Leadership And Change Management - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2015
First Look

December 1, 2015

for the post-colonial world and challenge Soviet leadership in the international communist movement in mid-1960s. When the wave of post-war decolonization crested in Africa in the late 1950s View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 May 2019
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Tracy P. Palandjian, MBA 1997

Parthenon Group 2008 Named Managing Director, Parthenon Group 2011 Cofounds Social Finance 2011 Named Board Chair, Facing History and Ourselves 2013 Social Finance launches first Social Impact Bond 2017... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Dec 2023
News

Case Study: Staking a Claim

Illustration by Nhung Lê Kate Terry (MBA 2005) knows that no one attends their fifth-grade career fair and comes home hoping to pursue a career in insurance—but that’s exactly where she wound up. “I really fell in love with it,” she says. As cofounder and CEO of... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Insurance Carriers and Related Activities; Finance

15 Feb 2024
Blog Post

How I Spent My 2+2 Deferral: Carol Wright

in high school and have been working on it ever since. Did 2+2 change your path or alter your post-undergraduate plans? After undergrad, I knew that the industry I wanted to enter was entertainment View Details

01 Nov 2022
Research & Ideas

A Penny for Your Thoughts? For Big-Picture Ideas, the Right Pay Structure Matters

Columbia Business School, and Jee-Eun Shin, an assistant professor at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management. The paper urges managers to carefully consider “the spillover effects” when... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis

13 Sep 2015
News

We'll Tire of Trump's Narcissism, Eventually

28 Mar 2016
Blog Post

Why I Chose to Pursue an MD/MBA at Harvard

other hand, leaders in medicine need more than excellent clinical skills to improve our current healthcare environment: they need clinical insight combined with effective leadership skills and an... View Details

05 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

The Accidental Innovator

spore of Penicillium notatum to drop on my culture plate... When I saw certain changes, I had not the slightest suspicion that I was at the beginning of something extraordinary.... That same mould might have dropped on [any one] of my culture plates, View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

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Baker Library / Bloomberg Center | About

Recession – led the city to record job growth. After leaving City Hall, he resumed leadership of Bloomberg L.P. and expanded his philanthropic work through Bloomberg Philanthropies. The Bloomberg Center at... View Details

13 Mar 2007
First Look

First Look: March 13, 2007

projects conducted by clinical managers at the National Health Service in the United Kingdom. My findings suggest that social position is an important enabling condition for divergent organizational change, View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

04 Feb 2019
Book

Green Businesses Are Incredibly Difficult to Make Profitable. Try It Anyway

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Green Technology; Energy

01 Jun 1999
News

Allison Hughes

summer, Hughes will join Lone Pine Capital, a billion-dollar hedge fund based in Greenwich, Connecticut, as a managing director. "I think my penchant for numbers and my love of competition truly go back to... View Details

Keywords: Charlie Hogg

March 2019 (Revised May 2019)
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Fetchr: A New Way of Last Mile Delivery

By: V.G. Narayanan and Eren Kuzucu

By mid-2016, five years of aggressive growth had transformed Fetchr from a small logistics startup to a 1,000-employee, full-fledged last-mile delivery company operating across four countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Already beneficiaries of the... View Details

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Online Business Analytics Course | HBS Online

research in his industry Arjun Bhandegaonkar Film studio executive Strengthen your analytical skills before pursuing an MBA or other graduate program. I majored in engineering and minored in economics as an undergraduate, but the content... View Details

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Aldrich Hall | About

supported by unusually long I beams, intended to facilitate future reconfigurations. However, when the 105,726-square-foot building was updated in the 1980s, its basic design, acoustics, sight lines, and lighting were all deemed to have... View Details

06 Jul 2023
News

Home Economics

academia. The three areas have more in common than many think, Laidler-Kylander says. Best practices in leadership and management are applicable everywhere, but nonprofits come... View Details

Keywords: April White

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Brandon Graves

and cuisine was just a short train ride away. What has changed about your understanding of leadership? My understanding of leadership was one-dimensional before coming to HBS.... View Details

May 2011
Article

Extreme Productivity

By: Robert C. Pozen

A veteran top executive at two giant mutual fund companies, the author has also been an attorney, a government official, a law school professor, and a business school professor-sometimes simultaneously. Over the years, he has devised a number of principles and... View Details

Keywords: Managerial Roles; Time Management; Performance Capacity; Performance Effectiveness; Performance Productivity; Personal Development and Career

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25 Apr 2024
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Origin Stories

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Where we come from and how we were raised has a profound effect on who we become. The recipients of this year’s Alumni Achievement Award grew up... View Details

February 1999
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Volant Skis

By: Steven C. Wheelwright and Matt Verlinden

Volant brought innovation to the ski equipment industry in 1989 by developing a stainless steel ski. He claimed the skis could turn more easily, could hold an edge in icy conditions, and were more stable than aluminum or fiberglass skis. The company's "soft-flex"... View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Technological Innovation; Growth and Development Strategy; Operations; Product Development; Performance Improvement; Quality; Corporate Strategy; Value Creation

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