Leadership
Leadership
As our world grows increasingly global, intricate, and ever-changing, the role of leaders is becoming more and more complex and critical to business success. In the 1950s and 1960s, Fritz Roethlisberger and Elton Mayo's contributions to the "Hawthorne effect," and work by Paul Lawrence and Jay Lorsch on organizational integration, sparked the field of Organizational Behavior. Early work by Michael Beer on leading organizational change, Rosabeth Kanter on innovation for productivity, John Kotter on power and influence, and Michael Tushman on innovation management helped shape today's understanding of organizational transformation. With an interest in Leadership that spans our academic units, our approach to research is collaborative and multi-disciplinary. We leverage a wide range of research methodologies – from onsite field research to surveys, experiments, and extensive longitudinal studies.
Leadership Initiative
The Leadership Initiative undertakes cutting-edge research and course development projects about leadership and leadership development, both within HBS and through collaborations with other organizations.
LeadershipRecent Publications
Scaling Up Transformational Innovations
- November–December 2024 |
- Article |
- Harvard Business Review
Demond Martin and WellWithAll
- November 2024 |
- Case |
- Faculty Research
Meghna Modi at Revlon India: Leading With a Bold Purpose
- November 2024 |
- Case |
- Faculty Research
Leadership and Plumbing
- November 2024 |
- Article |
- Top Sales Magazine
Edizione
- October 2024 |
- Case |
- Faculty Research
The Three Traps That Stymie Reinvention: Organizational Identity, Architecture, and Collaboration Can Be Either Assets or Liabilities to Pursuing Growth in New Sectors
- Fall 2024 |
- Article |
- MIT Sloan Management Review
The Art of Leading Teammates
- September–October 2024 |
- Article |
- Harvard Business Review
In this article, NFL great Tom Brady and Nitin Nohria, of Harvard Business School, present a set of principles that people in any realm can apply to help teams successfully work together toward common goals.
Aramco: Navigating the Energy Transition
- September 2024 |
- Case |
- Faculty Research
Ming Min Hui at Boston Ballet
- September 2024 |
- Case |
- Faculty Research
The Health Equity Accelerator at Boston Medical Center
- September 2024 |
- Case |
- Faculty Research