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  • 2016
  • Working Paper

Managers' Cultural Background and Disclosure Attributes

By: Francois Brochet, Gregory S. Miller, Patricia Naranjo and Gwen Yu
We examine how a manager’s ethnic cultural background affects managers’ communication with investors. Using a sample of earnings conference calls transcripts with 26,430 executives from 42 countries, we find that managers from ethnic groups that have a more... View Details
Keywords: Disclosure Tone; Individualism; Conference Calls; Ethnic Group; Management Style; Communication Intention and Meaning; Ethnicity; Corporate Disclosure; Financial Reporting
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  • April 1999 (Revised December 2003)
  • Case

Al Dunlap at Sunbeam

By: Brian J. Hall, Rakesh Khurana and Carleen Madigan
Al Dunlap was one of the best-known corporate turnaround artists of the 1990s. In 1996, he was hired at Sunbeam to effect a restructuring, but was fired almost two years later when the company's financial performance and stock price began to decline. Many of the... View Details
Keywords: Business and Shareholder Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Restructuring; Stock Shares; Performance Evaluation; Leadership Style; Resignation and Termination; Motivation and Incentives; Executive Compensation; Outcome or Result; Consumer Products Industry; United States
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    BUSINESS ETHICS: WHAT EVERYONE NEEDS TO KNOW

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    • Program

    High Potentials Leadership Program

    cons of diverse leadership styles and strategies, you will expand your ability to build productive teams, champion change, lead in a crisis, and create a culture of high performance. This high potentials leadership program is presented... View Details
    • May 2019
    • Background Note

    Developing Yourself as a Leader: A Framework for Millennial High Potentials & Emerging Leaders: How to PACE Your Self-Development

    By: Ethan Bernstein and Kirstin Lynde
    Millennials are redefining what it means to develop future leaders. In business organizations, leadership development—defined as “the expansion of a person's capacity to be effective in leadership roles and processes“—has traditionally been the work of corporate... View Details
    Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Human Resources; Leadership Development; Leadership Style; Leadership; Goals and Objectives; Management Skills; Management Style
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    • Program

    Authentic Leader Development

    through difficult and pressure-filled challenges Adapt your leadership style to different scenarios, while remaining true to your values and purpose Balance your intrinsic and extrinsic motivations to find the "sweet spot" of your... View Details
    • October 2013
    • Article

    When Power Makes Others Speechless: The Negative Impact of Leader Power on Team Performance

    By: Leigh Plunkett Tost, Francesca Gino and Richard P. Larrick
    We examine the impact of subjective power on leadership behavior and demonstrate that the psychological effect of power on leaders spills over to impact team effectiveness. Specifically, drawing from the approach/inhibition theory of power, power-devaluation theory,... View Details
    Keywords: Power; Leadership; Team Performance; Groups and Teams; Performance; Leadership Style; Power and Influence
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    • 13 Jan 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: January 13, 2009

    Author:Bettina Klaus Abstract We consider one-to-one matching markets in which agents can either be matched as pairs or remain single. In these so-called roommate markets, agents are consumers and resources at the same time. We investigate two new properties that... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • August 2012 (Revised October 2015)
    • Technical Note

    A Note on Trust

    By: Jim Sharpe and Charles H. Green
    The effective manager and leader understands and appreciates trust at both the personal and the organizational levels. Most managers focus more on being trusted than on trusting. The best way to be trusted is to be worthy of trust—to be trustworthy. View Details
    Keywords: Turnarounds; Leadership Skills; Financial Crisis; Entrepreneurs; Entrepreneurship; Trust; Management Style; Leadership Style
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    • 13 May 2020
    • Blog Post

    Crisis Leadership with Nikhil Patel: The Critical Importance of Trust

    leadership styles are less exposed. But in bad times, weaknesses reveal themselves. Leadership cannot be absent; people have to know who is ultimately making the decisions.” For example, Patel feels obligated to respond to work emails –... View Details
    Keywords: Nonprofit / Government; Social Enterprise
    • March–April 2023
    • Article

