Leadership Skills - Publications - Faculty & Research

November 2007
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Solve the Succession Crisis by Growing Inside-Outside Leaders

This article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading. In his interviews and data analysis, Harvard Business School professor Bower found... View Details

Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Leadership Development; Management Practices and Processes; Management Succession; Planning

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Certificates, Credentials, & Credits | HBS Online

resume and signal to employers how committed you are to professional growth and lifelong learning. To earn a Certificate of Specialization, you must complete three courses from your selected Learning Track within 18 months. HBS Online currently offers a Learning Track... View Details

10 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot

conditions and the paramount importance of doing the right thing—some leadership teams have committed themselves to two guiding principles: act now to protect and run the business today, and plan now to retool the business for the... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Katherine Connolly Baden

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Business Insights Blog | HBS Online

Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Topics Topics Accounting Analytics Business Essentials Business in Society Career Development Communication Community ConneXt Decision-Making Digital Transformation Earning Your MBA Entrepreneurship & Innovation Finance For... View Details

28 Feb 2019
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New Program Will Develop Leaders of Innovative Ventures

increasingly crucial to business and society. “By exposing undergraduates to management principles, we hope to change the leadership trajectory of even more individuals of tremendous promise earlier in their lives and careers,” he... View Details

20 Jan 2023
Blog Post

The Importance of Mentorship: A Conversation With Professor Ting Zhang

to become better mentors, sponsors, and coaches. If organizations are serious about retaining and promoting new diverse talent, they have to think more deliberately about how to equip their leaders with the skills to develop others, and... View Details

01 Jan 2004
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D. Ronald Daniel, MBA 1954

to put his quantitative and analytical skills to good use. Headed by the legendary Marvin Bower (MBA '30), an early leader of both the firm and the management consulting profession itself, who had recently begun the practice of stocking... View Details

16 Aug 2018
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Working with a Giver’s Spirit

that we call the ‘high-impact entrepreneur.’” There are three things that define high-impact to Endeavor. First is having the commercial skills to create something that’s large and successful, creating a lot of jobs and revenue. Second is... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

01 Mar 2024
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Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

high enough, delivering mostly incremental changes rather than something truly remarkable, and they move far too slowly to keep up with the pace of disruption. In Leaders Leap, he makes the case for why a complete metamorphosis of View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

11 Mar 2024
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In Harmony

that disproportionately rewards people who can throw an orange ball through a hoop, people who can pick companies to invest in,” says Kim. “If you happen to be one of the lucky ones with a skill set that affords so much opportunity, it’s... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photograph by Jun Michael Park

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Phillip Jones

went outside the military, I could increase the scope of my service.” Phillip recognized that the general shape of his ambitions crossed multiple sectors. “The future,” he says, “requires leadership from both the private and the public... View Details

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Global Activities 2020

with faculty research and engaging with local alumni and other business leaders. Bringing a Taste of Japan to the World At HBS, Yasu Sasago (MBA 2020) gained the business skills that have enabled him to pursue his dream of developing a... View Details

January 2004 (Revised June 2004)
Case

Friendly Fire

By: Scott A. Snook, Leslie J. Freeman, L. Jeffrey Norwalk and Bridget Gurtler

On April 14, 1994, two U.S. Air Force F-15 fighters accidentally shot down two U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopters over Northern Iraq, killing all 26 peacekeepers onboard. Describes the initial investigation and response to this accident and raises questions about the... View Details

Keywords: Leadership Style; Management Skills; Behavior; Spoken Communication; United States; Iraq

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19 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

Rethinking Company Loyalty

"employees can give their employers 100 percent and provide great performance while furthering their own careers," says Joyce Gioia of The Herman Group, a consultancy based in Greensboro, North Carolina "The two aren't mutually exclusive,"... View Details

Keywords: by Lauren Keller Johnson

06 Mar 2020
Book

A Great Teacher's Lessons for Leading

focused on leadership, organizational behavior, managing human capital, and career management. His new book, Teaching by Heart: One Professor’s Journey to Inspire, was recently published by Harvard Business Review Press. He shares his journey between teaching and View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

28 Nov 2005
Research & Ideas

Unilever: Transformation and Tradition

account individual circumstances. From the 1980s Unilever also honed skills in divesting businesses. Unilever's ability to identify acquisition targets, and to absorb the capabilities of acquired companies, became one of its principal... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products

01 Oct 1999
News

Eight Among Many: Alfred A. Checchi

"and I had always intended to go into public service. In fact, I enrolled at HBS to learn leadership skills to that end." Although his gubernatorial campaign was ultimately unsuccessful, Checchi was able to... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

09 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

When Benchmarks Don’t Work

inefficient as the "benchmark" HR group? Obviously, this is an absurd comparison. The HR group that is spending 0.2 percent of revenue is probably producing few employees with the skills required to implement its strategy,... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan; Service

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General Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Rosabeth M. Kanter : Received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2022 Squire Patton Boggs Nonprofit Leadership Symposium. Leonard A. Schlesinger : Received the 2021–2022 Robert F. Greenhill Service Award for continued outstanding... View Details

10 Apr 2023
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Leading the Way

designed to develop leadership skills, self-awareness, and familiarity with pathways to postsecondary education. High school BALF programs provide students with critical skills and support to successfully... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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