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Families in Business

Individuals and family enterprises that reflect multiple generations and genders, along with executives from the family enterprise. Read More Teams might include: A chief executive officer or top family business leader and his or her... View Details

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Disruptive Innovation

Implementing a strategy of low-cost positioning Scaling fast to take advantage of network effects Outsourcing activities that are not your current core competence Sourcing new leaders from inside the firm Expand your personal and... View Details

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Competing in the Age of Digital Platforms

working with accomplished executives from various backgrounds, industries, and countries around the globe Build relationships with a diverse group of peers who can provide wide-ranging insights into your business challenges and career decisions Who Should Attend... View Details

05 Feb 2025
Blog Post

Leadership with purpose: Redefining success and impact with Satpal Singh (SELP—India 4, 2019)

When I joined the Senior Executive Leadership Program—India (SELP—India) at Harvard Business School, I wasn’t entirely sure how it would impact my career. I was already leading Business Transformation at Legrand India and had spent years gaining diverse industry View Details

Keywords: All Industries

08 Nov 2023
Blog Post

Zone Defense: These self-driving, AI-powered drones do recon so soldiers don’t have to

armor, a project known in the press as the “Iron Man suit.” The idea seemed absurd—but not because of the comic-book connotations. Tseng, with a background in mechanical engineering and on-the-ground experience in actual conflict zones... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Entrepreneurship

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Leading Global Businesses

Summary In an increasingly complex and volatile global world, companies need capable leaders with a unique mix of global business knowledge and personal leadership strengths. In this global leadership program cochaired by HBS faculty... View Details

27 Jul 2012
News

How to Be Effective in the Global Economy and the Boardroom: CFOs Offer Lessons Learned on the Journey

15 Mar 2024
HBS Case

Let's Talk: Why It's Time to Stop Avoiding Taboo Topics at Work

things that affect our ability to do our jobs. Yet we want our leaders to be authentic, empathetic people we want to follow. If we don’t talk about anything that’s real, how can they do their jobs, and why would we follow them?” Wing has... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

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Driving Corporate Performance

operating officers along with senior financial executives, HR executives, or other senior leaders enables the organization to better align performance management systems with company strategy and to implement systems more quickly... View Details

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Value-Based Health Care - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

ACS THRIVE (Transforming Health Care Resources to Increase Value and Efficiency), a new program to help hospitals and surgical practices improve surgical patient outcomes while lowering the cost of delivering care. Initially, leaders of... View Details

06 Feb 2023
HBS Seminar

Using Oral History in Business and Management Studies

Profile

Jason A. Kilar

interviewed with Bezos in a professor’s office, flew to Seattle a week later, and accepted a job offer on the spot. He thought he would stay for two years but he spent the next nine years working alongside Bezos whom he called “the single greatest business View Details

01 Sep 2016
Blog Post

Reflecting on the HKS/HBS Joint Degree Program

I am currently a joint degree student at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and Harvard Business School (HBS), and attending Harvard has been a fantastic experience so far. I spent my first year here studying the Master in Public Administration... View Details

11 Mar 2015
HBS Seminar

Ernest Wilson, University of Southern California, Annenberg School

Amy W. Schulman

Amy W. Schulman joined Harvard Business School’s Faculty as a Senior Lecturer in July 2014.

In addition to her responsibilities at Harvard, Ms. Schulman is a managing partner at Polaris Partners, who focuses on investing in healthcare... View Details

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Leading Change and Organizational Renewal

challenges and career decisions Who Should Attend This program is designed for senior executives at companies of all sizes and stages—from current market leaders to fast-growing midsize competitors to dynamic emerging companies. HBS gives... View Details

01 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

A Latin American Vision: New HBS Research Center Opens

August 3rd-4th in Buenos Aires with a multi-faceted research conference at the Caesar Park Hotel. The 130 participants at the conference, "Partnering for Knowledge Creation," included prominent university academics and top business View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Aligning Strategy and Sales

companies with go-to-market and business development efforts, as well as leaders of those portfolio companies Attendance by multiple company representatives will foster teamwork and amplify the program's impact. Because the process of... View Details

19 Feb 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019

algorithm uncovers two distinct behavioral types: "leaders" and "managers." Leaders focus on multi-function, high-level meetings, while managers focus on one-to-one meetings with core functions. Firms with View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

2022
Article

Becoming a Learning Organization While Enhancing Performance: The Case of LEGO

By: Thomas Borup Kristensen, Henrik Saabye and Amy Edmondson

Purpose - The purpose of this study is to empirically test how problem-solving lean practices, along with leaders as learning facilitators in an action learning approach, can be transferred from a production context to a knowledge work context for the purpose... View Details

Keywords: Performance Efficiency; Learning; Organizational Change and Adaptation

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