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- 12 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
Can Our Parenting Struggles Make Us Better Leaders?
guide employees in their exercise of autonomy. I call this approach freedom within a framework. Two steps to authoritative leadership To become a more authoritative leader, I suggest taking two basic steps: Communicate a clear framework.... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Edwin Yu: Bidding on the Future
dot-com start-up that launched what became the country’s most popular Internet portal. But after the competition heated up and the company diversified, “we lost our identity and our leadership position,” Yu recalls. That set the stage for... View Details
- 11 Jun 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Brittani Rettig (MBA 2010)
students as I lead them through a workout. In both the HBS classroom and my fitness class, I never fully know what to expect, but I do the best I can to remain confident and give it my all." What HBS case (or cases) are most memorable and why? "Several cases in View Details
- 01 Mar 2022
- News
2022 Alumni Achievement Awards Announced
presented to these remarkable alumni on Thursday, May 26, 2022, as part of the School’s Commencement ceremony, to highlight examples of outstanding leadership among our alumni for our graduating students. The recipients also will gather... View Details
- 27 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Creating Leaders for Science-Based Businesses
effort. "To maintain a leadership position globally, the United States needs high value-added products and services to be the engine of its economy," says HBS professor emeritus Kent Bowen, organizer of the colloquium. "One... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Power Trip
School’s Leadership Initiative. But there’s another way to assess business success, as found in the pages of Paths to Power: How Insiders and Outsiders Shaped American Business Leadership. Mayo (MBA ’88) is the book’s coauthor, with HBS... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
The Next Big Thing
It's a case of competition and strategy on a global scale, and the stakes could hardly be higher. The prize? Leadership in the realm of life sciences, a field that experts say will shape and dominate 21st-century enterprise. What city or... View Details
- 06 Jan 2021
- News
A Message from Dean Srikant Datar
additional assistance, to partnering with entities like the Executive Leadership Council to increase the number of successful Black executives. As I think about the Dean's Anti-Racism Task Force: [It] has resulted in the racial equity... View Details
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
something lasting,” said Josh Kraft, who is president of Kraft Family Philanthropies. The fund has raised nearly $30 million to support community groups and coalitions that fight racism and racial inequity in Massachusetts. Among its core View Details
- 06 Mar 2023
- News
Dean Announces 2023 Alumni Achievement Award Honorees
leadership—in their careers and communities—is an example for others to follow. The Alumni Achievement Awards will be presented on Thursday, May 25, 2023, as part of the School's Commencement ceremony. "It seems most fitting to highlight these true examples of... View Details
- 1992
- Chapter
Help for New Managers: Cultivating Critical Resources
By: L. Hill
Keywords: Leadership Development
- February 1980 (Revised September 1994)
- Case
General Electric Co.: The Executive Manpower Operation -- David Orselet
By: Wickham Skinner and David C. Rikert
Keywords: Leadership Development
Skinner, Wickham, and David C. Rikert. "General Electric Co.: The Executive Manpower Operation -- David Orselet." Harvard Business School Case 680-122, February 1980. (Revised September 1994.)
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
with a successful entrepreneurial track record and a Boston address. “I am a tech CEO.” With so few women in leadership roles in the information technology sector and a dramatic gender imbalance throughout the field, Kraus’s title is more... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Waking Up a Sleeping Company
in their businesses. After one such session, a senior manager asked, "Is there anything you won't get involved in?" I felt I had to get deep into the businesses to create the necessary changes in behavior. Creating a more challenging environment was natural... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
Four 1971 classmates — three who serve on the front lines of corporate leadership in the 1990s and one learned observer of the changing role of the senior executive — comment on the complex task of running a successful company in an... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Porter, Kanter Win McKinsey Awards
capital and labor, disconnecting business from society and posing conflicts between them. She advocates a new approach to leadership and corporate behavior in which companies exhibit, among other things, a common purpose, a long-term... View Details
Keywords: awards
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Faculty Books
demanding clients, tougher competitors, and associates with higher expectations than in the past. The authors present a broad framework suited to such complexity and identify four critical activities for effective leadership of... View Details
- 09 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Got a New Strategy? Now Make it Happen
believe in? Do we have the capabilities to execute that strategy? Is our leadership effective? The conversation has to be collective and public. Successfully realigning an organization with a new strategic direction almost always requires... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer & Russell A. Eisenstat
- 16 Oct 2018
- News
To Lead and Serve
Joseph Patrick (“Joe”) Mulloy (MBA 1987) is a retired Vice Admiral with the US Navy. In this interview, he reflects on the connections between his HBS education and his leadership and management experiences during a long military career.... View Details