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Nancy F. Koehn

Nancy F. Koehn

James E. Robison Professor of Business Administration

James E. Robison Professor of Business Administration

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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 latest book, Forged in Crisis: The Power of Courageous Leadership in Turbulent Times, spotlights how five of history’s greatest leaders managed crisis and, in doing this, accomplished extraordinary missions.  She is currently working on a major study of civil rights leaders during the late 1950s and 1960s and what we can learn today from their bravery, commitment, methods and purpose.

Koehn has written numerous books and authored HBS cases on Starbucks Coffee Company, Ernest Shackleton, Oprah Winfrey, Bono and U2, Whole Foods, Wedgwood, Estée Lauder, Madam CJ Walker, Dell Computer, and other leaders and organizations.  She is currently writing an HBS case on John Lewis and the Civil Rights Movement and another case on John F. Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Koehn consults with many companies and speaks at the World Economic Forum in Davos, the Aspen Institute Ideas Festival and the World Business Forum.  She has appeared on many television shows, including, "American Experience," "Good Morning America," "The PBS NewsHour," and A&E's "Biography.” She writes for the New York Times, the Washington Post, Huffington Post, and the Harvard Business Review and is a frequent commentator on National Public Radio and the BBC.   In 2012, Poets and Quants ranked Koehn as one of the World’s 50 Best Business School Professors.  

Before coming to HBS, Koehn was a member of Harvard University's Faculty of Arts and Sciences for seven years, first as a graduate student in history and then as a lecturer in the History and Literature concentration and the Department of Economics.  A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Stanford University, Koehn earned a Master of Public Policy from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government before taking her MA and PhD in History from Harvard.

Koehn lives in Concord, Massachusetts and is a dedicated equestrian.

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Books
Books

  • Koehn, Nancy F. Forged in Crisis: The Power of Courageous Leadership in Turbulent Times. New York: Scribner, 2017. View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. Ernest Shackleton, Exploring Leadership. New Word City, 2012. Electronic. View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. Oprah (Brand) Renew. New Word City, 2011. Electronic. View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. Oprah, Leading With Heart. New Word City, 2011. Electronic. View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. The Story of American Business: From the Pages of The New York Times. Boston: Harvard Business Press, 2009. View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. Brand New: How Entrepreneurs Earned Consumers' Trust From Wedgwood to Dell. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2001. View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. The Power of Commerce: Economy and Governance in the First British Empire. Cornell University Press, 1994. View Details

Journal Articles
Journal Articles

  • "Nancy Koehn on Leadership Lessons from Rep. John Lewis and the Civil Rights Movement." GrowthPolicy (October 2021). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Why Ernest Shackleton Is Still Relevant Today." Shackleton Journal (blog) (August 10, 2021). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F., and Dutch Leonard. "We Need a COVID-19 D-Day—and the Leadership to Execute it." FastCompany.com (September 24, 2020). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Real Leaders Are Forged in Crisis." Harvard Business Review (website) (April 3, 2020). View Details
  • 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). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "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." Special Issue on Managing in an Anxious World. Harvard Business Review: The Big Idea (May 2020). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Leadership Forged in Crisis." Leader to Leader 91 (Winter 2019): 26–31. View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Conversation: Nancy Koehn, PhD '90: The Harvard Business School professor's new book, Forged in Crisis, takes inspiration from Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Rachel Carson." Colloquy: [The Alumni Magazine of the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences] (Winter 2018). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "How to Lead Like Abraham Lincoln, According to a Harvard Historian." Quartz at Work (July 30, 2018). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "The Leadership Journey of Abraham Lincoln." McKinsey Quarterly (May 2018). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Here's What a Leader Should Never Do ..." Orange County Register (January 26, 2018). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Whiteboard Session: The Ingredients of Great Leadership." Harvard Business Review (website) (January 11, 2017). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "America is Seduced by 'Leadership Bling' and Lacks True Leaders." CNN.com (November 9, 2017). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "How Deep Personal Crises Turned a President, an Escaped Slave, a Polar Explorer, an Environmental Crusader, and a Nazi Resister into Iconic Leaders." LinkedIn Pulse (October 6, 2017). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Leaders Born in Darkness." Harvard Magazine (September–October 2017). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Why Lincoln Hid His Strongest Feelings from the Public." Harvard Business Review (website) (October 10, 2016). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Racing to Win: Leadership Lessons from the Conquest of the South Pole." Leadership Forum (January 8, 2014). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Great Men, Great Pay? Why CEO Compensation Is Sky High." Opinions. Washington Post (June 12, 2014). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy. "Racing to Win: How Two Antarctic Adventurers Led Very Different Expeditions." Leadership Forum (January 7, 2014). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Calling All Leaders: Feed and Water Yourself." Huffington Post, The Blog (March 25, 2014). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Today's Neighborhood Drugstore Is Tomorrow's Neighborhood Health Care Company." Leadership Forum (February 20, 2014). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Racing to Win: The Conquest of the South Pole." Huffington Post, The Blog (January 10, 2014). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy. "The Brain—and Soul—of Capitalism." Harvard Business Review 91, no. 11 (November 2013): 44. View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "The Road to America Leads Through Gettysburg." Washington Post, On Leadership (November 19, 2013). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Leading Productive Meetings: 8 Rules of the Road." Leadership Forum (September 19, 2013). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "A 4-Step Guide to Assessing and Strengthening Your Institution's Brand." Leadership Forum (July 3, 2013). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Why Brand Matters in Health Care." Leadership Forum (June 6, 2013). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Making Mentoring Count." Leadership Forum (April 21, 2013). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Breaking Out of the Davos Bubble." Leadership Forum (February 27, 2013). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Howard Schultz Wants to Know: Are You a Bystander?" Harvard Business Review Blogs (January 8, 2013). http://blogs.hbr.org/2013/01/hbr-90th-anniversary-gala/. View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Lincoln's School of Management." Business Day. New York Times (January 26, 2013). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "From Calm Leadership, Lasting Change." New York Times (October 28, 2012). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Feed and Water the Leaders." Leadership Forum (December 14, 2012). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "For Obama, Where Has Lincoln Gone?" On Leadership. Washington Post (November 9, 2012). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "From Calm Leadership, Lasting Change." New York Times (October 27, 2012). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "How Do You Show Up?" Leadership Forum (October 19, 2012). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Stop Sleeping With Your Smartphone!" Leadership Forum (September 17, 2012). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "A Summer to Thrive." Leadership Forum (August 15, 2012). View Details
  • "Marriages Fail, but There'll Always be Wedding Dresses." Marketplace, American Public Media, August 9, 2012. View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Leading Change: Two Stories, Four Lessons." Leadership Forum (July 18, 2012). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "The Driver in Ford's Amazing Race." New York Times (April 1, 2012), BU7. View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "When Life Is a Bunch of Carrots." Book Review of Strings Attached: Untangling the Ethics of Incentives, by Ruth W. Grant. New York Times (February 4, 2012). (Review.) View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Leadership Lessons From the Shackleton Expedition." New York Times (December 25, 2011). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "That Eternal Question of Fairness." New York Times (December 4, 2011). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "The Tale of the Dueling Economists." New York Times (October 22, 2011). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Steve Jobs, the Immediate Case Study." Harvard Business Review Blogs (October 14, 2011). http://blogs.hbr.org/hbsfaculty/2011/10/steve-jobs-the-immediate-case.html. View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "How Steve Jobs Saw the Future." CNN.com (October 6, 2011). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Putting Steve Jobs in Perspective." Washington Post, On Leadership (October 3, 2011). http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-leadership/putting-steve-jobs-in-perspective/2011/10/03/gIQALvCHIL_story.html. View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Before Wal-Mart, There Was A. & P." New York Times (September 4, 2011). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Wake up, Obama: Listen to Your Forefathers." Washington Post, On Leadership (August 15, 2011). http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-leadership/wake-up-obama-listen-to-your-forefathers/2011/08/15/gIQACAQgHJ_story.html. View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Inside the Greek Volcano." New York Times (August 13, 2011). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "IBM at 100: How to Outlast Depression, War, and Competition." Harvard Business Review Blogs (August 8, 2011). http://blogs.hbr.org/hbsfaculty/2011/08/ibm-at-100-how-to-outlast-depr.html. View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Devoted to Debt." Harvard Magazine (June 17, 2011). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "For Oprah Winfrey, this is not the finale." Washington Post, On Leadership (May 25, 2011). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Leadership Lessons from the Saddle." Harvard Business Review Blogs (May 3, 2011). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Why Red Flags Can Go Unnoticed." New York Times (April 3, 2011). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "How to Stop Trading Away the Future." New York Times (March 5, 2011). (Book Review.) View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "The Reverend Peter J. Gomes: Remembrance and Memorial Service." Harvard Magazine (March 2011). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Early America, Ripe for Counterfeiters." New York Times (February 5, 2011). (Book Review.) View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Davos Diary: Day Three." Huffington Post, The Blog (January 28, 2011). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Davos Diary: Day Two." Huffington Post, The Blog (January 27, 2011). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Davos Diary: Day One." Huffington Post, The Blog (January 26, 2011). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Starbucks' Logo Debate Shows Customers' Engagement." Harvard Business Review Blogs (January 10, 2011). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Leadership Lessons: Oprah's Journey to 'OWN' Cableland." Huffington Post, The Blog (January 3, 2011). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Prosperity, Real or Imagined." New York Times (January 1, 2011). (Book Review.) View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Losing Sight of Lincoln: A Mid-course Resurrection to Save Obama's Presidency." Washington Post, On Leadership (December 8, 2010). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Mapping GM's Decline." Washington Post, On Leadership (November 16, 2010). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Working (and Living) the Company Way." New York Times (November 6, 2010). (Book Review.) View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "The Mental Game of Breast Cancer, Part two." Huffington Post, The Blog (November 1, 2010). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "The Mental Game of Breast Cancer, Part one." Huffington Post, The Blog (October 29, 2010). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Zuckerberg's Expensive Lesson." Washington Post, On Leadership (October 6, 2010). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "The Wealth of an Intellect." New York Times (October 2, 2010). (Book Review.) View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "People and Places That Innovate." New York Times (September 4, 2010). (Book Review.) View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "A Call to Fix the Fundamentals." New York Times (July 31, 2010). (Book Review.) View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Beyond Disengagement and Anger." Huffington Post, The Blog (July 1, 2010). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "A New Damascus." Huffington Post, The Blog (May 24, 2010). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Bono at 50: The Leader We Need." Washington Post, On Leadership (May 10, 2010). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Leaders and Fiduciaries." Huffington Post (May 3, 2010). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Abraham Lincoln: Never Made of Marble." Washington Post, On Leadership (April 15, 2010). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Straight Talk: Oprah's Leadership Lessons." Huffington Post (April 14, 2010). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Reading List: Lincoln's Leadership Lessons." Harvard Business Review Blogs (February 19, 2010). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Fuel for the Journey." Washington Post, On Leadership (February 1, 2010). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Rebooting Households: The View from Davos." Huffington Post, The Blog (January 29, 2010). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Dizzying Fall From Grace." Washington Post, On Leadership (January 19, 2010). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "American Consumption and the New Normal." Harvard Business Review Blogs (December 31, 2009). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "A Shirked Responsibility." Washington Post, On Leadership (December 7, 2009). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Steve Jobs's Legacy." Fortune 160, no. 10 (November 23, 2009). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Lehman in Context: A Historical Perspective." The Conversation Harvard Business Review Blogs (September 16, 2009). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "How to Survive the Storm." Fortune.com, Postcards Blog (January 15, 2009). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Interchange: History in the Professional Schools." Journal of American History 92, no. 2 (September 2005): 553–576. View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Chasing Dreams during Troubled Times: Lessons from the Past." Boston Globe (January 22, 2002), F5. View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Branding Means Connecting." New Business: Entrepreneurial Pursuits at Harvard Business School (summer 2001). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Review of Tupperware: The Promise of Plastic in 1950s America, by Alison J. Clarke." Journal of American History 88, no. 1 (June 2001): 273. View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Review of Shelf Space, by Kurtzman and Rifkin." CNNMoney (June 2001). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "An Information Age Led by Business, So Far." New York Times (March 25, 2001). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Building a Powerful Prestige Brand." Harvard Business School Working Knowledge (October 30, 2000). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Henry Heinz and Brand Creation in the Late Nineteenth Century." Harvard Business School Working Knowledge (December 7, 1999). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Henry Heinz and Late Nineteenth-Century Brand Creation: Making Markets for Processed Food." Business History Review 73, no. 3 (Fall 1999): 348–392. View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "The Wired Society: A Harvard Magazine Roundtable." Harvard Magazine (May–June 1999), 42–53. View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Review of Consuming Power: A Social History of American Energies, by David E. Nye." Business History Review 72, no. 3 (Fall 1998): 485–488. View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Review of Tobacco in History: The Cultures of Dependence, by Jordan Goodman." Journal of Economic History 55, no. 4 (December 1995): 968–971. View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Review of John Jacob Astor: Business and Finance in the Early Republic, by John Denis Haeger." Business History Review 66 (autumn 1992): 576–578. View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Review of Predators and Prizes: American Privateering and Imperial Warfare, 1739-1748, by Carl E. Swanson." Business History Review 66 (summer 1992): 400–402. View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F., Thomas R. Piper, V. Kasturi Rangan, and Richard S. Tedlow. "Making Choices: Aspects of the History of the Harvard Business School MBA Program." MBA Leadership and Learning (1992). View Details

Book Chapters
Book Chapters

  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Gates: The Right Place at the Right Time." In Creative Capitalism: A Conversation with Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, and Other Economic Leaders, edited by Michael Kinsley and Conor Clark. Simon & Schuster, 2008. View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "The Fallacy of Perfection: Let a New Image of Yourself Emerge." In Remember Who You Are: Life Stories That Inspire the Heart and Mind, edited by Daisy Wademan. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2004. View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Estee Lauder: Self Definition and the Modern Cosmetics Market." In Beauty and Business: Commerce, Gender and Culture in Modern America, edited by Philip Scranton. Routledge, 2001. View Details
  • Koehn, N. F. "Consumerism and Consumption." In The Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century, edited by Morton Keller. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2000. View Details
  • Koehn, N. F., T. K. McCraw, and H. V. Nelles. "Business History." In The Intellectual Venture Capitalist: John H. McArthur and the Work of the Harvard Business School, 1980-1995, edited by T. K. McCraw and J. L. Cruikshank. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1999. View Details
  • Koehn, N. F. "Josiah Wedgwood and the First Industrial Revolution." In Creating Modern Capitalism: How Entrepreneurs, Companies, and Countries Triumphed in Three Industrial Revolutions, edited by Thomas K. McCraw. Harvard University Press, 1997. View Details
  • Koehn, N. F. "Michael Milken." In Management Past and Present: A Casebook on the History of American Business, edited by Alfred D. Chandler Jr., Thomas K. McCraw, and Richard S. Tedlow. South-Western College Publishing, 1996. View Details
  • Koehn, N. F. "Patricia Ostrander." In Management Past and Present: A Casebook on the History of American Business, edited by Alfred D. Chandler Jr., Thomas K. McCraw, and Richard S. Tedlow. South-Western College Publishing, 1996. View Details
  • Koehn, N. F. "Economic Policy: The Twentieth Century." In The Encyclopedia of the United States Congress. Vol. 2, edited by Donald C. Bacon, Roger H. Davidson, and Morton Keller, 674–681. Simon & Schuster, 1995. View Details
  • Koehn, N. F. "The Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981." In Macroeconomic Decision Making in the World Economy, edited by Michael G Rukstad. Dryden Press, 1989. View Details
  • Koehn, N. F. "The Capital Gains Tax Cut of 1978." In Macroeconomic Decision Making in the World Economy, edited by Michael G Rukstad. Dryden Press, 1989. View Details

Working Papers
Working Papers

  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Michael Dell: Winning on the Demand Side of the Information Revolution." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 00-021, September 1999. View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Marshall Field, 1834-1906: The Retail Brand as a Customer Experience." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 00-020, September 1999. View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Henry Heinz, 1844-1919: Connecting with Customers during Great Economic Change." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 00-019, September 1999. View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Josiah Wedgwood, 1730-1795: Brand Creation in the First Consumer Society." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 00-018, September 1999. View Details

Cases and Teaching Materials
Cases and Teaching Materials

  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Starbucks Coffee Company: Transformation and Renewal." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 314-143, June 2014. (Revised March 2016.) View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F., Kelly McNamara, Nora N. Khan, and Elizabeth Legris. "Starbucks Coffee Company: Transformation and Renewal." Harvard Business School Case 314-068, June 2014. View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F., and Nora N. Khan. "Gary Hirshberg and Stonyfield Farm." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 314-019, September 2013. View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F., Nora N. Khan, and Elizabeth Legris. "Bono and U2 (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 811-091, March 2011. (Revised December 2012.) View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F., Nora N. Khan, and Elizabeth W. Legris. "Gary Hirshberg and Stonyfield Farm." Harvard Business School Case 312-122, March 2012. (Revised October 2012.) View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F., Katherine Miller, and Rachel Wilcox. "Bono and U2." Harvard Business School Case 809-148, April 2009. (Revised April 2012.) View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F., and Katherine Miller. "John D. Rockefeller and the Creation of Standard Oil." Harvard Business School Compilation 807-110, February 2007. (Revised March 2012.) View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F., Anne Dwojeski, William Grundy, Erica Helms, and Katherine Miller. "Madam C.J. Walker: Entrepreneur, Leader, and Philanthropist." Harvard Business School Case 807-145, March 2007. (Revised April 2011.) View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F., Erica Helms, and Philip Mead. "Leadership in Crisis: Ernest Shackleton and the Epic Voyage of the Endurance." Harvard Business School Case 803-127, April 2003. (Revised December 2010.) View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F., Erica Helms, Katherine Miller, and Rachel Wilcox. "Oprah Winfrey." Harvard Business School Case 809-068, April 2009. (Revised May 2009.) View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F., and Rachel Wilcox. "A Defining Moment: The Financial Crisis of 2008 and Its Broader Impact." Harvard Business School Compilation 809-145, April 2009. View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F., Marya Lisl Hill-Popper Besharov, and Katherine Miller. "Starbucks Coffee Company in the 21st Century." Harvard Business School Case 808-019, June 2008. View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F., and Erica Helms. "Candy Land: The Utopian Vision of Milton Hershey." Harvard Business School Case 805-066, April 2005. (Revised October 2007.) View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F., Marya Besharov, Katherine Miller, and Nora Khan. "Oprah Winfrey (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 808-018, August 2007. (Revised February 2013.) View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War." Harvard Business School Compilation 805-115, March 2005. (Revised May 2007.) View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F., and Katherine Miller. "John Mackey and Whole Foods Market." Harvard Business School Case 807-111, April 2007. (Revised May 2007.) View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Leadership in Crisis: Ernest Shackleton and the Epic Voyage of the Endurance (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 807-014, January 2007. View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F., and Erica Helms. "Bumble and bumble: Building a Successful Business in Beauty and Fashion." Harvard Business School Case 806-084, February 2006. View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Howard Schultz and Starbucks Coffee Company." Harvard Business School Case 801-361, February 2001. (Revised September 2005.) View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F., and Stephen A. Mihm. "Money and Banking in America (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 805-089, December 2004. View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F., and Stephen A. Mihm. "Money and Banking in America." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Case 805-088, December 2004. View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Michael Dell: Winning on the Demand Side of the Information Revolution." Harvard Business School Case 801-363, February 2001. (Revised January 2004.) View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Marshall Field and the Rise of the Department Store." Harvard Business School Case 801-349, February 2001. (Revised December 2002.) View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Entrepreneurial History: A Conceptual Overview." Harvard Business School Background Note 801-368, February 2001. (Revised October 2002.) View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Michael Dell: Winning on the Demand Side of the Information Revolution TN." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 801-378, February 2001. (Revised October 2002.) View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Henry Heinz: Making Markets for Processed Foods TN." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 801-376, February 2001. (Revised October 2002.) View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F., and William Grundy. "Marshall Field and the Rise of the Department Store TN." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 801-377, February 2001. (Revised September 2002.) View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F., and William Grundy. "Howard Schultz and Starbucks Coffee Company (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 801-374, February 2001. (Revised September 2002.) View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Estee Lauder and the Market for Prestige Cosmetics TN." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 801-370, February 2001. (Revised September 2002.) View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Estee Lauder and the Market for Prestige Cosmetics." Harvard Business School Case 801-362, February 2001. (Revised February 2002.) View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Henry Heinz: Making Markets for Processed Foods." Harvard Business School Case 801-289, February 2001. (Revised August 2001.) View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Josiah Wedgwood and the First Industrial Revolution TN." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 796-157, April 1996. (Revised January 1998.) View Details
  • Kennedy, Robert E., and Nancy F. Koehn. "Economic Gains from Trade: Comparative Advantage." Harvard Business School Background Note 796-183, June 1996. (Revised November 1996.) View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F., and Michael Dearing. "Williams-Sonoma, Inc.--1990." Harvard Business School Case 797-019, July 1996. View Details
  • Burke, Raymond R., Nancy F. Koehn, and Geoffrey Verter. "Shopping Alternatives, Inc.: Home Shopping in the Information Revolution." Harvard Business School Case 796-132, April 1996. (Revised April 1996.) View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F., Donald J. Edwards, and Antonio F. Weiss. "Patricia Ostrander." Harvard Business School Case 795-016, October 1994. (Revised April 1996.) View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Michael Milken TN." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 795-175, June 1995. (Revised April 1996.) View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Patricia Ostrander TN." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 796-001, July 1995. (Revised April 1996.) View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "World Sugar Industry and Tate & Lyle." Harvard Business School Case 794-119, April 1994. (Revised April 1996.) View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "World Sugar Industry and Tate & Lyle TN, The." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 795-042, October 1994. (Revised April 1996.) View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F., and Rebecca Voorheis. "Ciba Consumer Pharmaceuticals' Acutrim: Challenges and Opportunities in Today's Diet Industry." Harvard Business School Case 795-043, December 1994. (Revised March 1996.) View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "U.S. Economic Performance--1960-93." Harvard Business School Case 793-045, November 1992. (Revised October 1994.) View Details
  • Rukstad, Michael G., and Nancy F. Koehn. "Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981." Harvard Business School Case 386-038, August 1985. View Details
  • Rukstad, Michael G., and Nancy F. Koehn. "Capital Gains Tax Cut of 1978." Harvard Business School Case 386-060, August 1985. View Details

