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  • Program

Growing as a Purposeful Leader

Summary Leaders today have to lead in the context of extraordinary changes and challenges. The demands of today's stakeholders have risen significantly, and what is expected of senior leaders is quickly evolving in terms of their mission... View Details
  • 25 Mar 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]

airports come at a premium, however; securing space depended on financing, a credible design for Polished's stores, and leasing managers' belief in Rhyne's ability to hire people and satisfy customers—neither of which was possible, of course, without a site.... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
  • 03 Sep 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Is It Even Possible to Dam the Flow of Misleading Content Online?

that it’s time for platforms to admit defeat when it comes to trying to flag, edit, or block misinformation on their sites. Instead, they should focus on curtailing specific information that can lead to direct harm, such as hate speech or... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Information Technology; Technology
  • Program

Managing Health Care Delivery

organization Enhance coordination of services Stimulate and improve innovation over time Become a more capable health care leader Build skills to design and lead a competitive health care delivery organization Understand how effective... View Details
Keywords: Health Care; Health Care
  • March 2014
  • Case

Babcock International Plc

By: John R. Wells and Galen Danskin
In 2013, Babcock International Plc (Babcock) was the largest engineering services provider in the UK with sales of over £3 billion. Under the leadership of CEO Peter Rogers, Babcock had grown revenues and profits nearly tenfold over the previous decade as it benefited... View Details
Keywords: Strategic Change; Strategy And Leadership; Diversification; United Kingdom; Military; Nuclear Power; Nuclear; Engineering And Construction; Conglomerates; Strategic Planning; Competitive Strategy; Global Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Construction Industry; Energy Industry; United Kingdom
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  • September 2005
  • Case

IBM Network Technology (A) (Abridged)

By: Michael L. Tushman
An unconventional manager within IBM leads the creation of a business unit with multibillion-dollar potential, winning over customers and nudging the organization to make the changes needed to achieve dramatic growth. Exemplifies how organizational design and... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Design; Management Teams; Leadership Style; Growth and Development; Growth and Development Strategy; Employees; Information Technology Industry
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  • 12 Mar 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Publish or Perish: What the Research Says About Productivity in Academia

publication outputs also works against tenured professors, who typically spend more time on longer lead-time projects, such as writing books or advising policymakers. The Harvard team looked instead at per-hour research output to test the... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand; Education
  • Program

Designing and Executing Corporate Revitalization

agility Lead your executive team and workforce through challenging and uncertain times Strengthen the leadership skills necessary to spearhead corporate revitalization Expand your personal and professional... View Details
  • 16 Feb 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Is Your Workplace Biased Against Introverts?

passion can quietly enable organizational biases against more introspective employees, Jachimowicz and his team say, as studies show that extroverts get more attention from managers in the form of resources, raises, and promotions. The... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
  • Program

Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management

game and create organizations that can thrive in the midst of change. Exploring crucial concepts and skills for nonprofit leadership, this program will prepare you to strengthen management and accountability while leading the evolution... View Details
  • Web

Value-Based Health Care - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

variety of backgrounds at all stages in their careers, and produces programming and events on a variety of health law policy and bioethics topics. The Center also hosts a leading health law policy blog, The Bill of Health. The Center has... View Details
  • June 2008 (Revised July 2008)
  • Case

Kit Hinrichs at Pentagram (A)

By: Linda A. Hill and Emily Stecker
This case focuses on Kit Hinrichs, a 65-year-old partner at Pentagram, a privately owned multidisciplinary design firm. One of the world's most prestigious design firms, Pentagram was founded by five designers from different disciplines in London in the 1970s. By 2008,... View Details
Keywords: Arts; Business Offices; Customer Relationship Management; Design; Leadership; Personal Development and Career; Groups and Teams; Creativity; Service Industry; San Francisco
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  • 05 Feb 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019

to take the lead in globalisation, developing its higher education and research systems at speed and actively seeking to cooperate with academic partners along the New Silk Roads in order to attract talent (back). But under which... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 23 Apr 2019
  • Blog Post

HBS Shares Their Favorite Books for HR Leaders

self-reflection, and best practices to help managers lead their teams effectively and find satisfaction in their roles. Have you managed teams for years? Are you mentoring a... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 11 Jun 2014
  • Blog Post

Alumni: Where are they now? Featuring Joe…

Current Position: Associate with Chrysalix Energy Venture Capital Current Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Tell us what you’re up to these days. I’m currently an Associate with Chrysalix, a leading early-stage venture capital... View Details
Keywords: Technology
  • 05 Sep 2023
  • Book

Failing Well: How Your ‘Intelligent Failure’ Unlocks Your Full Potential

future. A failed blind date leads to success The benefits of intelligent failures apply not only to business, but also to our personal lives. Edmondson explains that she is actually a product of learning from failure. In the 1950s, her... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 2016
  • Article

Vicarious Contagion Decreases Differentiation—and Comes with Costs

By: Ovul Sezer and Michael I. Norton
Baumeister et al. propose that individual differentiation is a crucial determinant of group success. We apply their model to processes lying in between the individual and the group—vicarious processes. We review literature in four domains—attitudes, emotions, moral... View Details
Keywords: Moral Sensibility; Behavior; Groups and Teams; Attitudes; Emotions
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  • 05 Jul 2023
  • HBS Case

What Kind of Leader Are You? How Three Action Orientations Can Help You Meet the Moment

contextual, or relational. The challenge for leaders is to develop a style that blends elements of all three, because “an overreliance on any one orientation can lead to poor action plans that may derail your ability to execute,” the note... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
  • Research Summary

Vicarious Learning in Organizations

To advance the study of how individuals learn through their interactions with others, Professor Myers has adopted a vicarious learning theory lens. Vicarious learning allows individuals to learn from the outcomes of others’ experiences, rather than solely their own... View Details

Keywords: Learning And Development; Learning; Health Industry
  • 26 Oct 2021
  • Blog Post

Tap into Top Talent with the HBS Leadership Fellows Program

for and understanding of the complexities of leading in the social sector. To achieve this goal, HBS partners with government and nonprofit organizations to offer one-year high-impact roles to a select number of graduating students.... View Details
Keywords: Social Enterprise