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Faculty & Research - Leadership

Article MIT Sloan Management Review The Three Traps That Stymie Reinvention: Organizational Identity, Architecture, and Collaboration Can Be Either Assets or Liabilities to Pursuing Growth in New Sectors By: View Details

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Organizational Behavior Curriculum - Faculty & Research

Q1Q2 3.0 Leadership Execution and Action Planning (LEAP) Ryan Raffaelli Spring 2025 Q3Q4 3.0 Managing Human Capital Ethan Bernstein Fall 2024 Q1Q2 3.0 Mastering Consulting... View Details

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Business, Government & the International Economy - Faculty & Research

gender by political elites, it does not influence broader political outcomes like policy preferences or far-right voting. These findings reveal the sequence and mechanisms behind the distributional... View Details

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Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni

is survived by his wife, Katherine Casey (MBA 1963), and his four children: Elizabeth Anne (MBA 1993), Katherine Mary, Mark (MBA 1998), and Michael. Cashin Family (MBA 1980)... View Details

December 2021 (Revised September 2022)
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Moleskine: Daniela Riccardi Turns the Page

By: Ryan Raffaelli and Sarah Gulick

Newly appointed CEO Daniela Riccardi needed to develop and present an action plan to the board of the company that owned Moleskine. Riccardi was hired because Moleskine had recently overextended its reach and needed more focus and discipline. Having previously served... View Details

Keywords: Rebranding; Brands and Branding; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Operations; Planning; Retail Industry; Italy

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Uncovering Mechanisms of Theory Development in an Academic Field: Lessons from Leadership Research

By: Mary Ann Glynn and Ryan Raffaelli

A long-standing debate in organization studies has centered on the tension between paradigmatic consensus and theoretical pluralism in an academic field, but little attention has been paid to the underlying processes of field development that account for this. Using a... View Details

Keywords: Leadership; Theory

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HBS - The year in Review

Class Day speaker Robert L. Ryan (MBA 1970). Reunions and commencements were also held for those in the Classes of 2020 and 2021, whose celebrations were virtual during the... View Details

15 Jun 2015
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Faculty Q&A: Reemerging Technologies

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Alumni - Global

Xydi (MBA 2022); Kyriakos Mitsotakis (MBA 1995); Andreas Stavropoulos (MBA 1997); Antonis Samaras (MBA 1976); By: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Pete Ryan 11 Mar 2024 Skydeck In Harmony Born in Korea,... View Details

2015
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What's so Institutional about Leadership?: Leadership Mechanisms of Value Infusion

By: Ryan Raffaelli and Mary Ann Glynn

Leaders are important social actors in organizations, centrally involved in establishing and maintaining institutional values, a view that was articulated by Philip Selznick (1957) nearly a half-century ago, but often overlooked in institutionalists' accounts. Our... View Details

Keywords: Leadership; Organizations; Values and Beliefs

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Leadership - Faculty & Research

and sustainability. That's the central and animating theme of "The Rise of HR: Wisdom from 73 Thought Leaders," a new anthology published by the HR Certification Institute.... View Details

29 Mar 2016
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March 29, 2016

Guidance Systems to Create Dynamic Capabilities By: Kanter, Rosabeth M., Matthew Bird, Ethan Bernstein, and Ryan Raffaelli Abstract—How do strategic leaders create change-adept... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Skydeck - Alumni

management therapy transformed his life and career Higher Returns Author and CEO Richard Steel (OPM 45, 2014) on how conscious consumers are redefining the economy Jeff Immelt... View Details

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HBS - The year in Review

recognized by MBA students for their excellence and dedication with Faculty Teaching Award honors. Tony Mayo, Sophus Reinert, and Charlotte Robertson were acknowledged for... View Details

January 2017 (Revised May 2020)
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Sesame Workshop (A): Bringing Big Bird Back to Health

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Ryan Raffaelli and Jonathan Cohen

Sesame Workshop was transforming in 2016. CEO Jeff Dunn had reorganized and shifted the iconic institution to respond to digital disruption and a consensus culture. This case examines his efforts to turn Sesame Workshop around. It notes Sesame's storied history and the... View Details

Keywords: Restructuring; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leadership; Information Technology; Education; Media; Strategy; Education Industry

December 2016 (Revised December 2017)
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Faber-Castell

By: Ryan Raffaelli and Christine Snively

By 2016, Count Anton-Wolfgang von Faber-Castell had led the 255-year-old pencil manufacturer Faber-Castell through waves of technological change. The pocket calculator decimated Faber-Castell’s slide rule business in the 1970s, and computer aided design technology... View Details

Keywords: Leadership Style; Leading Change; Family Ownership; Manufacturing Industry; Germany