Leadership Succession - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2018
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Lifelong Learning about Leadership

Ethan Bernstein, associate professor of business administration, teaches the HBS Online course Developing Yourself as a Leader. HBS recently introduced two professional development programs to enhance participants’ leadership skills. One... View Details

05 Dec 2018
Blog Post

Leadership Fellow Henry Tsai: Working With City Leadership To Leverage Technology

government, cities are the closest thing to a business. Strategically, it made sense to look at public sector service at the city level.” Tactically, San Jose emerged as Henry’s optimal Leadership Fellows opportunity. “It involved tech,... View Details

08 Apr 2019
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Second Life: Reflections on Complementing Success with an Encore Career

In 2015, Steve Kloeblen retired and thought he was done with the corporate world. A graduate of HBS Executive Education’s General Management Program, Kloeblen had more than 30 years of experience with IBM, culminating with his transition from CFO type roles to View Details

Keywords: Technology

13 Aug 2014
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Family Businesses Need Entrepreneurs for Long-Run Success

01 Oct 2001
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Carl M. Plochman III: A Savory Success

A tour of Plochman Inc. in Manteno, Illinois, features many of the sights you might expect to find at a business whose sole purpose is to manufacture mustard. In addition to a loading dock stacked high with pallet after pallet of bright yellow bottles, there's... View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing

November 2016 (Revised February 2017)
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BrightStar Care: The Evolution of a Leadership Team

By: Boris Groysberg, Colleen Ammerman and John D. Vaughan

BrightStar Care was a rapidly growing franchise of home health care agencies. Founded by husband and wife team JD and Shelly Sun as a single agency near Chicago in 2002, BrightStar had opened nearly 300 franchises across the United States by 2016, generating over $300... View Details

Keywords: Health Care Services; Entrepreneurs; Board Of Directors; Boards Of Directors; Health Care Industry; Growth Strategy; Organizational Change; Brand Positioning; Entrepreneurial Organizations; Entrepreneurial Management; Franchising; Family-owned Business; Home Health Care; Managing Growth; Management Styles; Organizational Development; Talent Management; Women Executives; Women And Leadership; Business Startups; Family Business; Small Business; Talent and Talent Management; Governing and Advisory Boards; Health Care and Treatment; Human Capital; Leadership Development; Leadership Style; Business or Company Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Management Skills; Management Style; Management Succession; Management Systems; Management Teams; Brands and Branding; Marketing Strategy; Strategy

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Advancing Women of Color in Leadership

Summary Advancing Women of Color in Leadership reflects our belief in inclusion—supporting efforts to increase access to equal opportunity in organizations because it is the right thing to do. Demographic diversity also helps... View Details

2016
Teaching Note

Advanced Leadership Pathways: David Weinstein and Write the World

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, Tessa Natanay Hamilton and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone

Teaching Note for Case 314-030. Following a successful career as a lawyer, Chief Administrative Officer of Fidelity Investments, and law school instructor, David Weinstein became a 2011 Advanced Leadership Fellow at Harvard University. During his Advanced Leadership... View Details

Keywords: Writing; Online Platform; Social Entrepreneurship; Education; Internet and the Web; Competency and Skills; Leadership; Change Management

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2007
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Teaching the Moral Leader: A Literature-Based Leadership Course

By: Sandra J. Sucher

This book is a comprehensive, practical manual to help instructors integrate moral leadership in their own courses, drawing from the experience and resources of the Harvard Business School course "The Moral Leader," an MBA elective taken by thousands of HBS students... View Details

Keywords: Competency and Skills; Curriculum and Courses; Moral Sensibility; Body of Literature; Books; Leadership; Personal Development and Career

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01 Mar 2007
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Avon CEO Jung on Leadership

sales and through its 5 million independent door-to-door “sales representatives.” At a November event cohosted by two student-led entities, the Leadership and Ethics Forum and the Social Enterprise Club, Jung told her audience that... View Details

Keywords: makeup; grooming; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Health and Personal Care Stores; Retail Trade

2012
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Advanced Leadership Pathways: Shelly London and Ethics Education—'Strengthening Our Moral Compass'

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Anne Arlinghaus

Shelly London and Ethics Education — 'Strengthening Our Moral Compass' 2009 AL Fellow
Following a successful career as a Senior Vice President, Vice President, and Chief Communications Officer at two large corporate companies, Shelly London set out to promote... View Details

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13 Nov 2018
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Leadership Fellow Henry Tsai: Working with City Leadership to Leverage Technology

Strategically, it made sense to look at public sector service at the city level.” Tactically, San Jose emerged as Henry’s optimal Leadership Fellows opportunity. “It involved tech, and it would bring me back to the Bay Area, where I... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Nonprofit / Government

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Judging Success - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

Teaching by the Case Method Judging Success Preparing to Teach Leading in the Classroom Providing Assessment & Feedback Judging Success Student Performance Instructor Performance Sample Class Judging View Details

01 Jun 2015
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Leadership on a Global Stage

working with organizations globally and especially in the Asia-Pacific region.” Jefferson’s recipe for successful leadership includes a strong focus on building self-awareness. “Before you can lead others,... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

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Organizational Leadership Course | HBS Online

your leadership skills to drive organizational success and effectively implement transformative change. 7 weeks 6-8 hours per week 7 modules Self-Paced This course earns you a Certificate of Completion from... View Details

01 Mar 2021
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Best Practices for Creating a Successful Virtual Internship

these programs to exist beyond the global pandemic because of the unique ability to connect with students across geographies and expand the pool of potential candidates. To help organizations think through the process of creating a View Details

Keywords: All Industries

13 Mar 2025
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Launching leaders: HBS's new initiative fuels first-generation and low-income student success

School in 2023, Bedford encountered some of the same challenges he faced at Harvard College years earlier: finding community and comfort in an unfamiliar culture. This fall, Bedford shared his story with 125 incoming MBA students during the inaugural session of the... View Details

May 2004 (Revised April 2006)
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Ultra: The Quest for Leadership (A)

By: Dwight B. Crane and Ricardo Reisen de Pinho

Ultra is one of a small group of competing Brazilian petrochemical companies, each of which buys raw material and is a minority owner of Copene, a "cracking" company that provides ethylene and other materials. Because of an industry restructuring, an auction of shares... View Details

Keywords: Capital; Capital Budgeting; Investment; Risk and Uncertainty; Risk Management; Industry Structures; Cash Flow; Cost of Capital; Valuation; Bids and Bidding; Economy; Ownership Stake; Chemical Industry; Brazil

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31 Mar 2022
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Setting Interns Up for Success at Your Startup

startup, and their successful experience bringing an HBS intern into their Business Intelligence team. Meet Mori Mori is a technology company focused on innovations in the food, agriculture, and packaging industries. Mori’s proprietary... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship