Leadership Change - Publications - Faculty & Research

03 May 2019
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A Tale Of Two Netflix: Has The Streaming Giant Bounced Back After Qwikster?

01 Jun 2023
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uniquely helpful in Metric’s progress. LLX GEO, led by Thara Pillai, director of Alumni Engagement, is a six-month, virtual accelerator for recent founders across industries all over the world. The curriculum includes tactical workshops, View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

25 May 2016
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The Harvard Medalists of 2016

01 Dec 2022
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Full Court Press

Mandela after the fall of apartheid. “David has acknowledged that it really changed his life,” says Tatum, who joined the NBA in 1999. “Mandela told him that sports had the power to change the world, and the... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

15 Dec 2023
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Like-Minded

Yumiko Murakami (MBA 1994), Miwa Seki (MBA 1993), and Kathy Matsui share the same month and year of birth, so the friends started an annual birthday get-together to reflect on the year ahead. Work was always a hot topic of discussion. Each woman had built a strong... View Details

17 Dec 2020
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Making Club History in Japan; Startup Accelerator Case Goes Virtual in Atlanta

or five years to show success. We needed other metrics,” says Prince. “Dynamics were different. Corporations change slowly, whereas startups often pivot quickly. The case is about exploring what kind of View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

25 Aug 2022
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Understanding the Digital, Data, and Design Institute at Harvard

Illustrations by Don Foley To expand faculty research on how technological change is affecting business and society and to help reinvent this change, HBS launched in July the Digital, Data, and Design Institute at Harvard (D^3). It... View Details

16 Nov 2023
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Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in Boston

Starting last fall and continuing through this coming year, Dean Srikant Datar is traveling to meet with alumni around the world. On November 8, more than 170 alumni and guests gathered in Klarman Hall to hear the dean discuss how the School is addressing today’s... View Details

26 Jan 2022
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Making Peace with Anger

push them really hard. And then, in the process of this work, it changed the way you approached that group. So let’s take that example and talk about how that illustrates the value of the work that you were doing around anger management.... View Details

28 Feb 2019
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New Program Will Develop Leaders of Innovative Ventures

increasingly crucial to business and society. “By exposing undergraduates to management principles, we hope to change the leadership trajectory of even more individuals of tremendous promise earlier in their... View Details

15 Jun 2021
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Keeping Hourly Workers Focused on the Stock, Not the Clock

implementing a broad-based ownership program isn’t easy. It requires a commitment to change from the leadership team. But this new approach is winning fans among other private equity firms—“I had two calls... View Details

Keywords: April White; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

14 Jun 2023
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Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in East Asia

Study of Business in Global Society (BiGS), which he described as an interdisciplinary research enterprise that will position HBS as an intellectual hub for examining the most critical issues and opportunities of our times—from climate View Details

01 Dec 2019
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Remix

city. It was against this backdrop that Dixon turned her career ambitions to music. “I thought that by becoming a hip-hop A&R person I could change the world, empower black voices, and also make music,” she says. There would be no bigger... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Chris Sorensen; #MeToo; DefJam; Arts, Entertainment

07 Apr 2015
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Warrior Spirit

worked as a summer intern at Bain, a position he applied for simply because it paid the most; he used the entire sum to help cover his younger brother’s tuition fees that fall semester at Cornell. Despite the stressful circumstances, Sityodtong thrived at HBS. “The... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Technical and Trade Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2022
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My First Job

the rest of the employees were safely leaving the building and that the fire was contained. I learned that real leadership means running toward the fire and being concerned about the safety of others before your own. —John Fees (MBA 1999)... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

30 Jun 2022
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Scaling Hope

them. It was a night that would change both his son’s life and D’Antonio’s. Today, both men work in the field of addiction treatment. D’Antonio’s son, now with more than six years of continuous sobriety, is trained as a peer recovery... View Details

11 Apr 2024
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Mission Control

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. By the time Peter Platzer (MBA 2002) was a teenager, he knew he wanted to be a physicist—and he was fascinated by space, eagerly engrossed in space-time diagrams... View Details

12 Mar 2021
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My Favorite Case

important, as I was not yet in a major leadership position. I now have to manage a team of creatives and business professionals, and often their motivations and goals are misaligned. How to balance out their weightings in the company, and... View Details