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- 07 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders
We all know the importance of mentors and other early career experiences in shaping the kind of leaders we ultimately become. But how important... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
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Academic Experience | MBA
Field Method Students apply what they have learned through classroom discussions in experiential field programs and independent studies to practice what it means to become a leader who makes a difference in the world. A Global View Details
- 16 Oct 2012
- News
Being the best leader for the situation
- October 2013
- Article
When Power Makes Others Speechless: The Negative Impact of Leader Power on Team Performance
By: Leigh Plunkett Tost, Francesca Gino and Richard P. Larrick
We examine the impact of subjective power on leadership behavior and demonstrate that the psychological effect of power on leaders spills over to impact team effectiveness. Specifically, drawing from the approach/inhibition theory of power, power-devaluation theory,... View Details
Keywords: Power; Leadership; Team Performance; Groups and Teams; Performance; Leadership Style; Power and Influence
Tost, Leigh Plunkett, Francesca Gino, and Richard P. Larrick. "When Power Makes Others Speechless: The Negative Impact of Leader Power on Team Performance." Academy of Management Journal 56, no. 5 (October 2013): 1465–1486.
- 08 Nov 2024
- HBS Case
What Wartime Service Taught These Historic Leaders
growing—with HBS Research Assistant Shirley Sun. Here, Simons discusses three leaders whose service left a powerful mark, leading to their own success. Business leaders might learn some important lessons... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Survey Spotlights HBS Experience
Although HBS is widely known as a training ground for leaders of established firms, a new survey reveals that many MBAs are entrepreneurs too, with nearly half (49 percent) launching their own companies at... View Details
- 18 Jul 2019
- News
A Category Leader
Marla Beck (MBA 1998) is founder of Bluemercury, a retailer of high-end beauty products, and a 2019 recipient of the HBS Alumni Achievement Award. In this interview, she talks... View Details
- 13 Mar 2023
- News
How Leaders Should Leave
- Web
The Spiritual Lives of Leaders - Course Catalog
colored pencils and drawing paper) a map of the significant life experiences that have shaped the leaders they have been, and are becoming. A student shared with us this past... View Details
- 2010
- Working Paper
Being a Leader and the Effective Exercise of Leadership: An Ontological Model (PDF File of PowerPoint Slides)
By: Werner Erhard, Michael C. Jensen and Kari Granger
This presentation is based on our research program over the last seven years in which our objective has been to rigorously distinguish leader and leadership and to create a technology for providing access to being a leader and exercising leadership effectively (in... View Details
Keywords: Curriculum and Courses; Innovation and Invention; Leadership Development; Goals and Objectives; Research and Development; Attitudes; Perception; Technology; United States
Erhard, Werner, Michael C. Jensen, and Kari Granger. "Being a Leader and the Effective Exercise of Leadership: An Ontological Model (PDF File of PowerPoint Slides)." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-124, October 2010.
- 31 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Team Leaders Show Support–or Not
leader. This led us to delve more deeply into the different types of leader behaviors that appeared, and to look at how those specific behaviors influenced people's perceptions View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 2023
- Working Paper
When Does Gamified Training Improve Performance? The Roles of Office and Leader Engagement
By: Ryan W. Buell, Wei Cai and Tatiana Sandino
Gamified training is a novel management control system in which companies use gamification
techniques to engage and motivate employees to learn. This study empirically examines the
performance consequences of gamified training using data from a natural field... View Details
Keywords: Gamified Training; Management Control Systems; Employee Engagement; Employees; Learning; Training; Motivation and Incentives; Performance
Buell, Ryan W., Wei Cai, and Tatiana Sandino. "When Does Gamified Training Improve Performance? The Roles of Office and Leader Engagement." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-101, March 2019. (Revised October 2023.)
- 18 Jun 2001
- Lessons from the Classroom
Why Leaders Need Great Books
characters experience is with themselves. This becomes clear when students read about Jerry, the despairing salesman in "Blessed Assurance," and Okonkwo, a village leader in Nigeria in Chinua... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
The Truth About Authentic Leaders
authentic, research and leadership development programs should focus on how leaders develop their authenticity. Being authentic as a leader is hard work and takes years of... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- Program
Growing as a Purposeful Leader
create an environment that can unleash the potential of your organization. In parallel, the program will guide you in a profoundly personal exploration that builds your self-awareness and emotional... View Details
- 05 Apr 2021
- What Do You Think?
Why Can’t More Leaders Teach?
organizations. They had drifted far from the time when they may have asked themselves what DeLong labels “the three guiding questions” of a good leader or teacher: How do I View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 Jul 2023
- HBS Case
What Kind of Leader Are You? How Three Action Orientations Can Help You Meet the Moment
based on their past experience ... and then the context shifts, and they try to apply the same recipe, and it fails.” The analysis stems from one of Raffaelli’s core research interests: the qualities View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Encouraging Women Leaders
Veronica Serra (MBA 1997) In describing the impact of the HBS experience on her life, Veronica Allende Serra (MBA 1997) says, “Ask me how it hasn’t had an impact.” Serra, the founder View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Learning from Global Immersion Experiences
of Business Administration The wisdom of the Turkish proverb, “A tribulation is better than a hundred warnings,” was not lost on the HBS students who traveled to Istanbul this year as part View Details