Leader Experience - Publications - Faculty & Research

29 Jan 2018
Book

How 'Teaming' Saved 33 Lives in the Chilean Mining Disaster

reaching, and extracting the trapped miners. Senior leaders in the Chilean government provided resources to support the on-site efforts. How senior leadership triggered extreme teaming In Santiago, Chile’s capital city, President Piæera... View Details

Keywords: by Amy C. Edmondson; Mining

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Business History - Faculty & Research

business leaders from emerging markets. By June 2024 183 interviews had been conducted with business leaders in 34 countries in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America. Selected interviewees needed... View Details

25 Aug 2014
HBS Case

Starbucks Reinvented

of what he wanted to accomplish. The case, Koehn's fourth to focus on Starbucks, opens in February 2007. Schultz, no longer Starbucks' CEO but still its chairman, is worried the company is losing its ability to be true to its values while providing a store View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Food & Beverage

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Curriculum - Business & Environment

MBA Experience Curriculum 1ms Required Curriculum (1st Year) Cases Environmental opportunities and challenges are embedded in most Required Curriculum courses so that all students understand the importance of the natural environment to... View Details

April 2025
Case

Pouring Oil on Troubled Waters: Vickers Oils and Resolving Family Conflict over Generations

By: Lauren Cohen, Octavian Graf Pilati and Sophia Pan

Will Vickers, a seventh-generation (G7) member of the Vickers Family, grappled with a pressing challenge: how to re-integrate family members into the firm to recover lost talent. His father, Peter Vickers, was the lone leader of the Vickers Oils—despite having stepped... View Details

Keywords: Shareholder; Involvement; Family Office; Family Firms; Family Business; Business Growth and Maturation; Experience and Expertise; Retention; Leadership Development; Business or Company Management; Management Succession; Organizational Structure; Family Ownership; Family and Family Relationships; Diversification; Conflict and Resolution; Consumer Products Industry; United Kingdom

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Leadership Fellows | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

levels: Providing social sector organizations with access to analytic and strategic talent to deliver high-impact results Encouraging emerging leaders to appreciate and understand the complexities of leading in the social sector For... View Details

Program

Public Education Leadership Project

Summary Improved student performance depends on strong leadership, a culture of collaboration, and a dedication to accountability across a school district. This program helps leaders from U.S.-based urban school systems apply proven... View Details

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Tata Hall | About

dedicated to Executive Education in the northeast corner of the HBS campus. Residential life is an integral aspect of the learning experience at HBS, and Tata Hall’s layout and amenities encourage intellectual and social engagement both... View Details

24 May 2017
News

John J. Brennan, MBA 1980

experience to Vanguard in 1982, joining the Valley Forge, Pennsylvania–based pioneer of index funds when it was only seven years old. By 1989, the year he was named president, the company was regarded as an emerging industry View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

23 May 2018
News

Carla A. Harris, MBA 1987

talking about great things,” says Harris, who, two years later, enrolled at HBS as a first-year student. Harris thrived at HBS, and the experience launched her career at Morgan Stanley. She joined in 1987 and worked her way up, holding... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

20 Apr 2011
Research & Ideas

Blind Spots: We’re Not as Ethical as We Think

interest to remain, the leaders are responsible for the boundedly unethical actions that follow. Q: How do you become aware of your blind spots? A: By looking at the data. If you firmly believe that you want to give women and minorities... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

12 Apr 2010
Research & Ideas

One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting

or her convictions to accept their intergenerational responsibility for the quality of life in our society and at the same time deliver long-term profitability. Q: What company or companies are leaders in conducting and communicating... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

entrepreneurship, branding, and innovation expertise. Bluemercury’s innovative retailing and human resource model has been the topic of numerous books, including Shopping: Why We Love it and How Retailers Can Create the Ultimate Customer View Details

08 Aug 2006
First Look

First Look: August 8, 2006

case. This paper, in contrast, reports an experiment designed to meaningfully pose the question: "How good an approximation does a theory provide on average?" Even in the simplest class of two-person constant sum games there is... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Jul 2023

Exploring HBS from a Latin American Perspective

Join us for a virtual session designed for prospective students from Latin America as we discuss the opportunities and experiences awaiting you at Harvard Business School. The event will include a panel of current students and recent... View Details

September 2009
Module Note

Leading Teams Note

By: Jeffrey T. Polzer

This note, which describes the architecture and processes that characterize effective teams, begins by detailing the steps involved in designing a team, from diagnosing the complexity, interdependence, and objectives of the task to harnessing the key resources teams... View Details

Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Experience and Expertise; Decision Choices and Conditions; Knowledge Sharing; Leadership; Business Processes; Groups and Teams

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Academics - Health Care

MBA Experience Academics Why HBS for Health Care? Harvard Business School The first-year “required curriculum” (RC) incorporates health care cases and topics in many courses ranging from Marketing and Finance to Entrepreneurship and... View Details

25 Apr 2024
News

Origin Stories

Jersey, to New Orleans, Louisiana. One soloed in a single engine airplane on Long Island at the age of 14. Another toured Cleveland’s factories with her father at the height of the city’s industrial powers. That range of experiences... View Details

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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work

Program Director and Senior Researcher for the U.S. Competitiveness Project, co-chaired by Professor Michael E. Porter and Professor Jan W. Rivkin. In that capacity, she supports the Young American Leaders Program and the HBS worldwide... View Details

Profile

Charlotte MacDonald

With four years of consulting experience at Boston Consulting Group behind her, Charlotte MacDonald, realized it was time to reflect on the path before her. "I was having a great experience, I loved the work and people," she... View Details

Keywords: Consulting

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