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  • 16 Jul 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ‘The Strategist’

executives in Harvard's Entrepreneur, Owner, President (EOP) program. During that time, she realized that many of her students hadn't spent much time thinking about their own companies' strategies. In this excerpt, Montgomery describes a... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia A. Montgomery
  • Jan 25 2019
  • Tout

Earn the Corporate Director Certificate

  • 10 Apr 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt--‘Accelerate: Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World’

and moves firms into a future where they can grow and prosper. Without sufficient leadership in a rapidly changing world, organizations become static and eventually fail. And by sufficient leadership, in organizations of any size, I do... View Details
Keywords: Re: John P. Kotter
  • 29 Apr 2020
  • Book

The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages

Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 19 Jul 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Rupert Murdoch and the Seeds of Moral Hazard

Management Practice and leadership expert Robert Steven Kaplan comments on these issues. Michel Anteby Many companies today operate like Russian nesting dolls, where one large figure is actually made up of many smaller ones. These... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Journalism & News; Publishing

    Michael W. Toffel

    Professor Toffel is the Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management. His research examines how companies are addressing climate change (especially decarbonization) and other environmental and working condition issues in their operations and supply... View Details

    • October 2013 (Revised November 2021)
    • Case

    Cynthia Carroll at Anglo American (A)

    By: Gautam Mukunda, Lisa Mazzanti and Aldo Sesia
    In 2007, Cynthia Carroll, the newly-appointed chief executive of mining giant Anglo American, was considering shutting down mines in South Africa for safety reasons, namely worker fatalities. No company had ever done so before. Carroll felt that operating a company... View Details
    Keywords: Culture; Leadership; Gender; Safety; Working Conditions; Business Exit or Shutdown; Organizational Culture; Change Management; Mining; Mining Industry; South Africa
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    • Program

    Leading in the Digital Era

    leadership responsibilities, including but not limited to division heads, functional heads, or executives with P&L responsibility Executives in medium to large organizations in... View Details
    • Nov 17 2022
    • Testimonial

    Moving Forward With Greater Courage and Confidence

    • August 2006
    • Background Note

    Analyzing Work Groups

    By: Linda A. Hill and Michel Anteby
    Work groups are the building blocks of organizations. They are found in all areas of an organization, from research and development to customer service, and at all levels, from the executive suite to the factory floor. Some are incredibly successful, while others are... View Details
    Keywords: Framework; Leadership Style; Service Operations; Organizational Culture; Performance Effectiveness; Groups and Teams; Research and Development; Behavior
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    • April 2008
    • Case

    TerraCog Global Positioning Systems: Conflict and Communication on Project Aerial

    By: Michael Beer and Sunru Yong
    TerraCog, a successful privately held high-tech firm that develops GPS (global positioning system) and similar products for consumer markets, has recently been caught off-guard by a competitor's new product that makes novel use of satellite imagery. When TerraCog... View Details
    Keywords: Organizational Behavior; Meetings; Decision Making; Group Dynamics; Human Resource Management; Conflict; Information Technology; Leadership; Conflict Management; Competition; Groups and Teams; Organizational Culture; Human Resources; Communication; Decision Choices and Conditions; Crisis Management; Technology Industry
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    • 15 Feb 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: Feb. 15

    staff. Looking forward, what should Modi and Wong do to ensure Phirbol's success? Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/510020-PDF-ENG Board Leadership at Entergy Corporation Jay W. Lorsch and Melissa BartonHarvard... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 02 Jul 2024
    • Book

    Five Essential Elements to Build the Capital You Need to Lead

    global executive and coaching experience—explains how people can use these five Cs to find their own “treasure,” that personal or professional achievement that spells success in their own eyes and have greater impact in the world. The... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • 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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      Building foundations for leaders' development through the personalization of management learning.

      Many MBA and executive education courses claim to "transform" managers into leaders. This study focuses on what it takes for management education to deliver on that promise and truly foster the transformational learning that enables leadership... View Details
      • Jun 14 2016
      • Interview

      A Vibrant Hub

      • 01 Nov 1999
      • Lessons from the Classroom

      What’s Next & So What? Leading in the 21st Century

      Leading in the 21st Century is an HBS Executive Education program being held in January 2000. Professors Gary Hamel and John Kotter talk about the course and the new realities of leadership and competitive... View Details
      Keywords: by Staff
      • Research Summary

      Developing Organizational Capabilities to Compete

      By: Michael Beer

      Michael Beer’s current research focuses on the question of what makes an Effective Organization. Based on his extensive research and practice about this question Beer has identified six highly interrelated core capabilities:

      1. Capacity of the... View Details
      • 15 Oct 2001
      • Research & Ideas

      Rethinking E-Leadership

      by transforming" the existing business or creating a new one. An effective e-leader, Hargrove continues, must shift from "being a productivity and efficiency junkie to being an opportunity seeker and innovator who quests for that new, new thing." The... View Details
      Keywords: by Melissa Raffoni
      • 15 Jun 2021
      • Cold Call Podcast

      IKEA Navigates the Future While Staying True to its Culture

      Keywords: Re: Juan Alcacer & Cynthia A. Montgomery; Retail