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

09 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale

more than a little suspicious of charisma, and his view of management and leadership basically is, you're running a company and most of that is management. But when leadership is called for, whatever that... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer

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

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

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

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

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

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

01 Jun 2002
News

Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth

know what I was talking about — I wanted to change that. I also wanted to understand business, one of the most powerful institutions in society, and learn about leadership and how to galvanize resources, human and otherwise.” As is the... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; management; ethics

01 Sep 2003
News

New York Club Honors Goldman Sachs CEO

evening’s other honoree was Donna E. Shalala, president of the University of Miami and secretary of health and human services during the Clinton administration. The club presented her with its 2003 Leadership Award. Proceeds from the... View Details

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

15 Dec 2024
News

On The Case

Professor Linda Hill first met Tom Mihaljevic (GMP 15, 2013) when he came to campus to participate in a fireside chat that Hill unexpectedly wound up facilitating. At that time, he was the CEO of Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, and the pair found they had a lot to talk... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

02 Nov 2021
News

The Road to Racial Equity

CEO of Management Leadership for Tomorrow (MLT), a national nonprofit that fights racial and economic inequities by empowering the next generation of leaders. Since 2002, MLT has been working with high-achieving Black, Latinx, and Native... View Details

Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management