Leadership Skills - Publications - Faculty & Research

28 May 2019
News

INK: Maker’s Manual

Difference in the World by Russ Banham, Shirley Spence, and Howard Stevenson In his 40-plus years at HBS, Professor Emeritus Howard Stevenson has seen firsthand the countless ways in which alumni have harnessed leadership View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Dec 2012
News

50 Years & Counting

gender itself is not a good predictor of negotiation performance. Gender differences appear when guidelines for negotiation are ambiguous and environmental triggers are present—such as the number of women in leadership positions—that... View Details

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

28 Jun 2023
Blog Post

Managing Your Health and the Recruiting Process: Advice from HBS Alumni

Bipolar Disorder and ADHD, Hamilton knew that managing both her hypomanic and depressive episodes would be important, especially during recruiting, to ensure she could both slow herself down to clearly articulate her skills in interviews... View Details

01 Sep 2010
News

RX for Change

leadership, finance, and operations skills that senior health-care professionals need to transform care delivery in their organizations. Presented in three one-week modules offered over a nine-month period, the program is structured... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Health, Social Assistance; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

01 Mar 2012
News

1st-Year MBAs Learn from Global Partners

excursions were Module 2 of the new, yearlong required FIELD (Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership Development) course, which is designed to hone student skills in leadership, global understanding, and... View Details

Keywords: Professor Youngme Moon; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

24 Jul 2007
First Look

First Look: July 24, 2007

Routledge, 2007 Abstract Successful leaders—at any level and in any arena—are inevitably presented with moral and ethical choices. This unique and innovative textbook is designed to encourage students and managers to confront those fundamental moral challenges, to... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

24 Jun 2015
HBS Case

Upgrading School with a Startup Mentality

lessons and concepts our students learn here can have a tremendous impact on the structure and practice of education," he said. "One of my goals is to see if we can get more Harvard MBAs to take jobs in education, since the View Details

Keywords: Re: John Jong-Hyun Kim; Education

Profile

Laura Mackay

Why was earning your MBA at Harvard Business School important to you? I had gotten to a point in my professional career where I was in leadership positions, yet did not have the capabilities I needed to be an effective leader. Having... View Details

Keywords: Health Care; Technology

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IFC India 2025: From Gray to Green: A Glimpse of the Future of Green Hydrogen in India - Blog - Business & Environment

Blog Blog Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author HBS Faculty Author HBS Staff Author Staff Author Students Topics Topics Accelerating Climate Solutions Conference 2023 Alumni Alumni Programs Alumni in Climate Networking Series Business... View Details

18 Jan 2021
Book

How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems

adapting the skills and practices of entrepreneurship for the public sector,” he says. Before joining the HBS faculty and creating the MBA course Public Entrepreneurship, Weiss was chief of staff to Boston Mayor Thomas Menino. In 2010,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Sep 2013
News

Class Day/Commencement 2013

walked into an empty Aldrich amphitheater, I relived memories of the case method. Candy Baffour-Awuah Candy Baffour-Awuah (Accra, Ghana) Best thing about HBS? The opportunity to pick up skills in class beyond the "technical," coupled with... View Details

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

27 Oct 2020
Blog Post

Creating the Minority Renaissance for Venture Capital: Interview with Henri Pierre-Jacques and Jarrid Tingle, Managing Partners at Harlem Capital

portfolio management which created a great preamble before Harlem Capital.” While working at ICV, Tingle and Pierre-Jacques were also part of the Management Leadership for Tomorrow career program, an organization founded by John Rice (MBA... View Details

01 Mar 2019
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2019

7 Laws of Enough is about a radical kind of change at the personal, organizational, and societal level: a shift from scarcity to sustainable abundance. LaRoche offers seven principles to guide readers on a transformational journey of self-discovery, toward new View Details

05 Dec 2016
News

The Dragon’s Tale

down all the universities in the country for 10 years. In terms of education, it was a lost generation. Did you get a sense of people’s outlook toward the future? Under the new leadership of Deng Xiaoping, there was an energy that you... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

09 Jul 2019
News

The Road to Impact

applicable skill set. As he was finishing his MBA, he interviewed at Lehman Brothers and learned that many people at the company had worked in government, notably former U.S. Secretary of Commerce Peter George Peterson. Offensend thought... View Details

Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov; Educational Support Services; Educational Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

17 Jun 2025
Blog Post

Balancing Career Stability with Creative Pursuits with Jeff Roslund (MBA 2013)

Learn about the career resources available to HBS alumni through HBS Career & Professional Development With a background in materials and biomedical engineering, I hoped that Harvard Business School (HBS) would provide the business acumen and View Details

04 May 2017
News

Going the Distance

as the professors and courses. “What they were doing in the world was amazing, and I realized I had been given a tremendous opportunity. I gained leadership skills and strategic vision that has enabled me to... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

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Courses by Title - Course Catalog

International Economy David Moss Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Crucibles of Crisis Leadership General Management Nancy Koehn Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 ^ back to top D Area Faculty Name Term Quarter Credits Deals Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Guhan... View Details

August 2014 (Revised May 2016)
Case

Husk Power

By: Joseph B. Lassiter III and Sid Misra

In late 2013, Husk Power Systems found itself falling further and further behind plan. The founding CEO had decided to resign. His co-founder is faced with the decision of quitting his corporate job in the US to head to India and help form a new management team. Husk... View Details

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24 Jul 2018
Op-Ed

4 Ways Managers Can Exercise Their 'Agency' to Change the World

Do your research and demonstrate to yourself that there is strong evidence that creating strategically planned social impact can enhance your company’s success. Use your professional skills to identify an opportunity for simultaneously... View Details

Keywords: by George Serafeim

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