Publications

07 Jan 2025
News

The Leadership Style of Football Legend Deion Sanders

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Leadership for Senior Executives

ways to lead organizational change Identify the factors that are standing in the way of innovation Learn from stories about organizations that have successfully or unsuccessfully adapted to change Strengthen your organizational View Details

2010
Chapter

Advancing Leadership Theory and Practice

By: Rakesh Khurana and Nitin Nohria

More than a means of getting ahead and gaining power, leadership must be understood as a serious professional and personal responsibility. In this introductory chapter, editors Nitin Nohria, the dean of Harvard Business School, and Rakesh Khurana, a professor of... View Details

Keywords: Leadership; Practice; Research; Theory

1989
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Attitudes Toward Women and the Experience of Leadership

By: R. J. Ely

Keywords: Leadership; Attitudes; Gender; Experience and Expertise

2006
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Ancient History of Experimental Economics and Social Psychology: Reminiscences and Analysis of a Fruitful Collaboration

By: J. Keith Murnighan and Alvin E. Roth

Keywords: History; Social Psychology; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Economics

21 Oct 2021
News

Four Leadership Principles That Reflect the True Heart of Business

December 2014
Case

Advanced Leadership Pathways: Raymond Jetson's MetroMorphosis and the Effort to Transform Baton Rouge

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Rakesh Khurana and Daniel Penrice

Raymond Jetson, an inner-city pastor, former Louisiana state legislator, and 2010 Harvard University Advanced Leadership Fellow, has embarked on a new career as a social entrepreneur. The case charts Jetson's career in public life and the ministry, his experience as an... View Details

Keywords: MetroMorphosis; Raymond Jetson; Advanced Leadership Initiative; ALI; Louisiana; Baton Rouge; Social Entrepreneurship; Nonprofit Organizations; Louisiana; North America; United States

November 2005 (Revised March 2007)
Case

Leadership Development at Goldman Sachs

By: Boris Groysberg, Scott A. Snook and David Lane

In November 1999, 11 of Goldman Sachs' finest gathered to put the final touches on a revolutionary leadership development plan. Following Goldman's explosive growth during the 1990s and its eventual IPO in 1999, a diverse group of leaders from across the firm were... View Details

Keywords: Initial Public Offering; Leadership Development; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Skills; Organizational Design; Planning

21 Nov 2018
News

The History Of The First Thanksgiving — No, Not That One

29 Sep 2021
News

HBS Club of Washington, D.C.: The Emergence of Charismatic Business Leadership

01 Oct 2002
News

Lessons in Leadership

HBS professor Nancy F. Koehn found the leadership lessons in the ill-fated voyage of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance so valuable that she wrote a case study on it. HBS Working Knowledge senior editor... View Details

Keywords: Antarctica

22 Aug 2012
Working Paper Summaries

A Randomized Field Study of a Leadership WalkRounds™-Based Intervention

Background: Leadership WalkRounds have been widely adopted as a technique for improving patient safety and safety climate. WalkRounds involve senior managers directly observing frontline work and soliciting employees' ideas about... View Details

Keywords: by Anita L. Tucker & Sara J. Singer; Health

30 Apr 2020
Podcast

52. Leadership and Commitment in Times of Crisis

Twenty years ago, Mark W. Johnson and Clayton Christensen co-founded Innosight, a consulting firm focused on helping organizations to design and create the future, rather than be disrupted by it. This week on The Disruptive Voice, we’re pleased to welcome Mark for some... View Details

22 Aug 2011
News

Harvard's Kaplan on Leadership Techniques

2015
Article

What's so Institutional about Leadership?: Leadership Mechanisms of Value Infusion

By: Ryan Raffaelli and Mary Ann Glynn

Leaders are important social actors in organizations, centrally involved in establishing and maintaining institutional values, a view that was articulated by Philip Selznick (1957) nearly a half-century ago, but often overlooked in institutionalists' accounts. Our... View Details

Keywords: Leadership; Organizations; Values and Beliefs

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Executive Education - Leadership

Executive Education Executive Education We offer programs that strengthen the leadership capacity of individuals and their organizations. High Potentials Leadership Program HBS... View Details

The Handbook for Teaching Leadership

The last twenty-five years have witnessed an explosion in the field of leadership education. This volume brings together leading international scholars across disciplines to chronicle the current state of leadership... View Details

February 2011
Case

Rebecca S. Halstead: Steadfast Leadership

By: Boris Groysberg and Deborah Bell

Reviews Rebecca Halstead's career history, detailing how, through her personal attributes, skills, experiences, challenges, and organizational practices she developed into a successful leader and commander in the U.S. Army. The case profiles her leadership style and... View Details

Keywords: Working Conditions; Groups and Teams; Competitive Strategy; Personal Development and Career; Organizational Culture; Personal Characteristics; Leadership Style; Gender; Power and Influence