Executive Leadership - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Sep 2010
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James Has New Role

(photo by Susan Young) (photo by Susan Young) Ralph James (MBA 1982), who previously headed Executive Education at HBS, became executive director of External Relations in July. In his new role, James is... View Details

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

12 Mar 2021
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My Favorite Case

lifelong lessons about personal priorities and career ambitions, humility, and confidence—and the incomparable kinship (and long memories) of sectionmates. “Suzuki Samurai” Suzuki and advertising agency executives are debating the product... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

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Inside the Learning: Wellness on Campus

We all know that a healthy approach to work means prioritizing wellness. When you come to the Harvard Business School (HBS) campus for an Executive Education program, we make sure you have the comfortable accommodations you need for a... View Details

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Site Credits | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Introduction 1840s – 1880s General Merchants to Commodities Brokers 1880s – 1920s Investment Banking & Securities Underwriting 1920s – 1960s Investing in Emerging Industries 1850–1968 Lehman Brothers Family Partners 1960s – 2000s View Details

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Faculty - Race, Gender & Equity

School. His recent books include Complicit; Decision Leadership (with Don A. Moore); Better, Not Perfect; The Power of Experiments (with Michael... Anke Becker Assistant Professor of Business Administration Anke Becker is an Assistant... View Details

01 Mar 2024
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Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

high enough, delivering mostly incremental changes rather than something truly remarkable, and they move far too slowly to keep up with the pace of disruption. In Leaders Leap, he makes the case for why a complete metamorphosis of View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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Research & Development, Project Code SX-70 - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Executive Education Participants Friends of Executive Education More HBS LinkedIn: Alumni Executive Education Company Page Executive Education... View Details

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Digital Innovation - Alumni

Transformation Leadership Donor or a Digital Data Design Leadership Donor —please contact Ellen Harkavy, Managing Director of Development, at eharkavy@hbs.edu or 617.495.6883. The HBS Fund Investors Society... View Details

21 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

The Pandemic Conversations That Leaders Need to Have Now

leaders manage these conversations effectively. Drawing on our insights and those of others, we offer this guide to help leaders have the kinds of discussions we need to be having right now. The four I’s of conversational leadership The... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Robin Abrahams, and Katherine Connolly Baden

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and Corporate Accountability Leading Change and Organizational Renewal Leading with Finance Management Essentials Negotiation Mastery Organizational Leadership Personal Branding Power and Influence for Positive Impact Strategic Financial... View Details

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General Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Rosabeth M. Kanter : Received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2022 Squire Patton Boggs Nonprofit Leadership Symposium. Leonard A. Schlesinger : Received the 2021–2022 Robert F. Greenhill Service Award for continued outstanding... View Details

April 1999 (Revised December 2003)
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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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Doing Business in a Divided World - Alumni

to navigate this shifting and complex landscape. To mark the launch of BiGS, the School brought together senior executives in industry, academia, government, and the nonprofit sector for a day of discussion around current practices,... View Details

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ARD - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

Education Harvard Business School Leadership Fellows HBS News MBA Executive Education More HBS RSS Feeds: Alumni Baker Library New Books Executive Education HBS Alumni Bulletin... View Details

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John H. McArthur | About

on August 20, 2019 outside Boston, Massachusetts. His energy and leadership kept HBS at the forefront of business education and laid a foundation of intellectual growth and development on which the School continues to build today. His... View Details

04 Apr 2022
What Do You Think?

As Disney Board Chair, What Would You Advise CEO Bob Chapek Regarding 'Don’t Say Gay'?

But Iger, who had stayed on until recently as executive chairman and chairman of the board after a “legendary” tenure as CEO, said publicly, “A crisis of this magnitude, and its impact on Disney, would necessarily result in my actively... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Dean Nitin Nohria | About

serve as the gateway and gathering hub for the more than 10,000 executives who attend Executive Education courses on campus each year. November 2015 Kraft Precision Medicine Accelerator The Robert and Myra... View Details

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Business Finance Course Online | HBS Online

Finance offered the perfect opportunity to refresh my core finance skills and interact with a global group of colleagues in an online format that was ideal for my schedule. Praveen Jayakumar Medical Director & Co-CMO at Culinary Health Fund Elevate your business... View Details

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A Chronicle of the China Trade. The Papers of Augustine Heard & Co., 1840-1877

Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive Education MBA Summer Venture in... View Details

24 Jul 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018

overlook our most powerful tool for effecting change: our own thoughts. Through a variety of exercises called Think Keys, Zaltman guides the reader through the mind’s most important unconscious and conscious dynamics. Zaltman has used these techniques with View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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