Leadership Transitions - Publications - Faculty & Research

14 Nov 2019
News

Keeping Red Lobster Fresh

implement the changes, then you make the big remodel change and become visibly different. And we're actually right at the point of making that transition where we've gotten the new initiatives in place and are beginning to remodel and... View Details

Keywords: Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality

01 Sep 2004
News

Alumni Board Wraps Up Year

year-end report. The Alumni Career Services Committee, chaired by Jim Gibbons (MBA ’94), found that alumni are changing job responsibilities and employers more frequently than in the past, and that many are interested in making the View Details

Keywords: Ted Fischer; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

December 2007
Background Note

Tools and Tactics for Transformation: Three "Whats" and Three "Hows"

By: James K. Sebenius and Stephen Friedman

Important transformation at Goldman Sachs, where one of the authors was Chairman, required analysis, political leadership, and management in order to fundamentally shift the strategy, people, and culture on a sustainable basis. After describing the actions needed to... View Details

Keywords: Negotiation Tactics; Business Strategy; Organizational Culture; Transition; Strategic Planning; Core Relationships; Multinational Firms and Management; Leadership Style; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Private Equity

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04 May 2017
News

Going the Distance

developed a clutch system and mounted our lawnmower engine onto my 3-speed bike. My top speed was 53 mph!” he says. With an engineering degree earned at Brigham Young University, Frey worked in the defense industry during the 1980s. When the Internet arrived, he View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Oct 2000
News

Faculty Retirements

University. Carl S. Sloane Carl Sloane (MBA '60), the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, has a strong interest in the leadership of organizations undergoing significant change. The cofounder of Temple,... View Details

13 Nov 2018
News

Building a New Real Estate Investment Model

didn’t follow smaller developers who flip houses, renovating and selling them quickly, often further inflating housing prices. And he definitely did not follow in the footsteps of the slumlords, those absentee owners who have long reigned in lower-income and View Details

Keywords: April White; Real Estate

05 Dec 2016
News

The Dragon’s Tale

down all the universities in the country for 10 years. In terms of education, it was a lost generation. Did you get a sense of people’s outlook toward the future? Under the new leadership of Deng Xiaoping, there was an energy that you... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Feb 2000
News

Short Takes

program. The second, or transactional, stage begins when the organizations start to regard each other as partners. For City Year and Timberland, this transition occurred when leaders of both groups realized they had similar visions of how... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

01 Jun 1996
News

Keepers of the Flame

the XXVIth Olympiad, opening next month in Atlanta. On an overcast morning in Atlanta, as the airport rapid transit train glides past auto-body shops and rain-swept intersections toward downtown, a passenger can glimpse in the distance a... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

11 Jun 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching the Next Generation of Energy Executives

You may think that being an energy executive—especially a manager in a leading oil company—might be the easiest job around. Just flip the production switch, and watch gas prices head toward $4 a gallon. But students enrolled in Harvard Business School professor Forest... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Energy; Utilities

17 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?

leadership of Deng Xiaoping, there was an energy that you could feel—the possibility of stability and maybe a different face toward the outside world. But there was also the reality that it was a country that had only begun to emerge from... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg

25 Jun 2019
News

After the Storm

management experience and lay the financial groundwork for his family to transition into the world of nonprofits. He wound up staying twice as long. “Every year it would get to bonus time, and I’d say, ‘All right, next year I’m going to... View Details

Keywords: Paul Flannery

01 Jun 2008
News

Where Are They Now?

transitioning early I could build a new career and contribute to society on a wider scale,” he observes, describing his decision to retire in 2003 at age 55. He resolved to work in areas and on issues that inspired “as much passion and... View Details

Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; Management

01 Dec 2016
News

Inside Modern HR

(think data analytics) as global competition for skilled workers increases. Matthew Breitfelder’s (MBA 2002) transition to the field came midcareer, after stints as an international economist at the US Department of Commerce, a corporate... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

11 Oct 2024
Blog Post

Committing to Work and Family: Allison Boxer (MBA 2012)

career goals, it was an unexpected discovery. Then, serendipitously, I got an email from the HBS career office about an upcoming Career Transitions workshop hosted by HBS Senior Advisor Dr. Timothy Butler. During the workshop, something... View Details

28 May 2019
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019

History of the Christian Church: Two Thousand Years of Female Leadership by Elizabeth Muir (HRPBA 1958) University of Toronto Press Muir uncovers the rich and often tumultuous relationship between women and Christianity, as she traces... View Details

02 Mar 2023
Blog Post

Women, Work, and the "M" Word

on smashing the menopause taboo. Together with my co-founder Alessandra Henderson and founding physician Dr. Anna Barbieri, an OB/GYN specializing in menopause, we began building Elektra Health as a digital health platform to address the myriad needs of women... View Details

01 Dec 2011
News

Reimagining the MBA

all the teaching materials for the course. The leadership intelligence module, FIELD 1, is defined by small-group exercises that help students make the transition from being outstanding individual performers... View Details

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

01 Dec 2022
News

Educating, Connecting, and Mobilizing Around Climate Change

Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration George Serafeim’s research increasingly focuses on the intersection between sustainability and digital transformation. Over the years his research has spanned four main areas: business strategies in the context... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

25 Jan 2016
News

Helping Young African Managers Find Their Way Home

Consulting Group. “We are also providing support to people transitioning to the continent by introducing them to others who made the move and by sharing information on what to expect.” YAM has also proven to be an asset for companies that... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

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