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Individual Effectiveness
By: Frances X. Frei
This research investigates how to create the conditions for individuals to thrive. The work is guided by the observation that individauls and organizations have the opportunity to vastly enhance individual effectiveness. View Details
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By: Nancy F. Koehn
My teaching and research focus on crisis leadership and how men and women use crises to make themselves better leaders. I currently teach a module in the Advanced Management Program and an HBS Online LIVE course on Courageous Leadership. The purpose of each course is... View Details
- February 2004 (Revised January 2005)
- Case
Hewlett-Packard: Culture in Changing Times
By: Michael Beer, Rakesh Khurana and James Weber
HP had been a highly successful and respected company for decades. It was well known for its company culture and management practices--the HP way--which emphasized both profits and people. Changing markets, strong competitors, and the growth of its computer business,... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Decision Choices and Conditions; Human Resources; Leading Change; Managerial Roles; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Performance Effectiveness; Adoption; Competition
Beer, Michael, Rakesh Khurana, and James Weber. "Hewlett-Packard: Culture in Changing Times." Harvard Business School Case 404-087, February 2004. (Revised January 2005.)
- 2011
- Book
What to Ask the Person in the Mirror: Critical Questions for Becoming a More Effective Leader and Reaching Your Potential
By: Robert Steven Kaplan
Successful leaders know that leadership is less often about having all the answers-and more often about asking the right questions. The challenge lies in being able to step back, reflect, and ask the key questions that are critical to your performance and your... View Details
Keywords: Leadership Development; Organizational Development; Reaching Your Potential; Career Planning; Management Styles; Interpersonal Communication; Leadership; Performance Effectiveness; Personal Development and Career
Kaplan, Robert Steven. What to Ask the Person in the Mirror: Critical Questions for Becoming a More Effective Leader and Reaching Your Potential. Boston: Harvard Business Review Press, 2011.
- 09 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization
effectively lead an agile enterprise—can be aptly applied to the type of leadership required in the current environment. The authors highlight the importance of a rapid... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
- November 2005 (Revised March 2007)
- Case
Leadership Development at Goldman Sachs
By: Boris Groysberg, Scott A. Snook and David Lane
In November 1999, 11 of Goldman Sachs' finest gathered to put the final touches on a revolutionary leadership development plan. Following Goldman's explosive growth during the 1990s and its eventual IPO in 1999, a diverse group of leaders from across the firm were... View Details
Keywords: Initial Public Offering; Leadership Development; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Skills; Organizational Design; Planning
Groysberg, Boris, Scott A. Snook, and David Lane. "Leadership Development at Goldman Sachs." Harvard Business School Case 406-002, November 2005. (Revised March 2007.)
- Article
Timing is Everything: The Importance of Finding the Right Moment in Leading Teams
Great team leaders have superb timing. We explore in this article two different types of timing that leaders need to help their teams. First, they understand when teams are naturally open to help, and what kinds of help to give teams at predictable times in... View Details
- 05 Dec 2022
- What Do You Think?
How Would Jack Welch’s Leadership Style Fare in Today’s World?
business faced incredible barriers at the time (and arguably still do)—there had only been two women CEOs in the Fortune 500 at that point. As we gathered for lunch, Welch arrived a few minutes late and... View Details
- 01 Aug 2008
- What Do You Think?
Has the Time Come for “Stretch” in Management?
progress that the effect of such an agreement may have been fatally compromised. But at least it was discussed and publicized. Is it time to revisit stretch? For example, if the concept had been employed... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- July–August 2018
- Article
How CEOs Manage Time
By: Michael E. Porter and Nitin Nohria
In 2006 Harvard Business School’s Michael E. Porter and Nitin Nohria launched a study tracking how large companies’ CEOs spent their time, 24/7, for 13 weeks: where they were, with whom, what they did, and what they were focusing on. To date, Porter and Nohria have... View Details
Keywords: CEOs; Executives; Time Management; Attitudes; Managerial Roles; Leadership; Performance Effectiveness; Strategy; Decision Making; Organizational Culture
Porter, Michael E., and Nitin Nohria. "How CEOs Manage Time." Harvard Business Review 96, no. 4 (July–August 2018): 42–51.
- 30 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Your Board’s Effectiveness
corporation's business strategy. Mapping Board Performance Currently, prior to a typical board meeting, members receive reams of paper that are difficult to wade through and make sense of. Once the meeting is in progress, board members... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan
- 10 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Top Scholars Say About Leadership
those papers for a volume devoted to that topic, a Part Two to accompany the Handbook. This June, we're convening a conference titled Imagining the Future of Leadership to address the kinds of skills, knowledge, and identity that will be... View Details
- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Time that Government Reopens for Business
extension, which historically has not been a matter of contention. The juxtaposition with a change in leadership at the Federal Reserve also adds to the concern. And finally, I think that businesspeople have... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 13 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Family Business: Leadership Roles
management: businesses, families, and ownership groups need all three of these activities. If you observe an effective leader of a family business system, like Sirotsky, over the course of a month, you'll see him or her engaging View Details
Keywords: by John A. Davis
- 06 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
Cheese Moving: Effecting Change Rather Than Accepting It
innovators, problem solvers, entrepreneurs, and leaders that instead of wasting their time wondering why things are the way they are, they should simply accept their world as given” "I Moved Your Cheese is based on the idea that... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness
powerful, fundamental leadership strategy is being largely overlooked. It is, in fact, the most innately human one: Be kind. LEADING IN TIMES OF... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Susan Seligson
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
company as opposed to their department or themselves; hire people whose values and skills fit the culture and strategy, thus reinforcing and sustaining the community of purpose. In addition, leaders spend a great deal of View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Negotiator’s Secret: More Than Merely Effective
Palestinians, Bosnian Muslims and the Serbs, or Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland. Partisan perceptions can easily become self-fulfilling prophecies. Experiments testing the effects of teachers'... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 01 Nov 2024
- In Practice
Layoffs Surging in a Strong Economy? Advice for Navigating Uncertain Times
its future success. Make it make sense to your best people, the ones you’re counting on to deliver that future. As we explored in a recent article, there’s an architecture to effective View Details
- 10 Jul 2007
- What Do You Think?
How Much of Leadership Is About Control, Delegation, or Theater?
organizational performance. In a thought-provoking book published last year, Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert I. Sutton suggest that the overriding impact of leadership on performance is a myth, or at least only a... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett