Leaders - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 Aug 2011
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Should Leaders Go on Vacation?

23 Nov 2022
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Developing Yourself as a Leader

This course is an online leadership development program for the next generation of leaders (high-potential emerging leaders with rougly 7-15 years of work experience). Over 12 dynamic, high-impact weeks, a cohort of emerging leaders from around the globe engages... View Details

February 2015 (Revised May 2017)
Case

Delhaize Group: Developing Leaders

By: Boris Groysberg and Sarah L. Abbott

Delhaize Group, the Belgian-based global food retailer, was focused on competing in the food retailing industry by developing leading positions in key markets via localized retailing strategies. Delhaize was committed to offering its customers superior value while... View Details

Keywords: Strategy; Organizational Alignment; Talent Management; Leadership Development; Globalized Firms and Management; Human Capital; Talent and Talent Management; Corporate Strategy; Organizational Culture; Retail Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Belgium

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18 Jul 2019
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A Category Leader

Marla Beck (MBA 1998) is founder of Bluemercury, a retailer of high-end beauty products, and a 2019 recipient of the HBS Alumni Achievement Award. In this interview, she talks about building her business model around providing opportunities for women to lead. “I think... View Details

01 Dec 2018
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Preparing Global Leaders

activities. They hope to enable more business leaders to benefit from the School’s global research and leadership as well as to help others from around the world build skills through the case method, just as he did. “We want HBS to... View Details

27 Sep 2004
Research & Ideas

How Leaders Build Winning Streaks

Self-confidence is not the real secret of leadership. The more essential ingredient is confidence in other people. Leadership involves motivating others to their finest efforts and channeling those efforts in a coherent direction. Leaders... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

01 Dec 2015
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Encouraging Women Leaders

School’s Alumni Board and the Latin America Advisory Board. In addition, she has established a fellowship fund to encourage women to earn their MBAs. “We need more women leaders in business, especially in Latin America,” she says. “I want... View Details

19 Feb 2019
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Podcasts Featuring Black Business Leaders

09 Sep 2015
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Go North, Lost Leader

31 May 2004
Research & Ideas

How Team Leaders Show Support–or Not

What do leaders do to make employees in creative functions feel supported or not? That was one of the research questions posed by Harvard Business School professor Teresa Amabile and colleagues in what has turned into a penetrating study... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

05 Oct 2018
Blog Post

The Reflective Leader

2010-2013. Since graduating, Les has experienced firsthand the global alumni network and the resources available to students and graduates alike. We caught up with Les to learn about the concept of lifelong learning at HBS and his experience with The Reflective View Details

2012
Book

Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter

By: Gautam Mukunda

Will your next leader be insignificant—or indispensable? The importance of leadership and the impact of individual leaders has long been the subject of debate. Are they made by history, or do they make it? In Indispensable, Harvard Business School professor Gautam... View Details

Keywords: Leadership; Decision Making; Outcome or Result; Power and Influence

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October 2002
Case

New Leaders for New Schools

Describes the founding, early growth, and expansion plans of New Leaders for New Schools, a nonprofit public education venture that recruits, trains, places, and supports principals in U.S. urban school districts. This case presents the strategic, financial, and... View Details

Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Education; Education Industry

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