Publications

August 2006
Background Note

Analyzing Work Groups

By: Linda A. Hill and Michel Anteby

Work groups are the building blocks of organizations. They are found in all areas of an organization, from research and development to customer service, and at all levels, from the executive suite to the factory floor. Some are incredibly successful, while others are... View Details

Keywords: Framework; Leadership Style; Service Operations; Organizational Culture; Performance Effectiveness; Groups and Teams; Research and Development; Behavior

June 2020
Supplement

Shellye Archambeau: Becoming a CEO (B)

By: Tsedal Neeley and Briana Richardson

With the economy in a freefall, MetricStream is losing customers, hemorrhaging cash and struggling to make payroll. Several board members are threatening to quit. Others are pressing to sell the company even at dismally low valuations. It’s 2008 and lightning has... View Details

Keywords: Race; Gender; Leadership Style; Risk and Uncertainty; Change; Prejudice and Bias; Decision Making; Personal Development and Career; Technology Industry; California

Web

Giving - Alumni

Giving Giving Why Give? Because the world needs leadership now more than ever Your Gift Matters $250 $500 $1,000 $5,000 Other Give View my giving history Hide my giving history We would welcome your support this year, . According to our... View Details

12 PM – 1:30 PM EDT, 15 Jun 2021
Virtual Programming

HBS On Board Session

Join the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative for the launch of On Board, a new program designed to inspire and support alumni serving on nonprofit boards. In this first session, Professor Kash Rangan will host a conversation with Anne Wallestad of BoardSource on the shift... View Details

Web

Organizational Behavior - Faculty & Research

When Organizations Are in Crisis, It's Usually Because the Business is Broken. By: Jay Lorsch and Emily McTague More Information We blame women for not taking the lead in the workplace. Here's why that's... View Details

November 2017
Case

Outrageous Ambition: Duke University

By: William C. Kirby and Yuanzhuo Wang

Duke University had grown from a one room schoolhouse in rural North Carolina in 1859 to one of the leading research universities in the U.S. and the world. Since the late 1950s, Duke’s leaders had consciously used the process of strategic planning to guide the... View Details

Teaching

Overview

By: Ethan S. Bernstein

Professor Bernstein currently teaches a second-year MBA course in Managing Human Capital (MHC). He is also the faculty chair for the Harvard Business School Online Developing Yourself as a Leader course and teaches in a variety of executive education... View Details

16 Oct 2023
HBS Case

Advancing Black Talent: From the Flight Ramp to 'Family-Sustaining' Careers at Delta

there was nothing left for them,” as one talent manager pointed out. “Not everyone has [accepted] skills-first hiring,” Hill says. “[But] Delta’s leadership understands how the business and moral imperatives... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Air Transportation

February 2025
Case

Luca de Meo at Renault Group (A) (Abridged)

By: Emily Truelove, Linda A. Hill and Lydia Begag

When Luca de Meo became CEO of Renault Group in 2020, the 122-year-old French automaker faced financial challenges and the double technological disruption of the automotive industry: the shift to electric vehicles (EVs) and the rise of software-defined vehicles (SDVs).... View Details

23 Mar 2017
News

No Deal, Grading President Trump, Tito Jackson

12 Nov 2021
HBS Seminar

Prof. Rosabeth Moss Kanter, HBS

05 Jul 2012
What Do You Think?

Why Is Trust So Hard to Achieve in Management?

long. Yet many managers are experiencing a trust deficit. What's up? Reasons for the trust deficit, in the view of respondents, included the following: (1) "(management) actions inconsistent with the mission and vision of the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

Teaching Interest

Overview

By: Benjamin C. Esty

I created and teach a course called Strategies for Value Creation (SVC). It is designed to be a capstone course in the Elective Curriculum (EC or second year of the MBA program) that integrates and further develops concepts developed in several Required Curriculum (RC... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Strategy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Corporate Finance; Value Creation; Competitive Advantage; Competitive Strategy; Financial Management

05 Jun 2017
News

How to Manage a Needy Employee

Web

South Asia - Global

Governance and Women Leaders with Prof. Aiyesha Dey In February 2025, Professor Aiyesha Dey traveled to India for an 'Immersion for One' organized by the HBS India Research Center. Events in Pune, Delhi,... View Details

Robert Simons

Robert Simons is a Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School. For over 35 years, Simons has taught accounting, management control, and strategy execution courses in both the Harvard MBA and Executive Education Programs. For 2024/25, he is teaching a... View Details

20 Aug 2021
Blog Post

Is the MBA Worth It? Hear What Recent HBS Grads Have to Say

prospective HBS students? The most valuable asset I gained at HBS was the confidence to be myself and chase goals that felt authentic to me instead of pursuing goals for external validation. In this way, I was endowed with the View Details

February 2018
Teaching Note

Still Leading Series—Issues in Transitioning to New Forms of Service Later in Life

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Rakesh Khurana, James Honan and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone

The Still Leading case series includes an introductory note, “Still Leading (A): Issues in Transitioning to New Forms of Service Later in Life” and 10 supplementary cases that cover the transition of highly accomplished and prolific leaders (Hon. Robert McDonald, Hon.... View Details

Keywords: Leadership; Personal Development and Career; Transition