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- 04 Jun 2020
- News
What Leading with Optimism Really Looks Like
- 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
Nohria, Nitin, and Sandy Green. "General Motors: Smith's Dilemma." Harvard Business School Case 494-020, August 1993.
- 12 Apr 2016
- News
How Disney’s Alan Horn Manages the Movies
The most recent issue of Variety features a cover story on Walt Disney Studios chairman Alan Horn (MBA 1971). The piece paints Horn as a rare character in Hollywood, being “both successful and beloved,” and tracks his departure from Warner Bros. and subsequent... View Details
- 30 Jan 2019
- What Do You Think?
Who Will Measure up to These Two Remarkable Leaders?
Summing Up: Which Schools Will Produce the Next Generation of Transformative Leaders? This month’s column featured two leaders who were able to build organizations that literally transformed the mutual fund and airline industries. In the process they created a cadre of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Fight Beyond
posting. Green’s fiscal management and office leadership in Cairo received high marks, but being an OSS administrator was not enough; within six months, he was campaigning for a spot in Special Operations. In January 1944, Green... View Details
- Profile
Jennifer Kelly
among others, inspired Jennifer to get an MBA to "acquire more general management experience and hone my leadership skills." Choosing a program wasn't complicated: "HBS was my one and only choice," Jennifer says.... View Details
- 22 Feb 2010
- Research & Ideas
Manager Visibility No Guarantee of Fixing Problems
Observing and understanding the tasks and challenges that workers face every day is important. But managers who merely put in time "walking the floor" are not doing enough; in fact, it can make employees feel worse about their situation. In their working... View Details
- 05 Jul 2011
- News
The Business of Champions
that this would not be a soft team, nor would it welcome soft individuals. My take-away: When leadership embodies and lives the desired culture, that culture is more likely to take root. I don’t think anyone will say the Bruins were the... View Details
- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating Challenges for Women Leaders
Women don't have a problem developing an effective leadership style. What they do struggle with more than men, however, is claiming the authority to lead, according to Hannah Riley Bowles and Kathleen L. McGinn. The gender gap in View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 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
Hill, Linda A., Jennifer Suesse, and Mara Willard. "Franco Bernabe at ENI (B)." Harvard Business School Case 498-035, December 1997.
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Negotiators Share Lessons from High-Stakes Global Diplomacy
Madeleine Albright was interviewed for the American Secretaries of State Project, a collaboration among faculty members at HBS, Harvard Kennedy School, and Harvard Law School designed to extract lessons in negotiation and diplomacy for today’s leaders in public service... View Details
Keywords: University Collaborations
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Alumni Board Goes Global to Pick New President
SHIRAZI: Predicts that HBS graduates will hold top leadership positions in more than two dozen nations over the next thirty years. Saquib Shirazi (MBA ’95), CEO of Atlas Honda in Karachi, Pakistan, takes globetrotting in stride. A member... View Details
- 19 Oct 2020
- News
Too Shy to Be a Leader
- 19 Mar 2015
- News
Walter Salmon Remembered
Walter J. Salmon Photo: Harvard Business School When he died in March at the age of 84, Walter J. Salmon left behind a legacy that included seven books, several hundred case studies, and thousands of former students taught over the course of a 41-year career. Born in... View Details
- March 1999 (Revised February 2000)
- Case
Ken Hakuta: AllHerb.com
By: Teresa M. Amabile and Nicole Tempest
Ken Hakuta had been an entrepreneur all his life. Having started a number of consumer-oriented ventures, he became well-known as "Dr. Fad," the initiator of the "Wacky Wallwalker" toy craze in the 1980s. Wishing to strike out in an exciting new direction in 1998, he... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Health; Information Publishing; Leadership Style; Problems and Challenges; Web Sites
Amabile, Teresa M., and Nicole Tempest. "Ken Hakuta: AllHerb.com." Harvard Business School Case 899-250, March 1999. (Revised February 2000.)
- 31 Aug 2022
- News
Leading with Confidence in Uncertain Times
- 02 Mar 2021
- News
Does Your Company Lurch From Crisis to Crisis?
- September 2015 (Revised June 2018)
- Case
Macy's: Evolution in the Sunshine State
In 2009, Lee O'Rourke was promoted to district vice president in charge of Macy's newly created North Florida district. This district consisted of 11 stores located in the greater Orlando area and in the east coast towns of Daytona, Melbourne, Merritt Island, and Vero... View Details
Keywords: Human Capital; Managing Performance; Retail; Organization; Change Management; Leadership; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Marketing; Marketing Strategy; Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Improvement; Retail Industry; United States
Groysberg, Boris, Das Narayandas, Benson P. Shapiro, and Sarah L. Abbott. "Macy's: Evolution in the Sunshine State." Harvard Business School Case 416-018, September 2015. (Revised June 2018.)
- October 2011
- Supplement
An Interview with Ganesh Natarajan, CEO of Zensar
By: David A. Garvin
Zensar is a rapidly growing, mid-sized Indian IT services company with a collaborative management philosophy and innovative HR policies. One of its practices, Vision Communities, is an inclusive forum for innovation and strategy formulation. As the company grows,... View Details
Keywords: Decisions; Human Resources; Employees; Leadership Style; Management; Organizational Culture; Information Technology Industry; India
Garvin, David A. "An Interview with Ganesh Natarajan, CEO of Zensar." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 312-706, October 2011.