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  • 02 Feb 2004
  • What Do You Think?

Leadership: A Matter of Sustaining or Eliminating Groupthink?

views as possible ... and then get the buy in for the execution process." Anshu Vats expressed this view a bit differently when he said, "Groupthink is heavily discouraged in the companies where the leaders lead from behind. ... This View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • December 2016 (Revised December 2017)
  • Case

Faber-Castell

By: Ryan Raffaelli and Christine Snively
By 2016, Count Anton-Wolfgang von Faber-Castell had led the 255-year-old pencil manufacturer Faber-Castell through waves of technological change. The pocket calculator decimated Faber-Castell’s slide rule business in the 1970s, and computer aided design technology... View Details
Keywords: Leadership Style; Leading Change; Family Ownership; Manufacturing Industry; Germany
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Raffaelli, Ryan, and Christine Snively. "Faber-Castell." Harvard Business School Case 417-010, December 2016. (Revised December 2017.)
  • April 1996 (Revised June 1999)
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NYPD New

By: James L. Heskett
Police Commissioner Bratten and his staff have led a process designed to create a results-oriented police department from one that previously emphasized and measured effort. With increasing budgeting pressures, the next phase of effort calls for increasing emphasis on... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Performance Productivity; Leadership Style; Budgets and Budgeting; Public Administration Industry
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Heskett, James L. "NYPD New." Harvard Business School Case 396-293, April 1996. (Revised June 1999.)
  • 18 Nov 2013
  • News

Pulpit Bullies: Why Dominating Leaders Kill Teams

Keywords: Management
  • 19 Jul 2023
  • News

The Best Leaders Are Also Technical Experts

  • 27 Jun 2023
  • News

5 Reasons You Crack Under Pressure

  • 30 Aug 2021
  • News

You’ve Built a Racially Diverse Team. But Have You Built an Inclusive Culture?

  • 20 Nov 2020
  • News

What Kind of Startup Founder Are You?

  • 14 Oct 2014
  • News

Abigail Johnson Named CEO of Fidelity Investments

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance
  • December 1, 2023
  • Article

When Charismatic CEOs Are an Asset—and When They’re a Liability

By: Nitin Nohria
Starting in the 1980s, a generation of larger-than-life CEOs became full-blown celebrity, but over time, research suggested that charismatic CEOs tended to have drawbacks at leaders. However, charisma can be especially useful in two business concepts with big unknowns:... View Details
Keywords: Leadership Style; Business Startups; Risk and Uncertainty; Organizational Change and Adaptation
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Nohria, Nitin. "When Charismatic CEOs Are an Asset—and When They’re a Liability." Harvard Business Review (website) (December 1, 2023).
  • December 2005 (Revised May 2009)
  • Case

C.R. Smith and the Birth of American Airlines

By: Anthony Mayo and Laura Gaie Singleton
Presents an overview of the path that C.R. Smith pursued to build American Airlines into one of the largest airlines in the world in the 20th century. Over the course of his 30-year tenure as president of American Airlines, Smith deployed a three-pronged... View Details
Keywords: Leadership Style; Growth and Development Strategy; Industry Growth; Operations; Air Transportation Industry; United States
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Mayo, Anthony, and Laura Gaie Singleton. "C.R. Smith and the Birth of American Airlines." Harvard Business School Case 406-082, December 2005. (Revised May 2009.)
  • 15 Jan 2020
  • News

The Business of Access

Karae Lisle (MBA 1998) has watched firsthand the struggles of the homeless, with a close family member living on the streets and in shelters in Florida, on and off, for years. His personal struggles limited the family’s ability to help, so Lisle, based in Palo Alto,... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
  • 27 Aug 2014
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Learning From Japan’s Remarkable Disaster Recovery

leadership in mobilizing people and resources in highly dynamic situations.” Each winter, 900 HBS students dispatch around the world to see businesses up close, learn what they can about how they are run, and share their own knowledge... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy; Utilities; Retail
  • 01 Mar 2009
  • News

Alumni Books

Leadership in the Era of Economic Uncertainty: The New Rules for Getting the Right Things Done in Difficult Times by Ram Charan (MBA ’65, DBA ’67) (McGraw-Hill) Economic turbulence has arrived with a vengeance, and only companies that... View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 31 Mar 2021
  • News

Sports as A Classroom: Lessons in Leadership, Diversity, Inclusion & Impact

  • 01 Mar 2013
  • News

A United Front

Sustaining peak performance over not just years but decades may be the single most difficult challenge for executives, which makes Sir Alex Ferguson's 26-year run as manager of England's legendary Manchester United soccer club so noteworthy, especially in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management
  • 12 Mar 2014
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Managing the Family Business: Firing the CEO

Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management
  • January 1988 (Revised March 1995)
  • Supplement

Digital Equipment Corp.: The Endpoint Model (B1)

By: David A. Garvin
Should follow Digital Equipment Corp.: The Endpoint Model (A). The plant manager has been promoted and students must decide what kind of individual--background, training, personal style, etc.--they would like to replace him. View Details
Keywords: Training; Leadership Style; Management Succession; Identity; Technology; Technology Industry
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Garvin, David A. "Digital Equipment Corp.: The Endpoint Model (B1)." Harvard Business School Supplement 688-060, January 1988. (Revised March 1995.)
  • March 2006 (Revised November 2007)
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Manchester Bidwell Corporation (A)

By: James L. Heskett
The head of Manchester Bidwell Corp. ponders what it will take to replicate its social services in 100 cities across North America and internationally--an effort that ultimately would cost several hundred million dollars. View Details
Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Social Entrepreneurship; Leadership Style; Growth Management; Welfare; North and Central America
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Heskett, James L. "Manchester Bidwell Corporation (A)." Harvard Business School Case 806-111, March 2006. (Revised November 2007.)
  • September 2003 (Revised February 2004)
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Alessi: Evolution of an Italian Design Factory (B)

By: Youngme E. Moon, Vincent Dessain and Anders Sjoman
Since the 1970s, world-renowned architect and designer, Alessandro Mendini, has acted as adviser and counselor to Alessi, the Italian household goods design factory. By discussing Mendini's role as art director, the case introduces the artistic side of Alessi, where... View Details
Keywords: Design; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Leadership Style; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Consumer Products Industry; Italy
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Moon, Youngme E., Vincent Dessain, and Anders Sjoman. "Alessi: Evolution of an Italian Design Factory (B)." Harvard Business School Case 504-019, September 2003. (Revised February 2004.)
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