Presentations
Presentations

  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Whiteboard Session: The Ingredients of Great Leadership." Harvard Business Review Webinar, January 6, 2017. View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "The History of Black Friday." Marketplace Commentary, American Public Media, November 25, 2011. View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F., and Amanda McGowan. "IKEA Founder Leaves Behind a Furniture Empire and a Troubling Past." Boston Public Radio, WGBH, Boston, MA, January 30, 2018. View Details
All Publications

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 latest book, Forged in Crisis: The Power of Courageous Leadership in Turbulent Times, spotlights how five of history’s greatest leaders managed crisis and, in doing this, accomplished extraordinary missions.  She is currently working on a major study of civil rights leaders during the late 1950s and 1960s and what we can learn today from their bravery, commitment, methods and purpose.

Koehn has written numerous books and authored HBS cases on Starbucks Coffee Company, Ernest Shackleton, Oprah Winfrey, Bono and U2, Whole Foods, Wedgwood, Estée Lauder, Madam CJ Walker, Dell Computer, and other leaders and organizations.  She is currently writing an HBS case on John Lewis and the Civil Rights Movement and another case on John F. Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Koehn consults with many companies and speaks at the World Economic Forum in Davos, the Aspen Institute Ideas Festival and the World Business Forum.  She has appeared on many television shows, including, "American Experience," "Good Morning America," "The PBS NewsHour," and A&E's "Biography.” She writes for the New York Times, the Washington Post, Huffington Post, and the Harvard Business Review and is a frequent commentator on National Public Radio and the BBC.   In 2012, Poets and Quants ranked Koehn as one of the World’s 50 Best Business School Professors.  

Before coming to HBS, Koehn was a member of Harvard University's Faculty of Arts and Sciences for seven years, first as a graduate student in history and then as a lecturer in the History and Literature concentration and the Department of Economics.  A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Stanford University, Koehn earned a Master of Public Policy from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government before taking her MA and PhD in History from Harvard.

Koehn lives in Concord, Massachusetts and is a dedicated equestrian.

Featured Work
Real Leaders Are Forged in Crisis
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

 

We need a COVID-19 D-Day—and the leadership to execute it

Two Harvard Business School professors declare that the U.S. is losing the battle against the pandemic but describe how effective leadership could still win the war. Two Harvard Business School professors declare that the U.S. is losing the battle against the pandemic but describe how effective leadership could still win the war.

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.
How to lead like Abraham Lincoln, according to a Harvard historian
Record numbers of first-time candidates are staking their claim in midterm contests all over the country. These people include Native Americans, combat veterans, members of the LGBTQ community, and women from both parties. As various pundits and entrenched politicians deride these newcomers, we must remember that many of our greatest leaders were once unknown and largely untested.
Leadership in Times of Crisis
CBS: Face the Nation
Authors Robert Dallek, Ron Chernow, Nancy Koehn and Mark Updegrove joined "Face the Nation" Sunday for a conversation examining leadership in times of crisis.
America is seduced by 'leadership bling' and lacks true leaders
(CNN) - Only a little more than 10 months into Donald Trump's tenure, a significant majority of America's citizenry view their 45th president as a kind of anti-leader, encouraging the worst elements at home to commit bad actions, undermining his own diplomats, ham-fistedly comforting bereaved service widows, downplaying his staffers' Russian connections, and sowing discord and instability wherever he goes.
What five extraordinary leaders during turbulent times can teach today's leaders
CBS This Morning

Historian Nancy Koehn says great leaders are not born, they're made.

Koehn, a Harvard Business School historian, is the author of a new book called "Forged in Crisis: The Power of Courageous Leadership in Turbulent Times." It examines the lives, successes and failures of five historical leaders including Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass and explorer Ernest Shackleton.

Koehn joined "CBS This Morning" to discuss what the leaders in her book have in common and how these lessons can apply today. 

Whiteboard Session: The Ingredients of Great Leadership
Harvard Business Review
Lincoln’s School of Management
New York Times
The legacy of Abraham Lincoln hangs over every American president. To free a people, to preserve the Union, “to bind up the nation's wounds”: Lincoln's presidency, at a moment of great moral passion in the country's history, is a study in high-caliber leadership.
From Calm Leadership, Lasting Change
New York Times
She was a slight, soft-spoken woman who preferred walking the Maine shoreline to stalking the corridors of power. And yet Rachel Carson, the author of “Silent Spring,” played a central role in starting the environmental movement, by forcing government and business to confront the dangers of pesticides.
Books
  • Koehn, Nancy F. Forged in Crisis: The Power of Courageous Leadership in Turbulent Times. New York: Scribner, 2017. View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. Ernest Shackleton, Exploring Leadership. New Word City, 2012. Electronic. View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. Oprah (Brand) Renew. New Word City, 2011. Electronic. View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. Oprah, Leading With Heart. New Word City, 2011. Electronic. View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. The Story of American Business: From the Pages of The New York Times. Boston: Harvard Business Press, 2009. View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. Brand New: How Entrepreneurs Earned Consumers' Trust From Wedgwood to Dell. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2001. View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. The Power of Commerce: Economy and Governance in the First British Empire. Cornell University Press, 1994. View Details
Journal Articles
  • "Nancy Koehn on Leadership Lessons from Rep. John Lewis and the Civil Rights Movement." GrowthPolicy (October 2021). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Why Ernest Shackleton Is Still Relevant Today." Shackleton Journal (blog) (August 10, 2021). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F., and Dutch Leonard. "We Need a COVID-19 D-Day—and the Leadership to Execute it." FastCompany.com (September 24, 2020). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Real Leaders Are Forged in Crisis." Harvard Business Review (website) (April 3, 2020). View Details
  • 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). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "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." Special Issue on Managing in an Anxious World. Harvard Business Review: The Big Idea (May 2020). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Leadership Forged in Crisis." Leader to Leader 91 (Winter 2019): 26–31. View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Conversation: Nancy Koehn, PhD '90: The Harvard Business School professor's new book, Forged in Crisis, takes inspiration from Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Rachel Carson." Colloquy: [The Alumni Magazine of the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences] (Winter 2018). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "How to Lead Like Abraham Lincoln, According to a Harvard Historian." Quartz at Work (July 30, 2018). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "The Leadership Journey of Abraham Lincoln." McKinsey Quarterly (May 2018). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Here's What a Leader Should Never Do ..." Orange County Register (January 26, 2018). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Whiteboard Session: The Ingredients of Great Leadership." Harvard Business Review (website) (January 11, 2017). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "America is Seduced by 'Leadership Bling' and Lacks True Leaders." CNN.com (November 9, 2017). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "How Deep Personal Crises Turned a President, an Escaped Slave, a Polar Explorer, an Environmental Crusader, and a Nazi Resister into Iconic Leaders." LinkedIn Pulse (October 6, 2017). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Leaders Born in Darkness." Harvard Magazine (September–October 2017). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Why Lincoln Hid His Strongest Feelings from the Public." Harvard Business Review (website) (October 10, 2016). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Racing to Win: Leadership Lessons from the Conquest of the South Pole." Leadership Forum (January 8, 2014). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Great Men, Great Pay? Why CEO Compensation Is Sky High." Opinions. Washington Post (June 12, 2014). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy. "Racing to Win: How Two Antarctic Adventurers Led Very Different Expeditions." Leadership Forum (January 7, 2014). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Calling All Leaders: Feed and Water Yourself." Huffington Post, The Blog (March 25, 2014). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Today's Neighborhood Drugstore Is Tomorrow's Neighborhood Health Care Company." Leadership Forum (February 20, 2014). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Racing to Win: The Conquest of the South Pole." Huffington Post, The Blog (January 10, 2014). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy. "The Brain—and Soul—of Capitalism." Harvard Business Review 91, no. 11 (November 2013): 44. View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "The Road to America Leads Through Gettysburg." Washington Post, On Leadership (November 19, 2013). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Leading Productive Meetings: 8 Rules of the Road." Leadership Forum (September 19, 2013). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "A 4-Step Guide to Assessing and Strengthening Your Institution's Brand." Leadership Forum (July 3, 2013). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Why Brand Matters in Health Care." Leadership Forum (June 6, 2013). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Making Mentoring Count." Leadership Forum (April 21, 2013). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Breaking Out of the Davos Bubble." Leadership Forum (February 27, 2013). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Howard Schultz Wants to Know: Are You a Bystander?" Harvard Business Review Blogs (January 8, 2013). http://blogs.hbr.org/2013/01/hbr-90th-anniversary-gala/. View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Lincoln's School of Management." Business Day. New York Times (January 26, 2013). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "From Calm Leadership, Lasting Change." New York Times (October 28, 2012). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Feed and Water the Leaders." Leadership Forum (December 14, 2012). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "For Obama, Where Has Lincoln Gone?" On Leadership. Washington Post (November 9, 2012). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "From Calm Leadership, Lasting Change." New York Times (October 27, 2012). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "How Do You Show Up?" Leadership Forum (October 19, 2012). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Stop Sleeping With Your Smartphone!" Leadership Forum (September 17, 2012). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "A Summer to Thrive." Leadership Forum (August 15, 2012). View Details
  • "Marriages Fail, but There'll Always be Wedding Dresses." Marketplace, American Public Media, August 9, 2012. View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Leading Change: Two Stories, Four Lessons." Leadership Forum (July 18, 2012). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "The Driver in Ford's Amazing Race." New York Times (April 1, 2012), BU7. View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "When Life Is a Bunch of Carrots." Book Review of Strings Attached: Untangling the Ethics of Incentives, by Ruth W. Grant. New York Times (February 4, 2012). (Review.) View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Leadership Lessons From the Shackleton Expedition." New York Times (December 25, 2011). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "That Eternal Question of Fairness." New York Times (December 4, 2011). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "The Tale of the Dueling Economists." New York Times (October 22, 2011). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Steve Jobs, the Immediate Case Study." Harvard Business Review Blogs (October 14, 2011). http://blogs.hbr.org/hbsfaculty/2011/10/steve-jobs-the-immediate-case.html. View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "How Steve Jobs Saw the Future." CNN.com (October 6, 2011). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Putting Steve Jobs in Perspective." Washington Post, On Leadership (October 3, 2011). http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-leadership/putting-steve-jobs-in-perspective/2011/10/03/gIQALvCHIL_story.html. View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Before Wal-Mart, There Was A. & P." New York Times (September 4, 2011). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Wake up, Obama: Listen to Your Forefathers." Washington Post, On Leadership (August 15, 2011). http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-leadership/wake-up-obama-listen-to-your-forefathers/2011/08/15/gIQACAQgHJ_story.html. View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Inside the Greek Volcano." New York Times (August 13, 2011). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "IBM at 100: How to Outlast Depression, War, and Competition." Harvard Business Review Blogs (August 8, 2011). http://blogs.hbr.org/hbsfaculty/2011/08/ibm-at-100-how-to-outlast-depr.html. View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Devoted to Debt." Harvard Magazine (June 17, 2011). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "For Oprah Winfrey, this is not the finale." Washington Post, On Leadership (May 25, 2011). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Leadership Lessons from the Saddle." Harvard Business Review Blogs (May 3, 2011). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Why Red Flags Can Go Unnoticed." New York Times (April 3, 2011). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "How to Stop Trading Away the Future." New York Times (March 5, 2011). (Book Review.) View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "The Reverend Peter J. Gomes: Remembrance and Memorial Service." Harvard Magazine (March 2011). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Early America, Ripe for Counterfeiters." New York Times (February 5, 2011). (Book Review.) View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Davos Diary: Day Three." Huffington Post, The Blog (January 28, 2011). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Davos Diary: Day Two." Huffington Post, The Blog (January 27, 2011). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Davos Diary: Day One." Huffington Post, The Blog (January 26, 2011). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Starbucks' Logo Debate Shows Customers' Engagement." Harvard Business Review Blogs (January 10, 2011). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Leadership Lessons: Oprah's Journey to 'OWN' Cableland." Huffington Post, The Blog (January 3, 2011). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Prosperity, Real or Imagined." New York Times (January 1, 2011). (Book Review.) View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Losing Sight of Lincoln: A Mid-course Resurrection to Save Obama's Presidency." Washington Post, On Leadership (December 8, 2010). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Mapping GM's Decline." Washington Post, On Leadership (November 16, 2010). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Working (and Living) the Company Way." New York Times (November 6, 2010). (Book Review.) View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "The Mental Game of Breast Cancer, Part two." Huffington Post, The Blog (November 1, 2010). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "The Mental Game of Breast Cancer, Part one." Huffington Post, The Blog (October 29, 2010). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Zuckerberg's Expensive Lesson." Washington Post, On Leadership (October 6, 2010). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "The Wealth of an Intellect." New York Times (October 2, 2010). (Book Review.) View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "People and Places That Innovate." New York Times (September 4, 2010). (Book Review.) View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "A Call to Fix the Fundamentals." New York Times (July 31, 2010). (Book Review.) View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Beyond Disengagement and Anger." Huffington Post, The Blog (July 1, 2010). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "A New Damascus." Huffington Post, The Blog (May 24, 2010). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Bono at 50: The Leader We Need." Washington Post, On Leadership (May 10, 2010). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Leaders and Fiduciaries." Huffington Post (May 3, 2010). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Abraham Lincoln: Never Made of Marble." Washington Post, On Leadership (April 15, 2010). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Straight Talk: Oprah's Leadership Lessons." Huffington Post (April 14, 2010). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Reading List: Lincoln's Leadership Lessons." Harvard Business Review Blogs (February 19, 2010). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Fuel for the Journey." Washington Post, On Leadership (February 1, 2010). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Rebooting Households: The View from Davos." Huffington Post, The Blog (January 29, 2010). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Dizzying Fall From Grace." Washington Post, On Leadership (January 19, 2010). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "American Consumption and the New Normal." Harvard Business Review Blogs (December 31, 2009). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "A Shirked Responsibility." Washington Post, On Leadership (December 7, 2009). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Steve Jobs's Legacy." Fortune 160, no. 10 (November 23, 2009). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Lehman in Context: A Historical Perspective." The Conversation Harvard Business Review Blogs (September 16, 2009). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "How to Survive the Storm." Fortune.com, Postcards Blog (January 15, 2009). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Interchange: History in the Professional Schools." Journal of American History 92, no. 2 (September 2005): 553–576. View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Chasing Dreams during Troubled Times: Lessons from the Past." Boston Globe (January 22, 2002), F5. View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Branding Means Connecting." New Business: Entrepreneurial Pursuits at Harvard Business School (summer 2001). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Review of Tupperware: The Promise of Plastic in 1950s America, by Alison J. Clarke." Journal of American History 88, no. 1 (June 2001): 273. View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Review of Shelf Space, by Kurtzman and Rifkin." CNNMoney (June 2001). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "An Information Age Led by Business, So Far." New York Times (March 25, 2001). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Building a Powerful Prestige Brand." Harvard Business School Working Knowledge (October 30, 2000). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Henry Heinz and Brand Creation in the Late Nineteenth Century." Harvard Business School Working Knowledge (December 7, 1999). View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Henry Heinz and Late Nineteenth-Century Brand Creation: Making Markets for Processed Food." Business History Review 73, no. 3 (Fall 1999): 348–392. View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "The Wired Society: A Harvard Magazine Roundtable." Harvard Magazine (May–June 1999), 42–53. View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Review of Consuming Power: A Social History of American Energies, by David E. Nye." Business History Review 72, no. 3 (Fall 1998): 485–488. View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Review of Tobacco in History: The Cultures of Dependence, by Jordan Goodman." Journal of Economic History 55, no. 4 (December 1995): 968–971. View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Review of John Jacob Astor: Business and Finance in the Early Republic, by John Denis Haeger." Business History Review 66 (autumn 1992): 576–578. View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Review of Predators and Prizes: American Privateering and Imperial Warfare, 1739-1748, by Carl E. Swanson." Business History Review 66 (summer 1992): 400–402. View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F., Thomas R. Piper, V. Kasturi Rangan, and Richard S. Tedlow. "Making Choices: Aspects of the History of the Harvard Business School MBA Program." MBA Leadership and Learning (1992). View Details
Book Chapters
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Gates: The Right Place at the Right Time." In Creative Capitalism: A Conversation with Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, and Other Economic Leaders, edited by Michael Kinsley and Conor Clark. Simon & Schuster, 2008. View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "The Fallacy of Perfection: Let a New Image of Yourself Emerge." In Remember Who You Are: Life Stories That Inspire the Heart and Mind, edited by Daisy Wademan. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2004. View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Estee Lauder: Self Definition and the Modern Cosmetics Market." In Beauty and Business: Commerce, Gender and Culture in Modern America, edited by Philip Scranton. Routledge, 2001. View Details
  • Koehn, N. F. "Consumerism and Consumption." In The Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century, edited by Morton Keller. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2000. View Details
  • Koehn, N. F., T. K. McCraw, and H. V. Nelles. "Business History." In The Intellectual Venture Capitalist: John H. McArthur and the Work of the Harvard Business School, 1980-1995, edited by T. K. McCraw and J. L. Cruikshank. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1999. View Details
  • Koehn, N. F. "Josiah Wedgwood and the First Industrial Revolution." In Creating Modern Capitalism: How Entrepreneurs, Companies, and Countries Triumphed in Three Industrial Revolutions, edited by Thomas K. McCraw. Harvard University Press, 1997. View Details
  • Koehn, N. F. "Michael Milken." In Management Past and Present: A Casebook on the History of American Business, edited by Alfred D. Chandler Jr., Thomas K. McCraw, and Richard S. Tedlow. South-Western College Publishing, 1996. View Details
  • Koehn, N. F. "Patricia Ostrander." In Management Past and Present: A Casebook on the History of American Business, edited by Alfred D. Chandler Jr., Thomas K. McCraw, and Richard S. Tedlow. South-Western College Publishing, 1996. View Details
  • Koehn, N. F. "Economic Policy: The Twentieth Century." In The Encyclopedia of the United States Congress. Vol. 2, edited by Donald C. Bacon, Roger H. Davidson, and Morton Keller, 674–681. Simon & Schuster, 1995. View Details
  • Koehn, N. F. "The Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981." In Macroeconomic Decision Making in the World Economy, edited by Michael G Rukstad. Dryden Press, 1989. View Details
  • Koehn, N. F. "The Capital Gains Tax Cut of 1978." In Macroeconomic Decision Making in the World Economy, edited by Michael G Rukstad. Dryden Press, 1989. View Details
Working Papers
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Michael Dell: Winning on the Demand Side of the Information Revolution." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 00-021, September 1999. View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Marshall Field, 1834-1906: The Retail Brand as a Customer Experience." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 00-020, September 1999. View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Henry Heinz, 1844-1919: Connecting with Customers during Great Economic Change." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 00-019, September 1999. View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Josiah Wedgwood, 1730-1795: Brand Creation in the First Consumer Society." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 00-018, September 1999. View Details
Cases and Teaching Materials
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Starbucks Coffee Company: Transformation and Renewal." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 314-143, June 2014. (Revised March 2016.) View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F., Kelly McNamara, Nora N. Khan, and Elizabeth Legris. "Starbucks Coffee Company: Transformation and Renewal." Harvard Business School Case 314-068, June 2014. View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F., and Nora N. Khan. "Gary Hirshberg and Stonyfield Farm." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 314-019, September 2013. View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F., Nora N. Khan, and Elizabeth Legris. "Bono and U2 (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 811-091, March 2011. (Revised December 2012.) View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F., Nora N. Khan, and Elizabeth W. Legris. "Gary Hirshberg and Stonyfield Farm." Harvard Business School Case 312-122, March 2012. (Revised October 2012.) View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F., Katherine Miller, and Rachel Wilcox. "Bono and U2." Harvard Business School Case 809-148, April 2009. (Revised April 2012.) View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F., and Katherine Miller. "John D. Rockefeller and the Creation of Standard Oil." Harvard Business School Compilation 807-110, February 2007. (Revised March 2012.) View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F., Anne Dwojeski, William Grundy, Erica Helms, and Katherine Miller. "Madam C.J. Walker: Entrepreneur, Leader, and Philanthropist." Harvard Business School Case 807-145, March 2007. (Revised April 2011.) View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F., Erica Helms, and Philip Mead. "Leadership in Crisis: Ernest Shackleton and the Epic Voyage of the Endurance." Harvard Business School Case 803-127, April 2003. (Revised December 2010.) View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F., Erica Helms, Katherine Miller, and Rachel Wilcox. "Oprah Winfrey." Harvard Business School Case 809-068, April 2009. (Revised May 2009.) View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F., and Rachel Wilcox. "A Defining Moment: The Financial Crisis of 2008 and Its Broader Impact." Harvard Business School Compilation 809-145, April 2009. View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F., Marya Lisl Hill-Popper Besharov, and Katherine Miller. "Starbucks Coffee Company in the 21st Century." Harvard Business School Case 808-019, June 2008. View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F., and Erica Helms. "Candy Land: The Utopian Vision of Milton Hershey." Harvard Business School Case 805-066, April 2005. (Revised October 2007.) View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F., Marya Besharov, Katherine Miller, and Nora Khan. "Oprah Winfrey (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 808-018, August 2007. (Revised February 2013.) View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War." Harvard Business School Compilation 805-115, March 2005. (Revised May 2007.) View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F., and Katherine Miller. "John Mackey and Whole Foods Market." Harvard Business School Case 807-111, April 2007. (Revised May 2007.) View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Leadership in Crisis: Ernest Shackleton and the Epic Voyage of the Endurance (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 807-014, January 2007. View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F., and Erica Helms. "Bumble and bumble: Building a Successful Business in Beauty and Fashion." Harvard Business School Case 806-084, February 2006. View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Howard Schultz and Starbucks Coffee Company." Harvard Business School Case 801-361, February 2001. (Revised September 2005.) View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F., and Stephen A. Mihm. "Money and Banking in America (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 805-089, December 2004. View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F., and Stephen A. Mihm. "Money and Banking in America." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Case 805-088, December 2004. View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Michael Dell: Winning on the Demand Side of the Information Revolution." Harvard Business School Case 801-363, February 2001. (Revised January 2004.) View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Marshall Field and the Rise of the Department Store." Harvard Business School Case 801-349, February 2001. (Revised December 2002.) View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Entrepreneurial History: A Conceptual Overview." Harvard Business School Background Note 801-368, February 2001. (Revised October 2002.) View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Michael Dell: Winning on the Demand Side of the Information Revolution TN." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 801-378, February 2001. (Revised October 2002.) View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Henry Heinz: Making Markets for Processed Foods TN." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 801-376, February 2001. (Revised October 2002.) View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F., and William Grundy. "Marshall Field and the Rise of the Department Store TN." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 801-377, February 2001. (Revised September 2002.) View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F., and William Grundy. "Howard Schultz and Starbucks Coffee Company (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 801-374, February 2001. (Revised September 2002.) View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Estee Lauder and the Market for Prestige Cosmetics TN." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 801-370, February 2001. (Revised September 2002.) View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Estee Lauder and the Market for Prestige Cosmetics." Harvard Business School Case 801-362, February 2001. (Revised February 2002.) View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Henry Heinz: Making Markets for Processed Foods." Harvard Business School Case 801-289, February 2001. (Revised August 2001.) View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Josiah Wedgwood and the First Industrial Revolution TN." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 796-157, April 1996. (Revised January 1998.) View Details
  • Kennedy, Robert E., and Nancy F. Koehn. "Economic Gains from Trade: Comparative Advantage." Harvard Business School Background Note 796-183, June 1996. (Revised November 1996.) View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F., and Michael Dearing. "Williams-Sonoma, Inc.--1990." Harvard Business School Case 797-019, July 1996. View Details
  • Burke, Raymond R., Nancy F. Koehn, and Geoffrey Verter. "Shopping Alternatives, Inc.: Home Shopping in the Information Revolution." Harvard Business School Case 796-132, April 1996. (Revised April 1996.) View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F., Donald J. Edwards, and Antonio F. Weiss. "Patricia Ostrander." Harvard Business School Case 795-016, October 1994. (Revised April 1996.) View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Michael Milken TN." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 795-175, June 1995. (Revised April 1996.) View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Patricia Ostrander TN." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 796-001, July 1995. (Revised April 1996.) View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "World Sugar Industry and Tate & Lyle." Harvard Business School Case 794-119, April 1994. (Revised April 1996.) View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "World Sugar Industry and Tate & Lyle TN, The." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 795-042, October 1994. (Revised April 1996.) View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F., and Rebecca Voorheis. "Ciba Consumer Pharmaceuticals' Acutrim: Challenges and Opportunities in Today's Diet Industry." Harvard Business School Case 795-043, December 1994. (Revised March 1996.) View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "U.S. Economic Performance--1960-93." Harvard Business School Case 793-045, November 1992. (Revised October 1994.) View Details
  • Rukstad, Michael G., and Nancy F. Koehn. "Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981." Harvard Business School Case 386-038, August 1985. View Details
  • Rukstad, Michael G., and Nancy F. Koehn. "Capital Gains Tax Cut of 1978." Harvard Business School Case 386-060, August 1985. View Details
Presentations
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "Whiteboard Session: The Ingredients of Great Leadership." Harvard Business Review Webinar, January 6, 2017. View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F. "The History of Black Friday." Marketplace Commentary, American Public Media, November 25, 2011. View Details
  • Koehn, Nancy F., and Amanda McGowan. "IKEA Founder Leaves Behind a Furniture Empire and a Troubling Past." Boston Public Radio, WGBH, Boston, MA, January 30, 2018. View Details
Research Summary
Overview
My research focuses on crisis leadership and how leaders and their teams rise to the challenges of high-stakes situations. Using the lens of history, my work examines how individual leaders from business, government and other walks accomplish important—often seemingly impossible--missions; how they navigate both failure and great turbulence; how they use their emotional intelligence to help them do this; and how they inspire others to do the same.
The foundation that underlays my research, writing and speaking is the understanding that great leaders are made rather than born, and that some of the most critical experiences in the making of iconic leaders involve adversity, especially failure, loneliness and fear. In more than 20 years of studying courageous leaders, I have worked extensively on individuals such as Ernest Shackleton, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, the Nazi-resisting clergyman Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the environmental activist Rachel Carson, and Nelson Mandela among many others. I am currently researching a major study of civil rights leaders during the late 1950s and 1960s, with an eye to what we can learn today from their bravery, commitment, methods and purpose.
Keywords: Courageous Leadership In Turbulent Times; Emotional Experience Of Leaders; History Of Leadership; Leadership; Entrepreneurship; History; Media And Broadcasting Industry; Health Industry; Beauty And Cosmetics Industry; Fashion Industry; Advertising Industry; United States; Europe
Teaching
Overview
My teaching and research focus on crisis leadership and how men and women use crises to make themselves better leaders. I currently teach a module in the Advanced Management Program and an HBS Online LIVE course on Courageous Leadership. The purpose of each course is to help participants become more courageous, resilient, focused, and self-aware individuals as well as leaders. We accomplish this goal in two, related ways. First, each course spotlights a number of crisis leaders and the lessons they learned as they each pursued a big, worthy mission. We examine these insights, experiences, and tools, with each participant focusing on those that are most relevant and useful to him or her. Equally important, we engage in a series of grounded, disciplined, and meaningful conversations about who we each are, how each participant can be even better as a person and as a leader, and the purpose or mission each of us is pursuing on our respective path. Throughout the course, participants are encouraged to examine the choices each leader made, the path he or she traveled—including the mistakes and failures each experienced—the values and goals he or she nurtured, and the larger stage on which that person acted.
Keywords: Crisis Management; Change Management; Entrepreneurship; History
Awards & Honors
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.
Recipient of the 2017 Jennie F. McLaughlin Award for Lifelong Learning from the Kingston Public Library and Kingston Council on Aging.
Selected in 2012 as one of the World's Best Business School Professors by Poets and Quants.
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Areas of Interest
  • business history
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  • entrepreneurship
  • leadership
  • leadership development
  • Industries
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  • clothing
  • consumer products
  • entertainment
  • fashion
  • health care
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  • North America
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    • 04 Apr 2022
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    • 16 Mar 2022
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    • 16 Mar 2022
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16 Mar 2022
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26 Jan 2022
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Managing Through Crisis: After Two Years of COVID, Leaders Must Double Down

06 Jan 2022
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How to Lead With Courage in Difficult Times

27 Oct 2021
Harvard Kennedy School
Nancy Koehn on Leadership Lessons from Rep. John Lewis and the Civil Rights Movement

11 Oct 2021
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10 Oct 2021
Legislatures: The Inside Storey
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14 Sep 2021
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10 Sep 2021
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15 Aug 2021
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The Covid Fear Isn’t Going Anywhere for a While

31 Jul 2021
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10 Jun 2021
Forbes
How To Leverage Your Employees’ Personal Brands To Grow Your Business Equity

08 Mar 2021
Washington Post
Oprah Winfrey’s Prince Harry and Meghan interview netted her $7 million and 17 million viewers. It also validated her larger business strategy.

23 Feb 2021
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15 Jan 2021
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‘We Need to Stabilize’: Big Business Breaks With Republicans

09 Nov 2020
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After a hard election, the real work begins

24 Sep 2020
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We need a COVID-19 D-Day—and the leadership to execute it

01 Sep 2020
HBS Alumni Bulletin
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30 Jun 2020
Atlantic
Just Because You Can Doesn't Mean You Should

02 Jun 2020
Fast Company
History teaches 3 essential leadership lessons for our current crisis

14 May 2020
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Leading Yourself In Crisis with Nancy Koehn

12 May 2020
Harvard Business Review
How History's Great Leaders Managed Anxiety

10 May 2020
Teamistry
The Brilliant Success of Shackleton’s Failure

05 May 2020
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30 Apr 2020
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Five Key Insights on Leading Courageously During a Crisis

28 Apr 2020
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"Leaders Are Created in Crisis. You Can Be One of Them. "

28 Apr 2020
Medium
"What Yesterday’s Leaders Can Teach Us about Today’s Crisis "

03 Apr 2020
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03 Apr 2020
Harvard Business Review
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27 Mar 2020
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26 Mar 2020
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Real Leaders: Oprah Winfrey and the Power of Empathy

19 Mar 2020
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Real Leaders: Abraham Lincoln and the Power of Emotional Discipline

12 Mar 2020
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05 Mar 2020
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Real Leaders: Ernest Shackleton Leads a Harrowing Expedition

19 Feb 2020
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09 Jan 2020
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How To Proceed With Articles Of Impeachment During Iran Escalations

17 Dec 2019
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10 Dec 2019
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27 Nov 2019
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Remembering Lincoln's 1863 Thanksgiving Proclamation

18 Nov 2019
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14 Nov 2019
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31 Oct 2019
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22 Oct 2019
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Alexander Hamilton's Case For Impeachment

10 Oct 2019
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03 Oct 2019
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What Backers Of The Green New Deal Can Learn From FDR

23 Aug 2019
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19 Aug 2019
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14 Aug 2019
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10 Jul 2019
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03 Jul 2019
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27 Jun 2019
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13 Jun 2019
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13 Jun 2019
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11 Jun 2019
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21 May 2019
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15 May 2019
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08 May 2019
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24 Apr 2019
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10 Apr 2019
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03 Apr 2019
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13 Mar 2019
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08 Mar 2019
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14 Feb 2019
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14 Feb 2019
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29 Jan 2019
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16 Jan 2019
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19 Dec 2018
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13 Dec 2018
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21 Nov 2018
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19 Jun 2018
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05 Jun 2018
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31 May 2018
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29 May 2018
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22 May 2018
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'Britain Is Teaching America A Lesson Here' With Royal Wedding

01 May 2018
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27 Apr 2018
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25 Apr 2018
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17 Apr 2018
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10 Apr 2018
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04 Apr 2018
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04 Apr 2018
Atlantic
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27 Mar 2018
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In The Wake Of The Cambridge Analytica Scandal, Should Mark Zuckerberg Resign?

21 Mar 2018
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20 Mar 2018
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07 Mar 2018
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01 Mar 2018
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Leadership books for volatile and uncertain times

01 Mar 2018
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Will corporate leaders taking a stand on guns have a contagious effect?

27 Feb 2018
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22 Feb 2018
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Trump seems to have insulated himself from #MeToo movement

20 Feb 2018
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How One Copy Of The Declaration Of Independence Endured 200 Years

20 Feb 2018
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09 Feb 2018
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09 Feb 2018
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07 Feb 2018
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06 Feb 2018
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01 Feb 2018
Harvard Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
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30 Jan 2018
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26 Jan 2018
Orange Country Register
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24 Jan 2018
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23 Jan 2018
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Britain Isn't The Only Place With A Loneliness Problem

22 Jan 2018
Disruptor Series
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16 Jan 2018
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New 'Hot-Desking' Trend Eliminates Personal Space In The Office

15 Jan 2018
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Mountain Money - January 15, 2018

10 Jan 2018
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09 Jan 2018
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02 Jan 2018
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20 Dec 2017
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18 Dec 2017
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13 Dec 2017
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05 Dec 2017
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The Historical Context Of The GOP Tax Bill

01 Dec 2017
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26 Nov 2017
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21 Nov 2017
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14 Nov 2017
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09 Nov 2017
CNN
America is seduced by 'leadership bling' and lacks true leaders

08 Nov 2017
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As The Demand For Higher Education Rises, So Do College Admissions Standards

06 Nov 2017
Knowledge@Wharton
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02 Nov 2017
Harvard Gazette
How Leaders Are Shaped

02 Nov 2017
Tavis Smiley Podcast
Author Of The Book "Forged In Crisis: The Power Of Courageous Leadership In Turbulent Time" Nancy Koehn

01 Nov 2017
WGBH: Boston Public Radio
Should Pharmaceutical Companies Face Legal Action For The Opioid Epidemic?

31 Oct 2017
Charlie Rose Show
"Forged in Crisis: The Power of Courageous Leadership in Turbulent Times."

24 Oct 2017
Harvard Business Review
Leading, Not Managing, in Crisis

23 Oct 2017
WGBH: Boston Public Radio
Historian Nancy Koehn Looks To History For Leadership Lessons In Tough Times

19 Oct 2017
Harvard Business Review
Everyday People Who Led Momentous Change

18 Oct 2017
CBS This Morning
What five extraordinary leaders during turbulent times can teach today's leaders

14 Oct 2017
Big Think
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12 Oct 2017
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12 Oct 2017
Washington Post
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11 Oct 2017
Bloomberg Radio
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10 Oct 2017
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09 Oct 2017
KPCW Radio
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08 Oct 2017
Blindspot
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08 Oct 2017
Woodstock Booktalk Radio
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07 Oct 2017
Fox News
How crises empowered former US presidents

05 Oct 2017
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05 Oct 2017
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04 Oct 2017
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02 Oct 2017
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26 Sep 2017
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The Length Cities Will Go To Get Amazon's New Headquarters

19 Sep 2017
WGBH: Boston Public Radio
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15 Sep 2017
Yahoo! Finance
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10 Sep 2017
Fortune
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06 Sep 2017
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04 Sep 2017
Boston Globe
In age of Trump, politics has become a game with no shame

31 Aug 2017
Financial Times
Leaders must find the words to heal America’s wounds

22 Aug 2017
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Corporate Responsibility In The Age Of Trump

20 Aug 2017
New York Times
The Moral Voice of Corporate America

16 Aug 2017
Boston Globe
Some corporate chiefs have had enough of Trump

15 Aug 2017
WGBH: Boston Public Radio
Former Google Employee's Memo Gets The Role Of Women In Tech Completely Wrong

14 Aug 2017
Harvard Magazine
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08 Aug 2017
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'Not For Self, But For Country': Prince Philip Retires After 65 Years

01 Aug 2017
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Men Are Now The Predominant Grocery Shoppers

25 Jul 2017
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What If The South Had Won The Civil War?

19 Jul 2017
WGBH: Boston Public Radio
The Legacy Of Self-Help Books

13 Jul 2017
Bloomberg
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27 Jun 2017
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20 Jun 2017
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19 Jun 2017
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Amazon Buys Whole Foods

14 Jun 2017
WBUR
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06 Jun 2017
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Robert E. Lee Is More Complicated Than You Think

31 May 2017
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You Can Blame Wall Street For Your Crappy Flight

30 May 2017
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16 May 2017
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Household Debt Is Higher Than It Was In 2008 — But Don't Panic

09 May 2017
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Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke Is No Teddy Roosevelt

02 May 2017
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Are You A Victim Of Price Discrimination?

18 Apr 2017
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Its Survival In Doubt, Sears Struggles To Transform Once Again

18 Apr 2017
WGBH: Boston Public Radio
New Revolutionary War Museum Aims To Illuminate The Past

09 Dec 2014
WGBH: Boston Public Radio
Snark, Sarcasm And Ill Will: Why We've Stopped Being Civil

06 Dec 2014
WGBH: Innovation Hub
The Genius of Starbucks and Howard Schultz

05 Dec 2014
The Business
Ernest Shackleton: The Entrepreneur of Survival

05 Dec 2014
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Ernest Shackleton: The Entrepreneur of Survival

02 Dec 2014
WGBH: Boston Public Radio
Did 2014 Mark The End Of Black Friday?

24 Nov 2014
WGBH: Emily Rooney Show
Emily's List: Nancy Koehn

18 Nov 2014
WGBH: Boston Public Radio
Want Stronger, Happier Families? Offer Paternity Leave For New Dads

11 Nov 2014
WGBH: Boston Public Radio
Young, Qualified, And Constantly Job Hunting

11 Nov 2014
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Making Good On Her Promise

04 Nov 2014
WGBH: Boston Public Radio
'We Are Not ... Awash In Fabulous Role Models For Young Girls'

03 Nov 2014
NPR: On Point
Tim Cook And Being Out At Work In America

28 Oct 2014
WGBH: Boston Public Radio
Battling Breast Cancer, Beyond The Pink Ribbons

21 Oct 2014
WGBH: Boston Public Radio
Showdown In The Produce Aisle: Whole Foods Vs. Walmart

14 Oct 2014
WGBH: Boston Public Radio
How Art Can Show Leaders How To Lead

07 Oct 2014
Boston Public Radio
4 New England Sisters, 40 Years Of Photographs

30 Sep 2014
Boston Public Radio
What Leadership Lessons Can We Learn From The Roosevelts?

24 Sep 2014
Boston Public Radio
The People's Climate March Isn't The Beginning Of The End, It's The End Of The Beginning

18 Sep 2014
American Public Media: Marketplace
The shortcomings of the corporate wellness program

16 Sep 2014
Boston Public Radio
Getting Stiffed In The Tipping Economy

09 Sep 2014
Boston Public Radio
It Can Wait – Why We're Such Fantastic Procrastinators

02 Sep 2014
Boston Public Radio
The Joys of Rentership In The Sharing Economy

26 Aug 2014
Boston Public Radio
Nancy Koehn On The Heroism Of West African Ebola Workers

18 Aug 2014
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What Trump could learn from polar explorer Ernest Shackleton

11 Oct 2017
Bloomberg Radio
Forged in Crisis

10 Oct 2017
WGBH: Boston Public Radio
IBM Calls Their Employees Out Of The Home And Back To The Office

09 Oct 2017
KPCW Radio
Forged in Crisis

08 Oct 2017
Blindspot
Leadership in Crisis – with HBS’s Nancy Koehn

08 Oct 2017
Woodstock Booktalk Radio
Episode 157

07 Oct 2017
Fox News
How crises empowered former US presidents

05 Oct 2017
Cheddar
Why Great Leaders Are Forged in Crisis

05 Oct 2017
CBS This Morning
"Forged in Crisis" author on the makings of a great leader

04 Oct 2017
Politics Guys
Harvard’s Nancy Koehn on Courageous Leadership in Turbulent Times

04 Oct 2017
HBS Working Knowledge
Five Leaders Forged in Crisis, and What We Can Learn From Them

02 Oct 2017
800CEORead
Business Books to Watch in October

26 Sep 2017
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The Length Cities Will Go To Get Amazon's New Headquarters

19 Sep 2017
WGBH: Boston Public Radio
New Census Report Shows Highest Median Income Since Great Recession

15 Sep 2017
Yahoo! Finance
Starved for better leadership? Here’s where to find it

10 Sep 2017
Fortune
The Top 10 Books to Read This Fall

06 Sep 2017
WGBH: Boston Public Radio
Amid Wreckage Of Hurricane Harvey, Countless Acts Of Heroism

04 Sep 2017
Boston Globe
In age of Trump, politics has become a game with no shame

31 Aug 2017
Financial Times
Leaders must find the words to heal America’s wounds

22 Aug 2017
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Corporate Responsibility In The Age Of Trump

20 Aug 2017
New York Times
The Moral Voice of Corporate America

16 Aug 2017
Boston Globe
Some corporate chiefs have had enough of Trump

15 Aug 2017
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Former Google Employee's Memo Gets The Role Of Women In Tech Completely Wrong

14 Aug 2017
Harvard Magazine
Leaders Born in Darkness

08 Aug 2017
WGBH: Boston Public Radio
'Not For Self, But For Country': Prince Philip Retires After 65 Years

01 Aug 2017
WGBH: Boston Public Radio
Men Are Now The Predominant Grocery Shoppers

25 Jul 2017
WGBH: Boston Public Radio
What If The South Had Won The Civil War?

19 Jul 2017
WGBH: Boston Public Radio
The Legacy Of Self-Help Books

13 Jul 2017
Bloomberg
The $4.4 Trillion Man: Can Vanguard’s New Boss Keep Raking in Cash?

27 Jun 2017
WGBH: Boston Public Radio
Sit! Stay! Work! How Dogs Are Taking Over The Office

20 Jun 2017
WGBH: Boston Public Radio
Amazon Is Primed To Take Over The Grocery Store Industry

19 Jun 2017
WGBH: Greater Boston
Amazon Buys Whole Foods

14 Jun 2017
WBUR
55 Years Since 'Silent Spring,' Rachel Carson's Work Is Needed More Than Ever

06 Jun 2017
WGBH: Boston Public Radio
Robert E. Lee Is More Complicated Than You Think

31 May 2017
WGBH News
You Can Blame Wall Street For Your Crappy Flight

30 May 2017
WGBH News
Happy 100th Birthday, Mr. President

16 May 2017
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Household Debt Is Higher Than It Was In 2008 — But Don't Panic

09 May 2017
WGBH: Boston Public Radio
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke Is No Teddy Roosevelt

02 May 2017
WGBH: Boston Public Radio
Are You A Victim Of Price Discrimination?

18 Apr 2017
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Its Survival In Doubt, Sears Struggles To Transform Once Again

18 Apr 2017
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New Revolutionary War Museum Aims To Illuminate The Past

09 Dec 2014
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Snark, Sarcasm And Ill Will: Why We've Stopped Being Civil

06 Dec 2014
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The Genius of Starbucks and Howard Schultz

05 Dec 2014
The Business
Ernest Shackleton: The Entrepreneur of Survival

05 Dec 2014
Harvard Business School
Ernest Shackleton: The Entrepreneur of Survival

02 Dec 2014
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Did 2014 Mark The End Of Black Friday?

24 Nov 2014
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Emily's List: Nancy Koehn

18 Nov 2014
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Want Stronger, Happier Families? Offer Paternity Leave For New Dads

11 Nov 2014
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Young, Qualified, And Constantly Job Hunting

11 Nov 2014
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Making Good On Her Promise

04 Nov 2014
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'We Are Not ... Awash In Fabulous Role Models For Young Girls'

03 Nov 2014
NPR: On Point
Tim Cook And Being Out At Work In America

28 Oct 2014
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Battling Breast Cancer, Beyond The Pink Ribbons

21 Oct 2014
WGBH: Boston Public Radio
Showdown In The Produce Aisle: Whole Foods Vs. Walmart

14 Oct 2014
WGBH: Boston Public Radio
How Art Can Show Leaders How To Lead

07 Oct 2014
Boston Public Radio
4 New England Sisters, 40 Years Of Photographs

30 Sep 2014
Boston Public Radio
What Leadership Lessons Can We Learn From The Roosevelts?

24 Sep 2014
Boston Public Radio
The People's Climate March Isn't The Beginning Of The End, It's The End Of The Beginning

18 Sep 2014
American Public Media: Marketplace
The shortcomings of the corporate wellness program

16 Sep 2014
Boston Public Radio
Getting Stiffed In The Tipping Economy

09 Sep 2014
Boston Public Radio
It Can Wait – Why We're Such Fantastic Procrastinators

02 Sep 2014
Boston Public Radio
The Joys of Rentership In The Sharing Economy

26 Aug 2014
Boston Public Radio
Nancy Koehn On The Heroism Of West African Ebola Workers

18 Aug 2014
American Public Media: Marketplace
Won't you please take a vacation?

17 Aug 2014
New York Times
Authenticity, Repurposed, in a Mason Jar

12 Aug 2014
Boston Public Radio
In Praise Of Faint Praise

12 Aug 2014
Boston Public Radio
'They Made It Up As They Went Along': Lessons From Three Successful Entrepreneurs

07 Aug 2014
WGBH: Emily Rooney Show
HBS Historian Nancy Koehn Puts Market Basket Feud In Perspective

06 Aug 2014
Harvard Gazette
The big share

04 Aug 2014
NPR: All Things Considered
Tech Companies Take Notice Of The Importance Of Marketing

30 Jul 2014
NPR: On Point
When Workplace Jerks Get Promoted

29 Jul 2014
Boston Public Radio
Demoulas Family > King Lear: Harvard Historian Nancy Koehn On Market Basket

29 Jul 2014
American Public Media: Marketplace
Gag rules: illegal, but alive and well

22 Jul 2014
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Regulation Will Not Kill Airbnb, Says Harvard Historian Nancy Koehn

08 Jul 2014
Boston Public Radio
Why Are We Ignoring The Water Crisis In Detroit?

08 Jul 2014
WGBH News
Harvard Historian Nancy Koehn Asks: Why Are We Ignoring The Water Crisis In Detroit?

02 Jul 2014
WGBH News
Don't Shred Your English Degree Just Yet, Says Harvard Historian Nancy Koehn

24 Jun 2014
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You Can't Go Home Again, Unless You Pay Rent: A Generation Moves Back In With Mom and Dad

17 Jun 2014
Boston Public Radio
From The Gray Suit To The Superman Cape: How And Why CEO Pay Skyrocketed

21 May 2014
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Will women CEOs still stand out in 2024?

21 May 2014
Boston Public Radio
Harvard Historian Nancy Koehn On The Cashless Society

15 May 2014
NPR: On Point
Beyond Silicon Valley, Declining Entrepreneurship

13 May 2014
Boston Public Radio
Harvard Historian Nancy Koehn's Prologue To The 2008 Financial Meltdown

06 May 2014
Boston Public Radio
Harvard Historian Nancy Koehn Asks If The Steve Jobs Work Ethic Was One Without Ethics

29 Apr 2014
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Harvard Historian Nancy Koehn On Animal Liberation

23 Apr 2014
American Public Media: Marketplace
Amazon is paying its employees to quit

22 Apr 2014
Boston Public Radio
Harvard Historian Nancy Koehn's Sobering Earth Day Celebration

16 Apr 2014
Boston Public Radio
Harvard Historian Nancy Koehn On Courage, Duty And Resilience After The Marathon Bombings

10 Apr 2014
American Public Media: Marketplace
Look out, Human Resources departments

10 Apr 2014
Boston Public Radio
Harvard Historian Nancy Koehn on Mary Barra, Is This A Catastrophic Car Wreck Or A Mere Crash Test?

01 Apr 2014
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Harvard Historian Nancy Koehn: Is The Invisible Hand of the Market Choking Democracy?

