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- 01 Jun 2002
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
navigating the perilous straits of leadership. Whether parent or politician, CEO or community activist, leaders will learn how to exercise leadership and survive and thrive to enjoy the fruits of their labor. Winning through Innovation: A Practical Guide to Leading... View Details
- 19 Oct 2012
- News
Past and Present
matter what class he took in school or position he held in a company. “I have always tried to assess what kinds of interesting experiences were available to me at any one time,” he observes. Learning for learning’s sake is a theme in his life. Poor marks in View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
A Modern-Day Classic
and “integration” to help managers grasp how an organization is an entity made up of so many modular units, and that the ideal structure of that entity depends on its way of adapting to the features of its chosen environment. “Contingency theory” showed that View Details
- 26 Nov 2019
- News
Collective Genius: Leading Innovation and Digital Transformation
emerging technologies to innovate and create differentiated customer experiences, people in organizations have to work differently, Hill says. Corporations are finding that digital transformation often demands culture change and the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Lighting the Way
leaders in organizational studies who have crafted the discourse on the intersections of race, work, and leadership. The cross-disciplinary exchange centered on learning about and from the black experience. The symposium enhanced... View Details
- 19 May 2015
- News
Getting Ready for Success
students annually and boasts a college-completion rate of more than 90 percent. “We’ve now proven our model replicates well and is quantitatively effective, so we are looking to aggressively expand.” Her time at HBS strengthened both her skillset and her network.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Derek Bouchard-Hall (MBA 2004)
through charisma or force of character in the way that I thought leaders always did. Professor Joshua Margolis’s class helped me see beyond that. It’s possible to be an effective leader and an introvert. We’ve spent a lot of time changing... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Scott Clark
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Pencils Up: Taking Note of New Courses
say. “We saw an opportunity to explore this rapidly evolving practice and develop new material that is both exciting for our students and relevant for practitioners.” Leadership: Execution & Action Planning (LEAP) Assistant Professor Ryan Raffaelli and Senior Lecturer... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
The Potential of Business to Improve Lives
address injustice, inequality, discrimination, and lack of diversity. You have to look at everything that happens in an organization, from hiring to development, promotion, retention, and leadership,” she says. Developing effective approaches to View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
The Ambidextrous Organization
time, they maintain tight links across units at the senior executive level. In other words, they manage organizational separation through a tightly integrated senior team. Such “ambidextrous organizations” provide a practical and proven... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
“Culture Is Everything”
continued, to get an organization on the right track if there is a sense of crisis. “You must convey the urgency of the current situation and the requirement of doing something different.” Gerstner admitted that earlier in his career, he didn’t realize the importance... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Social Capital Markets: Creating Value in the Nonprofit World
Philanthropy, who will spearhead the effort along with Emerson. Changes are sweeping the social capital markets, in part because a new breed of donor is altering the terrain: Internet moguls, entrepreneurs, and other business leaders who... View Details
Keywords: Anne Kavanagh
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
South Africa's Lucille Meyer: Shaping a Practical Presidency
work and family," she notes. "I often have to make difficult choices between responsibilities at home and at the office. It's tough for a woman in a senior position." Meyer's challenges are not likely to subside. She is, however, considering taking a break from the... View Details
Keywords: Morgan Baker
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
New Releases
Leading Change by John P. Kotter (Harvard Business School Press) Total quality management, reengineering, rightsizing, and restructuring -- innovations intended to make companies more competitive -- routinely fall short, says HBS... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Theory & Practice
has collected the best of her wit and wisdom on management thinking and practice. Looking back across the changing landscape of business, Kanter helps reveal what has worked, what has not, and what businesses still need to learn. She also... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Ink: Your Best Self
portfolio familiar to any executive. Courtesy Amy Jen Su Courtesy Amy Jen Su What trends in the business world are creating new pressures on leaders? Organizational life in general has gotten more complicated. Work has become increasingly... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Organizations and Markets: A Challenging View of the World
organizational problems in large firms. Soon their interest in managerial issues outweighed their interest in economics, and they found themselves with a new course. Today, a much changed course with more... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Meditations on the Bottom Line
orchestrating major changes in organizational design and culture. Then, in 1995, feeling she had taken "values-based management" as far as she could within a large corporate environment, Bothwick began... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Capturing Human Capital
Confronted with the fundamental changes that are transforming today's global business environment, a number of firms are finding it necessary to reevaluate their organizational priorities. "These are... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Leading the Way In Negotiation and Decision Making
organizational negotia- tions. To add realism, the unit's faculty has scrambled the sections for this course so that students encounter both familiar and unfamiliar faces across their classroom bargaining table. "The role of informal... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross