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  • 01 Jun 2005
  • News

A Tough Assignment

O’neill: An educational expedition. Courtesy Shackleton Schools As a corporate lawyer living in Greenwich, Connecticut, Luke O’Neill (MBA ’95) was on a well-defined path of success. But something about his... View Details
Keywords: Shackleton Schools; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Elementary and Secondary Schools
  • 05 Mar 2020
  • News

Real Leaders: Ernest Shackleton Leads a Harrowing Expedition

  • 12 Oct 2017
  • News

What Trump could learn from polar explorer Ernest Shackleton

  • April 3, 2020
  • Article

What FDR, Churchill, and Shackleton Can Teach Us About Leadership During the Coronavirus Crisis: A Harvard Business School Historian Who Focuses on Courageous Leadership Outlines Some Critical Lessons from the Past

By: Nancy F. Koehn
Keywords: Crisis Management; Leadership
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Koehn, Nancy F. "What FDR, Churchill, and Shackleton Can Teach Us About Leadership During the Coronavirus Crisis: A Harvard Business School Historian Who Focuses on Courageous Leadership Outlines Some Critical Lessons from the Past." FastCompany.com (April 3, 2020).
  • 04 Aug 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Shackleton: An Entrepreneur of Survival

In recent years, polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton has been celebrated through books, memoirs, several films, and a major museum exhibit. His achievements on the ice have much to teach business students and executives, says Harvard... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 12 May 2015
  • News

Nail Salons And The High Cost Of Conspicuous Consumption

  • 16 Jan 2019
  • News

The Key to Good Leadership

  • 2012
  • Book

Ernest Shackleton, Exploring Leadership

By: Nancy F. Koehn
Broadly speaking, polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton was not successful; he never achieved any of the goals he originally set for himself. But when confronted with crushing adversity, he inspired his crew to work together to survive against incredible odds. While... View Details
Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Leadership; Cooperation
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Koehn, Nancy F. Ernest Shackleton, Exploring Leadership. New Word City, 2012. Electronic.
  • 2007
  • Text Book

The Moral Leader: Challenges, Tools, and Insights

By: Sandra J. Sucher

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 develop skills in moral... View Details

Keywords: Competency and Skills; Decision Choices and Conditions; Judgments; Moral Sensibility; Leadership
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Sucher, Sandra J. The Moral Leader: Challenges, Tools, and Insights. Routledge, 2007.
  • 20 Jan 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency

perspectives might the wealthy businessman draw on as he transitions from CEO to commander in chief? To get a better sense of the months ahead, The Gazette asked Harvard Business School (HBS) faculty members how Trump’s nearly 50 years of... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
  • 12 Dec 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017

protagonist on the precipice of a great crisis: Shackleton marooned on an Antarctic ice floe; Lincoln on the verge of seeing the Union collapse; escaped slave Douglass facing possible capture; Bonhoeffer agonizing over how to counter... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Portrait Project

Frank Wei

"Men wanted: For hazardous journey. Small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant danger, safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in case of success." Sir Ernest Shackleton placed this advertisement... View Details
  • 01 Dec 1998
  • News

A Journey to Leadership: Luke O'Neill

building until we had a school," says O'Neill, "but how do you launch a school without a site?"). But last January, Shackleton Schools, Inc. - named for the intrepid Anglo-Irish explorer Sir Ernest... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
  • 26 Mar 2008
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Disaster!

Can leaders anticipate disaster? How Does Disaster Change Leadership Goals? Shackleton: An Entrepreneur of Survival On a trek across Antarctica, Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance became trapped in ice. How did Shackleton lead his... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2003
  • News

Student Snapshot

Management class is developing a fund-raising strategy in which we’ve identified a new mission focus. In the past, we were inclined to play up our association with Accenture, but our research indicates that it’s the partnerships we maintain with several business View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry; Catalyst Alliance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • Web

Commencement 2016 Address | About

Commencement 2016 Address Play Video duration: 14:32 Remarks as prepared by Dean Nitin Nohria, 26 May 2016 Class of 2016, friends and family, and members of the Harvard Business School community. Good afternoon and welcome. One of the... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2018
  • News

INK: The Bookshelf

trapped in the ice, and Shackleton has to decide how much of the wreckage he wants his team to salvage. He didn’t want his crew to think that they needed every last thing, that they were going to be stuck out on the ice forever—he wanted... View Details
  • 04 May 2016
  • What Do You Think?

What Does Boaty McBoatface Tell Us About Brand Control on the Internet?

results of the poll. Sounds like terrific results So, near the end of a particularly long and difficult mission, where the crew and scientists want to draw particular attention among school children to findings, they should simply paint a... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Advertising
  • 01 Dec 2007
  • News

Lighten Up

and Exchange Commission. He also worked in the first Bush administration’s White House. Kim, 40, worked as a strategy consultant at The Parthenon Group, an investment banker at Goldman Sachs, and the COO of the Shackleton Schools, a high... View Details
Keywords: Kathryn Jones; Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, and Book Stores; Retail Trade
  • 24 Jul 2007
  • First Look

First Look: July 24, 2007

displace incumbents. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-033.pdf Cases & Course Materials AFL-CIO: Office of Investment and Home Depot Harvard Business School Case 407-097 Describes the AFL-CIO: Office of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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