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- 22 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
Does Spirituality Drive Success?
Executives from a wide range of industries trooped to Harvard Business School to discuss how their spirituality helps them be powerful leaders. The stories emerged from three panel sessions at the Möbius Leadership Forum, held April... View Details
- March 2005 (Revised April 2007)
- Case
Oprah!
By: William W. George and Andrew N. McLean
Oprah Winfrey believed in sharing the experiences that shaped her development and enabled her to become the wealthiest women in the entertainment industry and first African American billionaire. Traces her childhood and entertainment career, drawing connections in... View Details
- May 2010 (Revised May 2011)
- Case
Kent Thiry: "Mayor" of DaVita
By: William W. George and Natalie Kindred
Kent Thiry, CEO of dialysis provider DaVita, is considering how to integrate employees from recently acquired Gambro Healthcare without damaging DaVita's robust, unconventional internal culture. When Thiry joined DaVita in 1999, breaking an important promise to his... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Experience and Expertise; Employee Relationship Management; Leadership Style; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Personal Development and Career; Integration; Health Industry
George, William W., and Natalie Kindred. Kent Thiry: "Mayor" of DaVita. Harvard Business School Case 410-065, May 2010. (Revised May 2011.)
- 2020
- Book
Teaching by Heart: One Professor's Journey to Inspire
By: Thomas J. DeLong
The best teachers are leaders, and the best leaders are teachers. Teaching by Heart summarizes the author's key insights gained from more than 40 years of teaching and managing. It illustrates how teachers can both lift people up and let them down. It proposes... View Details
DeLong, Thomas J. Teaching by Heart: One Professor's Journey to Inspire. Boston: Harvard Business Review Press, 2020.
- September 2013
- Article
Great Leaders Who Make the Mix Work
By: Boris Groysberg and Katherine Connolly
Business leaders send a powerful message when they make a commitment to diversity that goes beyond rhetoric. But what motivates them to do so, and how do they actually create inclusive cultures? To find out, the authors interviewed 24 CEOs whose firms were known for... View Details
Keywords: Leadership Development; Working Conditions; Leading Change; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Culture; Diversity; Gender
Groysberg, Boris, and Katherine Connolly. "Great Leaders Who Make the Mix Work." Harvard Business Review 91, no. 9 (September 2013): 68–76.
- 03 Aug 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Can We Hold the “Leadership Industry” Accountable?
profit for shareholders and directors. Pfeffer is also tired of seeing so-called leadership development services offered in a sanitized vacuum by a “leadership industry” under “brands” such as authentic... View Details
- 25 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Developing the Global Leader
popular second-year MBA course Authentic Leadership Development (ALD), which he has compressed into a five-day Executive Education program at Harvard Business School. "The most successful leaders will... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 29 Apr 2020
- Book
The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages
Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Jan 2024
- Research & Ideas
10 Trends to Watch in 2024
The lightning-fast ascent of generative AI isn’t the only sea change on the horizon for businesses in the new year. The global economy is in flux as war, climate change, trade issues, and infrastructure problems demand attention. Many companies continue to struggle to... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 02 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Stories 2007
Here are the 20 most popular stories from 2007. How Much of Leadership Is About Control, Delegation, or Theater? Summing up the many responses, Jim Heskett says that the mix of control, delegation, and theater employed by successful... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Is the Future of MBA Education?
and inspire. That takes skill and practice. MBAs need to ask themselves, "How do I engage people to accomplish a task while I remain in the background?" At HBS, the Authentic Leadership Development course... View Details
- 14 Jun 2023
- Research & Ideas
Four Steps to Building the Psychological Safety That High-Performing Teams Need
what the research finds is that psychological safety is one good predictor of more positive work experiences,” she says. The researchers found that psychological safety is greater when people feel authentically seen. As a result,... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
- May 8, 2020
- Article
Lead Your Team Into a Post-Pandemic World
By: Hubert Joly
The unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic has tested leaders, especially as it relates to how they lead their workers. As the crisis goes on, many that the author has spoken with have begun to frame it around three distinct phases: The Shelter-in-Place Phase, the Re-opening... View Details
Joly, Hubert. "Lead Your Team Into a Post-Pandemic World." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (May 8, 2020).
- 06 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 6, 2007
questions to reflect the corporate perspective, especially when large sums of money are involved and conditions are highly uncertain; and create a new context that allows top executives to circumvent the regular resource allocation process when necessary. Discovering... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
Curiosity, Not Coding: 6 Skills Leaders Need in the Digital Age
important leadership quality in these times. Roundtable discussions with about 200 executives echoed those findings. Our survey respondents also ranked creativity, curiosity, and comfort with ambiguity as highly desirable traits. "It’s... View Details
- 25 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
When Your Passion Works Against You
who expressed passion in authentic ways, including one who introduced a personal connection to the pitch. However, entrepreneurs seen as expressing passion with a false note did not earn as much support from investors. For example, one... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 12 May 2021
- Book
The Hard Truth About Being a CEO
a leadership guide to navigating a role that Fubini says is unlike any other, which leaves many new CEOs and leaders struggling to find their footing. “People strive for a long time to develop functional skills and operational knowledge... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 08 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated
How Remote Work Changes What We Think About Onboarding What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization What the Stockdale Paradox Tells Us About Crisis Leadership The COVID Two-Step for... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 24 Apr 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Courage: The Defining Characteristic of Great Leaders
PepsiCo’s strategy “Performance with Purpose,” that focuses on complementing the company’s core soft drink and snack business with healthy foods and beverages. In 2013, PepsiCo was challenged by activist Peltz to split the company, but Nooyi steadfastly refused.... View Details
- 16 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Are You a Strategist?
Leader Your Business Needs, Montgomery discusses when that disconnect happened, why it's a problem today, and how leaders can turn themselves back into strategists. (Read an excerpt from The Strategist.) According to Montgomery, the divorce of strategy and View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel