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August 1993
Case

General Motors: Smith's Dilemma

By: Nitin Nohria and Sandy Green

Discusses Roger Smith's tenure as CEO of General Motors. Describes his vision for changing General Motors, and how he went about implementing that vision. View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Management Teams; Leadership Style; Auto Industry; Manufacturing Industry

Schwartz is the business half of Calvin Klein Inc.’s leadership, and without his industry savvy, Klein’s popular fashion designs could not have become so successful. Schwartz’s attentive management style... View Details

Keywords: Fabric & Apparel

Career Coach

Anne Marie Checcone

strategy at companies like Meta, Amazon Web Services and Boston Consulting Group, Anne Marie brings a sharp, pragmatic approach to executive coaching, leadership development, and career growth. Anne Marie is a seasoned product management... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Consulting

August 2005 (Revised October 2005)
Case

Bill Belichick and the New England Patriots (A)

By: John R. Wells and Travis Haglock

What happens when an MBA buys a football team and hires a bunch of MBAs and a coach with an economics degree to run it? In this case, a historic three Super Bowls in five years. The end run Bob Kraft (HBS '65) used to acquire the New England Patriots. Why Kraft ignored... View Details

Keywords: Strategy; Management Style; Motivation and Incentives; Leading Change; Management Practices and Processes; Leadership Style; Sports; Management Teams; Sports Industry; United States

Profile

Tyler Todd

Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? I love my engineering background, but my long-term goals of senior management and running my own company necessitated that I learn how to make sound business decisions. While you can learn... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity; Financial Services; Energy / Extractive Minerals; Manufacturing

September 13, 2023
Article

The Myth of the CEO as Ultimate Decision Maker

By: Nitin Nohria

Chief executives are responsible for guiding corporations, so the role inevitably requires making many decisions. But people overestimate the level of personal involvement CEOs have in this process. Instead of making decisions, CEOs tend to shape decisions, by... View Details

Keywords: Problem Solving; Delegation; Leadership Style; Decision Making; Time Management; Power and Influence

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Profile

Shaun Miller

from many different places. What makes HBS special is the perspective it brings to students and graduates - a truly unique way of looking at the world that can only be forged through the near endless exchange of ideas we experience. I've developed a personal View Details

Keywords: Other Financial Services; Consulting; Nonprofit / Government

June 2001
Case

Cerner Corporation (A)

By: D. Quinn Mills and Matt Salloway

The CEO thinks people are not working long enough hours. He sends a memo. This series describes the backlash. View Details

Keywords: Crisis Management; Management Style; Leadership Style; Nonverbal Communication; Employees; Organizational Culture; Health Industry

04 Apr 2022
News

Strengthening City Hall’s Foundations

In an opinion piece published by the Jerusalem Post on April 4, 2022, Michael Bloomberg (MBA 1966) announced a new management training program to support mayors in Israel. The Bloomberg-Sagol Center for City Leadership, created in... View Details

Keywords: Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

December 1997
Case

Franco Bernabe at ENI (B)

By: Linda A. Hill, Jennifer Suesse and Mara Willard

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Leadership Style; Personal Development and Career; Management Teams; Management Style; Strategic Planning; Crisis Management; Privatization; Italy

Keywords: Digital Health;#13;#Biotech & Life Sciences;#16;#Consumer Products & Packaged Goods;#30;#Fashion, Beauty, Apparel, & Retail;#35;#Food & Beverages;#43;#Healthcare;#64;#Software/App;#71;#Travel, Tourism, & Hospitality;#75;#Venture Capital;#238;#Fintech;#237;#Artificial Intelligence

(seed-Series B+), I help these leaders understand how their leadership style has to adapt and how to navigate both the growth and turbulent phases of scaling. This includes, thinking about culture, hiring and firing, pivots, growth vs.... View Details

01 Feb 1999
News

Moving Mountains

father did, and yet my consensual style gets the same or better results." "I don't manage our employees in the autocratic way that my father did, and yet my consensual style... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

19 Dec 2012
Research & Ideas

How to be Extremely Productive

having everyone come together on a way it can get done by a mutually agreed deadline. Q: On the subject of management styles, you write about the wisdom of adapting your personal style to that of your boss.... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg

January 2008 (Revised May 2014)
Case

Kazuo Inamori, a Japanese Entrepreneur

By: Anthony J. Mayo, Masako Egawa and Mayuka Yamazaki

The case provides insight into a business leader whose cognizance of contextual forces (social, economic, and political) allowed him to drive significant change in an industry and Japanese society in the second half of the twentieth century. View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Business History; Leading Change; Management Style; Personal Development and Career; Telecommunications Industry; Japan