Advanced Leadership Initiative - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2012
News

The Accidental Pioneers

contacts that led to a position at Goldman Sachs, where she worked for 35 years before assuming a leadership role at JSJ Corporation. The first female HBS MBA hired by Goldman, she was preceded by Margaret Gilliam (HRPBA 1961), who worked... View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia

01 Jun 2010
News

M.I.A. Boards

you can’t regulate your way to strong leadership or good character any more than you can legislate morality. Companies and their shareholders have to want to change their boards — and to help make board members perform better. Formal... View Details

Keywords: John Gillespie;David Zweig; Finance

11 Apr 2018
Research & Ideas

Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now

shared #MeToo stories of abuse after Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein was accused of sexual assault in October 2017. “With the Weinstein story, a dam broke,” says Colleen Ammerman, director of Harvard Business School’s Gender Initiative, which supports research to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

28 Sep 2009
Research & Ideas

Improving Accountability at the World Bank

information disclosure proposed by the Global Transparency Initiative (2009). 4. Expand and protect political space for democratic and participatory decision-making in national political processes. The potential for democratic,... View Details

Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim

15 Nov 2018
News

Don’t Be Afraid of AI

apart! Skynet has become self-aware. In one hour it will initiate a massive nuclear attack on its enemy. What enemy? Us! Humans!” But Donna Dubinsky (MBA 1981), CEO of Numenta, says all that Hollywood-inspired fear of artificial... View Details

Keywords: Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Professional Services

24 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Busting Six Myths About Customer Loyalty Programs

lack "shopper critical mass"; they are a distant middle-of-the-pack player in the country. Although they try to use the same loyalty approach as in the UK, the Polish application cannot reproduce the benefits accrued to Tesco's UK market View Details

Keywords: by Marcel Corstjens & Rajiv Lal; Retail; Consumer Products

06 Jun 2005
Research & Ideas

Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?

market leadership position? "We believe that there is still a great deal of confusion and puzzlement on how this competitive battle will develop," say the authors of the academic paper Dynamic Mixed Duopoly: A Model Motivated by... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology

01 Sep 2009
News

Over the Top

leadership at some of the nation’s most renowned companies took too many risks and too much in salary, while their shareholders had too little say,” said Schumer. “This legislation will give stockholders the ability to apply the emergency... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance; Government

01 Sep 2004
News

Promise & Perils

years to the School’s first Global Leadership Forum held in a mainland Chinese city. McFarlan, faculty cochair of the 2004 event, couldn’t help but feel that this was the culmination of a long journey for himself and for the School. The... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

24 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care

concerns about that. The notion took hold that people at the top should pay some extra in income tax or the corporations should be asked to pay for some of the benefits that they were getting for being a part of the system. You got this View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

22 May 2020
Blog Post

Reflections on Service - Armed Forces Alumni Association Student Profiles

down to my own kids and grandkids. I joined because the deal seemed just too good to be true: service to the nation that has given me so much, free college, a guaranteed job upon graduation, an immediate leadership role, an opportunity to... View Details

21 Jul 2010
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation

research on financial markets and regulation and who, in many cases, have held leadership positions in the financial sector, think about the bill and its intended (and unintended) consequences? Below, HBS faculty members Robert Steven... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

18 Mar 2008
First Look

First Look: March 18, 2008

incorporated departures from this rationality assumption into their models and theories. In this paper, we argue that operations management scholars should do the same. We highlight initial studies that have adopted a "behavioral... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2017
News

Life in Lockdown

building leadership skills and working relationships as it was about building businesses. Planning the program for Spring Break would give students time to dedicate solely to fleshing out their business ideas from concept to product... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers; photography by Chris Churchill

21 Jan 2013
Research & Ideas

Altruistic Capital: Harnessing Your Employees’ Intrinsic Goodwill

campaigns drew two distinct groups of candidates. While the career advancement campaign attracted a group that had more qualifications and was more technically knowledgeable, the community-focused candidates were deemed more reliable—more... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

19 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Alfred Chandler on the Electronic Century

Europe, the United States, and Japan. The continuing evolution of both consumer electronics and computers resulted from continuous learning in the commercializing of new technologies and enhancing of existing ones. To repeat: The initial... View Details

Keywords: by Alfred D. Chandler, Takashi Hikino & Andrew Von Nordenflycht; Computer; Consumer Products; Electronics; Manufacturing; Technology

09 Apr 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

collectors, auction house operators, and other actors who played active roles as either institutional entrepreneurs or guardians in shaping the revitalization of the industry. We find these entrepreneurs and guardians initially espoused... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

03 Oct 2017
First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017

2017 Emerald Group Publishing Extreme Teaming: Lessons in Complex, Cross-Sector Leadership By: Edmondson, Amy C., and Jean-François Harvey Abstract—Today's global enterprises increasingly involve collaborative work by teams of experts... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

March 2024
Case

Nomad: A License to Bank

By: Paul A. Gompers and Pedro Levindo

In late 2023, Lucas Vargas, CEO and co-founder of Nomad, a fintech that offered financial services in the United States for Brazilian residents, had to decide what to do to ensure the company’s continued expansion. Nomad launched its first product, a U.S. digital bank... View Details

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Educators

06 Dec 2021
News

New Wave

electricity—enough to power approximately 150 households. The turbines are the spinning heart of the Roosevelt Island Tidal Energy (RITE) Project, an initiative undertaken by Verdant Power, the startup that Smith cofounded in 2000 to... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Chris Sorensen

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