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- 01 Feb 2002
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
evidence that links organizational success or failure to “primal leadership.” They argue that a leader’s emotions are contagious and must resonate energy and enthusiasm if an organization is to thrive. Cultivating Communities of Practice:... View Details
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Finding New Ways to Solve Civic Problems
lead change in our community. I also felt that the business experience that I received at Harvard Business School gave me a unique perspective and an opportunity to bring new thoughts and new ideas, new ways to solve problems, to government. And I have been View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
New Awards Recognize Teaching Excellence
Program for Leadership Development Judy worked as Williams’s research and case-writing assistant after graduating from HBS as a Baker Scholar in 1957. He went on to a successful investment-banking career... View Details
- 08 May 2019
- News
Fellowships Enable Students to Broaden Their Impact
understand the human side of education, and after shadowing principals in different schools, Agarwal became one of Success Academy’s leadership fellows. He started by teaching fourth grade—“It was definitely... View Details
- 26 May 2016
- News
Thomas J. Tierney, MBA 1980
his focus to the nonprofit world and launched Bridgespan, an organization dedicated to helping address society’s most complex problems. Tierney has a knack for making it seem like his success is accidental. As a high-school student when... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Inspiration Is Not Enough
movements of the 1960s and ’70s. But what carried Playboy to decades of success was Hefner’s workaholic attention to detail, Harris writes. “He was involved in every facet of the publication, from the pictures to the stories to the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Books
making boards smaller, ensuring their independence, maintaining three core committees, and providing leadership that reinforces the board’s independence and effectiveness. Within this general framework, they suggest numerous ways that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Broad Range of Interests Among Nine New Faculty
1999), who also joins the Accounting & Management unit, came to HBS after 37 years at Bankinter, one of Spain’s most successful banks and noted for its innovations in technology and online banking. Arena, who holds a Ph.D. in engineering,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Alumni Books
Leadership in the Era of Economic Uncertainty: The New Rules for Getting the Right Things Done in Difficult Times by Ram Charan (MBA ’65, DBA ’67) (McGraw-Hill) Economic turbulence has arrived with a vengeance, and only companies that... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Charting the Year Ahead
Cooper This past summer saw another successful HBS Global Leadership Forum, this time in Washington, D.C. Attendance exceeded 640 alumni and guests, many of whom had not been to a previous GLF. On behalf of... View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
Scott M. Sperling, MBA 1981 & Laurene M. Sperling, MBA 1982
enables us to help people through this school, which has had an enormous impact on our lives," says Scott. "HBS was very formative for us in contributing to our success in so many areas. Helping others go through that is enormously... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Ex-Con Talks Ethics with HBS Students
80240ad2c5f43acc66f13dc5e89928ff There’s not much room for theory when Patrick Kuhse talks about business ethics. A successful stockbroker and entrepreneur, Kuhse became an international fugitive after being charged in 1994 with 32 counts... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Truth Teller
there’s the adrenaline factor. If you’re coming up to a big hedge, you’re not thinking about what’s going on in the office. You’re wondering whether you’re going to get to the other side.” Successful turnarounds: Five and counting:... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Books
1996 international bestseller, Leading Change. This time around, Kotter and coauthor Dan Cohen of Deloitte Consulting bring to life the principles of successful change with stories culled from hundreds of interviews with people from... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 1
ahead of its time. Ecomagination was an internal program dedicated to sustainability and reducing the company's environmental impact. Now it launched in 2005 and it has been, as you note, one of the most successful commercial efforts in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Disaster Master
the business world, succession planning.” Yet the impact and frequency of disasters has increased, Beer notes, making it even more important for businesses to integrate disaster preparedness into daily operations: “The vulnerability of... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 14 Nov 2019
- News
Keeping Red Lobster Fresh
interesting thing -about the hospitality industry, it tends to attract people who actually have pretty strong values, pretty strong caring about others. And that's actually the number one predictor of who's successful in the hospitality... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Teachable Moments
forge matters. In reality, the art and practice of leadership are deeply personal for the leader and those being led. They are deeply personal because molecules are stirred when a leader has an interaction with another person. Energy is... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
William F. Connell (MBA '63)
group, Connell gained 85 percent ownership of the industrial companies with a leveraged buyout that created the Connell Limited Partnership. Last year, the four firms remaining in the Partnership accounted for revenues of more than $1 billion. Connell modestly... View Details