Joseph L. Bower - Publications - Faculty & Research

12 Nov 2014
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How important is a CEO to a company's success? It depends.

02 Jul 2024
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Five Essential Elements to Build the Capital You Need to Lead

learn to recognize and build their leadership capital—the resources and influence needed to realize their goals, says Harvard Business School Senior Lecturer Archie L. Jones. In his recently released book, The Treasure You Seek: A Guide... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

2013
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The Good Struggle: Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World

By: Joseph L. Badaracco Jr.

The question of how to lead successfully and responsibly is crucially important in our uncertain, high-pressure, turbulent world. In this book, Joseph Badaracco answers this question in practical and, at times, provocative ways. View Details

Keywords: Ethics; Leadership Style

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27 Aug 2012
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Employee-Suggestion Programs That Work

Bumping up against accepted theories in process improvement, a new research paper from Harvard Business School questions the value of prioritizing problems identified by frontline employees. Citing a hospital safety improvement program based on employee suggestions,... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Guttry

13 Aug 2015
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Google’s Alphabet Move Is Reorganizing 101

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Julie Battilana is the Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Business Administration in the Organizational Behavior unit at Harvard Business School and the Alan L. Gleitsman Professor of Social Innovation at Harvard Kennedy School, where she is also the founder and faculty... View Details

26 Aug 2011
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Maintaining success after exit of charismatic CEO

09 Sep 2013
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Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics

21 Aug 2019
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What to watch for now that CEOs have rewritten the purpose of the corporation

08 Sep 2016
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Train your successor before you need one

10 Nov 2010
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Choose tomorrow's leader today

07 Sep 2011
First Look

First Look: Sept. 7

continual streams of requests for personal information and by the equally unavoidable barrage of personal information about others. Read the paper: http://www.heinz.cmu.edu/~acquisti/papers/acquisti_herding-out.pdf Global Capitalism at Risk: What Are You Doing About... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Capitalism at Risk

The spread of capitalism worldwide has made people wealthier than ever before and raised living standards to new heights. But capitalism’s future is far from assured. The global financial meltdown of 2008 came within a hair’s breadth of triggering another Great... View Details

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Kidder, Peabody & Co.: Creating Elusive Profits

By: Robert L. Simons and Antonio Davila

On April 17, 1994, Kidder, Peabody & Co. announced a $350 million charge against earnings resulting from the discovery of false trading profits. That same day, the termination of Joseph Jett's employment with the company was made public. By illustrating the mechanics... View Details

Keywords: Bonds; Governance Controls; Crime and Corruption; Financial Reporting; Profit; Financial Strategy

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03 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 3, 2006

L. Bower and Clark Gilbert Abstract Research from a set of studies conducted over thirty-five years shows that actual strategy rather than words on paper at corporate is crafted step by step as company... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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April 2025 Case Jamie Dimon: Navigating the DEI Backlash By: Joseph L. Badaracco and Sarah Mehta Citation Educators Related Badaracco, Joseph L., and Sarah Mehta. "Jamie Dimon:... View Details

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Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership

Insurance, 1945–1970 Harold J. Hudson, Jr. General Reinsurance Corporation, 1971–1983 Joseph L. Hudson Hudson (J. L.) Company, 1881–1912 Howard R. Hughes, Jr. Hughes Aircraft Company, 1933–1976 George A.... View Details

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Business Economics - Doctoral

Moss Joseph Pacelli Matthew Rabin Sophus A. Reinert Forest L. Reinhardt Meg Rithmire Clayton S. Rose Benjamin N. Roth Raffaella Sadun David S. Scharfstein Joshua R. Schwartzstein Arthur I Segel Ishita Sen... View Details

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Strategy - Doctoral

Michael Lingzhi Li Deepak Malhotra Edward McFowland III Cynthia A. Montgomery John C. Mulliken Kyle R. Myers Frank Nagle Seth Neel Felix Oberholzer-Gee Joseph Pacelli Lynn S. Paine Elisabeth C. Paulson Sophus A. Reinert Meg Rithmire Jan... View Details

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Business, Government & the International Economy Faculty - Faculty & Research

Carroll/Ford Foundation Professor of Business Administration Mattias E. Fibiger Poronui Associate Professor of Business Administration Jeremy S. Friedman Marvin Bower Associate Professor Natalia Garbiras-Diaz Assistant Professor of... View Details

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