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- 22 May 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
A Luxury Industry Veteran Teaches the Importance of Aesthetics to Budding Business Leaders
Pauline Brown joined the HBS faculty following a tenure as Chairman of North America at the French luxury goods conglomerate, LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton. (Photo credit: Albert Cheung) To future CEOs who want to succeed in the business of making and marketing... View Details
- 16 Feb 2017
- Cold Call Podcast
Black Business Leaders Series: A Remarkable Legacy of Firsts, Maggie Lena Walker
- April 2003
- Article
Identifying and Assessing Tacit Knowledge: Understanding the Practical Intelligence of Military Leaders
By: Scott Snook, Jennifer Hedlund, George B. Forsythe, Joseph A. Horvath, Wendy M. Williams and Robert J. Sternberg
Snook, Scott, Jennifer Hedlund, George B. Forsythe, Joseph A. Horvath, Wendy M. Williams, and Robert J. Sternberg. "Identifying and Assessing Tacit Knowledge: Understanding the Practical Intelligence of Military Leaders." Leadership Quarterly 14, no. 2 (April 2003): 117–140.
- 2012
- Working Paper
School Accountability and Principal Mobility: How No Child Left Behind Affects the Allocation of School Leaders
By: Danielle Li
The move toward increased school accountability may substantially affect the career risks that school leaders face without providing commensurate changes in pay. Since effective school leaders likely have significant scope in choosing where to work, these uncompensated... View Details
Li, Danielle. "School Accountability and Principal Mobility: How No Child Left Behind Affects the Allocation of School Leaders." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-052, October 2015.
- Research Summary
Do Leaders Lead in Business Process Innovation? The Case(s) of E-Business Adoption
This paper investigates how market position influences firm propensity to adopt new process innovations. Using detailed data from the U.S. Census of Manufactures, I study the adoption of frontier e-business practices during the early diffusion of the commercial... View Details
- September 2009
- Article
The Technology Manager's Journey: An Extended Narrative Approach to Educating Technical Leaders
By: Robert D. Austin, Richard L. Nolan and Shannon O'Donnell
Technology management poses particular challenges for educators because it requires a facility with different kinds of knowledge and wide-ranging learning abilities. We report on the development and delivery of an information technology (IT) management course designed... View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Management; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Business Education; Multinational Firms and Management; Entertainment; Communication; Curriculum and Courses; Framework; Design; Goals and Objectives; Learning; Information Technology Industry
Austin, Robert D., Richard L. Nolan, and Shannon O'Donnell. "The Technology Manager's Journey: An Extended Narrative Approach to Educating Technical Leaders." Academy of Management Learning & Education 8, no. 3 (September 2009).
- 14 Nov 2005
- Conference Presentation
Character, Competence, and Corporate Accountability: Developing Business Leaders for a New Era
By: Lynn Paine
- 2002
- Chapter
The Leader as Partner: A Contrast of European and American Leadership Styles
By: D. Quinn Mills, Stephan A. Friedrich, Hans H. Hinterhuber and Dirk Seifert
Mills, D. Quinn, Stephan A. Friedrich, Hans H. Hinterhuber, and Dirk Seifert. "The Leader as Partner: A Contrast of European and American Leadership Styles." Chap. 17 in Partnering: The New Face of Leadership, edited by Larraine Segil, Marshall Goldsmith, and James Belasco, 177–186. New York: AMACOM, 2002.
- Article
Leaders as Decision Architects: Structure Your Organization's Work to Encourage Wise Choices
By: John Beshears and F. Gino
Everyone from CEOs to frontline workers commits preventable mistakes—for example, underestimating how long it will take to finish a project or focusing too much on information that supports their current view. It is extraordinarily difficult to rewire the human brain... View Details
Beshears, John, and F. Gino. "Leaders as Decision Architects: Structure Your Organization's Work to Encourage Wise Choices." Harvard Business Review 93, no. 5 (May 2015): 52–62.
- March 1985
- Article
Experts as Negative Opinion Leaders in the Diffusion of a Technical Innovation
By: D. A. Leonard
Leonard, D. A. "Experts as Negative Opinion Leaders in the Diffusion of a Technical Innovation." Journal of Consumer Research 11, no. 4 (March 1985).
- Article
Act Like a Scientist: Great Leaders Challenge Assumptions, Run Experiments, and Follow the Evidence
By: Stefan Thomke and Gary W. Loveman
Though they’ve been warned for decades about the dangers of overrelying on gut instinct and personal experience, managers keep failing to critically examine—much less challenge—the ideas their decisions are based on. To correct this problem they need to think and act... View Details
Thomke, Stefan, and Gary W. Loveman. "Act Like a Scientist: Great Leaders Challenge Assumptions, Run Experiments, and Follow the Evidence." Harvard Business Review 100, no. 3 (May–June 2022): 120–129.
