Global Leadership - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Sep 2023
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Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint

Since taking over as CEO of Tata Steel in 2013, T. V. Narendran had sought to transform India’s oldest steel manufacturing firm to ready it for a rapidly evolving business world. He instilled financial discipline, acquired new businesses, and launched digital... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Dec 2017
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HBS Fund Advances Global Strategy

Publishing. Gifts of all sizes to the HBS Fund for Leadership and Innovation help fuel the School’s ambitious international strategy to expand the scope of faculty research, develop students’ global... View Details

04 Mar 2014
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Learn Your Local Praise Culture

Keywords: corss-cultural communication; globalization; human capital; leadership

01 Mar 2004
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The New Global Business Manager

There is no such thing as a universal global manager, concluded HBS professor Christopher A. Bartlett in a 1992 article for Harvard Business Review. Rather, multinational corporations require three kinds of specialists: country managers,... View Details

Keywords: Management

01 Jun 2008
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Alfaro Named Young Global Leader

HBS associate professor Laura Alfaro, an expert on international capital flows, foreign direct investment, and sovereign debt, has been named a Young Global Leader 2008 by the World Economic Forum. The honor recognizes the top 200 to 300... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Management

01 Jun 2009
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Dispatches from the Global Classroom

cross-cultural learning aspect to it that you can’t duplicate in the classroom, which is very much a part of being a global business school. That doesn’t mean putting a U.S.-born student in the Paris office of Goldman Sachs. It’s... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

23 Aug 2010
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The Drive to Acquire's Impact on Globalization

25 Feb 2021
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EU’s largest HR and leadership conference makes a return

01 Jun 2015
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Learning from Global Immersion Experiences

of Business Administration The wisdom of the Turkish proverb, “A tribulation is better than a hundred warnings,” was not lost on the HBS students who traveled to Istanbul this year as part of the required, yearlong FIELD (Field Immersion Experiences for View Details

01 Dec 2008
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The CEO and the Functions of Leadership

In a working paper presented at the June colloquium, HBS professors Michael Porter and Nitin Nohria consider the CEO’s role in the large, complex organization that is typical in today’s global economy. An excerpt follows: “CEOs must... View Details

01 Mar 2016
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The HBS Fund for Leadership and Innovation

A Resource for the Next Big Idea, and More The HBS Fund for Leadership and Innovation is instrumental in bringing innovative projects to life at the School. Recent successful HBS initiatives that are advancing management... View Details

01 Dec 2011
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Li & Fung's Global Footprint

Issue Focus: Leadership To keep pace with a fast-changing global business environment, “You’ve got to institutionalize the process of reinvention,” says William Fung. Photo courtesy Li & Fung Ltd. Issue... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Wholesale Trade

02 Aug 2015
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Tarun Khanna on Leadership in Emergent Countries

01 Mar 2006
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HBS Global Forum Set for June

THE BUILDING MUSEUM: Site of a GLF "State Dinner" Upcoming midterm elections and ongoing political scandals provide a timely backdrop to the 2006 HBS Global Leadership Forum, titled The Private Sector and... View Details

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

18 Mar 2015
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9 Alumni Named Young Global Leaders

Nine HBS alumni have been selected as 2015 Young Global Leaders (YGL) by the World Economic Forum. The organization engages these “bold, brave, action-oriented, and entrepreneurial” individuals to help shape a more positive, peaceful and... View Details

Keywords: World Economic Forum

01 Mar 2012
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1st-Year MBAs Learn from Global Partners

excursions were Module 2 of the new, yearlong required FIELD (Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership Development) course, which is designed to hone student skills in leadership, global understanding, and... View Details

Keywords: Professor Youngme Moon; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

08 Mar 2017
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H1B visa squeeze threatens US tech leadership

01 Jun 2004
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Greenhill Family Gift Enhances Global Research

four continents. In recognition of the School’s leadership role, Gayle and Robert F. Greenhill (MBA ’62) have donated $15 million to establish the Greenhill Family Endowment for Global Research to support a... View Details