History Of Leadership - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Feb 2000
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competencies to devise a unique approach to resource and business management," says Austin. Austin also found that leadership is frequently of paramount importance in the creation and development View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

01 Jan 2009
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Jorge Paulo Lemann, A.B. 1961; Carlos A. Sicupira, OPM 9, 1984; Marcel H. Telles, OPM 10, 1985

when he and partners Jorge Paulo Lemann and Carlos Sicupira gained control of one of Brazil’s largest breweries, Telles agreed to run the company. Using strategies that had proven successful as an investment... View Details

04 Apr 2018
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Rebuilding the Girl Scouts Brand

USA, helped launch the ambitious G.I.R.L. brand platform, to increase public awareness of the 100-plus-year-old scouting organization beyond those ubiquitous boxes of cookies. When it comes to the Girl Scout... View Details

22 Jun 2021
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Looking at Losses in Gender Equity in Post-COVID Canada

generation. “Last year, we were a mere 99.5 years from real gender equity,” says Heather Stark (MBA 1999), an executive coaching and leadership development consultant and founder and president of Stark... View Details

14 Sep 2018
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Lessons Learned 10 Years After the Financial Crisis

event hosted by the Yale School of Management and the Brookings Institute and in an extended interview with public radio's Marketplace. The event, Brookings notes, was “part of an initiative, led by the... View Details

25 May 2016
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FIELD 3: Taking Down Barriers

FIELD (Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership Development) course. “I was interested in entrepreneurship, but I didn’t think that I was cut out for it,” says the Princeton economics major. “FIELD 3 took down a lot View Details

25 Feb 2020
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Action Plan: Just Breathe

In the late aughts, Joe Burton (PMD 75, 2000) looked like a success story. In 2006, after a successful career in consulting and the C-suite of numerous public companies, he was named COO of McCann... View Details

Keywords: April White

06 Dec 2021
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Wheels Up

Bit by bit, people are flying again. At Dublin Airport, travel is down from a record 33 million passengers in 2019 to a forecasted 8 to 9 million in 2021. Still, it’s a start—and travelers in and out of Ireland’s capital soon will have... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Dec 2018
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Preparing Global Leaders

and diverse business issues,” he says. Wahl, an investor based in Oslo, Norway, was cofounder and partner of the private equity firm IK Investment Partners Ltd. from 1989 to 2009. Presently he runs Stromstangen AS, a privately owned... View Details

01 Jun 2013
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Education Innovation

("Charter Revolution Redux"). At Harvard, the Public Education Leadership Project is using best practices in urban school management to train the next generation of district leaders ("Minding the Gap"). The... View Details

Keywords: Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

24 Jun 2014
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Gary (MBA 1963) and Terie Roubos

daughter, Leslie, are longtime supporters of education, both at the University of Colorado, where they met, and at HBS. To mark Gary’s 50th Reunion at HBS, they decided to make a meaningful gift to the HBS... View Details

24 Apr 2014
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Providing education and opportunities to children in Pakistan

Seema Aziz (OPM 39, 2010), cofounder of Bareeze, a global luxury textile and clothing brand based in Pakistan, started the CARE Foundation to provide education and opportunities for children in rural Pakistan. In this video conducted... View Details

24 Apr 2014
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Leading by example at a global company

Hiroshi Mikitani (MBA 1993), CEO of Rakuten, talks about leading a global company and the competitive advantages of speaking English. (Published April 2014) View Details

08 May 2019
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Fellowships Fuel a Passion to Help Underserved Communities

Amyra Asamoah (MBA/MPP 2020) Amyra Asamoah (MBA/MPP 2020) Since enrolling in HBS’s joint MBA/Master of Public Policy program with the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) in 2017, the only thing Amyra Asamoah (MBA/MPP 2020) hasn’t been able to do... View Details

01 Jun 2012
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Plan B: The Brick Bank

“Expect the unexpected” could have been the tagline for FIELD 2, the global component of the new required course Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership Development (FIELD). In January, first-year student... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Jun 2018
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Q&A with Janet Cahill

example, gifts under $1,000 to the HBS Fund added up to $1.8 million. Gifts of any size signal donors’ pride in and gratitude for their HBS experience, demonstrate their commitment to the HBS mission, and serve as a tangible vote View Details

01 Dec 1999
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EMC's Ruettgers Finds Gold in Data Storage

is very different from any other industry; it's winner take all," explained Ruettgers, whom Business Week has named one of the world's top 25 executives. "There's a clearly defined winner's circle, and if you're in it, you're way, way... View Details

01 Jun 2009
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IXP 2009

Boston: Healthcare: Value-Based Healthcare Delivery (Michael Porter with Elizabeth Teisberg, Darden School of Business) Silicon Valley: Entrepreneurial Ventures: Consumer Internet and Clean Tech (Mike Roberts, Tom Eisenmann) New Orleans:... View Details

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

28 Sep 2018
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Pushing Progress at Panasonic

Yasuyuki Higuchi (MBA 1991) (photo by Akio Kon/Bloomberg) Yasuyuki Higuchi (MBA 1991) (photo by Akio Kon/Bloomberg) When he was fresh out of engineering school in 1980, Yasuyuki Higuchi (MBA 1991) got a job at Panasonic. He left just as... View Details

08 Sep 2022
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Learning Curve

1997, as an experiment, with just four students. Katie and three others would benefit from both individualized attention and interaction with other children. Jerome Rosner, an optometrist and University of Houston professor (who passed... View Details

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