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- 13 May 2013
- News
The Power of Three
Reunion. Demonstrating the leadership skills they honed at HBS, the three women initiated innovations—such as pre-reunion receptions and fundraising “captains” organized by city, rather than by section—that... View Details
- 27 Apr 2018
- Working Paper Summaries
Is Overconfidence a Motivated Bias? Experimental Evidence
- 27 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Horrible Boss Workarounds
they're surprised later to find out that what they thought was going to happen didn't exactly happen. Constant, consistent communication is important." Bad boss behavior #2: pigeonholing. Another common bad-boss trait is the inability to accept the idea that... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Developing Insightful Global Leaders
HBS is committed to developing future leaders equipped with the cultural intelligence and skills required to operate in today’s globalized world. Key to this effort is creating opportunities for members of the School’s increasingly... View Details
- June 2005 (Revised August 2006)
- Case
The Perfect CEO
By: G. Felda Hardymon and Ann Leamon
A venture capitalist must decide among three highly qualified candidates to be CEO of a start-up software company. Each has unique strengths and weaknesses and will take the company in very different directions. Whom should he recommend to the board? View Details
Hardymon, G. Felda, and Ann Leamon. "The Perfect CEO." Harvard Business School Case 805-156, June 2005. (Revised August 2006.)
- May 1996
- Background Note
General Management: A Conceptual Introduction
By: Christopher A. Bartlett and Ashish Nanda
Addresses the following issues at a conceptual level: 1) Who is a general manager? 2) To whom is the general manager responsible? and 3) How do general managers add value? View Details
Bartlett, Christopher A., and Ashish Nanda. "General Management: A Conceptual Introduction." Harvard Business School Background Note 396-161, May 1996.
- 25 Jun 2014
- News
A Man on a Mission
entrepreneurship and STEM subjects in a major at college," says Earls. "It's an opportunity to marry technical disciplines with entrepreneurial spirit. The future of this nation will require technical skills and the thinking of... View Details
- 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
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
What HBS Learned from West Point
how-to skills and the self-knowledge needed to be an effective leader. In short, business schools have excelled at teaching about leadership from a fundamentally analytical perspective. But there are things... View Details
- 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
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Knowledge Integration Rules at Yale
boundaries. Driving the change was the growing feeling that the traditional MBA program was not fulfilling its mission of preparing students for leadership positions in modern organizations. To accomplish its transformation, Yale designed... View Details
- 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
- 07 Jun 2019
- Book
Are You a Digital Manager?
Lagace: As you teach MBA students and Executive Education participants, are they describing new pressures that weren’t there before? Hill: Leadership is truly getting more demanding. I don’t think anyone ever succeeded by him- or herself... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 20 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
How HBS Prepared Me to Lead a Company on Day One
You Learn Long-Term Leadership Strategy I loved the HBS classroom experience, but I recall initially doubting the power of the case method style of learning. Surely you can just teach us accounting rules without debating! I was like... View Details
- 08 Nov 2024
- HBS Case
What Wartime Service Taught These Historic Leaders
the numbers are accurate Widely criticized for his by-the-numbers approach to the Vietnam War as US Secretary of Defense, Bob McNamara’s pioneering use of statistics during World War II and leadership skills... 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
Dahlstrand, Amanda, Dávid László, Helena Schweiger, Oriana Bandiera, Andrea Prat, and Raffaella Sadun. "CEO-Firm Matches and Productivity in 42 Countries." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 25-033, January 2025. (NBER Working Paper Series, No. 33324, January 2025.)
- 03 Feb 2011
- What Do You Think?
Are We Going “Back to the Future” In Researching Management?
that " we will need to think deeply about how to ensure these crowds we are tapping into (through information networking) are given sufficient opportunities to learn and to properly feel engaged." Both achievements and failures in View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- 28 Mar 2017
- Working Paper Summaries
CEO Behavior and Firm Performance
- 23 Jun 2014
- News