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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 individuals and organizations have the opportunity to vastly enhance individual effectiveness. View Details
- 04 Oct 2017
- News
Harvard’s Nancy Koehn on Courageous Leadership in Turbulent Times
- 2017
- Book
Forged in Crisis: The Power of Courageous Leadership in Turbulent Times
By: Nancy F. Koehn
An enthralling historical narrative filled with critical leadership insights that will be of interest to a wide range of readers—including those in government, business, education, and the arts—Forged in Crisis spotlights five masters of crisis: polar explorer... View Details
Koehn, Nancy F. Forged in Crisis: The Power of Courageous Leadership in Turbulent Times. New York: Scribner, 2017.
- 27 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Building Businesses in Turbulent Times
programs to jump-start the search for those innovative opportunities that will enable them to cut costs and restructure in a way that best positions them to lead their companies as well as their industries out of the crisis. Like IBM,... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
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Overview
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
- 01 Jul 2020
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Become a More Resilient Leader in Turbulent Times
- January 2021
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Turbulence, Firm Decentralization and Growth in Bad Times
By: Philippe Aghion, Nicholas Bloom, Brian Lucking, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen
What is the optimal form of firm organization during “bad times”? We present a model of delegation within the firm to show that the effect is ambiguous. The greater turbulence following macro shocks may benefit decentralized firms because the value of local information... View Details
Keywords: Decentralization; Growth; Turbulence; Great Recession; Organizational Design; System Shocks; Economic Growth; Performance
Aghion, Philippe, Nicholas Bloom, Brian Lucking, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen. "Turbulence, Firm Decentralization and Growth in Bad Times." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 13, no. 1 (January 2021): 133–169.
- 01 Dec 2012
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Taking Time to Make Time
arrive in your email five minutes before the meeting starts, it's a signal that the person in charge hasn't laid the groundwork for a productive use of time. There should be adequate View Details
Keywords: Time management
What five extraordinary leaders during turbulent times can teach today's leaders
Historian Nancy Koehn says great leaders are not born, they're made.
Koehn, a Harvard Business School historian, is the author of a new book called "Forged in Crisis: The Power of Courageous Leadership in Turbulent Times." It examines the lives, successes... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
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Effective Leadership and Decision-Making
necessarily guarantee effective corporate leadership. Instead, he said, modesty and restraint are largely responsible for creating effective moral leaders. Badaracco listed four rules for making wise... View Details
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Managing Turbulence
executives who are tasked with setting the direction of their organization in a volatile business environment. With an equal focus on strategy and leadership, the curriculum reflects our conviction that smart strategic decision-making... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
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Leadership books for volatile and uncertain times
- 27 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
Reputation is Vital to Survival in Turbulent Markets
characterized quite often by turbulent situations. When you are negotiating in a turbulent environment, you feel reassured if the entity you are transacting with is likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Oct 2017
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Leadership in Crisis – with HBS’s Nancy Koehn
- 11 Oct 2021
- News
Tapping into Our Inner Captain in Times of Crisis
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Lessons in Leadership
HBS professor Nancy F. Koehn found the leadership lessons in the ill-fated voyage of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance so valuable that she wrote a case study on it. HBS Working Knowledge senior editor... View Details
Keywords: Antarctica
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Best Business Books 2018: Leadership
By: Nancy F. Koehn
Forged in Crisis: The Power of Courageous Leadership in Turbulent Times (Scribner, 2017) was selected by Strategy + Business as one of the Best Business Books on Leadership in 2018. View Details