Publications

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

October 2011
Exercise

Energy Necklace Sculpture Challenge: Leader-1 Instructions

By: Joshua D. Margolis and Anthony J. Mayo

Explains the exercise and role of the team leader for the Energy Necklace Sculpture Challenge. View Details

Keywords: Leadership Style; Managerial Roles; Management Teams

01 Jun 2003
News

Alumni Bookshelf

profits. Investment Banking: Addressing the Management Issues by Steven I. Davis (MBA '58) (Palgrave Macmillan) In his eighth book, international banking consultant Davis offers a timely analysis of the global issues facing the View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Dec 2010
News

Breakthrough Insights

thinking and research. Breakthrough Insights will cover topics such as innovation, strategy, operational and management issues, and leadership style and how they can be incorporated into participants’ work... View Details

01 Mar 2010
News

Faculty Books

think about these subjects. High Commitment, High Performance: How to Build a Resilient Organization for Sustained Advantage by Michael Beer (Jossey-Bass) Drawing on many management studies and his work with senior managers, Professor... View Details

Keywords: Management; Management; Management

February 2018
Supplement

Robert K. Steel at Wachovia (B)

By: Gautam Mukunda, Nien-hê Hsieh and David Lane

In September 2008, Robert Steel presided over the sale of Wachovia, a top U.S. bank, less than three months after becoming its CEO. Wachovia’s exposure to risky home loans led depositors and creditors to flee the bank on Friday, September 26, after the FDIC seized and... View Details

03 Aug 2016
What Do You Think?

How Can We Hold the “Leadership Industry” Accountable?

Why Does the Leadership Industry Continue to Thrive? The unstated assumption underlying most of responses to this month’s column is that the leadership industry has done little or nothing to improve leadership behaviors or to deter unproductive leadership actions.... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

March 2012
Case

Schuberg Philis

By: Thomas J. DeLong and Daniela Beyersdorfer

The Dutch professional service firm Schuberg Philis has within a few years grown into a well-known player in the Dutch IT outsourcing market and regularly wins high customer- satisfaction marks. The growing workload and 100% promise to customers have increased the... View Details

Keywords: Growth Management; Organizational Culture; Management Style; Alignment; Information Technology Industry; Netherlands

2013
Working Paper

Span of Control and Span of Attention

By: Oriana Bandiera, Andrea Prat, Raffaella Sadun and Julie Wulf

Using novel data on CEO time use, we document the relationship between the size and composition of the executive team and the attention of the CEO. We combine information about CEO span of control for a sample of 65 companies with detailed data on how CEOs allocate... View Details

Keywords: Conferences; Analytics and Data Science; Leadership Style; Management Style; Managerial Roles; Time Management; Planning

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26 Oct 2011
News

On Top, Down Under

Fookes: Leading the way at one of Australia's premier real estate firms. Photo courtesy Mark Fookes Mark Fookes (AMP 178, 2010) is head of investment management at The GPT Group, a Sydney, Australia, firm that View Details

Keywords: Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

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

18 Nov 2020
News

Networking Goes Truly Global; Confronting Institutional Racism with Case Method Webinar

worldwide, the two-day event opened with a special interactive presentation by HBS professors Joseph Fuller and William Kerr called The Future of Work—And Managing the Impact of COVID-19. Fuller and Kerr serve as co-directors of the... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

Fast Answer

Private Equity - Screening for Portfolio Operations Roles

Investment Firm Type > PE/VC Investment Style Managed > PE/Buyouts Under the section Employment / Board select the following: Professional Job Functions > Operations Professional Use the check... View Details

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

August 1993
Background Note

Executing Change: Seven Key Considerations

By: Nitin Nohria and Rakesh Khurana

Provides a 7S framework to complement the McKinsey 7S framework. Focuses on some of the critical choices that must be made in implementing change--Strategic Intent, Substance, Scale, Scope, Speed, Sequence, and Style. Overall, the note argues that these choices must be... View Details

Keywords: Change; Framework; Goals and Objectives; Management Style; Time Management; Strategy

25 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Chasing Stars: Why the Mighty Red Sox Struck Out

pitching), rather than sitting on the bench and supporting the team. "Francona had the perfect style for the team he managed for his first seven years," Groysberg says. "It was a cohesive... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Sports; Banking

April 1984 (Revised May 2011)
Case

Mike Walker

Describes Bill Hudson's attempts to constructively deviate from and change the culture of various work units that he has worked in over 26 years with ABC Electronics. View Details

Keywords: Change; Management Skills; Management Style; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture