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Nancy F. Koehn

Nancy F. Koehn is a historian at the Harvard Business School where she holds the James E. Robison chair of Business Administration. Koehn's research focuses on crisis leadership and how leaders and their teams rise to the challenges of high-stakes situations. Her... View Details

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10 Feb 2012
News

World’s Best B-School Professors: Nancy F. Koehn

07 Dec 1999
Research & Ideas

Henry Heinz and Brand Creation in the Late Nineteenth Century

demand for pure, savory condiments and sauces was enormous. In thinking through the possible appeal of his offerings, Heinz had no quantitative information on contemporary purchasing power. He did not know in the 1870s that real per capita incomes would grow View Details

Keywords: by Nancy F. Koehn

31 Jul 2021
News

Businesses by nature are problem solvers — industry leaders hold the best climate crisis solutions: Nancy F. Koehn

29 Oct 2000
Research & Ideas

Building a Powerful Prestige Brand

Lauder, founded Estée Lauder Cosmetics. By the time she retired from public life in the mid-1990s, this company had become one of the largest cosmetics manufacturers in the world and was recognized as one of the leading players in the... View Details

Keywords: by Nancy F. Koehn; Beauty & Cosmetics; Consumer Products; Retail

26 Aug 2014
News

Nancy Koehn On The Heroism Of West African Ebola Workers

24 Dec 2013
News

Nancy Koehn on the Scourge of Affluenza

20 Aug 2008
Op-Ed

The Time is Right for Creative Capitalism

capitalism is "an approach where governments, businesses, and nonprofits work together to stretch the reach of market forces so that more people can make a profit, or gain recognition, doing work that eases the world's inequities." Harvard Business School... View Details

Keywords: by Nancy Koehn

29 Jul 2014
News

Demoulas Family > King Lear: Harvard Historian Nancy Koehn On Market Basket

07 Aug 2014
News

HBS Historian Nancy Koehn Puts Market Basket Feud In Perspective

21 May 2014
News

Harvard Historian Nancy Koehn On The Cashless Society

19 Nov 2013
News

The Gettysburg Address: Nancy Koehn Reads Between the Lines

11 Feb 2014
News

Thank You For Not Selling: Historian Nancy Koehn On CVS' Tobacco Ban

11 Mar 2014
News

Harvard Historian Nancy Koehn on the SAT's Volte Face

October 2021
Article

Nancy Koehn on Leadership Lessons from Rep. John Lewis and the Civil Rights Movement

By: Nancy F. Koehn and Devjani Roy

Citation

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10 Oct 2021
News

Nancy Koehn: The Nature of Leadership

Awards

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

16 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Making the Most of Government Upheaval

Rogelio Oliva and Fernando F. Suarez began to study the effects of these changes three years ago when both were on the faculty of Chile's Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez. Recently published as an HBS working paper titled "The... View Details

Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry

May 2020
Article

How History's Great Leaders Managed Anxiety: Historian Nancy Koehn on What Lincoln, Shackleton, and Others Knew About Handling Collective Anxiety—and Their Own—During a Crisis