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- 31 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The New CEO’s Wrong Message
defensiveness in colleagues and subordinates. Second-guessing a senior manager can demoralize and demotivate not only that person but others around him, while eroding his authority and confidence. What's more, the need to overrule a proposal indicates that the View Details
- 17 Apr 2025
- Blog Post
From Tech to Coaching: Empowering Women and Minority Leaders with Yue Zhao (MBA 2013)
information, a skill that proved invaluable as I took on product leadership roles. My career progressed quickly, from Product Manager to Chief Product Officer in just 13 years. I thrived in roles that combined View Details
- 29 Dec 2019
- Research & Ideas
Read Our Most Popular Research Stories of 2019
them—and all soon-to-be managers—make the shift. These 4 CEOs Created a New Standard of Leadership At the height of the 2008 financial crisis, these four corporate leaders stepped forward—and changed how we think of View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Going Public: Scott C. Bolick
outstanding efforts. Twice Bolick has spearheaded awards programs to honor worthy achievers and to inspire others to reach similar heights: in the Army, where he helped establish the Hurley Awards to recognize leadership and community... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
A Shared Vision for a Better World
Stephanie and Charlie (MBA 1974) Harrold A member of the Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, Charlie Harrold (MBA 1974) spent 12 months in Vietnam as a platoon leader with the 173rd Airborne Brigade. “It was extremely demanding,” he says, “but I learned about View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
Four 1971 classmates — three who serve on the front lines of corporate leadership in the 1990s and one learned observer of the changing role of the senior executive — comment on the complex task of running a successful company in an... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
WSA Conference Focuses on Reaching Goals
"There is today a great need for leaders who live their lives with integrity, courage, and commitment," declared Dean Kim B. Clark in his welcoming comments at the Women's Student Association's (WSA) eighth annual business leadership... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- January 1999
- Case
Bell Atlantic and the Union City Schools (D): Results and Replication
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Ellen Pruyne
The last in a five-part series about Bell Atlantic Corp.'s technology-in-education partnership with the Union City, New Jersey school system. Reviews the various outcomes of the partnership called Project Explore, from the perspective of Bell Atlantic managers and... View Details
Keywords: Mobile and Wireless Technology; Strategic Planning; Change Management; Leadership Development; Outcome or Result; Horizontal Integration; Partners and Partnerships; Trends; Education; Technological Innovation; Telecommunications Industry; Education Industry; New Jersey
Kanter, Rosabeth M., and Ellen Pruyne. "Bell Atlantic and the Union City Schools (D): Results and Replication." Harvard Business School Case 399-084, January 1999.
- 01 Mar 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is It Time for More Reverse Mentoring?
(iStockphoto/Sanja Radin) Increasingly, I hear and read about questions such as: Why are my best tech people leaving our great company to work on something called crypto and Web3? What are the strategic implications for my organization of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
A Binary Formula
scientific knowledge into commercial applications. For HBS participants, an overriding goal was to gain a better understanding of how the School might best contribute to this effort. “To maintain a leadership position globally, the United... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Committed to a goal of 'zero harm' in the mining industry
people in 45 countries around the world. Carroll also launched initiatives to improve health and education in the localities where the company operates. Her compassion, strategic vision, and business acumen had a deep impact not just on... View Details
- Web
2021 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
writes for the Atlantic . Sarah Kaplan Sarah Kaplan is Distinguished Professor, Director of the Institute for Gender and the Economy (GATE), and Professor of Strategic Management, at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of... View Details
Richard J. Kogan
assumed leadership of the company, investing heavily in its antihistamine products, which include Claritin, and making selective strategic acquisitions, including the animal health division of Mallinckrodt. View Details
Keywords: Healthcare
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Ilene Lang
women. Baker Library exhibit on Women, Enterprise & Society Catalyzing: Visit Ilene Lang’s blog A New Path: This weeklong leadership development course is designed for women with significant professional experience who are seeking to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Faculty Books
collection of Professor Porter’s articles from the Harvard Business Review is arranged by topic. Parts I and II present the well-known frameworks addressing how companies, nations, and regions gain and sustain competitive advantage. Part III shows how View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
What I Do: Clare Reichenbach (AMP 185, 2013)
chefs, and a full agenda of scholarship and mentoring programs, chef’s advocacy work, and sustainability initiatives. “The foundation is very multi-faceted and multi-disciplined, so my role is to ensure that all of those components are laddering up to a clear, View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Leading the way in times of crisis
inspiring to see ordinary people respond with courage and humanity,” recalls Lhota, who worked to get New York’s business community up and running. This battle-tested native New Yorker’s leadership experience also includes managing major... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
Leading Strategic Change in an Era of Healthcare Transformation edited by Jim Austin, Judith Bentkover, and Laurence Chait (MBA 1965) (Springer) This book focuses on how to lead transformative and strategic... View Details
- 03 Jun 2015
- What Do You Think?
Is the Time Right for Self-Management?
Martin when a long-term strategic plan was put in place that called for the company to distribute its products through more than 100,000 locations of various kinds. The 25-fold increase in the number of distribution points called for more... View Details
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Casey Gerald
design-based approach to innovation in the public sector,” and the latter through Neiman Marcus, where he worked on the president’s five-year strategic plan. Now in his first year at HBS itself, Casey eagerly describes three key... View Details