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- March 2013 (Revised May 2013)
- Case
Omar Ishrak: Building Medtronic Globally
By: Bill George and Natalie Kindred
Omar Ishrak, Medtronic's first non-American CEO, aims to reinvigorate the medical device maker's growth by focusing on emerging markets, therapy innovation, and creative business models. In 2012, budget constraints in mature economies, the lack of new medical therapies... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare; Medical Devices; Medtronic; Globalization; Innovation; Reverse Innovation; Leadership; Multinational Firms and Management; Globalized Markets and Industries; Management Teams; Business Model; Emerging Markets; Global Strategy; Health Care and Treatment; Acquisition; Innovation and Invention; Manufacturing Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; China
George, Bill, and Natalie Kindred. "Omar Ishrak: Building Medtronic Globally." Harvard Business School Case 413-065, March 2013. (Revised May 2013.)
Advanced Leadership Initiative
At Harvard, Rosabeth Moss Kanter is chair and director of the Advanced Leadership Initiative, a University-wide faculty group aimed at deploying a leadership force of experienced leaders who... View Details
- January 18, 2012
- Blog Post
How IBM's Sam Palmisano Redefined the Global Corporation
By: Bill George
George, Bill. "How IBM's Sam Palmisano Redefined the Global Corporation." Harvard Business Review Blogs (January 18, 2012). http://blogs.hbr.org/hbsfaculty/2012/01/how-ibms-sam-palmisano-redefin.html.
- May 08 2019
- Testimonial
Advancing to Next-Level Leadership
- February 2024
- Case
More than Optics: Olympus's Vision to Become a Leading Global MedTech Company
By: David J. Collis and Haisley Wert
In August 2022, CEO Yasuo Takeuchi reflected on Olympus Corporation’s recent transformation from being known as a Japanese consumer camera company to becoming a leading global medical technology (MedTech) company. Over the past dozen years, Takeuchi and prior... View Details
Keywords: Global Human Resource Management; Medical Technology; Corporate Strategy; Transformation; Globalization; Business Model; Leading Change; Organizational Structure; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Japan; United States
Collis, David J., and Haisley Wert. "More than Optics: Olympus's Vision to Become a Leading Global MedTech Company." Harvard Business School Case 724-426, February 2024.
- 25 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Developing the Global Leader
What skills do today's executives need to develop to become effective global leaders of tomorrow? And how do corporations teach these skills to their own leaders? "The shift from a country-centric corporation to one that is more... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- Program
Program for Leadership Development
leadership development program improves your decision-making and cross-functional skills by expanding your understanding of business operations and the global marketplace. With broader business knowledge,... View Details
- 26 Feb 2011
- News
Leadership skills start with self-awareness
- January 2018 (Revised January 2024)
- Supplement
Wanxiang Group: A Chinese Company's Global Strategy (C)
By: William C. Kirby, Yuanzhuo Wang and Daniel Fu
This case updates Wanxiang Group's activities since 2012, focusing on its electric vehicle strategy and a transition of the group's leadership. View Details
Keywords: Electric Vehicles; Leadership Succession; Strategy; Management Succession; Global Range; Auto Industry; United States; China
Kirby, William C., Yuanzhuo Wang, and Daniel Fu. "Wanxiang Group: A Chinese Company's Global Strategy (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 318-091, January 2018. (Revised January 2024.)
- May 2016
- Article
'Both/And' Leadership
By: Wendy K. Smith, Marianne Lewis and Michael Tushman
Leaders face a multitude of strategic paradoxes—contradictory pressures that are too often viewed as "either/or" choices. There are innovation paradoxes, in which the pursuit of new offerings and processes conflicts with the mandate to sustain the tried and... View Details
Smith, Wendy K., Marianne Lewis, and Michael Tushman. "'Both/And' Leadership." Harvard Business Review 94, no. 5 (May 2016): 62–70.
- 30–31 May 2018
- HBS Alumni Events
2018 Alumni Volunteer Leadership Conference
Volunteers are the critical link between the School and the global alumni community. The annual Alumni Volunteer Leadership Conference is designed to immerse top volunteers in the latest HBS thinking and connect volunteers with influential decision-makers and leaders... View Details
- Sep 13 2019
- Testimonial
Advancing Beyond Strong Leadership
Global Leaders for Tomorrow
This article describes the World Economic Forum's Global Leadership Fellows Programme. It offers a vivid example of the leadership development approach described in more detail in "Identity Workspaces for Leadership Development," below. It is applied here... View Details
- 10 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Top Scholars Say About Leadership
of a global view. Too much of leadership research is conducted in the United States or western Europe. This is despite the reality that some of the most disruptive leadership... View Details
- Program
Senior Executive Leadership Program—China
global context, drive new levels of innovation, and build accountable, high-performance organizations. Key Benefits Taught in both Chinese and English with simultaneous translation, this program is designed to strengthen the View Details
- Program
Senior Executive Leadership Program—India
take your leadership skills and your career to the next level. You will become a stronger leader who can design competitive strategies in a global context, promote continuous innovation, and overcome... View Details
- 26 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Learning from Failed Political Leadership
of Illusion: American Leadership in the Media Age. The book weaves together insights from economics, leadership studies, history, geopolitics, and national security to make a case for strategic independence... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 14 Jan 2020
- Video
What You'll Learn in Courageous Leadership
- 10 Nov 2015
- Op-Ed
Authentic Leadership Rediscovered
Bennis. True North assembled this developmental process in an original approach that enabled people to develop themselves as authentic leaders. In order to see how leadership has changed in the past decade, we initiated research in 2014... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George