Leadership - Publications - Faculty & Research

14 Nov 2007
Research & Ideas

Growing CEOs from the Inside

industry. Promoting from within is no promise of success, of course. Former Merrill Lynch CEO Stan O'Neal was with the company 21 years before his forced resignation on October 30. But strong leadership and effective succession programs... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Employment

01 Sep 2008
News

The Business Environment in the 21st century

The business leaders surveyed for the colloquium suggested several ways in which business schools generally, and HBS in particular, could play a role. They included research and thought leadership on major challenges to capitalism;... View Details

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

05 Jun 2013
What Do You Think?

Do We Need to Extend ‘No Surprises Management?’

Two-year average annual client defection rate 37.8% 48.4% 31.7% Two-year average annual operating profit as a percentage of revenue 13.3% 3.7% 22.5% This data suggests (without proof of cause and effect) that significant improvements in performance can be associated... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Feb 2001
News

New Fitzhugh Professorship Celebrated

University; the HBS Distinguished Service Award in 1987; and in 1990, the Executive Leadership Council Heritage Award for lifelong contributions to African-American Business Advancement. Fitzhugh died in 1992 at the age of 82. View Details

Keywords: H. Naylor Fitzhugh (MBA '33); Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Sep 2014
News

All For One

Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration, she’d taught Harvard’s leadership course during the 1990s, but had begun to suspect that the visionary model of leadership on which it was based... View Details

Keywords: Michael Blanding; faculty; research; Market Research, Photo, Translation, Veterinary and Other Services; Professional Services

01 Sep 2008
News

Building a Better MBA

wrote case studies on MBA programs at Chicago, INSEAD, Stanford, Yale, and HBS, plus a case on the Center for Creative Leadership (all are available from Harvard Business Publishing); collected data on aggregate trends in MBA enrollments... View Details

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

05 Nov 2015
Cold Call Podcast

The Long Run: the Impact of Brain Injuries on the NFL

Keywords: Re: Richard G. Hamermesh

19 Jul 2013
Working Paper Summaries

Helping You Help Me: The Role of Diagnostic (In)Congruence in the Helping Process within Organizations

Keywords: by Colin M. Fisher, Julianna Pillemer & Teresa M. Amabile

14 Sep 2012
Working Paper Summaries

What Do Managers Do? Exploring Persistent Performance Differences among Seemingly Similar Enterprises

An abstract is unavailable at this time. View Details

Keywords: by Robert Gibbons & Rebecca Henderson

21 Aug 2000
Lessons from the Classroom

Under the Magnifying Glass: The Benefits of Being a Case Study

What is it really like to be the subject of a case study? According to top executives of four Latin American enterprises that have been held under the magnifying glass, the case study process can hasten a valuable journey of reflection and revitalized communication on... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

16 May 1997
Keynote Speech

Foundations of Leadership." Speaker. "Cum Laude Society at Noble and Greenough School

By: Lynn S. Paine

Keywords: Leadership

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Book

eLeadership

By: D. Q. Mills

Keywords: Leadership

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July 2014 (Revised November 2014)
Module Note

Responsibilities to Society: The Capitalist's Contract

By: Karthik Ramanna

Societies face many pressing challenges with serious implications for business leaders. These include pollution and climate change, poverty and income inequality, obesity and public health, and corruption and regulatory capture. This note presents a way of analyzing... View Details

Keywords: Responsibilities To Society; The Capitalist's Contract; Leadership

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