Leaders - Publications - Faculty & Research

26 Oct 2012
News

Mindfulness Helps You Become a Better Leader

26 Jan 2017
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Turning Millennials into Leaders

Garrett Gravesen (PLDA 20, 2015) is a leadership coach and cofounder of ADDO Worldwide, a brand and experience consultancy based in Atlanta, Georgia. In this video, he talks about working with Chick-fil-A to develop its Leader Academy,... View Details

12 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

What Great American Leaders Teach Us

Are there certain characteristics that all leaders possess? Could Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton be equally successful today running another company? Harvard Business School's Leadership Initiative is attempting to answer these and other... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

25 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

Developing the Global Leader

What skills do today's executives need to develop to become effective global leaders of tomorrow? And how do corporations teach these skills to their own leaders? "The shift from a country-centric corporation to one that is more... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

22 Aug 2012
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Leaders Don't Matter (Most of the Time)

31 Mar 2017
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Turning Teachers into Leaders

Sophie Lippincott Ferrer (MBA 2006) is a senior consultant with Education First, a national policy and strategy consulting firm that partners with education leaders to design and accelerate policies and plans that help all young people,... View Details

16 Oct 2012
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Being the best leader for the situation

March 2004 (Revised March 2005)
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Note on Why Leaders Lose Their Way

By: William W. George

In the seemingly never-ending revelations of corporate scandals that have been exposed since the fall of Enron, the media, politicians, and the general public have taken to characterizing such leaders as "bad people," even to the point of considering them evil. The... View Details

Keywords: Leadership; Problems and Challenges; Behavior

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Leader as a Motivator

By: Boris Groysberg, Robin Abrahams and Katherine Connolly Baden

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November 2015
Teaching Note

Steve Jobs: Leader Strategist

By: Cynthia A. Montgomery and David B. Yoffie

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June 2001
Article

The Leader as Lobbyist

Keywords: Leadership

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25 Oct 2012
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Outsiders Make Best Leaders

02 Nov 2017
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How Leaders Are Shaped

03 Mar 2017
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Hiring an Entrepreneurial Leader

23 Aug 2017
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Developing Leaders Behind Bars

Chris Michel (MBA 1998) has taken photographs all over the world. He recently had the opportunity to visit the Pelican Bay State Prison in Crescent City, California to document the graduation ceremony of a unique business program for inmates of the only supermax prison... View Details

Keywords: Robert Bochnak

2020
Book

Think Outside the Building: How Advanced Leaders Can Change the World One Smart Innovation at a Time

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Over a decade ago, renowned innovation expert Rosabeth Moss Kanter co-founded and then directed Harvard’s Advanced Leadership Initiative. Her breakthrough work with hundreds of successful professionals and executives, as well as aspiring young entrepreneurs, identifies... View Details