Publications

26 Jul 2023
News

Overcoming Your Fear of Giving Tough Feedback

11 Jul 2023
News

What the Best Leaders Know — and What Skills They Develop

24 Feb 2011
News

2011 Most Influential Women in Tech

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Dec 2013
News

Batteries and Chocolates

displaying characteristics (such as consensual decision-making and greater risk aversion) more associated with women's management styles. Admittedly, acknowledging gender-based organizational distinctions risks endorsing stereotypes that... View Details

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

November 1987 (Revised January 1988)
Case

Groen: A Dover Industries Company

By: Francis Aguilar

Describes the challenges facing the president of an old-line foodservice and food processing equipment manufacturing company as it attempted to accelerate sales and profit growth through the introduction of innovative products. The introduction of a "revolutionary"... View Details

Keywords: Business or Company Management; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Labor and Management Relations; Machinery and Machining; Management Style; Management Teams; Performance Efficiency; Technological Innovation; Product Development; Organizational Culture

February 2004 (Revised May 2007)
Case

George Barker

By: John A. Davis

George Barker, the 40-year-old CEO of his family's commercial real estate design and development firm, must deal with the unsatisfactory performance of his brother Peter, who is also in the business. Although Peter's performance is upsetting to George, George feels... View Details

Keywords: Family Business; Leadership Style; Business or Company Management; Performance Evaluation; Problems and Challenges; Family and Family Relationships; Real Estate Industry

September 1991 (Revised March 2005)
Case

WPP Group and Its Acquisitions

By: William J. Bruns Jr.

WPP Group acquired J. Walter Thompson and Ogilvy & Mather, paying high premiums in relation to earnings. In each acquisition the goodwill acquired was immediately charged off against owners' equity. Then, WPP Group established a value for the brand names of the two... View Details

Keywords: Goodwill Accounting; Accounting; Brands and Branding; Product Positioning; Market Transactions; Equity; Private Equity; Relationships; Mergers and Acquisitions; Management Style; Consumer Products Industry; United States; United Kingdom

11 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

How Do You Grade Out as a Negotiator?

then at least in the fog” "We negotiate, if not in the dark, then at least in the fog," says Michael Wheeler, a senior fellow at Harvard Business School and retired MBA Class of 1952 Professor of Management Practice, who taught... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Dec 1999
News

From the Editors

prepare managers for the transition to a postwar economy. In 1945, Kidder, Peabody & Company titan Albert H. Gordon (MBA '25) contributed a prescient essay on the economic impact of peace. Gordon predicted "a major reorientation of... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

06 Aug 2013
First Look

First Look: August 6

today's managers need to harness technological advances, manage and lead a dispersed and diverse workforce, anticipate and react to constant competitive and geopolitical change and uncertainty, compete on a... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

01 Oct 2002
News

Books

Great Performances, J. Richard Hackman uses examples ranging from orchestras to airline cockpit crews to prove that it's not a leader's management style that determines performance, but how well a leader... View Details

01 Sep 2007
News

Unexpected Advice from Am Ex’s Chenault

Chenault and Dean Jay Light at Class Day ceremonies. Photos by Stuart Cahill Of all the attributes tomorrow’s leaders will need to manage through good times and bad, one took center stage in American Express chairman and CEO Kenneth... View Details

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

01 Sep 2012
News

Who Owns Yoga?

yoga style. Then there’s the former model and ballet dancer Tara Stiles, who isn’t particularly interested in yoga’s roots or rules but rather in mixing up styles of yoga to create a beneficial exercise. “These are two different examples... View Details

Keywords: Kim Girard; yoga; Arts, Sports, Language, Driving, and Other Schools; Educational Services; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

16 Aug 2006
Research & Ideas

Is MySpace.com Your Space?

MySpace puts the power of individual identity in play. You're not anonymous on a social networking site—you're exactly the opposite. You're presenting a managed self to the world. Q: These sites often have wonderful demographics from an... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Advertising; Information; Publishing

01 Jun 2007
News

Power Trip

managers who benefited from laws such as Title IX become senior managers, we may be on the cusp of more change. What about people who became successful despite their lack of access to traditional paths to power? We found four ways that... View Details

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

28 Jun 2011
First Look

First Look: June 28

served as CEO and chairman. Cardio-Metric's success, however, concealed troubling internal developments. Since 2002, the CEO's management style had progressed from unconventional, to questionable, to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2016
News

Carving a Niche

says, “but there’s something about today’s 40- and 50-something moms and dads that’s different: Often their number one style influencer is their teenage kid.” Or maybe it’s a Faction athlete like legendary freestyle skier Candide Thovex,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

January 2008
Article

Where Will We Find Tomorrow's Leaders?

By: Linda A. Hill

Unless we challenge long-held assumptions about how business leaders are supposed to act and where they're supposed to come from, many people who could become effective global leaders will remain invisible, warns Harvard Business School professor Hill. Instead of... View Details

Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Globalization; Innovation Leadership; Leadership Development; Leadership Style; Situation or Environment; Personal Characteristics