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Dorothy A. Leonard
Dorothy Leonard*, the William J. Abernathy Professor of Business Administration Emerita, joined the Harvard faculty in 1983 after teaching for three years at the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has taught MBA courses in... View Details
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Knowledge Coach
"Deep smarts," as Harvard Business School professor emerita Dorothy Leonard and collaborator Walter Swap see the term, is the intuition, judgement, and knowledge, both explicit and tacit, that is... View Details
Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
- 02 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Gurus in the Garage
and growth. That triumph can be attributed to the Valley's distinctive geography, history, and culture. Why The Triumph Viewing the valley from the flight approach to San Francisco International, one is struck by how small the region is.... View Details
Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
Dutch Leonard
Herman B. ("Dutch") Leonard is Eliot I. Snider and Family Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School and the George F. Baker, Jr. Professor of Public Sector Management at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. In... View Details
Leonard H. Goldenson
Goldenson took over ABC, the network was in third place in the industry behind CBS and NBC. ABC finally reached the top spot in 1976 thanks to the success of shows like “Laverne and Shirley,” “Bionic Woman,” and “Love Boat.” By 1979, ABC... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media
Leonard D. Schaeffer
one of Business Week’s top 50 performers. It has also been named the “most admired health care company” by Fortune from 1998 to 2003. By 2004, Schaeffer had built Wellpoint into a $19 billion operation and... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare
Leonard S. Shoen
Foreseeing the demands of post-war relocation by veterans and their families, Shoen focused his efforts on the development of a cheap one-way truck rental unit, U-Haul. Shoen’s original and innovative ideas allowed him to cheaply and... View Details
Keywords: Transportation
Leonard S. Riggio
the Barnes & Noble superstore concept with an in-store coffee shop and spacious reading alcoves. In addition, Riggio launched Barnes & Noble.com to compete with Amazon for on-line book sales and launched a successful video game retail operation including... View Details
Keywords: Retail
- 17 Sep 2019
- News
New research proves that Franklin Leonard is a genius
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Leonard Dick (MBA 1990)
An Emmy Award–winning television writer, Leonard Dick (MBA 1990) started out by taking a sitcom writing class at the UCLA Extension School while working as a senior business planner at Walt Disney Studios.... View Details
- 14 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Rewriting the Rules of Service Competition
Editor's Note: Harvard Business School professors James Heskett, W. Earl Sasser, and Leonard A. Schlesinger literally wrote the book on service industry management with The Service Profit Chain. Now the trio is back with What Great... View Details
- 20 Nov 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
The “Fees → Savings” Link, or Purchasing Fifty Pounds of Pasta
- 03 Jul 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
The Future of Social Enterprise
- 16 Dec 2002
- Lessons from the Classroom
Marrying Distance and Classroom Education
In an interview with HBS Working Knowledge editor Sean Silverthorne, Harvard Business School professor Dorothy Leonard and research assistant Brian DeLacey discuss their research and the recent Adult... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience
Sometimes executive education has little to do with what happens in a classroom. Mentoring and coaching are the time-tested ways for wisdom and knowledge to be passed through an organization. Harvard Business School professor Dorothy... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Feb 2012
- Op-Ed
Occupy Wall Street Protestors Have a Point
the future of the global market system. In keeping with the School's learning model, we provided participants with a "case"—this one consisting of the World Bank's scenario for global economic progress, looking toward 2030. While cheered View Details
- Article
How to Hire By Wire
Schlesinger, Leonard A. "How to Hire By Wire." Fast Company (October 31, 1993).
- 1992
- Other Unpublished Work
By Choice or By Chance? Tracking the Values in Massachusetts' Public Spending
By: Dutch Leonard
- 05 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
How New BofA Executives Learn its ’Deep Smarts’
Company's Deep Smarts offers a roadmap for ensuring that critical knowledge remains in the organization. This excerpt focuses on the executive onboarding practice at Bank of America. Dorothy Leonard is the... View Details
- 18 Mar 2008
- Working Paper Summaries