Leadership Transition - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2001
News

Donella Rapier to Head External Relations

will continue in that role along with her new leadership position at External Relations. “This is an exciting time to be involved in External Relations at HBS,” Rapier notes. “The School is poised to move forward on a number of fronts to... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

17 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?

leadership of Deng Xiaoping, there was an energy that you could feel—the possibility of stability and maybe a different face toward the outside world. But there was also the reality that it was a country that had only begun to emerge from... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg

18 Dec 2018
Blog Post

"There's No Substitute For Finding The Right Role": James Correa, MBA 2015

knew he wanted to "manage a team and help people develop," and that HBS, as the "premier leadership institution in the world," would be the "best way to learn the general aspects of business." As graduation... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Technology

01 Dec 2022
News

Educating, Connecting, and Mobilizing Around Climate Change

Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration George Serafeim’s research increasingly focuses on the intersection between sustainability and digital transformation. Over the years his research has spanned four main areas: business strategies in the context... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

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Leading a Family Business - Course Catalog

will be relevant takeaways for those planning to take a leadership role in a family office or family foundation. Educational Objectives: The objective of the course is to prepare you for the unique challenges and opportunities that... View Details

March 2017
Case

Swagbucks

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport and Matthew G. Preble

In early 2016, Chuck Davis, chairman and CEO of Prodege LLC, parent company of the brand promotion business Swagbucks, and Josef Gorowitz, Prodege’s founder and president, must decide whether to acquire MyPoints, a competitor to Swagbucks, after the company’s... View Details

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05 Feb 2015
Research & Ideas

How New BofA Executives Learn its ’Deep Smarts’

Transfer: Tools for Managing Your Company's Deep Smarts Dorothy Leonard, Walter Swap, and Gavin Barton Bank of America has recognized the need to ensure that leaders get off to a fast start as well as the need to reduce the high rate of failure among newly hired or... View Details

Keywords: Re: Dorothy A. Leonard; Banking

Profile

Kurt White

effective leadership Attracted by Harvard’s “brand cachet,” Kurt visited a class on campus. “The classroom experience is so much richer that what you could learn on your own,” he says. “I was impressed, and have been increasingly... View Details

Profile

Brendan Mosher

industrial company that allows him to leverage his engineering experience. Eventually, Brendan says, "I want to start my own company or transition to a civilian leadership position in the DOD or the... View Details

29 Nov 2018
Blog Post

"There's No Substitute for Finding the Right Role": James Correa, MBA 2015

knew he wanted to "manage a team and help people develop," and that HBS, as the "premier leadership institution in the world," would be the "best way to learn the general aspects of business." As graduation... View Details

05 May 2025
Blog Post

Meet the Tech Club

One Capital, Stack Overflow, Perplexity, and Hebbia. Internal Development and Workshops: Throughout the year, we organize sessions tailored to the needs of both students transitioning into tech and those with existing tech backgrounds.... View Details

Keywords: Technology; General High Technology; Other Technology

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The Reinvention of Kodak | Information Technology

Featured Case The Reinvention of Kodak The Kodak multimedia case highlights the company's reinvention efforts by its leadership to navigate near bankruptcy and industry disruption from new technology. It explores the resurgence of older... View Details

09 Jan 2007
First Look

First Look: January 9, 2007

people—particularly star performers—making major career transitions to management. As firms have become leaner and more dynamic, new managers have described a transition that gets more difficult all the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2009
News

INCAE Making Global Impact

programs and around 5,000 in its executive education programs, INCAE — which opened a Costa Rica campus in 1984 — has sent thousands of graduates into leadership positions in the private sector as well as to many important government,... View Details

01 Dec 2020
News

In Review

technical support to the faculty. Student leaders showed great ingenuity in reimagining social experiences online, including the annual HBS Show. As a result of these collective efforts, our transition to remote learning and working went... View Details

08 May 2017
Blog Post

Learning through the Case Method

and something that would enable me to provide for my family. After speaking with peers who had transitioned out of the military, I came to the conclusion that an MBA, more so than any other option, could make that happen. I also knew that... View Details

24 Sep 2014
Op-Ed

Stop Thinking of Climate Change as a Religious or Political Issue

or computers—wisely. We don't currently have anything resembling property rights for the ability of the atmosphere to absorb our carbon dioxide. But we should. If we priced that resource we would use it more sensibly. We've been through View Details

Keywords: by Forest Reinhardt; Energy; Utilities

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BiGS Fellows | Institute for Business in Global Society

BiGS Fellows The BiGS Visiting Fellows are scholarly researchers who focus on issues of business and society. Consisting of scholars who study climate change or racial equity, they provide intellectual leadership and research support that... View Details

01 Jun 2009
News

Letters to the Editor

further in the near term and/or increase domestic borrowing vastly. An expanded federal role in the economy will crowd out financing available for productive private investment and diminish growth and job creation. The future of American capitalism is in doubt. HBS... View Details

Keywords: News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

21 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

7 Successful Battle Strategies to Beat COVID-19

Joint Special Operations, developed practical lessons for transitioning from a traditional command-and-control structure to a "team of teams" approach more suitable for the battlefield. McChrystal realized a lengthy analysis... View Details

Keywords: by Euvin Naidoo

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