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Growing as a Purposeful Leader
Leaders today have to lead in the context of extraordinary changes and challenges. The demands of today's stakeholders have risen significantly, and what is expected of senior leaders is quickly evolving in terms of their mission (more than profit),... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Preparing Global Leaders
activities. They hope to enable more business leaders to benefit from the School’s global research and leadership as well as to help others from around the world build skills through the case method, just as he did. “We want HBS to... View Details
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Developing Yourself as a Leader—Virtual
Summary As high-performing emerging leaders develop their leadership style, it is imperative to have the skillset and knowledge to gain influence and increase impact across an organization. This virtual... View Details
- 10 Nov 2010
- News
Choose tomorrow's leader today
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
An Authentic Leader
my generation. It’s not about passing more laws. We need to have new leadership of our companies and the boards that govern them. I describe the kind of person we ought to have as an authentic leader who is genuine and trustworthy. What... View Details
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Risk Management for Corporate Leaders
By: Robert Simons
As companies adapt to the aftershocks of the global recession, senior executives and boards are discovering that risk management has never been more important. The financial crisis revealed that risk management structures break down just when... View Details
- 06 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
The Truth About Authentic Leaders
talking points. Ibarra’s second critique of authentic leaders is that they are often locked into a rigid sense of themselves, much like their immature teenage selves. This is the antithesis of authentic leaders, who are constantly View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
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Growing as a Purposeful Leader
Summary Leaders today have to lead in the context of extraordinary changes and challenges. The demands of today's stakeholders have risen significantly, and what is expected of senior leaders is quickly... View Details
- 14 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
How to Support Your Employees’ Career Development
Kristen Fitzpatrick (MBA 2003), Managing Director, HBS Career & Professional Development, has been a leader in the career development field for 18 years and countless HBS students and alumni have... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
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The Exercise and Development of Leadership
My research in this stream contributes to three recent trends in leadership scholarship. The first is the resurgence of a perspective less preoccupied with leaders' impact on organizational performance and more with their function as sources and symbols of the... View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Hiring an Entrepreneurial Leader
- 06 Jun 2011
- Research & Ideas
Why Leaders Lose Their Way
increased pressure and seduction. Leaders can avoid these pitfalls by devoting themselves to personal development that cultivates their inner compass, or True North. This requires reframing their leadership... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 13 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Inner Life of Leaders
Hedgehogs and Foxes is my 15th book. It is a study of leaders acting in a role but wittingly or unwittingly bringing to this enactment their character. An individual's character is outwardly represented while it is a product of View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
What Makes a Good Leader
the potential for leadership, but they haven't developed it." David Thomas believes leaders are "90 percent made, maybe even more." He says that people's leadership abilities are brought to the fore by their... View Details
Keywords: Management
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Great American Leaders Teach Us
Leadership Initiative was organized to be a catalyst for research on leaders and leadership, and to design effective leadership development programs that are relevant for the 21st century. The goal of the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jan 2020
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6 Traits That Set Top Business Leaders Apart
With CEO turnover climbing, many business leaders are trying to hone skills that will keep them at the helm longer. We asked professors from Harvard Business School’s General Management Unit what qualities distinguish extraordinary View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 22 Jul 2019
- Book
How to Be a Digital Platform Leader
developing customers on each side of the platform, it can still lose out. A great example was Microsoft’s failed efforts in smartphones. Microsoft built a very good operating system for smartphones, but it could not crack the market... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 30 Dec 2011
- News
Five Resolutions for Aspiring Leaders
- 25 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Harvard Climate Leaders Program
The Climate Leaders Program for Professional Students at Harvard is a student-led, faculty-advised program for Masters and professional students across all Harvard graduate schools, developed in partnership... View Details
- 27 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Creating Leaders for Science-Based Businesses
opportunities we have to develop more interaction with the business community through colloquia like this and through Executive Education programs. I think it's critically important for HBS and for the country to grow View Details