Leadership Execution and Action Planning (LEAP) - Course Catalog
module includes at least one business case where the leadership team failed to achieve their goals. Students will discuss how to manage failure, seek feedback, and make mid-course corrections. The intent is... View Details
- 06 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Leadership Groups for Staying on Track
task teams will want to meet on a more personal basis after the task is complete. They may be looking for people with whom they can share their leadership challenges and get confidential advice. In other... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 29 Sep 2015
- Blog Post
5 Leadership Lessons from the First Year at HBS
determines your ultimate success. While I have clearly learned a lot about leadership through our cases and professors, some of the greatest leadership lessons I’ve learned have come from my sectionmates. ... View Details
- 06 May 2024
- Research & Ideas
The Critical Minutes After a Virtual Meeting That Can Build Up or Tear Down Teams
after meetings,” says Perlow, the Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership at HBS, who is an ethnographer intent on studying work dynamics. With Ma in China and Eun in the US, each of the field observers spent eight to 12 hours a day... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
In emerging economies, business opportunities provide lessons in leadership
Even before a weeklong trip to Accra, Ghana, as part of the required MBA course Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership Development (FIELD), Australian Tim Leach (MBA 2015) knew that exposure to doing business in emerging markets would... View Details
- 05 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
The MBA Response: A Calling to Leadership & Service
Seizing this opportunity, they founded “MBAs Fight COVID”, an initiative that matched HBS students with business owners seeking help. Soon, as the community of service-minded MBAs expanded and grew to include other MBA programs around the world, the View Details
- 24 Apr 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: What Mark Zuckerberg Can Learn About Crisis Leadership from Starbucks
Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson (left) meets with employees and community members in this file photo. (Photo courtesy Starbucks.) Johnson & Johnson CEO Jim Burke’s leadership during the 1982 Tylenol crisis is what we at Harvard Business... View Details
- 09 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Leadership Lessons of the Great Recession: Options for Economic Downturns
of Cote and his leadership team and asks them to consider the choices they would have made in the face of the extreme uncertainty surrounding future business conditions in the fall of 2008. Cote joined... View Details
- 19 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
Leadership Fellow Ming Min Hui: Figuring Out Her Mission
figuring out what that mission should be.” Although her mother is an artist and Ming had majored in English as an undergraduate, “I didn’t think the arts was necessarily a career path for an MBA.” But as a member of the HBS Arts Society, she began to think otherwise.... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government