Leadership Skills - Publications - Faculty & Research

11 Jul 2019
Blog Post

Meet the MBA Class of 2020

EXPERIENCE Rocket Internet SE, Shopwings Australia Pty Ltd, Carmudi GmbH Erin Kaivan “HBS REALLY RESPECTS LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE.” HOME REGION Swoope, VA UNDERGRAD EDUCATION James Madison University, Political Science/Government, 2011... View Details

Teaching Interest

Managing Human Capital

By: Ethan S. Bernstein

The Managing Human Capital course has been specifically designed to teach practical skills for the future general manager (not just the human resource practitioner) who seeks to manage both other people and her or his own career with optimal... View Details

01 Dec 2008
News

Lesson from the Fall

"...But the good news is your old Enron stock has become a high-priced collectible." © 2008 www.cartoonstock.com Nearly seven years after its collapse, Enron continues to fascinate those interested in corporate leadership and governance.... View Details

Keywords: Malcolm S. Salter; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

16 Mar 2018
News

Enabling The Pursuit of Entrepreneurial Dreams

AwesomenessTV was sold to NBCUniversal, the timing was right. “I was wearing many hats at the studio — from business development to finance to marketing and operations. I learned a lot on the job, but thought an HBS education would elevate the View Details

29 Jun 2009
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Leading Change

Sharpening Your Skills dives into the HBS Working Knowledge archives to bring together articles on ways to improve your business skills. Questions To Be Answered: How do I build my business in this environment? What should leaders... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

05 Jun 2013
What Do You Think?

Do We Need to Extend ‘No Surprises Management?’

Two-year average annual client defection rate 37.8% 48.4% 31.7% Two-year average annual operating profit as a percentage of revenue 13.3% 3.7% 22.5% This data suggests (without proof of cause and effect) that significant improvements in performance can be associated... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

28 May 2019
News

Leading Questions

lesson she learned from Professor Boris Groysberg in an HBS classroom: “The most important leadership skills in the future aren’t going to be analytical or diagnostic skills. The thing that will make the... View Details

Keywords: April White

08 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

You Won't Make It If You Fake It

fields. Can you imagine doing brain surgery without proper training? Or playing the cello at Carnegie Hall or tennis at Wimbledon without years of training and practice? Just as you cannot learn these skills solely in the classroom,... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

21 Dec 2009
News

The Secrets of Transformational Leaders

Keywords: Mike Beer; Management

01 Dec 2003
News

Celebrating HBS

Noting that HBS is educating students now for a vastly more globalized and challenging world economy, Dean Clark traced the School’s mission to its beginnings, when creating an educational community dedicated to skilled and thoughtful... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

April 1984
Supplement

Dexter Corp. - Worth Loomis, President: Question & Answer Session with Advanced Management Program Participants, Video

By: Francis Aguilar

Keywords: Management Skills; Leadership Development

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06 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

Why Businesses Need a Language Strategy

choose a lingua franca to expect everyone in the organization to learn a sufficient amount of what may be a totally foreign language for them? A: Needless to say, you want the right people with the right skills on any job. Rob Kaplan and... View Details

Keywords: Re: Tsedal Neeley

16 Jul 2024
Op-Ed

Corporate Boards Are Failing in Their No. 1 Duty

appointments go wrong Let’s begin by taking a look at three examples of poor leadership at public companies and addressing what went wrong. Then, I will recommend five ways boards can ensure they appoint the right leader as CEO: General... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

08 May 2020
Research & Ideas

We’ve Now Been Asking “What Do You Think?” for 20 Years

This month marks the twentieth anniversary of the beginning of my “What do you think?” column. The Working Knowledge website was the brainchild of a faculty and staff committee organized in 2000 by then Dean Kim Clark to communicate the results of faculty research to a... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Jun 1997
News

Go Team!

January cohort students attempt to swish ten free throws as one of many tasks in a "treasure hunt" that took place in February as part of Technology and Operations Management's Project Management module. The hunt involved student teams in a campus-wide search for clues... View Details

2025
Working Paper

CEO-Firm Matches and Productivity in 42 Countries

By: Amanda Dahlstrand, Dávid László, Helena Schweiger, Oriana Bandiera, Andrea Prat and Raffaella Sadun

Firms are key to economic development, and CEOs are key to firm productivity. Are firms in countries at varying stages of development led by the right CEOs, and if not, why? We develop a parsimonious measure of CEO time use that allows us to differentiate CEOs into... View Details

Keywords: Training; Management Skills; Economic Growth; Leadership Development

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28 Aug 2008
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: History Matters

Sharpening Your Skills dives into the HBS Working Knowledge archives to bring together articles on ways to improve your business skills. Questions To Be Answered How can business history influence current practice? What can the work of... View Details

Keywords: Re: Geoffrey G. Jones & Anthony Mayo

01 Dec 2003
News

Business Answers the Call

do — to ensure that all children can reach high levels of achievement. “My focus at NLNS is on building the managerial and instructional leadership skills necessary for a principal to be truly successful,”... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

26 Mar 2008
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Disaster!

Sharpening Your Skills dives into the HBS Working Knowledge archives to bring together articles on ways to improve your business skills. Questions To Be Answered How does disaster change leadership goals?... View Details

30 Sep 2013
News

Mark Fields Steps into the Limelight

Keywords: automotive industry; change management; Ford Motors; Manufacturing

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