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  • 15 Sep 2022
  • News

Lessons on Leadership and Community from 25 Leaders of Color

  • July 2018
  • Teaching Note

Ron Johnson: A Career in Retail

By: Ryan Raffaelli
In April 2013, Ron Johnson (HBS '84) stepped down after just 18 months as CEO of J.C. Penney. In his brief tenure, Johnson, an acclaimed retailer respected for his innovation and success in shaping the retail image at Target and Apple, introduced dramatic departures... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Leadership Development; Legal Industry; Procurement; Professional Service Firms; Pricing; Competition; Organizational Behavior; Change Management; Innovation Leadership; Situation or Environment; Failure; Management Teams; Brands and Branding; Retail Industry; United States
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  • Web

Global Leadership Roundtables | Institute for Business in Global Society

Democratizing Development Inequality in Latin America, 2023 Why do we host Roundtables? Our mission at BiGS is to develop an intellectual hub that will highlight business's role in addressing societal... View Details
  • December 2016
  • Supplement

Ron Johnson: A Career in Retail

By: Ryan Raffaelli, Joshua D. Margolis and Das Narayandas
This is a video supplement, to be used when teaching the Ron Johnson case. See abstract:

In April 2013, Ron Johnson (HBS '84) stepped down after just 18 months as CEO of J.C. Penney. In his brief tenure, Johnson, an acclaimed retailer respected for his... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Leadership Development; Legal Industry; Procurement; Professional Service Firms; Pricing; Competition; Organizational Behavior; Change Management; Innovation Leadership; Situation or Environment; Failure; Management Teams; Brands and Branding; Retail Industry; United States
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  • 20 Jun 2020
  • News

The Harvard Professor Who Offers Leadership Lessons to Corporate America

  • 24 Mar 2020
  • Research & Ideas

These Coronavirus Heroes Show Us How Crisis Leadership Works

Schinecker, CEO of Roche Diagnostics, leads a company that received the FDA’s first emergency use authorization  for a commercially developed COVID-19 test on March 13. Roche now believes it can ship up to 400,000 test kits per week.... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George; Health
  • 01 Feb 1998
  • News

C.D. Spangler, Jr.: A Leadership Role in Business and Academe

made a significant contribution to the growth and development of public education in North Carolina and throughout the Southeast. "Dick does things quietly," observes Richard H. Jenrette (MBA '57), a longtime friend. Among those "quiet"... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry; photo by Ann Hawthorne
  • August 11, 2023
  • Article

How CEOs Can Navigate the Emotional Labor of Leadership

By: Nitin Nohria
Although the CEO role comes with power, pay, and privilege, it also involves emotional labor, as leaders feel the toll of making divisive and unpopular decisions. This aspect of the job has become more challenging the last few years. This article offers leaders four... View Details
Keywords: Leadership Style; Work-Life Balance; Emotions
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  • 11 Jul 2023
  • News

What the Best Leaders Know — and What Skills They Develop

  • 2013
  • Case

Advanced Leadership Pathways: General Gale Pollock and Services for the Vision Impaired

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, Juliane Calingo Schwetz and Patricia Bissett Higgins
In July 2012, retired United States Army Major General Gale Pollock created Elevivo, a venture that worked on developing a comprehensive disease management software system to support the growing number of visually impaired individuals by providing them with tailored... View Details
Keywords: Disease Management; Health; Health Care and Treatment; Education; Information Technology; Insurance; Entrepreneurship; Leadership; Information Technology Industry; Health Industry; United States
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  • 02 Feb 2023
  • News

When You’re Doubting Your Leadership - And Others Are, Too

  • 2012
  • Chapter

Re-Developing Leaders: The Harvard Advanced Leadership Experiment in Even Higher Education

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter
Keywords: Leadership Development; Higher Education; Education Industry
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  • 2019
  • Book

Becoming a Manager: How New Managers Master the Challenges of Leadership

By: Linda A. Hill
In your career, or anyone's, there is one transition that stands out as the most crucial—going from individual contributor to competent manager.

New managers have to learn how to lead others rather than do the work themselves, to win trust and respect, to... View Details
Keywords: Management; Leadership; Leadership Development; Management Skills; Learning
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  • 25 Jul 2006
  • Working Paper Summaries

A Gentler Capitalism: Black Business Leadership in the New South Africa

Keywords: by Linda A. Hill & Maria Farkas; Communications; Telecommunications
  • Fall 2021
  • Article

When to Go and How to Go? Founder and Leader Transitions in Private Equity Firms

By: Josh Lerner and Diana Noble
Leadership transition in private equity firms is an understudied field, despite the important, albeit controversial, role such firms play in developed economies. We analyzed 260 firms in an empirical study, supplemented by qualitative interviews with a small sample of... View Details
Keywords: Leadership Transition; Private Equity; Leadership; Management Succession; Analysis
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  • Web

Delving Deeper into Development with the Joint MBA/MPA-ID Program | MBA

Delving Deeper into Development with the Joint MBA/MPA-ID Program By Zainab Raji on October 29, 2020 Share via Facebook Share via LinkedIn Print Share via email Can you share a bit about your background and where you grew up? Zainab Raji... View Details
  • 28 Oct 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: The Good Struggle: Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World

book excerpt Evolving Committments From The Good Struggle: Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World By JOSEPH L. BADARACCO In a turbulent, sometimes dangerous world, responsible leaders need a broader view of critical decisions.... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph L. Badaracco
  • 8 Feb 2022
  • Interview

Episode 109: Former Best Buy CEO Hubert Joly

By: Hubert Joly and Adam Mendler
A former Fortune 100 CEO, Hubert Joly was the leader of America's largest consumer electronics retailer. As CEO of Best Buy, Hubert led the company’s turnaround by implementing a distinct leadership philosophy and contrarian strategic decisions. Hubert joins Adam to... View Details
Keywords: Leadership Philosophy; Leadership; Personal Development and Career
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  • 2015
  • Case

Advanced Leadership Pathways: Tom Santel and a Community Based Approach to Early Childhood Health

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, Grace Sza-Hua Chen and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone
Tom Santel, a former CEO of Anheuser-Busch's international subsidiary, pursued his initial interest in addressing St. Louis' educational challenges, which morphed into an early childhood health intervention program given the strong links between health and education.... View Details
Keywords: Children; Health; Programs; Leadership; Social Issues; Business and Community Relations; St. Louis
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  • 05 Aug 2002
  • What Do You Think?

Is Platform Leadership Old Hat or the Wave of the Future?

what extent does platform leadership help or hinder the development of such ideas? Do our anti-trust laws adequately address the issue of platform leaders and their behaviors? Platform View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett