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HBS Working Knowledge
December 22, 2003
Martha Lagace |
How to Build a Better Board Boards need to work smarter and with a design in mind, says Harvard Business School professor Jay Lorsch. Lorsch discusses his new book Back to the Drawing Board, co-written with Colin B. Carter.   |
HBS Working Knowledge
January 10, 2005
Martha Lagace |
How to Put Meaning Back into Leading Should money be the sole measure for evaluating and rewarding the effectiveness of a leader? Maybe not. When research on leadership pays more attention to financial results than a person's ability to give the company a sense of purpose, something crucial is lost. |
HBS Working Knowledge
September 15, 2011
Martha Lagace |
High Ambition Leadership Harvard Business School's Michael Beer in his new book, Higher Ambition: How Great Leaders Create Economic and Social Value, examines how CEOs from major companies made a positive difference for society while not neglecting profits. |
HBS Working Knowledge
November 1, 2004
Porter, Lorsch & Nohria |
The New CEO's Wrong Message Any new CEO who tries to wield power unilaterally will pay for it, according to these Harvard Business School professors. Here are the seven things they say a new CEO needs to know. |
HBS Working Knowledge
July 11, 2012
Julia Hanna |
The Future of Boards In "The Future of Boards: Meeting the Governance Challenges of the Twenty-First Century," Professor Jay Lorsch brings together experts to examine the state of boards today, what lies ahead, and what needs to change. |
HBS Working Knowledge
December 20, 2010
Roger Thompson |
New Dean Sets Five Priorities for HBS Harvard Business School's new Dean Nitin Nohria outlines five priorities that will shape the agenda for the School during his tenure: curriculum innovation, intellectual ambition, internationalization, inclusion, and closer ties to the University. |
HBS Working Knowledge
August 18, 2003
Linda A. Hill |
How New Managers Become Great Managers Newly minted managers must commit themselves to lifelong self-improvement. This article is an excerpt from Harvard Business School professor Linda A. Hill's update of her classic, Becoming a Manager. |
HBS Working Knowledge
January 4, 2010 |
Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009 Here are the Top 10 articles and Top 5 working papers that appeared in HBS Working Knowledge in 2009. |
Insurance & Technology
October 20, 2009
Chuck Cornelio |
Secrets of IT Talent Management: Workforce Risks Worth Taking Sometimes the less obvious candidates are the right ones when it comes to selecting your IT leadership team. |
Fast Company
June 2002
Robert Simons |
Memo to: CEOs Business is at a crossroads. Scandal and recession have cast a pall on the way CEOs go about leading their companies. Three distinguished professors send this memo -- Five Half-truths of Business -- as a wake-up call... |
HBS Working Knowledge
June 29, 2009 |
Sharpening Your Skills: Leading Change Learn about building a business in a down economy, motivating the troops, and other current topics. |
HBS Working Knowledge
February 9, 2009
Martha Lagace |
Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times As companies batten down the hatches, we need leaders who do not compromise on standards and values that are essential in flush times. |
HBS Working Knowledge
May 7, 2008
Richard S. Tedlow |
The Intellectual History of Harvard Business School The highlights of a colloquium held at Harvard looks at key developments in the areas of entrepreneurship, organizational behavior, accounting, and strategy, among others. |
HBS Working Knowledge
March 6, 2013
Carmen Nobel |
HBS Cases: Women MBAs at Harvard Business School Professor Boris Groysberg discusses his new case, "Women MBAs at Harvard Business School: 1962-2012," which delves into the experiences of the School's alumnae over the past 50 years. |
InternetNews
January 19, 2006
Henry Newman |
Vendor Warning Signs A look at a number of warning signs that bear watching when dealing with IT vendors. |
HBS Working Knowledge
January 2, 2012 |
Most Popular Articles of 2011 Our most-read articles of 2011 focused on how leaders can become better -- and what can lead to their downfalls. |
HBS Working Knowledge
December 21, 2011 |
The Most Common Strategy Mistakes In a new book, Understanding Michael Porter: The Essential Guide to Competition and Strategy, Joan Magretta distills Porter's core concepts and frameworks into a concise guide for business practitioners. |
HBS Working Knowledge
March 12, 2014 |
Managing the Family Business: Firing the CEO Firing a CEO is never easy -- but the task gets even more difficult in a family business. John A. Davis discusses when to change out the chief executive. |
HBS Working Knowledge
September 27, 2004
Stever Robbins |
The Leadership Attitude Leadership isn't about titles. It's about behavior. If you live your values, take care of your organization and its people, and step up to the plate with responsibility, you'll be a leader in the true sense of the word. Your title won't matter. |
HBS Working Knowledge
May 10, 2010
Martha Lagace |
What the Brightest Scholars Say about Leadership Leadership as a phenomenon for research is experiencing a rebirth due to developments in the academy and the urgency for improving leadership globally. |
HBS Working Knowledge
January 3, 2011 |
Most Popular Articles of 2010 Judging by the most-read articles and faculty working papers over the last year, our readers continue to be fascinated by the emergence of social networks and their potential impacts on business and management. |
Insurance & Technology
May 18, 2004
Anthony O'Donnell |
Technology Advocates There was a day when an insurance company would have been fortunate to have a CEO who understood that technology could be an influential factor in competitive success. But as the maturity of both technology and businesses' appreciation of its potential have progressed, a higher standard prevails. |
AskMen.com
Dimitri A.C. Ly |
Signs You're About To Be Laid Off The following clues can send a variety of signals, but in the current economic climate they constitute warning signs that you're about to be laid off. |
Insurance & Technology
May 13, 2005
Katherine Burger |
Generation of Change Although the business climate supposedly is improving, the tough times for CEOs show few signs of going away. |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
As CEOs Fall Off Their Pedestals, Is a Leadership Crisis Looming? In recent months, the reputations of several once-soaring corporate captains have crashed to earth. Does their fall, along with the demise of other prominent CEOs, constitute a new crisis in business leadership? |
HBS Working Knowledge
February 22, 2011
Sean Silverthorne |
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century Harvard faculty look backward and forward at the most important business trends of the young twenty-first century. |
HBS Working Knowledge
May 29, 2014
Carmen Nobel |
Research Symposium 2014 Harvard Business School professors presented their research to colleagues, with topics including speaking up at work, a manager's responsibility to capitalism, and a strategy to fix the health care system. |
IndustryWeek
December 1, 2008
Jonathan Katz |
Bookshelf: Managing to Learn: Using the A3 Management Process to Solve Problems, Gain Agreement, Mentor and Lead "The Lean Enterprise Institute" explores the possibility of utilizing the A3 process to build what the author calls foundational structures for sharing a broader and deeper form of thinking. |
Foundation News & Commentary
Jan/Feb 2005
Bryson & Gast |
Board Briefing: CEOs on the Board What are the advantages and limitations of CEOs on foundation boards? If the CEO is on the board, should he or she have full voting rights? How do your non-profit colleagues approach this decision? |
HBS Working Knowledge
September 21, 2009
Roger Thompson |
Excessive Executive Pay: What's the Solution? In the search for culprits in the global financial meltdown, bloated executive pay and the excessive risk-taking behavior it fueled stand out as prime suspects. |
HBS Working Knowledge
February 16, 2012 |
Nitin Nohria: Why US Competitiveness Matters Harvard Business School Dean Nitin Nohria discusses the multidimensional quality of the American competitiveness problem, and why it matters to all. |
Fast Company
March 2001
Keith H. Hammonds |
Michael Porter's Big Ideas The world's most famous business-school professor is fed up with CEOs who claim that the world changes too fast for their companies to have a long-term strategy. If you want to make a difference as a leader, you've got to make time for strategy... |
Fast Company
September 2005
Bill Breen |
The Three Ways of Great Leaders In a new study, some leading business thinkers identify the attributes of great leadership - and nominate the best bosses of the 20th century. |
HBS Working Knowledge
January 8, 2007
Sean Silverthorne |
Who Rises to Power in American Business? A Q&A with Anthony J. Mayo, author of "Paths to Power," the first book in fifty years to exhaustively analyze the demographics of leadership and access in business in the U.S., and how the face of American leadership might be changing. |
