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- 21 Feb 2020
- News
Style for Everyone
of our first names––Nadia and Lydia––and Co really represents our community,” says Gilbert. “In the US, about 70 percent of women wear plus-size apparel, and yet only about 17 percent of apparel dollars are sold in those sizes,” says Boujarwah. “We both have a ton of...
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- May 2008
- Case
Thomas Green: Power, Office Politics and a Career in Crisis
By: W. Earl Sasser Jr. and Heather Beckham
The case describes the dilemma of a marketing manager, Thomas Green, who, after being rapidly promoted, is harshly criticized by his boss, Frank Davis. Green and Davis disagree on work styles and market projections. Green believes the sales goals set by Davis are based...
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Keywords:
Superior & Subordinate;
Performance Management;
Personal Strategy & Style;
Management Style;
Conflict Management;
Communication;
Rank and Position;
Personal Characteristics;
Power and Influence
Sasser, W. Earl, Jr., and Heather Beckham. "Thomas Green: Power, Office Politics and a Career in Crisis." Harvard Business School Brief Case 082-095, May 2008.
- 11 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
The New International Style of Management
different countries. Klump's experience is a reminder of just how complicated, on a personal level, globalization and managing across cultures can be. On the one hand, the world seems small and interconnected, thanks to high-speed...
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by Garry Emmons
- April 6, 2022
- Article
5 Principles of Purposeful Leadership
By: Hubert Joly
The traditional model of the leader-hero who saves the day, knows it all, is the smartest person in the room, and is too often driven by power, fame, glory, or money is not appropriate in today’s environment. People today expect a different kind of leader. While each...
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Keywords:
Leadership, Personal Strategy & Style;
Purpose;
Roles;
Authenticity;
Leadership;
Values and Beliefs;
Leadership Style
Joly, Hubert. "5 Principles of Purposeful Leadership." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (April 6, 2022).
- 21 Aug 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Machine Learning Teaches Us about CEO Leadership Style
expressions of chief executives to see if leadership style can be correlated with a firm’s performance. The researchers believe their work could open new directions in big data analysis, combining image and textual analysis to create a...
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by Michael Blanding
- May 2008
- Teaching Note
Thomas Green: Power, Office Politics, and a Career in Crisis (Brief Case)
By: W. Earl Sasser Jr. and Heather Beckham
Teaching Note for 2095.
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- May 2012
- Background Note
Innovation Magic
By: Stefan Thomke and Jason Randal
Why do certain product and service experiences seem like magic, making them all but destined for success, while other items languish on store shelves? For a better understanding of that, perhaps there's no better place to turn to than the world of magic. Consider that...
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Keywords:
Innovation;
Product Differentiation;
Experimentation;
Personal Strategy & Style;
Innovation and Invention;
Creativity;
Service Operations;
Product;
Customer Satisfaction
Thomke, Stefan, and Jason Randal. "Innovation Magic." Harvard Business School Background Note 612-099, May 2012.
- 2011
- Book
What to Ask the Person in the Mirror: Critical Questions for Becoming a More Effective Leader and Reaching Your Potential
By: Robert Steven Kaplan
Successful leaders know that leadership is less often about having all the answers-and more often about asking the right questions. The challenge lies in being able to step back, reflect, and ask the key questions that are critical to your performance and your...
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Keywords:
Leadership Development;
Organizational Development;
Reaching Your Potential;
Career Planning;
Management Styles;
Interpersonal Communication;
Leadership;
Performance Effectiveness;
Personal Development and Career
Kaplan, Robert Steven. What to Ask the Person in the Mirror: Critical Questions for Becoming a More Effective Leader and Reaching Your Potential. Boston: Harvard Business Review Press, 2011.
- April 2011
- Case
Kay Sunderland: Making the Grade at Attain Learning
By: Linda A. Hill and Heather Beckham
Kay Sunderland is an account director at Attain Learning Inc., a business training solutions company. In January 2011, one of Attain's most important clients, Juan Nunez of Gramen Equipment Company, contacts Sunderland with a request: Nunez would like Attain content...
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Keywords:
Communication;
Interpersonal Relations;
Personal Strategy & Style;
Creativity;
Conflict;
Interdepartmental Relations;
Talent Management;
Management Style;
Interpersonal Communication;
Talent and Talent Management;
Relationships;
Conflict and Resolution;
Communication Strategy;
Power and Influence;
Service Industry
Hill, Linda A., and Heather Beckham. "Kay Sunderland: Making the Grade at Attain Learning." Harvard Business School Brief Case 114-289, April 2011.
- March 2015
- Teaching Note
Cynthia Carroll at Anglo American (A), (B), and (C)
By: Gautam Mukunda
This is a teaching note for the Cynthia Carroll at Anglo American case. It describes how to teach the case to demonstrate theories of leading change and Leader Filtration Theory. The case is a dramatic story of organizational transformation as Carroll attempts to...
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- April 2015
- Supplement
Cynthia Carroll at Anglo American Video Supplement
By: Gautam Mukunda
This is a video supplement for the Cynthia Carroll at Anglo American case series. The video features Cynthia Carroll reflecting on her implementation of organizational transformation at Anglo American in regards to the mining company's safety culture.
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Keywords:
Leadership And Change Management;
Leadership, Personal Strategy & Style;
Change Management;
Change;
Safety;
Organizational Culture;
Leadership;
Leadership Style;
Mining Industry;
South Africa
Mukunda, Gautam. "Cynthia Carroll at Anglo American Video Supplement." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 415-706, April 2015.
- February 2011
- Case
Jamie Turner at MLI, Inc.
By: John J. Gabarro and Colleen Kaftan
The case describes the evolution of an interpersonal mismatch between a previously successful manager, Jamie Turner, and his new boss, Pat Cardullo. Turner, a 32-year-old MBA graduate, has been recruited by Cardullo to be vice president of marketing and sales at Modern...
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Keywords:
Communication;
Interpersonal Relations;
Superior & Subordinate;
Micro Organizational Behavior;
Performance Management;
Personal Strategy & Style;
Management Style;
Conflict Management;
Interpersonal Communication;
Employee Relationship Management;
Rank and Position;
Performance;
Communication Strategy;
Personal Development and Career;
Acquisition;
Distribution Industry;
Consumer Products Industry;
San Diego;
Chicago
Gabarro, John J., and Colleen Kaftan. "Jamie Turner at MLI, Inc." Harvard Business School Brief Case 114-254, February 2011.
- November 2016 (Revised December 2020)
- Case
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation in Motion
By: Boris Groysberg and Sarah L. Abbott
Evan Siddall, newly appointed CEO of Canada Mortgage Housing Corporation, a governmental organization focused on the residential housing market, is charged with leading change at the organization. The case follows this process of change step by step and looks at the...
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Keywords:
Leadership, Personal Strategy & Style;
Government Organizations;
Performance Management;
Organizational Change And Transformation;
Culture;
Leading Change;
Change;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Organizational Culture;
Performance Evaluation;
Government Administration;
Risk Management;
Restructuring;
Leadership;
Performance;
Change Management;
Financial Services Industry;
Canada
Groysberg, Boris, and Sarah L. Abbott. "Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation in Motion." Harvard Business School Case 417-049, November 2016. (Revised December 2020.)
- January 2017
- Supplement
Q&A: Ghislain de Charentenay, Sanford C. Bernstein Director of Research, Asia
By: Linda A. Hill and Allison J. Wigen
In this video supplement to the HBS case series "Sanford C. Bernstein Goes to Asia," case protagonist Ghislain de Charentenay recalls his leadership priorities and challenges upon being appointed director of research in Asia.
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Keywords:
Talent Management;
Sell-side Analysts;
Organizational Behavior;
Leadership And Managing People;
Leadership, Personal Strategy & Style;
Leadership Style;
Asia;
Hong Kong;
Collaboration;
Leadership;
Organizational Culture;
Talent and Talent Management;
Financial Services Industry;
Asia;
Hong Kong
Hill, Linda A., and Allison J. Wigen. "Q&A: Ghislain de Charentenay, Sanford C. Bernstein Director of Research, Asia." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 417-707, January 2017.
- October 2017 (Revised October 2020)
- Case
Coaching Makena Lane
By: Ethan Bernstein and Om Lala
Makena Lane has a gift for producing results, even in the challenging retail context of the 2010s, but she also has a knack for “ruffling some feathers” in the process. Recruited to a Fortune 500 grocery and pharmacy retailer after climbing to Associate Principal in...
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Keywords:
Executive Coaching;
Employee Promotions;
Career Transition From Consulting To Operating Role;
360-degree Feedback;
Retail;
Organizational Behavior;
Personal Strategy & Style;
Mentoring;
Coaching;
Talent and Talent Management;
Growth and Development;
Employees;
Leadership Style;
Leadership Development;
Management Style;
Performance Evaluation;
Personal Development and Career;
Retail Industry;
Australia;
Europe;
Canada;
South Africa;
United States;
Asia
Bernstein, Ethan, and Om Lala. "Coaching Makena Lane." Harvard Business School Case 418-031, October 2017. (Revised October 2020.)
- June 2014 (Revised February 2017)
- Case
Kathy Giusti and the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation
By: Richard G. Hamermesh, Joshua D. Margolis and Matthew G. Preble
What do you do when your rising professional career is cut short by an unexpected cancer diagnosis? Kathy Giusti shifted careers, built a new organization that transformed how cancer research is done, and now faces the challenge of sustaining the organization and its...
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Keywords:
Philanthropy;
Philanthropy Funding;
Entrepreneurship;
Health Care;
Management Styles;
Personalized Medicine;
Health Care Outcomes;
Cancer;
Cancer Care In The U.S.;
Personal Care;
Leadership;
Leading Change;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Philanthropy and Charitable Giving;
Health Care and Treatment;
Leadership Style;
Management Style;
Management Skills;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Business Strategy;
Health;
Health Industry;
United States;
Canada;
Spain
Hamermesh, Richard G., Joshua D. Margolis, and Matthew G. Preble. "Kathy Giusti and the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation." Harvard Business School Case 814-026, June 2014. (Revised February 2017.)
- April 2008
- Teaching Note
A Day in the Life of Alex Sander: Driving in the Fast Lane at Landon Care Products (Brief Case)
Teaching Note for 2177
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Keywords:
Organizational Behavior;
Leadership, Personal Strategy & Style;
Human Resource Management;
Career Advancement;
Product Management;
360-degree Feedback;
Relationship Management;
Managing Difficult Interactions;
Top Performers;
Conflict Management;
Leadership;
Organizations;
Personal Development and Career;
Human Resources;
Product Marketing
- February 2011
- Case
Rebecca S. Halstead: Steadfast Leadership
By: Boris Groysberg and Deborah Bell
Reviews Rebecca Halstead's career history, detailing how, through her personal attributes, skills, experiences, challenges, and organizational practices she developed into a successful leader and commander in the U.S. Army. The case profiles her leadership style and...
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Keywords:
Working Conditions;
Groups and Teams;
Competitive Strategy;
Personal Development and Career;
Organizational Culture;
Personal Characteristics;
Leadership Style;
Gender;
Power and Influence
Groysberg, Boris, and Deborah Bell. "Rebecca S. Halstead: Steadfast Leadership." Harvard Business School Case 411-050, February 2011.
- June 1999
- Supplement
Conversation with Donna Dubinsky, A (Video)
Donna Dubinsky, president and CEO of Handspring, Inc. and former president of Palm Computing, speaks about her career. Topics include: early mentors, strategies for building and maintaining business and personal relationships, developing her personal style and...
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Keywords:
Personal Development and Career
Ibarra, Herminia M., and Naomi Atkins. "Conversation with Donna Dubinsky, A (Video)." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 499-503, June 1999.
- July 2014
- Teaching Note
Rebecca S. Halstead: Steadfast Leadership
By: Boris Groysberg and Deborah Bell
The case reviews Rebecca Halstead's career history, detailing how, through her personal attributes, skills, experiences, challenges, and organizational practices she developed into a successful leader and commander in the U.S. Army. The teaching note discusses...
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