Leadership - Publications - Faculty & Research

26 Nov 2019
News

Collective Genius: Leading Innovation and Digital Transformation

question, “What do exceptional leaders of innovation do?” More specifically, “What is the connection between leadership and innovation?” Many of these ideas are examined in the book Hill coauthored, Collective Genius: The Art and Practice... View Details

01 Sep 2017
News

Alumni on the Best Business Advice They’ve Ever Received

“You should not jump at the first solution that comes to mind. You should consider alternatives and figure out how to apply them.” —Ken Fettig (MBA 1957) “All leadership is very close in nature to friendship. “All View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Skydeck; podcast; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

01 Dec 2003
News

Christine Fairchild to Head External Relations

scope and professionalism. They include the annual Global Leadership Forum, career services and lifelong learning programs for alumni, and a vibrant reunion program that is the envy of other professional schools and undergraduate... View Details

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

06 Dec 2021
News

Embracing Digital Transformation

priorities. Now, such gifts will play a key role in fueling the School’s digital transformation. Leadership in the Digital Age Monaco's Digital Transformation Digitalization: The Key to the Future of HBS HBS Curricula Explore the... View Details

13 Oct 2003
Research & Ideas

Negotiating Challenges for Women Leaders

Women don't have a problem developing an effective leadership style. What they do struggle with more than men, however, is claiming the authority to lead, according to Hannah Riley Bowles and Kathleen L. McGinn. The gender gap in View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

16 Jul 2024
News

Corporate Boards Are Failing in Their No. 1 Duty

13 May 2013
News

The Power of Three

Reunion. Demonstrating the leadership skills they honed at HBS, the three women initiated innovations—such as pre-reunion receptions and fundraising “captains” organized by city, rather than by section—that led to record-breaking levels... View Details

11 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Evolving for Success [Part Two]

Companies and people need to embrace change in order to succeed in the future, according to HBS professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter. In this, the second of a two-part interview for HBS Working Knowledge, she explains the leadership skills of... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

01 Oct 1999
News

Eight Among Many: W. Mitt Romney

foundering parent as CEO in the early 1990s. "Both Bain and the SLOC were dispirited organizations suffering from leadership crises," Romney observes. "Both had financial problems and needed new clients. And both were negatively affected... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

23 Jun 2014
News

Freedom to Explore

HBS Fund for Leadership and Innovation. “I recognized the impact alumni giving has had,” she remarks, “and decided that this was the right time for me to make a gift that at least partially signals the benefits that I personally received,... View Details

01 Sep 2004
News

Tracking a Turnaround

leadership style or his approach to broad challenges such as communications, change, and decision-making. About thirty multimedia cases are currently available in CD format through Harvard Business School Publishing. Classroom response... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

14 Aug 2019
News

Leading from Within

decided to turn their full attention to bringing a higher-purpose mentality, rooted in Christian principles, to the business world through Love, Power, Justice, an executive leadership program aimed at CEOs and senior leaders looking for... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

01 Dec 2003
News

Business Answers the Call

graduates have shown increasing interest in carving out careers in these areas, while other alumni often look to make contributions following rewarding private-sector careers. Innovative Leadership One such individual is Donald P. Nielsen... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Sep 2018
News

Research Brief: Where Top-Down Tops Out

cultivating middle managers to strengthen the organization. “It is very hard for top-down leadership to have any effect in a hospital,” she says. “Hospitals that are better managed all the way down the line have a better clinical... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

01 Dec 2011
News

What HBS Learned from West Point

If talk of knowing, doing, and being sounds a little touchy-feely, take heart. By embracing the educational framework, HBS is taking a page directly out of the US Military Academy’s playbook on leadership development. MBA Class of 1958... View Details

Keywords: military education; National Security and International Affairs; Government

16 Mar 2018
News

Enabling The Pursuit of Entrepreneurial Dreams

AwesomenessTV was sold to NBCUniversal, the timing was right. “I was wearing many hats at the studio — from business development to finance to marketing and operations. I learned a lot on the job, but thought an HBS education would elevate the View Details

21 Apr 2021
News

Remote Work Revolution

01 Dec 2012
News

Taking Care

MARCELO: "So much of the leadership is helping other people and being selfless." Frustrated by her inability to find high-quality care for her children, Sheila Lirio Marcelo (MBA 1998/JD 1999), a former consultant and executive at... View Details

Keywords: childcare; Personal and Laundry Services; Personal Services

01 Mar 2006
News

End of Campaign Celebrated

Harvard Business School. Close to 200 members of the HBS community took part in the event, which highlighted the impact of the campaign on the School and paid tribute to the leadership of former Dean Kim B. Clark and his wife, Sue. The... View Details