Contextual Intelligence - Publications - Faculty & Research

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Leadership for Senior Executives

improve your competitive position in the marketplace. Details Build your contextual intelligence Analyze how the environmental context influences how your organization operates and competes Sharpen your... View Details

14 Feb 2022
Research & Ideas

Curiosity, Not Coding: 6 Skills Leaders Need in the Digital Age

School professors Tarun Khanna, Anthony Mayo, and Nitin Nohria refer to as contextual intelligence. Only with an understanding of the most salient information or the most influential players in a given context can an executive figure out... View Details

Keywords: by Linda A. Hill, Ann Le Cam, Sunand Menon, and Emily Tedards; Technology

27 Apr 2016
Research & Ideas

How the FBI Reinvented Itself After 9/11

missions. Three, it could have simply rejected the new national security mandate. In reality, it didn’t play out in any of those ways. “Nothing in prior theory led us to expect what we observed—in essence, structural ambidexterity followed by View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Organizational Leadership Course | HBS Online

Develop a direction for your division, unit, or organization, informed by the external context in which your organization operates. Highlights Leader as Beacon Understanding the Context Developing Contextual View Details

08 Feb 2023
Op-Ed

Building an Inclusive Workplace? Prepare to Shield It from Economic Fears

you’re not accustomed to reflection, it might feel weird, like you’re wasting time. But you would be wrong. In fact, reflection helps leaders make better decisions faster. Leaders must constantly assess a dynamic environment to gain View Details

Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and Nicole Gilmore

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Industry Information - Alumni

current picture of the CPG business. CGT Consumer Goods Technology A collection of news, articles, featured content, sponsored events. A mission of being the intersection of business and technology in the global consumer goods community. Subscription required. Business... View Details

12 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

What Great American Leaders Teach Us

companies, the role of contextual intelligence became an increasingly compelling proposition. Q: What is contextual intelligence, and why is it important? A: View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2012
News

Balanced Scorecard and Beer Game Go High-Tech

Investing in HBS Great Expectations Model Teamwork Donor Spotlight FIELD 2: Global Intelligence FAQ For one day last November, it was every hand on deck and every eye on screen inside the war room set up by HBS’s Educational Technology... View Details

Keywords: Professor V.G. Narayanan; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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Globalization and Emerging Markets - Course Catalog

the developing world. GEM provides frameworks to understand the processes of economic growth and development; to develop contextual intelligence regarding emerging markets; to manage within a weaker or less... View Details

07 Jun 2017
Research & Ideas

How an African History Scholar Became a Modern Righter of Wrongs

Elkins and her students spent considerable time, before and during their immersion in Cape Town, unpacking cultural and contextual knowledge specific to South Africa, including its apartheid legacies. “Making students aware of this View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

15 Dec 2024
News

On The Case

Professor Linda Hill first met Tom Mihaljevic (GMP 15, 2013) when he came to campus to participate in a fireside chat that Hill unexpectedly wound up facilitating. At that time, he was the CEO of Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, and the pair found they had a lot to talk... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

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IFC: Saudi Arabia; Economic Diversification - Course Catalog

which lessons from their RC courses can either transfer over to the Gulf context, or need to be adapted. Professor Khanna’s work on Contextual Intelligence will be a central part of these discussions. While... View Details

01 Sep 2011
News

HBS Moves Ahead with Curriculum Innovations

capacity of our students. First, we wanted to improve their leadership skills. So Module One of FIELD focuses on leadership — in particular, enhancing students’ emotional intelligence and self-awareness. Module Two, global immersion, aims... View Details

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

20 Feb 2007
First Look

First Look: February 20, 2007

business practices with political savvy and a pioneering spirit, J.R.D Tata is remembered as one of India's most important and influential business leaders. Tata is an example of a 20th century business leader who applied contextual View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

08 Jan 2007
Research & Ideas

Who Rises to Power in American Business?

the airline industry, looking at how its leadership changed during the course of the twentieth century and how contextual intelligence or lack thereof influenced industry evolution. We are particularly... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

02 Sep 2014
First Look

First Look: September 2

Publisher's link: http://www.springer.com/new+%26+forthcoming+titles+%28default%29/book/978-3-319-04288-6 September 2014 Harvard Business Review Contextual Intelligence By: Khanna, Tarun Abstract—The author... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Mar 2012
First Look

First Look: March 6

http://hbr.org/2012/03/enriching-the-ecosystem/ar/1 Reviving Entrepreneurship Authors:Josh Lerner and William Sahlman Publication:Harvard Business Review 90, no. 3 (March 2012) Abstract New enterprises don't exist in a vacuum: They rise or fall depending on myriad... View Details