26 Mar 2014
American Public Media: Marketplace
The problem with "Golden Parachutes"

25 Mar 2014
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Harvard Historian Nancy Koehn On The Ever-Evolving Gloria Steinem

11 Mar 2014
Boston Public Radio
Harvard Historian Nancy Koehn on the SAT's Volte Face

10 Mar 2014
WGBH: Greater Boston
Retail Woes: The Impact Of Online Shopping

07 Mar 2014
WGBH: Innovation Hub
A Brand of Her Own: Estee Lauder

04 Mar 2014
Boston Public Radio
Harvard Historian Nancy Koehn on Amazon's Tentacular Reach

27 Feb 2014
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Companies (still) want to know your SAT score

25 Feb 2014
WGBH News
Is The Gap's Minimum Wage Hike Good Retail Politics?

11 Feb 2014
Marketplace Business
Goldfish Have Longer Attention Spans Than Americans, and the Publishing Industry Knows It.

11 Feb 2014
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Thank You For Not Selling: Historian Nancy Koehn On CVS' Tobacco Ban

05 Feb 2014
Boston Public Radio
Historian Nancy Koehn on Rethinking Retirement

31 Jan 2014
Wall Street Journal
Starbucks Looks Towards a More Digital Cup of Coffee

29 Jan 2014
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Inequality: Capitalism's 'Squeaky Wheel'

28 Jan 2014
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Historian Nancy Koehn on Why the McMansion Is Back

14 Jan 2014
Boston Public Radio
Lessons Learned From The Original 'Amazing Race'

13 Jan 2014
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Wall Street says, 'No, really -- take Sunday off.'

10 Jan 2014
Huffington Post
Racing to Win: The Conquest of the South Pole

07 Jan 2014
Boston Public Radio
Breaking Down Our 'Downton Abbey' Lust

02 Jan 2014
Boston Public Radio
Nancy Koehn on the Business of Selling Happiness

02 Jan 2014
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Holocracy: How Zappos could change corporate America

24 Dec 2013
Boston Public Radio
Nancy Koehn on the Scourge of Affluenza

19 Dec 2013
American Public Media: Marketplace
An Uber expensive ride

17 Dec 2013
Boston Public Radio
Nancy Koehn on Hunting and Gathering at the Mall

10 Dec 2013
Boston Public Radio
The Payoffs And Pitfalls Of Self-Doubt

04 Dec 2013
Marketplace Business
Fast Food Workers Call for a Minimum Wage Hike

02 Dec 2013
WGBH News
"Greater Boston" with Emily Rooney, Cyber Monday and Drones?

26 Nov 2013
Boston Public Radio
The Dark Side of Silicon Valley: Nancy Koehn Looks into the Abyss

20 Nov 2013
Field Notes
Change Leadership Lessons in the Gettysburg Address

19 Nov 2013
WGBH News
Rescuing JFK From Abstraction: Nancy Koehn's Interview with Jim Braude and Margery Eagan

19 Nov 2013
WGBH News
Reading Between The Lines Of The Gettysburg Address

19 Nov 2013
Washington Post
The road to America leads through Gettysburg

19 Nov 2013
Marketplace Business
Gettysburg Address: A powerful lesson for business leaders, Interview with Nancy Koehn

12 Nov 2013
Boston Public Radio
Dead Letter Office: Have You Ditched Handwritten Notes?

31 Oct 2013
American Public Media: Marketplace
Have corporate and government leaders lost accountability?

29 Oct 2013
WGBH News
Apologies, Apologies — Jim and Margery Talk HealthCare.gov as Administration Apologizes

16 Oct 2013
Harvard Business Review
The Brain—and Soul—of Capitalism

16 Oct 2013
Boston Public Radio
How To End Nightmarishly Boring, Time-Sucking Meetings At Work

09 Oct 2013
Marketplace Business
No More Working at Home for Hewlett-Packard Employees? Interview with Nancy Koehn

30 Sep 2013
Fast Company
IT'S A (RED) BULL MARKET AFTER ALL

24 Sep 2013
Marketplace Business
Half of All Meetings are Unproductive. Is there a Fix?

20 Sep 2013
WGBH News
A Brand of Her Own: Estee Lauder: An Interview with Nancy Koehn

03 Sep 2013
WGBH News
Congress to Decide U.S. Involvement in Syria as World Watches

01 Sep 2013
National Geographic
Failure is an Option

23 Aug 2013
Yahoo! Finance
4 family money lessons from top companies

15 Aug 2013
American Public Media: Marketplace
The buzz on Americans drinking less beer

31 Jul 2013
American Public Media: Marketplace
Oprah's OWN bounces back with help from Tyler Perry

17 Jul 2013
Marketplace Business
Outlet Invasion: Upscale Stores Head Downmarket

03 Jul 2013
Huffington Post
Lincoln, Mandela and Obama: Lessons for Leaders Over Three Centuries

02 Jul 2013
Marketplace Business
Dunkin' Donuts Goes After the Starbucks Formula: Interview with Nancy Koehn

07 Jun 2013
SmartBrief on Leadership
Should Companies Re-Cycle Their Old CEO's?

05 Jun 2013
Fortune
The Age of the "Recycled CEO"

05 Jun 2013
WGBH News
Dunkin' Donuts v. Starbucks

08 May 2013
WGBH News
BPR: Mothers' Day March, Boston Globe's Brian McGrory, Dangerous Intersections

07 May 2013
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Microsoft's mistake puts it in good company with other corporate failures

02 May 2013
Bloomberg Businessweek
Pimco Prepares for Life After Bill Gross

25 Apr 2013
Bloomberg TV: Market Makers
What's Next for Starbucks?

18 Apr 2013
Harvard Crimson
Professors Discuss Meaning of Presidential Leadership

04 Apr 2013
Bloomberg Businessweek
Harvard Women Freed From Urinal 50 Years After First Female MBA

21 Mar 2013
Seattle Times
Starbucks Moves Rewards Program to Grocery Stores

21 Mar 2013
Yahoo! Finance
Starbucks' CEO Hosts 2013 Annual Meeting of Shareholders Conference (Transcript)

03 Mar 2013
Marketplace Business
Martha Stewart, Macy's and the Meaning of 'Store'

01 Mar 2013
WGBH News
Learning from Lincoln

28 Feb 2013
WGBH News
Yahoo's 'No Working From Home' Policy: What Do You Think?

18 Feb 2013
Minnesota Public Radio
Has American innovation stalled?

15 Feb 2013
Washington Post
Heinz Turnaround CEO Johnson May Reap $100 Million After Buyout

14 Feb 2013
American Public Media: Marketplace
Warren Buffett just put a lotta ketchup in his cupboard

11 Feb 2013
HBR Blogs
Pope Benedict XVI and the Leadership Issue No One Wants to Talk About

05 Feb 2013
Boston Public Radio
The Abraham Lincoln School of Management

29 Jan 2013
PBS
Henry Ford

26 Jan 2013
New York Times
Lincoln’s School of Management

26 Jan 2013
BBC
Does Business Have a Responsiblity Beyond Making a Profit?

09 Jan 2013
HBR Blogs
Howard Schultz Wants to Know: Are You a Bystander?

02 Jan 2013
BBC Radio
Do good ethics make good business?

24 Dec 2012
Bloomberg TV
Harvard's Koehn on Government, Corporate Leadership

01 Dec 2012
Barron’s
Grande Visions

26 Nov 2012
PBS
Cyber Monday Likely to Be Biggest Online Shopping Day in U.S. History

15 Nov 2012
Bloomberg
Vanguard Takes Aim at U.K. as Fees Replace Commissions

09 Nov 2012
Washington Post
For Obama, where has Lincoln Gone?

08 Nov 2012
HBR Blogs
Ernest Shackleton's Lessons for Leaders in Harsh Climates

07 Nov 2012
HBR Blogs
How President Obama Should Choose His Leadership Team

06 Nov 2012
Fortune
Election 2012: Corporate America gets feisty

31 Oct 2012
Ortega Tops Buffett With Zara Fortune of $53.6 Billion

28 Oct 2012
New York Times
From Calm Leadership, Lasting Change

15 Oct 2012
American Public Media: Marketplace
Retailers curb online shopping with in-store deals

09 Sep 2012
New York Times
San Francisco Bureau, The Paper or Plastic? Some Communities Say Neither

30 Aug 2012
American Public Media: Marketplace
Marriages fail, but there'll always be wedding dresses

10 Aug 2012
Investors Business Daily
Howard Schultz Built Starbucks And Rebuilt It

22 May 2012
Huffington Post
Bono, Facebook and the Challenge of Following the Jesus of the Poor

29 Apr 2012
In the Balance
American Recovery?

01 Apr 2012
New York Times
The Driver in Ford's Amazing Race

29 Mar 2012
WGBH-TV
Trayvon Martin & Skittles: When brands lose control of their image

10 Feb 2012
Poets & Quants
World’s Best B-School Professors: Nancy F. Koehn

30 Jan 2012
BBC Radio
In The Balance: Capitalism in the Spotlight

15 Jan 2012
New York Times
Two People, One Identity

09 Jan 2012
Forbes
Life and Death Leadership - 3 Principles

30 Dec 2011
NPR
Letters: Sears Closings; Writing Letters

26 Dec 2011
Atlantic
Should Shackleton's Heroism Matter to Today's Entrepreneurs?

25 Dec 2011
New York Times
Leadership Lessons From the Shackleton Expedition

04 Dec 2011
New York Times
That Eternal Question of Fairness

25 Nov 2011
American Public Media: Marketplace
The history of Black Friday

26 Oct 2011
Investors
The Hartford Brothers’ A&P Gained Weight

22 Oct 2011
New York Times
The Tale of the Dueling Economists

18 Oct 2011
Christian Science Monitor
Second Act for Occupy Wall Street: Is it time to come in from the cold?

14 Oct 2011
HBR Blogs
Steve Jobs, the Immediate Case Study

03 Oct 2011
Washington Post
Putting Steve Jobs in perspective

09 Sep 2011
Fortune
Steve Jobs' real legacy: Apple Inc.

08 Sep 2011
CNNMoney
Steve Jobs' real legacy: Apple Inc.

15 Aug 2011
Wake up, Obama: Listen to your Forefathers

08 Aug 2011
WGBH-TV
Shaky economy

25 Feb 2011
Inc.
Building America's Most Innovative Brands

13 Jan 2011
Economist
The Starbucks debate

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