- February 2011 (Revised June 2011)
- Teaching Note
Leaders Who Make a Difference: Sam Palmisano's Smarter IBM: Day 1 (TN)
By: Joseph L. Bower
Teaching Note for 311030. View Details
- 1996
- Book
Fad-Free Management: The Six Principles That Drive Successful Companies and Their Leaders
Keywords: Management Practices and Processes
Hamermesh, Richard G. Fad-Free Management: The Six Principles That Drive Successful Companies and Their Leaders. Santa Monica, CA: Knowledge Exchange, 1996.
- June 2011
- Case
Leaders Who Make a Difference: Joel Klein's Transformation of NYC's DOE, Day 1
By: Joseph L. Bower and Sonja Ellingson Hout
Joel Klein takes over NYC's public schools and begins to reform the nation's largest system by depoliticizing, rationalizing management, and confronting the union so that the focus is on the kids. View Details
Bower, Joseph L., and Sonja Ellingson Hout. "Leaders Who Make a Difference: Joel Klein's Transformation of NYC's DOE, Day 1." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Case 311-705, June 2011.
- 13 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Merck CEO Ken Frazier Discusses a COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk
we've awakened to issues of racial justice and wanting to participate and contribute. And so what advice do you have for the leaders who are sincerely interested in making a difference inside of their companies and outside of their... View Details
- June 2011
- Case
Leaders Who Make a Difference: Joe Klein's Transformation of NYC's DOE, Day 2
By: Joseph L. Bower and Sonja Ellingson Hout
Keywords: Leadership; Transformation; Public Sector; Education; Education Industry; New York (city, NY)
Bower, Joseph L., and Sonja Ellingson Hout. "Leaders Who Make a Difference: Joe Klein's Transformation of NYC's DOE, Day 2." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Case 311-706, June 2011.
- 2009
- Chapter
China's Republican Century: Leaders and Followers on the Mainland and on Taiwan, 1911-2007
By: William C. Kirby
Kirby, William C. "China's Republican Century: Leaders and Followers on the Mainland and on Taiwan, 1911-2007." In Lun Minguo shiqi lingdao qingying [Leadership Elites in Republican China], edited by Lu Fang-shang, 22–32. Hong Kong: Commercial Press, 2009. (ISBN: 978-962-07-6426-4.)
- 2009
- Article
Big Five Personality Factors, Hardiness, and Social Judgment as Predictors of Leader Performance
By: Scott Snook, Paul T. Bartone, Jarie Eid, Bjorn Helge Johnsen and Jon Christian Laberg
Snook, Scott, Paul T. Bartone, Jarie Eid, Bjorn Helge Johnsen, and Jon Christian Laberg. "Big Five Personality Factors, Hardiness, and Social Judgment as Predictors of Leader Performance." Leadership & Organization Development Journal 30, no. 6 (2009): 498–521. (Winner of Emerald Literati Network Outstanding Paper Award presented by Emerald Group Publishing.)
- May 2009
- Case
Who is the Fairest of Them All? Choosing a Leader at Deronde International
By: Nitin Nohria and Martha Spaulding
Alain Deronde, the CEO of a French personal care company, has to choose a successor to head global product development from a diverse set of candidates with different backgrounds, strengths, and weaknesses. The candidates include Elise Bernier, Vice President of... View Details
Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Management Succession; Diversity; Management Teams; Product Development; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; France
Nohria, Nitin, and Martha Spaulding. "Who is the Fairest of Them All? Choosing a Leader at Deronde International." Harvard Business School Case 409-113, May 2009.
- August 2010 (Revised July 2012)
- Case
Leaders Who Make a Difference: Joel Klein Brings Accountability to NYC DOE: Day 1
By: Joseph L. Bower and Sonja Ellingson Hout
Joel Klein took over the NYC Department of Education in 2002 and radically transformed the strategy and organization remarkably with improvements in performance. Day 1 of the two case series focuses on the steps taken by Klein over his eight year tenure. Supplementary... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leading Change; Corporate Strategy; Education; Performance Improvement; Public Administration Industry; Education Industry
Bower, Joseph L., and Sonja Ellingson Hout. "Leaders Who Make a Difference: Joel Klein Brings Accountability to NYC DOE: Day 1." Harvard Business School Case 311-032, August 2010. (Revised July 2012.)