Discussion Leadership - Publications - Faculty & Research

22 Apr 2002
Research & Ideas

Work, Family, Private Life: Why Not All Three?

How should men and women strike a balance between work and personal life in order to feel as happy and fulfilled as possible? In a packed auditorium, three speakers at the Möbius Leadership forum session titled "Walking the Tight... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

February 1992 (Revised April 1995)
Case

Pfizer: Global Protection of Intellectual Property

By: Lynn S. Paine and Michael Santoro

Top officials at Pfizer are assessing their strategy for improving protection of Pfizer's patents around the world. The outcome of the Uruguay Round of the GATT negotiations is uncertain, and it is not clear whether an acceptable intellectual property protection... View Details

Keywords: Patents; Trade; Policy; Government and Politics; Business Strategy; Agreements and Arrangements; Alliances; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States; Japan; Europe

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Chapter

Becoming the Lamp Bearer: The Emerging Roles of the Chief Risk Officer

By: Anette Mikes

Enterprise risk management, under the leadership of chief risk officers (CROs), has the promise to bring enterprise-wide risks, which threaten the achievement of the firm's strategic objectives, into the open and under control. Its organizational significance is... View Details

Keywords: Governance Controls; Managerial Roles; Risk Management; Business Processes; Risk and Uncertainty

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20 Dec 2013
News

What's Next for BlackBerry?

30 May 2007
Working Paper Summaries

Ambidexterity as a Dynamic Capability: Resolving the Innovator’s Dilemma

Keywords: by Charles A. O’Reilly III & Michael L. Tushman

05 Nov 2017
Blog Post

What You Need to Know about SVMP

The HBS Summer Venture in Management Program, an immersive, weeklong experience for rising college seniors, was developed to increase diversity and opportunity in business education. During their time on campus, SVMPers gain business View Details

14 Aug 2017
News

Extremely disappointed Trump didn't agree with Frazier

20 Mar 2013
News

HP Board Has Lost Its Institutional Memory

21 Dec 2016
Blog Post

The Best Little Secret of the Harvard MBA

and it is noisy. The noise comes from the aggregated voices of hundreds of HBS MBA students. They have gathered in their discussion groups to have some breakfast while they review cases they have had to read for the day’s classes and... View Details

25 Jun 2001
Lessons from the Classroom

Machiavelli, Morals, and You

of one of the keys to leadership: the notion of accountability. Badaracco, the school's John Shad Professor of Business Ethics, uses the novel as part of his course called The Moral Leader, an unusual course for MBA students in which students View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

2020
Book

Teaching by Heart: One Professor's Journey to Inspire

By: Thomas J. DeLong

The best teachers are leaders, and the best leaders are teachers. Teaching by Heart summarizes the author's key insights gained from more than 40 years of teaching and managing. It illustrates how teachers can both lift people up and let them down. It proposes... View Details

Keywords: Teaching; Leadership; Attitudes; Management; Business Education

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Career Coach

Ellen Harris

Ellen (HGSE ’86) is the Director of Outward Bound Professional/Facilitator at Thompson Island Outward Bound Professional where she is responsible for business development and corporate team and leadership development. Ellen enjoys working... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Consumer Products; Education; Hospitality; Manufacturing; Retail; Social Enterprise

03 May 2010
Research & Ideas

What Is the Future of MBA Education?

continue. At the same time, as a recent report by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business points out, we need research that is more practice-oriented and interdisciplinary. Q: Could you discuss gaps you identified, such... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

Research Summary

The American Chief Executive from 1850 to 2000

By: Richard S. Tedlow

Richard S. Tedlow's research explores changes in the leadership strategies, styles, and backgrounds of corporate chief executive officers in the United States over the past century and a half. This project has both a qualitative and a quantitative component. The... View Details

04 Feb 2020
Cold Call Podcast

Why Backstage Capital Invests in ‘Underestimated’ Entrepreneurs

Keywords: Financial Services

23 Feb 2015
News

A New Look at Transparency in the Office

December 2001
Compilation

"Doer's Profile" Jimmy Carter (James Earl, Jr.)

By: Howard H. Stevenson and Laura L. Nash

Designed to facilitate a discussion of the nature of enduring success. Includes both biographical data and excerpts from autobiographical material. View Details

Keywords: Leadership; Success; Public Administration Industry

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