Courageous Leadership In Turbulent Times - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Oct 2009
What Do You Think?

Can the “Masks of Command” Coexist with Authentic Leadership?

particular social or work settings." While agreeing in general, Ann Parker voiced a note of caution: "All leaders at times mask their feelings, especially fear or uncertainty. The danger is that... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

15 Oct 2008
First Look

First Look: October 15, 2008

accelerated sharply in the U.S. economy. In this paper, we identify several other industry-level changes that have occurred during the same time and argue that they are... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

11 May 2010
First Look

First Look: May 11

private equity firm, address strategic and organizational challenges in response to turbulent market conditions, rapid firm growth, and the transition of leadership from its... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

02 Feb 2004
What Do You Think?

Leadership: A Matter of Sustaining or Eliminating Groupthink?

in expressing an idea." One anonymous respondent resolved that "If I am not one already, I think I will aspire to be the office fool ..." All of this suggests that successful leaders need a fine sensitivity for View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

16 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?

and how regulations are formulated. Let me give you two quick examples. The Sarbanes-Oxley law passed last year has a number of very good things in it, and the action taken at the time probably was quite... View Details

Keywords: by Kim B. Clark

06 Mar 2018
First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

show that the decline in auctions was not driven by changes in the type of sellers and items. Instead, seller incentives changed. We estimate the demand facing individual sellers at different points View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 Sep 2009
Research & Ideas

Harvard and HBS: The Next 100 Years

businesses. In addition, it must collaborate with other schools at Harvard, and cultivate a faculty and student body that can react to economic crises like the current one. Key concepts include: At this time... View Details

Keywords: Education

02 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Explaining China's Crash

Chinese exceptionalism? This concept dovetails with the idea that China must change its development model in order to gain long-term economic and social stability. Economists have been saying this for a long View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese; Financial Services

17 Dec 2020
Research & Ideas

The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2020

Harvard Business School experts how the pandemic might change business practices. Here’s what they had to say. 7 Leadership Principles for Managing in the Time of Coronavirus... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

20 Mar 2013
Research & Ideas

How CEOs Sustain Higher-Ambition Goals

and help build a better world while we are still striving to deliver high performance for the enterprise. Managing that tension is difficult." HBS invited the executives to the second Higher Ambition CEO Leadership Conference, held... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

31 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?

national leadership can be, I recommend Doris Kearns Goodwin’s Leadership: In Turbulent Times, which I’m delighted to say accompanies my new book on JP Morgan’s list of 14... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Information; Publishing

06 Sep 2017
What Do You Think?

Summing Up: What Are the Limits of CEO Activism?

themselves. Now more than ever, American society needs this kind of exchange of ideas.” Bill added, “All it takes for evil to flourish is for good people to remain silent.” Jesteeleconsult commented, “Looking the other way in View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

07 Nov 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017

leader David Yarnold who was brought in by the board in 2010. Under Yarnold's leadership the organization went through two strategic plans (2012–2016 and 2016–2020) and brought... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

12 Jul 2020
Book

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020

national leadership can be, I recommend Doris Kearns Goodwin’s Leadership: In Turbulent Times, which I’m delighted to say accompanies my new book on JP Morgan’s list of 14... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

19 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

Why Innovations Sit on the Shelf

leadership has the courage to initiate the measures necessary to do so. We've discovered that standard initiatives such as employee surveys, interviews by external consultants, and even relatively... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Beer, Russell Eisenstat & Derek Schrader

20 Dec 2010
Research & Ideas

New Dean Sets Five Priorities for HBS

around the world, Nohria observed. "That causes people to ask, 'How well prepared is this great American institution to be a leader in this new global century?'" However you define inflection point, the View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Education

12 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Can Religion and Business Learn From Each Other?

get creative in the way they structure the deal. It may give them courage to kick back. You know, if people are fearful, for example, they can get very abusive; they can get very destructive. That's not... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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