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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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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  • 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 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
  • 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
  • April 22, 2021
  • Article

The CFO's Role in Capability Building

By: Rawi Abdelal, Kevin Carmody, Meagan Hill and William J. Pearson
Keywords: Chief Financial Officer; Capabilities; Organizations; Competency and Skills; Finance; Leadership
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  • 30 Sep 2013
  • News

Mark Fields Steps into the Limelight

Keywords: automotive industry; change management; Ford Motors; Manufacturing
  • 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
  • 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
  • 01 Jun 2008
  • News

The $4 Billion Question

the minority in how they viewed this choice. “The course does a good job of highlighting the conflicts that are inherent in this business, such as the tension between investment professionals and their investors,” El-Hage says. “It trains our students to think... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Finance; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Management
  • 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
  • 10 Feb 2016
  • News

A Leader’s Call to Action

Barbara Nick (AMP 165, 2003) has spent more than 30 years in the gas and electric industry, honing her skills to become an award-winning leader in business and in her community. She knew her success was due in part to other leaders—the... 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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  • 03 Apr 2013
  • What Do You Think?

Will Women Leaders Influence the Way We Work?

Summing Up How Important is Leadership Gender in Influencing the Way We Work? Any attempt to describe behaviors on the basis of gender runs the risk of stereotyping, generalizing, and generally oversimplifying. As Susan Chipman said in... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 17 Jul 2017
  • Op-Ed

Op-Ed: As America Recedes from Global Leadership, Its CEOs are Stepping Up

As America recedes from global leadership under President Donald Trump’s “America First” policies, a new generation of business statesmen is stepping up to take on global issues of monumental importance: global trade, climate change, job... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George