Leaders - Publications - Faculty & Research

26 Mar 2024
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How One Leader Overcame Career-Ending Adversity

30 Sep 2021
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How to Be a Moral Leader

12 Dec 2022
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How Leaders Should Handle Public Criticism

16 Mar 2013
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In the Balance: The Good Leader

21 Jan 2020
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Why Business Leaders Should Solve Problems Beyond Their Companies

01 Jun 1998
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Wanted: Leaders for the New Millennium

attract and enroll outstanding students, we also know that many future leaders don't think of HBS as one of their options," says Jill H. Fadule, managing director of MBA Admissions. "We need to reach people who may not realize the... View Details

Keywords: Cindy Olnick

23 Oct 2019
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Preparing Leaders to Leverage Artificial Intelligence

adopted AI in some capacity. At HBS, faculty research and teaching reflect the growing importance of training leaders who can both leverage AI’s possibilities and avoid its pitfalls. Recently, Jan Rivkin, faculty head of the MBA Program... View Details

Keywords: Intellectual Ambition; Pathbreaking Research; Artificial Intelligence

18 Jul 2011
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Looking in the Mirror: Questions Every Leader Must Ask

October 2000 (Revised December 2000)
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Participant and Leader Behavior: Group Decision Simulation (B)

This series provides the instructions for a group decision-making simulation in which students experience four different methods for leading a group decision process. In the simulation, all students work in groups, with one person designated as the team leader. All... View Details

Keywords: Groups and Teams; Decision Making

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October 2000 (Revised December 2000)
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Participant and Leader Behavior: Group Decision Simulation (A)

This series provides the instructions for a group decision-making simulation in which students experience four different methods for leading a group decision process. In the simulation, all students work in groups, with one person designated as the team leader. All... View Details

Keywords: Groups and Teams; Decision Making

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2021
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Systems Thinking and the Engineering Leader

By: James Schreiner, Ricardo Morales and Hise O. Gibson

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April 3, 2020
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Real Leaders Are Forged in Crisis

By: Nancy F. Koehn

Keywords: Leadership

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February 1998 (Revised November 1998)
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Novartis (A): Being a Global Leader

By: Srikant M. Datar and Carin-Isabel Knoop

For the Novartis leaders, the decision to "use stretch budgets again next year" highlights the tension between candor and empowerment and command-and-control, between the new and the old, between high performance and business as usual, between Ciba and Sandoz.... View Details

Keywords: Goals and Objectives; Leading Change; Organizational Culture; Performance; Budgets and Budgeting

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May 2013
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Unilever's Paul Polman: Developing Global Leaders

By: Bill George, Krishna G. Palepu, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Matthew Preble

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January 2012
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How Leaders Kill Meaning at Work

By: Teresa Amabile and Steven J. Kramer

Senior executives routinely undermine creativity, productivity, and commitment by damaging the inner work lives of their employees in four avoidable ways. This article is based on analysis of hundreds of work diaries from professionals describing everyday events that... View Details