Leader Experience - Publications - Faculty & Research

03 Jul 2013
News

Lincoln, Mandela and Obama: Lessons for Leaders Over Three Centuries

25 Mar 2021
Research & Ideas

Steer Clear of the Blind Spots That Derail Experiments

look at how companies could more effectively leverage structured, randomized experiments to inform decision-making. His goal: Enable C-suite leaders to avoid the blind spots and blunders that can occur when... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

11 Mar 2021
News

6 lessons in teamwork leaders can learn from competitive sailing

29 Mar 2016
Working Paper Summaries

Do CEO Activists Make a Difference? Evidence from a Field Experiment

Keywords: by Aaron K. Chatterji and Michael W. Toffel

12 Nov 2021
News

Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

climate change will require the massive mobilization of huge pools of capital from across the globe—up and down value chains and across risk spectrums. Business leaders have vast experience in precisely this... View Details

04 Nov 2020
News

Anyone Can Learn to Be a Better Leader

25 Jul 2023
News

Why Leaders with Big Egos Worry Wesfarmers CEO Rob Scott

In a recent profile in the Australian Financial Review, Rob Scott (AMP 179, 2010), CEO of Australian conglomerate Wesfarmers, discussed his career path and management philosophy. “I actually think that one of the biggest dangers in leadership is ego and hubris,” Scott,... View Details

September 2019
Teaching Note

Gun Safety in America: Three Leaders Propose Innovative Solutions

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Joseph Paul

This is a teaching note to the original case: Gun violence was a significant problem in America. Three Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative Fellows Christy Wood, Russell Sternlicht, and Gareth Glaser each decided to do something about gun safety. They each used... View Details

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24 Jan 2023
Blog Post

Dispelling Myths About HBS Through My Summer Venture in Management Program Experience

scholars from all over the world, here are my top 3 misconceptions from my experience at HBS. Myth #1: I don't deserve to be here. I initially struggled with imposter syndrome in the first few SVMP cases, feeling like I didn't have the... View Details

24 Apr 2014
News

Developing leaders who can handle complex business decisions

Professor William A. Sahlman (MBA 1975, PhDBE 1982) talks about case discussions and the transformative experience for students at Harvard Business School. (Published April 2014) View Details

13 May 2021
News

Zhalisa Clarke's Sabbatical Story: Tech Leader Turned Healer

Keywords: DiDonna, Dennis; Sabbatical

24 Feb 2023
Blog Post

My Classroom Experience During Harvard Business School’s Summer Venture in Management Program

Mobilizing Capital in Africa" case), I reflected upon my experiences being the grandson of an African political revolutionary and giving two TED talks by the age of 20 to underscore the importance of empowering young View Details

01 Mar 2016
News

HBS Fund Helps Fuel Faculty Research and New Learning Experiences

the student had interviewed industry leaders to better understand the barriers to growth that Indian private equity firms face — his analysis echoing findings from Sadun’s own research. “It built on intuitions that I already had, but... View Details

Research Summary

Mutiny in the Workplace: When Leaders Are Challenged From Within

My dissertation focuses on the rarely studied phenomenon of mutiny in organizations. Based on three recent cases of mutiny in professional organizations, I examine the process by which employee dissatisfaction transforms into collective mobilization... View Details

12 Sep 2022
Research & Ideas

When Experts Play It Too Safe: Innovation Lessons from a NASA Experiment

that are selected—and the ones that get implemented,” Lane says. An increasingly on-demand world has raised the stakes for innovation at many companies, whose leaders face pressure to constantly update, upgrade, and introduce products.... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Aerospace

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The Spiritual Lives of Leaders - Course Catalog

colored pencils and drawing paper) a map of the significant life experiences that have shaped the leaders they have been, and are becoming. A student shared with us this past year that her Journey Group was... View Details

10 Jul 2023
News

6 Ways to Become a More Collaborative Leader

01 Nov 2022
What Do You Think?

Why Aren’t Business Leaders More Vocal About Immigration Policy?

policy issues, but whether business leaders are expressing enough “voice” about a matter that affects their talent pool as well as the overall growth rate of the US economy. The question arises at a time when one can ask whether the US... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

2010
Working Paper

Being a Leader and the Effective Exercise of Leadership: An Ontological Model (PDF File of PowerPoint Slides)

By: Werner Erhard, Michael C. Jensen and Kari Granger

This presentation is based on our research program over the last seven years in which our objective has been to rigorously distinguish leader and leadership and to create a technology for providing access to being a leader and exercising leadership effectively (in... View Details

Keywords: Curriculum and Courses; Innovation and Invention; Leadership Development; Goals and Objectives; Research and Development; Attitudes; Perception; Technology; United States