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the most influential women in business. Beyond her leadership at Young & Rubicam, she led a $5 billion division of Kraft Foods. Today, in addition to extensive board work, Fudge is a dedicated philanthropist, with a focus on education and... View Details

25 Feb 2020
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Teachable Moments

forge matters. In reality, the art and practice of leadership are deeply personal for the leader and those being led. They are deeply personal because molecules are stirred when a leader has an interaction with another person. Energy is... View Details

05 Dec 2013
What Do You Think?

Is Walmart Defying Economic Gravity?

two seconds added up the savings delivered to Walmart's customers over the company's lifetime. How you feel about Walmart's future may depend on how you feel about its policies and business model. Clearly, leadership has chosen to... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail

01 Mar 2014
News

Building Capacity in the Social Sector

would connect the SEI with his own Pennsylvania community. Thun's 2007 gift, an endowed scholarship that helps bring a Lehigh Valley nonprofit executive to the SEI's Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management (SPNM) program each year, reflects his understanding of... View Details

Keywords: SEI; Educational Services

01 Sep 2010
News

Dean Nohria Looks Ahead

that you have published on leadership and management, which one speaks most directly to the challenges you face as Dean? I’d say In Their Time because it highlights the importance of the broader context and how profoundly it shapes the... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson

30 Jan 2012
News

Shopping Around

projects merely to the ground-breaking phase,” she said. Calabrese currently manages the firm’s twenty designer outlet villages across the UK and Europe, a portfolio that is scheduled to expand to 21 by the end of 2012. She told the Times that her View Details

Keywords: real estate; shopping; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

12 Nov 2008
Research & Ideas

The Marketing of a President

inexperienced, and called McCain's judgment into question. Like any great brand, Obama has built up a bond of trust with the American people. His election has also given the United States the opportunity to reestablish its moral View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

30 Sep 2022
Blog Post

Latina Women in Leadership: Jacqueline Burgos (MBA 2014)

depending on the year, but remain less than 8% of the on-screen characters and even fewer executives in leadership roles means that we still have work to do.” Reflecting on the work remaining ahead, which I couldn’t agree more with, she... View Details

01 Dec 2001
News

Faculty News

from the University of California, Berkeley in 1963. John P. Kotter, the former Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership, a noted authority on leadership in complex business organizations, joined the HBS faculty in 1972. He taught for... View Details

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

01 Apr 2001
News

Q&A: Suzy Wetlaufer

who applied to the School on a lark, accepted a position at Bain & Company after graduating from HBS as a Baker Scholar. She and a Bain partner later wrote an article about leadership styles and submitted it to the Harvard Business... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

12 Dec 2016
HBS Case

Business Lessons from Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson

There is a theme to Dwayne Johnson’s life, and that theme is never settling. Johnson vividly remembers a moment in the mid-90s when he was being driven back home to Tampa, Florida, by his father after getting cut from a Canadian Football League team, his dreams of an... View Details

Keywords: Re: Anita Elberse; Motion Pictures & Video; Entertainment & Recreation

November 1972 (Revised December 1978)
Case

Dobbs House (A)

By: W. Earl Sasser, Daryl D Wyckoff and John Klug

Keywords: Leadership Development

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June 1996
Background Note

Summary of Leading from the Front

By: Lynn S. Paine

Keywords: Leadership Style

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28 May 2019
News

A More Perfect Union

is creating a path for the next generation of business leaders to engage in nonpartisan political reform (photo by Stephen Voss) In 2017 Ballou-Aares cofounded the Leadership Now Project and left her position as a partner at Dalberg... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Dan Bejar

01 Mar 2012
News

Thinking Green

Sciences and the Design, Medical, and Law Schools for a Harvard Thinks Green forum in Sanders Theatre. “This transition we face as an economy, as a world is going to hit every major industry,” said Henderson. Kaplan, a member of a Harvard committee on greenhouse gases,... View Details

Keywords: awards; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance; Mining; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

25 Jun 2024
News

On the Move: Alexis DePree (MBA 2007)

When Nordstrom announced the promotion of Alexis DePree (MBA 2007) to COO in early June, media outlets noted DePree’s expanded, end-to-end role in managing operations and customer experience in an increasingly complex retail environment. DePree joined Nordstrom in... View Details

Keywords: retail; customer service; supply chain management; career experience; Retail Trade

30 Jun 2010
News

Congressional Pork Is Bad for Business

The passing on June 28 of Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia at 92, after a 51-year career in the Senate, triggered an outpouring of remembrances, positive and negative, of his long service on Capitol Hill. Serving in a variety of View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

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