Emergent Leadership - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 Oct 2019
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Examining Climate Change From a Business Perspective

multilateral negotiations, and tedious wordsmithing that led up to the Paris Agreement. It also examines the consequences of President Donald J. Trump’s 2017 withdrawal from the accord; the emerging View Details

01 Jun 2012
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Tickling the Ivories

producer (sex, lies, and videotape), and is a prolific author. Founder and chairman of the San Francisco–based Institute for Large Scale Innovation, he advises corporations and governments on innovation, organizational transformation, and View Details

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Dec 2012
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Alumni Book Briefs

Affluent in China and India by Michael J. Silverstein (MBA 1980), Abheek Singhi, Carol Liao, and David Michael (Harvard Business Review Press) Silverstein and his BCG colleagues in China and India provide the first comprehensive profile of the View Details

Keywords: Broadcasting (except Internet); Information

03 Mar 2003
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The Ingredients of a Deal Disaster

Beyond the economic terms of the companies' arrangement, they aimed to foster a strong social contract between their management teams. Yet the implementation of their arrangement strained the emerging deal, and the separate distributors,... View Details

Keywords: by Ron S. Fortgang, David A. Lax & James K. Sebenius

09 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

Got a New Strategy? Now Make it Happen

people in other parts of the organization think of the new focus. They thereby set themselves up to be blindsided by concerns that emerge much later. A smaller number of well-intentioned top managers make the opposite mistake. They do not... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Beer & Russell A. Eisenstat

01 Jun 2014
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What’s Next

and the Middle East—and we've watched the number of global cases written rise to more than 50 percent in 2012–2013. Beyond that, we have begun offering Executive Education programs in locations beyond Boston, and the FIELD [Field Immersion Experiences for View Details

Keywords: HBS Campaign; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

22 Sep 2017
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Turning a Disorder into an Opportunity

Michael Fieldhouse (AMP 177, 2009), director for Emerging Businesses and Federal Government at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Australia (HPE), launched the Dandelion program in Australia in 2015, introducing people with autism spectrum... View Details

May 2021
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Endeavor Kenya: Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem

By: Lynda M. Applegate, Shikhar Ghosh and Christian Godwin

In 2016, Fiona Mungai became Endeavor Kenya’s first managing director. In this role, she helped the organization build its inaugural board and select its first Endeavor entrepreneur, a fintech company called Cellulant. Throughout this process, Mungai observed the power... View Details

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01 Mar 2008
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Creativity from Many Angles

legitimacy and identity in the emerging field of satellite radio. A panel discussion moderated by HBS professor emeritus Jim Heskett that included Scott Cook (MBA ’76) of Intuit, Mark Fishman (AMP 163, 2002) of Novartis, Kim Malone Scott... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Dec 2010
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The Transformers

long-term growth. The plan that emerged redefined HCZ’s mission and mix of programs, created practices to carefully evaluate and track results, and defined a new organizational structure needed to support program expansion. Under the... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Jun 2009
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IXP 2009

Boston: Healthcare: Value-Based Healthcare Delivery (Michael Porter with Elizabeth Teisberg, Darden School of Business) Silicon Valley: Entrepreneurial Ventures: Consumer Internet and Clean Tech (Mike Roberts, Tom Eisenmann) New Orleans: Service and View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Sep 2013
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HBS's Unique Economic Model

potential. While the endowment largely comprises restricted funds that likely will generate only modest returns in the next decade, gifts to the HBS Fund for Leadership and Innovation (formerly known as the Dean's Fund) can be used in... View Details

Keywords: Melnick, Richard; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Sep 2005
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Ideas: Books

emerging technologies, new business models resulting from broadband deployment, security concerns, regulatory obstacles, and other subjects. In Their Time The Greatest Business Leaders of the Twentieth Century by Anthony J. Mayo and Nitin... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

24 Oct 2018
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Exploring the Future of Work for Women

intersection of gender and technology.” Deborah Quazzo (MBA 1987) gave the keynote address while Professor Ely participated on a panel discussion exploring leadership challenges. Professor Fuller gave a presentation on the future of work,... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Jun 2008
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Toy Story

In 2005, a year after the venerable toy retailer FAO Schwartz emerged from bankruptcy, Ed Schmults (MBA ’89) became its CEO. “The company was relying on its glorious past but was without a clear brand direction,” Schmults explained to the... View Details

Keywords: toys; Retail Trade

26 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

Behind India’s Economic and Political Woes

Institute at Harvard University and Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at Harvard Business School, offers some insights into the causes and conditions at play. Zeenat Potia: Can you give some context around the downturn of the Indian economy and how it applies to other View Details

Keywords: by Zeenat Potia

06 Dec 2021
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HBS Curricula Explore the Complexities of Innovation

skills students need to be entrepreneurial leaders over the next decade and examines five emerging technologies—ubiquitous networks, artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning algorithms, neuroscience and the human operating system,... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

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Faculty & Research | MBA

Faculty & Research Our faculty are world-renowned practitioners and researchers who use their experience to bring to life leadership lessons and challenges as they orchestrate a case discussion. 272 f ull-time faculty 261 new cases... View Details

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A Marketing Revolution - The Art of American Advertising

Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership... View Details

01 Jan 2008
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James D. Wolfensohn, MBA 1959

decisions managers must make.” ADVICE TO STUDENTS “Spend at least as much time focusing on people as you do on numbers.” ON LEADERSHIP “Too many of our leaders fail to translate macroeconomic trends into human experience. Increasing... View Details

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