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- 09 Nov 2016
- News
Trump Is About to Test Our Theory of When Leaders Actually Matter
- Article
Leaders as Decision Architects: Structure Your Organization's Work to Encourage Wise Choices
By: John Beshears and F. Gino
Everyone from CEOs to frontline workers commits preventable mistakes—for example, underestimating how long it will take to finish a project or focusing too much on information that supports their current view. It is extraordinarily difficult to rewire the human brain... View Details
Beshears, John, and F. Gino. "Leaders as Decision Architects: Structure Your Organization's Work to Encourage Wise Choices." Harvard Business Review 93, no. 5 (May 2015): 52–62.
- March 1985
- Article
Experts as Negative Opinion Leaders in the Diffusion of a Technical Innovation
By: D. A. Leonard
Leonard, D. A. "Experts as Negative Opinion Leaders in the Diffusion of a Technical Innovation." Journal of Consumer Research 11, no. 4 (March 1985).
- 18 Oct 2018
- News
Case Study: When Two Leaders on the Senior Team Hate Each Other
- 29 May 2018
- News
From Pink Milk to Smart Questions, How to Be a Rebel Leader
- 07 Feb 2015
- News
John C. Whitehead, a Leader in Finance and Government, Dies at 92
- Article
Act Like a Scientist: Great Leaders Challenge Assumptions, Run Experiments, and Follow the Evidence
By: Stefan Thomke and Gary W. Loveman
Though they’ve been warned for decades about the dangers of overrelying on gut instinct and personal experience, managers keep failing to critically examine—much less challenge—the ideas their decisions are based on. To correct this problem they need to think and act... View Details
Thomke, Stefan, and Gary W. Loveman. "Act Like a Scientist: Great Leaders Challenge Assumptions, Run Experiments, and Follow the Evidence." Harvard Business Review 100, no. 3 (May–June 2022): 120–129.
- 2012
- Working Paper
School Accountability and Principal Mobility: How No Child Left Behind Affects the Allocation of School Leaders
By: Danielle Li
The move toward increased school accountability may substantially affect the career risks that school leaders face without providing commensurate changes in pay. Since effective school leaders likely have significant scope in choosing where to work, these uncompensated... View Details
Li, Danielle. "School Accountability and Principal Mobility: How No Child Left Behind Affects the Allocation of School Leaders." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-052, October 2015.
- February 2011 (Revised June 2011)
- Teaching Note
Leaders Who Make a Difference: Sam Palmisano's Smarter IBM: Day 1 (TN)
By: Joseph L. Bower
Teaching Note for 311030. View Details
- 1996
- Book
Fad-Free Management: The Six Principles That Drive Successful Companies and Their Leaders
Keywords: Management Practices and Processes
Hamermesh, Richard G. Fad-Free Management: The Six Principles That Drive Successful Companies and Their Leaders. Santa Monica, CA: Knowledge Exchange, 1996.
- 15 Nov 2024
- News
4 Expert Insights on How CFOs Can Be Better Leaders in 2025
- 19 Apr 2021
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ESG And The Future Of Work: 3 Strategies Every Leader Should Know
- 17 Mar 2021
- News
Smart Leaders Say They Are Taking This Lesson Away From The Pandemic
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What Great Service Leaders Know and Do: Creating Breakthroughs in Service Firms
In their recently completed book by the same title, Professor Schlesinger and coauthors and fellow HBS faculty members James L. Heskett (emeritus) and W. Earl Sasser posit the following: that management has within its control the authority, and, they think, the... View Details
- September 2020 (Revised December 2020)
- Supplement
Hitachi Rail Limited (B)
By: David J. Collis, Akiko Kanno and Nobuo Sato
This supplement describes the strategy and organisation changes made by British executive, Alistair Dormer, after he is made head of Hitachi Rail's global business. The company acquires an Italian company, continues to win contracts in the UK, but struggles to bring... View Details
Keywords: Organization Structure; Leader Selection; Mergers ＆ Acquisitions; Strategy; Global Strategy; Organizational Structure; Leadership; Mergers and Acquisitions; Integration; Values and Beliefs; Rail Industry; Japan
Collis, David J., Akiko Kanno, and Nobuo Sato. "Hitachi Rail Limited (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 721-365, September 2020. (Revised December 2020.)
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Do Leaders Lead in Business Process Innovation? The Case(s) of E-Business Adoption
This paper investigates how market position influences firm propensity to adopt new process innovations. Using detailed data from the U.S. Census of Manufactures, I study the adoption of frontier e-business practices during the early diffusion of the commercial... View Details