Courageous Leadership In Turbulent Times - Publications - Faculty & Research

17 Jun 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

Excellence Comes From Saying No

counter-intuitive such as a focus on individual achievement." The Courage To Be Bad At the core of Frei's philosophy is an appeal that Harvard MBAs are not used to hearing: in order to achieve... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

13 Oct 2009
Research & Ideas

7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm

through the financial crisis, and Exxon has done the same in the precipitous drop in oil prices from $147 to $33 per barrel. I have spent a lot of time recently with View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

22 Dec 2015
First Look

December 22, 2015

experience to relaunch successfully in the United States. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/515076-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 316-066 Higher Education in China:... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

Recording Leveraging HBS Online for Social Impact in the Education Sector Senior Lecturer Monique Burns Thompson (MBA 1993) + More Info – Less Info HBS and the Harvard Graduate School of Education have partnered to develop a multi-course... View Details

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HBR Classics - Alumni

Executive Needs to Know About Global Warming Regulatory Environment Integrating Environmental and International Strategies in a World of Regulatory Turbulence Managing Regulatory and Societal Processes... View Details

10 Mar 2021
Research & Ideas

Key to Doing Your Best at Work? Be Yourself

with others, and everybody’s suggesting X and I fundamentally believe that we should be doing Y, I feel the courage to speak my mind. Or, if I like to dress in a certain way, that I don’t tone it down simply... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

08 Oct 2021
Blog Post

8 Stories from PRIDE for National Coming Out Day

classmates who all just happened to be queer, I felt at home. A lot has happened over the past year since coming out. I’ve made my first queer friends, marched in my first pride parade, and taken a View Details

13 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Merck CEO Ken Frazier Discusses a COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk

below, Frazier provides insights into this turbulent period of American history with Tsedal Neeley (@tsedal), the Naylor Fitzhugh Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Topics ranged from corporate America’s role... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Pharmaceutical

05 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 5

response organizations to adopt very different leadership strategies if they are effectively to cope with the differential demands of these events. In this paper, we develop further ideas about View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work

Sophie Beck. Kovi: Changing Brazil's Mobility Landscape , Harvard Business School case, 2022. With Michael Norris and Alexis Lefort. Akervall Technologies: Leading Through Crisis , Harvard Business School case, 2022. With Ariel Beck. Andonix: Building Businesses View Details

27 Jun 2011
Research & Ideas

Recovering from the Need to Achieve

We all know "Joe." He's the guy who leaves his coat on his chair so the boss thinks he worked all night. He boasts loudly in the break room about how much time he spends zigzagging the planet for... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

25 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Why IT Does Matter

cost performance of IT technologies over the first forty years changed by roughly 107, and for the foreseeable future will continue to evolve at the same rate. That is in sharp contrast to a train, which after eighty years moved six View Details

Keywords: by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan

04 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Shackleton: An Entrepreneur of Survival

a new business case called Leadership in Crisis: Ernest Shackleton and the Epic Voyage of the Endurance. Shackleton, who died in 1922 at the age of forty-seven, never achieved... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

23 May 2012
Research & Ideas

Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative

your prospects for developing innovative products and services. Rosabeth Moss Kanter How Do You Create a Culture of Innovation? Have you noticed the courage buried in the word encourage? To create a culture... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons, Julia Hanna & Roger Thompson

29 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 29

Publications August 2013 Harvard Business Review Press The Good Struggle: Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World By: Badaracco, Joseph L., Jr. Abstract—The question of how to lead successfully and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Past Issues - Alumni

Complete Table of Contents December 2002 The Campaign for Harvard Business School HBS Giving at All-Time High Think Globally, Teach Locally Bad Times for Business Trouble in Corporate America Complete Table... View Details

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Celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS (part 2) - MBA

identity, telling my story, and encouraging others to do the same. As I graduate from HBS, I’m looking most forward to spending time with my parents (the ones who had the courage to strike out for a better... View Details

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Events - Business History

to ask radical new questions. Mar 27 27 Mar 2017 Conference Stakeholder Capitalism in Turbulent Times This event celebrated the launch of the English language edition of a new... View Details

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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

Giant Magellan Telescope, to search for signs of life. Participants will leave this session knowing what astronomers expect to see when they find a life-bearing planet, how they will see this, and perhaps when. CASE STUDY Leading Innovation View Details

08 Mar 2021
Blog Post

International Women's Day Featured Stories

famous names in the private market investment community. Kathu Gatobu Harvard MBA Student, Class of 2022 I choose to challenge the idea that women have to give up their aspirations and identity because of motherhood. Having a successful... View Details

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