    You Need Two Leadership Gears: Know When to Take Charge and When to Get Out of the Way

    By: Lindy Greer, Francesca Gino and Robert Sutton
    The debate about the best way to lead has been raging for years: Should you empower your people and get out of their way, or take charge and push them to do great work? The answer, say the authors, is to do both. Their research shows that effective leaders routinely... View Details
    Keywords: Leadership Style; Groups and Teams; Organizational Structure
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    • 06 Oct 2023
    • Book

    Yes, You Can Radically Change Your Organization in One Week

    provide business leaders with what they call “the secret memo” for quick, effective organizational change. The book, which is their third together, and Morriss’s recent TED Talk, are loaded with tactical tips and concrete examples from... View Details
    Keywords: by Kristen Senz
    • 04 May 2020
    • Blog Post

    Crisis Leadership with Nikhil Patel: The Critical Importance of Trust

    leadership styles are less exposed. But in bad times, weaknesses reveal themselves. Leadership cannot be absent; people have to know who is ultimately making the decisions.” For example, Patel feels obligated to respond to work emails –... View Details
    • June 2005 (Revised January 2008)
    • Case

    Corey Robinson at Sprint Corporation (A)

    By: Linda A. Hill, Anthony Mayo and Lisa Pode
    Corey Robinson is promoted to a new position at Sprint during a time of much internal change within the company. Asks readers to consider how he sets the tone to his new management team and how effective he is in building credibility in his new leadership role. A... View Details
    Keywords: Leadership Style; Management Skills; Management Teams; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Effectiveness; Personal Development and Career; Power and Influence; Telecommunications Industry
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    • 05 Dec 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    Lessons in Decision-Making: Confident People Aren't Always Correct (Except When They Are)

    the right people are confident, suggests recent research by Thomas Graeber, assistant professor at Harvard Business School. His work tested the effects of meta-cognition—essentially, whether more skilled people are also more confident... View Details
    Keywords: by Kara Baskin
    • 28 Mar 2018
    • Blog Post

    Event Planning for Recruiting Success - Part 1

    optimize your time and choose an effective event format? Is a Company Presentation right for us? At HBS, Company Presentations are held either off-campus at a local hotel or restaurant or on-campus in a classroom. Our classrooms seat up... View Details
    Keywords: All Industries
    • Program

    Leading Change and Organizational Renewal

    and managing change, this program prepares you to drive organizational evolution and innovation as the business environment rapidly evolves. You will gain new insight into the strategies used by top global companies to eliminate roadblocks to change—and improve your... View Details
    • August 1984 (Revised March 1989)
    • Background Note

    Direct, Personal Leadership

    By: Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. and Richard R. Ellsworth
    Argues that to be effective leaders, general managers must focus on substance, not process, and aggressively combat the forces that can lead to the politicization of the organization. Examines the leader's direct role in setting and communicating goals, managing the... View Details
    Keywords: Leadership Style; Management Practices and Processes
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    • January 1980 (Revised April 1980)
    • Background Note

    Bargaining Strategies: Collaborative vs. Competitive Approaches

    Note describes aspects of bargaining situations that point toward either collaborative or distributive bargaining strategies. Focuses on the nature of the issues, the relationship between the negotiators, and broader contextual factors, and how these variables... View Details
    Keywords: Negotiation Tactics; Negotiation Style
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    • December 2010
    • Article

    The Hidden Advantages of Quiet Bosses

    By: A. M. Grant, F. Gino and D. A. Hoffman
    The article discusses research that identified situations where introverts are more apt to be effective leaders than extroverts. Although it is generally accepted that extroverts make the best leaders, the authors found that introverts can be better in unpredictable,... View Details
    Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Leadership; Management Style; Groups and Teams; Personal Characteristics
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