Leadership - Publications - Faculty & Research

30 Oct 2017
News

Giving Minorities a Playbook for Career Success

2011. Of the nation’s 16.2 million management jobs at smaller companies, only 6.7 percent are held by blacks, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. These realities prompted John Rice (MBA 1992) to found Management Leadership for... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

01 Dec 2016
News

Managing Change

Foundation Professorship. Narayandas will leave the role of Senior Associate Dean for Executive Education, but will continue to serve as Senior Associate Dean for Harvard Business Publishing (HBP). Narayandas begins this new leadership... View Details

01 Jun 2025
News

Keeping the Faith

for spiritually grounded leadership so that you can steady yourself and others in a world that is not getting any more predictable or any less chaotic.” With a teaching team drawn from six of the university’s graduate schools and students... View Details

Keywords: Catherine O’Neill Grace; Illustrations by Victo ngai

09 Mar 2021
News

Empowering School Leaders to Meet Today's Challenges

other was elevating her students’ achievement scores. To move the needle on both, she took Leading Change, Leading Schools, and Leading People, three of four online courses included in the Certificate of School Management and Leadership... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Dec 2016
News

Bloomberg’s Gift to Boost Cities

in the field about best practices and effective management tools, so they can expand their knowledge and sharpen their leadership skills. The new Bloomberg-Harvard partnership seeks to bridge that gap.” —Excerpt from an August op-ed in... View Details

01 Jun 2015
News

The Military and the MBA: Lance Batchelor (MBA 1993)

decisions. The Navy showed me the importance of that. And I have tried to do that in my civilian roles ever since, whether it was as a brand manager of Oil of Olay or the CEO of a multibillion-dollar business. Next: Richard Kondo (MBA 1999) — Blending military View Details

Keywords: National Security and International Affairs; Government

29 May 2014
Research & Ideas

Research Symposium 2014

of Leadership and Management; Associate Professor Karthik Ramanna ; and Michael Porter, Bishop William Lawrence University Professor. Speaking Up Recognizing problems in the workplace is commonplace. Speaking up about those problems is... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Accounting; Health

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 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

What it Takes to Lead Through Turmoil

ties to the rest of the company, so angered Arrow's traditional salesforce that a wall had to be erected between the warring camps. How Leaders Do It For pace-setting companies, the three stages of response to change are much different. In phase one, these View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

05 Oct 2009
Research & Ideas

The Vanguard Corporation

In her new book SuperCorp, Rosabeth Moss Kanter argues that capitalism is near a crossroads. The old ways of doing business no longer work. Traditional leadership roles are breaking down. And the public is fed up with greedy executives... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

02 Dec 2015
What Do You Think?

What Will It Take to Achieve Gender Equality in Leadership?

are totally different. They control access to leadership positions, yet those positions are often filled by those most familiar—that is, those who most resemble men.” She went on to suggest that as male leaders observe their daughters... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Sep 2011
News

Faculty Research Online

Technology Ventures, Eisenmann introduces students to the idea of the lean start-up, a methodology that has proven successful for many young high-tech companies. Are You a Level-Six Leader? Asking the question, Whom do you serve? is a powerful basis for a useful... View Details

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

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

06 Dec 2021
News

Monaco's Digital Transformation

country’s own digital security agency handles all encryption. Genta, who brings to his role a background in business leadership at Google, Amazon, and Orange, also worked with his team to develop the Monaco ID card, a secure way for a... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Mar 2017
News

Expanding Horizons

his country, India, and more broadly, the world at large. “HBS changed my career direction and broadened my horizons,” he says. “I was going into the health care sector, but a summer in equity capital between my MBA years convinced me to change course.” HBS provided... View Details

10 Jan 2017
News

A Voice for Women Leaders

a lot of the women leaders, particularly the former leaders after they’ve been in office, they want to find a place to continue the missions that they feel are important, whether they’re health, or environment, or women’s leadership... View Details

01 Dec 2017
News

In Service of Others

a very good idea.” “Serving in the military is a tremendous leadership experience,” Zak says. “Officers eat last. We are trained to understand that the lives of others matter more than ours. It’s about the mission, and it’s about... View Details

01 Jun 2010
News

Rethinking the MBA

value-added by the MBA degree. Those questions, and the desire for greater attention to organizational realities, global perspectives, and leadership skills, have been getting more vigorous and louder. Second, this is very much a time for... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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