Leader Experience - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Aug 1998
News

High Honors

their boards of directors. It's a tribute to his years of experience as a corporate and community leader and to his stature as one of Canada's most distinguished executives. Barford graduated from the... View Details

22 Sep 2022
News

The Beauty Guide

be talking to you today if I hadn’t left marketing,” declares Freyre. The move to sales taught her about retailers, how consumers shop, and ultimately made her a better marketer and leader. “I tap into that diversity of experience every... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

01 Feb 2022
Book

Innovation Isn’t Just for Startups: How Big Companies Can Succeed

Devices because they've got 50-plus years of being an advanced leader in electronics in the world. People see lots of entrepreneur successes, and they say, boy, that must be easy because they're free and autonomous and they can do this.... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

06 Oct 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters

managing through the pandemic. The topics: people and personal management, strategy, marketing, and organizational design. PEOPLE AND PERSONAL MANAGEMENT Tip: Guide your team to create new norms, protocols, and purpose. Leaders need to... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

Profile

Ignacio Lartirigoyen

learning by intuition, trial and error. I wanted more formal training to take my skills to the next level." Seeking transformational experiences For Ignacio, HBS was the optimal place for him to "get immersed in a different... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services

Profile

Doug Marsan

Coming to HBS is like... Going to the world’s greatest amusement park with some of the most amazing, talented, and diverse people. As you enter the park, your eyes are wide open with all the possibilities available to you. Some View Details

15 Mar 2017
Blog Post

An Average Day at HBS

Prospective students often visit campus to learn more about life at HBS. They’re curious about things like case method, housing, and the section experience. But once you get on campus, what is the day-to-day student experience like? We... View Details

21 Mar 2024
Blog Post

SVMP Gave Me the Courage to Fail

discussions. The small teams provided safe spaces to test new ideas and learn about the case topic from a new perspective. In these teams, each of us was encouraged to lead the discussion, which was a new experience for many of us. In a... View Details

17 Jan 2011
Research & Ideas

Being the Boss

Nineteen years ago, Harvard Business School professor Linda A. Hill wrote the first edition of her book Becoming a Manager, detailing the experiences of several first-year supervisors who were making the daunting transition from star... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Financial Aid - Alumni

of experiences and perspectives to the classroom and make it possible for recipients to pursue career paths based on interest and potential impact rather than student debt. A Tradition of Philanthropy Watch this 3-minute video to learn... View Details

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HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni

extends across all business disciplines. To achieve climate goals, we need business leaders to build skills across disciplines and to understand how climate change considerations are being infused into all areas of management. Faculty... View Details

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Women at HBS - Alumni

of women leaders who make a difference in the world, focusing on areas where alumni urged and where HBS felt it could have the greatest impact––in areas such as increasing the number of women case protagonists and strengthening the... View Details

10 Feb 2021
Research & Ideas

Has #MeToo Changed How Hollywood Hires?

writers with female writers with similar experience levels. When women are the decision makers Since production teams with female producers are doing most of that hiring of other women, the research points to how key it is for women to... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Media & Broadcasting

21 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

Are You Sabotaging Your Own Company?

their work.” “Hold conferences when there is more critical work to be done.” The spy manual struck a chord with Stefan H. Thomke, the William Barclay Harding Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, since he recognized that many of today’s... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

03 May 2016
First Look

First Look, May 3, 2016

professional domains, readers gain insight into why teaming across fields is so challenging, and what leaders can do to help. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50682 May 2016 Harvard Business Review Learn to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Recognizing Our Donors - Alumni

educating leaders who make a difference in the world HBS Online Founding Donors Deepening the School’s impact and broadening its reach by delivering transformational educational experiences to learners... View Details

27 Sep 2010
Research & Ideas

Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured

we all experience some degree of this pressure in our own daily work lives, in this series of studies I examined what happens to team dynamics and performance when the pressure is significantly intensified. Ironically, Gardner found that... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

14 Jul 2023
Blog Post

Harvard Business School Announces Its 2023-2024 Blavatnik Fellows

personalized oncology care. They have collectively raised more than $500M in funding and an additional $244M from an IPO in June 2020. The fellowship is guided by Peter Barrett, executive fellow, and a Key Advisory Board of 13 seasoned business and biotechnology View Details

2011
Book

Detour: My Unexpected, Amazing, Life Changing Journey With OnStar

By: Chet Huber

Detour is the story behind the launch of OnStar’s now well known blue button, as told through the eyes of its founder and CEO of over fourteen years, Chet Huber. It’s a personal narrative that describes the events that led up to General Motors’ unexpected choice... View Details

Keywords: General Motors; OnStar; Technological Innovation; Business Startups; Transportation; Safety; Personal Development and Career; Creativity; Success; Business History; Auto Industry

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20 May 2014
First Look

First Look: May 20

relationship between the diffusion of advanced internet technology and the geographic concentration of invention, as measured by patents. First, we show that patenting became more concentrated from the early 1990s to the early 2000s and, similarly, that counties that... View Details