Leading Teams - Publications - Faculty & Research

13 Nov 2020
News

Faculty Focus Their Research on COVID-19 Issues

health care management and policy, leading through crisis, adapting your business, leveraging technology, and work life. Faculty members have shared their ideas and offered practical solutions through working papers, articles, op-eds,... View Details

15 Dec 2024
News

Alumni and Faculty Books

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Power of Imperfect Eating By Kavita Bhatnagar (SELP 11, 2022) Penguin Enterprise Rather than dictating which foods are good or bad, this book weaves together stories that mirror the intricate, emotional, and often imperfect... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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Women, Work, and the “M” Word - Blog: Health Supplement

precipitously. Menopause isn’t to blame, to be sure, but we should do whatever we can to address common obstacles to women thriving at work so they can continue in their careers, leading teams and... View Details

26 Jan 2021
News

Clubs See Wealth in FemTech; Health Care Alumni Look at COVID Response

them to forgo returns at all.” An Inside Look at Leading the UK and US Response to COVID As the US and the UK raced to develop a COVID vaccine this year, two HBS alums found themselves at the forefront of the effort. How they grappled... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

29 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

Inventing Products is Less Valuable Than Inventing Ideas

not commercialize the innovations. It was Steve Jobs and his Apple team that saw the possibilities during visits in 1979 and made them the cornerstone of the Macintosh. In other words, while Xerox may have invented many wonderful things,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology

24 Sep 2024
Research & Ideas

Why Small Businesses Deserve More Credit

could lead to substantial growth.” But new research suggests that small businesses are far more fiscally conservative than banks realize. In fact, firms with up to 10 employees hold back spending on their revolving credit lines to create... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services; Banking

01 Dec 2007
News

Looking back; looking forward

leadership of Senior Associate Dean John Quelch. Very early on in the planning stage, John and his team decided we should concentrate our energies on the challenges facing business and society in the century ahead, and research... View Details

Keywords: Jay O. Light; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

28 Jul 2016
Blog Post

Why I’m Not Changing Careers after Business School

classmates. I have built a certain confidence that I know will serve me well back at work, and have had the opportunity to experiment with new leadership practices in a safe environment, something that extends beyond just the classroom into areas like HBS clubs. When... View Details

01 Sep 2016
News

The Untold Story of the US Auto Bailout

Industry, on events leading to the January 2009 Chrysler-Fiat partnership “If the work was outsourced, you were guaranteed 100 percent of your pay. You could come sit in the cafeteria and ‘work’ all day, but there was no work to do.... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing

21 Jul 2023
Blog Post

Malcolm McClain (MBA/MPP 2023) Named First RISE Career Fellow

utilizes their MBA skills to bring significant value and capacity to both the business and its community. Leading into his first year at HBS, McClain was a Summer Fellow with the Harlem Children’s Zone, an education non-profit that aims... View Details

18 Jan 2017
News

HBS Gains New Insight Into Africa

HBS, where the more than 50 participants will explore ways to drive local and regional growth and sustain success. HBS professors Srikant Datar and Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, who lead the team of educators... View Details

01 Aug 2001
News

Robert B. Stobaugh (DBA '68)

engineer Bob Stobaugh decided to pursue his true vocation: teaching. "As a manager in the oil and chemical industries, I often needed to explain complex business problems to my coworkers," Stobaugh says. "I found that I enjoyed the educational process." It was a... View Details

Keywords: Alumni Achievement Award; Educational Services

01 Jun 2013
News

Leaning In to Gender Equity

Sheryl Sandberg (MBA 1995) In Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead (Knopf), Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg (MBA 1995) recalls her first performance review with CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Stop trying to please everyone, he counseled. "If you... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

27 Sep 2004
Research & Ideas

How Leaders Build Winning Streaks

winning streaks, the number of leaders multiplies along with the momentum of the streak. Winning teams and successful organizations become increasingly less dependent on the person called the commander-in-chief—even though, ironically,... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

14 Jun 2011
First Look

First Look: June 14

managers, and the company ends up as a collection of feudal baronies. This is a recipe for long-term failure, say the authors. Their research of 12 top management teams at major companies suggests that firms thrive only when senior View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Oct 2017
Blog Post

Working as a Software Engineer in Industrial Technology

stagnant US productivity growth. It was from these experiences (plus being based in San Francisco where coding is in the tap water) that I made the switch into software engineering with the goal of working on the toughest industrial problems and View Details

Keywords: Technology

06 Dec 2021
News

Wheels Up

built in Europe in more than 20 years. As CEO of global airports and travel retail group daa plc, Dalton Philips (MBA 1998) leads operations in Dublin and airports in Cork, Riyadh, Dusseldorf, and Cyprus, as well as duty-free outlets in... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

23 Sep 2020
News

Alumni Consider Election Reform; Clubs Explore Parenting by Case Method

“The presentation detailed different scenarios that could lead to a Constitutional crisis and how things might unfold after election,” says Van Sheets (MBA 1983), who organized the event, which was open to Harvard Club of Dallas members... View Details