Personal strategy and style

Your values should reflect the most important aspects of your life.

Executives of multinationals partnering with Chinese firms should be alert to Mao Zedong's lingering influence on some of the country's most successful...

Business students nowadays are not, for the most part, poets. A growing proportion come to business school with a background in investment banking or...

In a famous experiment, researchers ran a lottery with a twist. Half the participants were randomly assigned a lottery number. The remaining half were...

Coming up with creative ideas is easy; selling them to strangers is hard. Entrepreneurs, sales executives, and marketing managers often go to great lengths...

Prepare in advance to showcase your best self and make the most of your time.

When some managers take over a new job, they hit the ground running. They learn the ropes, get along with their bosses and subordinates, gain credibility,...

For organizations to prosper, managers in the middle ranks must feel empowered to identify and promote the need for change. People at this level gather...

Make the connections you need.

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You can preserve your commitment to highlighting others without hindering your effectiveness.

Identify your compelling purpose, ambitious objectives, realistic timeline, and clear deliverables.

All of us struggle from time to time with the question of personal meaning: "Am I living the way I want to live?" This type of questioning is healthy;...

Audiences will trust you if you're open, sincere, and comfortable.

It starts with envisioning your possible future selves.

The would-be analyst of leadership usually studies popularity, power, showmanship, or wisdom in long-range planning. But none of these qualities is the...

Small decisions about where to focus and what to do throughout your day may feel inconsequential, but their impacts accumulate.

What does it take for an average manager to become a highly effective leader? There are countless books, models, and formulas for success. But the truth...

Should a leader be loved or feared? That age-old question still has no simple answer. It depends on who the leader is and whom she's leading. Successful...

Annette Innella is just coming into the lunchroom at Concord Machines when Bob Dunn starts screaming at her. After throwing his lunch tray against the...

Kent Thiry, CEO of dialysis provider DaVita, is considering how to integrate employees from recently acquired Gambro Healthcare without damaging DaVita's...

If you read nothing else on managing yourself, read these definitive articles from Harvard Business Review. You have the power to position yourself for...

What distinguishes great leaders? Exceptional leaders capture passion. They lead for real: from the heart, smart and focused on the future, and with a...

Park Hyeon-Joo, the founder and Chairman of Korea's earliest and largest mutual fund company, plans to expand internationally. After first offering emerging...

What does it take to create the career you want? It's no secret that the world of work has changed, and we're shifting toward an ever more entrepreneurial,...

The one primer you need to develop your managerial and leadership skills. Whether you're a new manager or looking to have more influence in your current...

Are you the boss you need to be? You never dreamed being the boss would be so hard. You're caught in a web of conflicting expectations from your subordinates,...

Say no to a culture of constant work. We often equate our productivity with the number of hours we spend working. But do we really need to work endlessly,...

The case Career at Crossroads: Passion or Profession? focuses on the journey of a young professional and multifaceted artist, Manasi Prasad. This case...

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Designed for use in the first year of an MBA program, can be included within a core course on leadership or used more broadly to orient students to their...

This exercise is based on the popular group game "Mafia" and is designed to give students a broad introduction to multiple theories of influence and to...

Just be yourself, right? We're complex people. Professionally, we're recent graduates, employees, star performers, and first-time managers. But we're...

This case focuses on the growth dilemmas facing Manish Sabharwal, Co-founder, TeamLease Services Pvt. Ltd. TeamLease is a Human Resource Outsourcing and...

The blockbuster best seller Primal Leadership introduced us to "resonant" leaders--individuals who manage their own and others' emotions in ways that...

Rob Parson was a star producer in Morgan Stanley's Capital Markets division. He had been recruited from a competitor the prior year and had generated...

Supplements the (A) case.

This case depicts the critical decisions Xingli Dong (Shirley) made during her career transition from a female Ph. D. in engineering to Energy Automation...

A year after Rob Parson's manager decided to postpone Parson's promotion, Parson's new manager Gary Stuart faces the decision of promotion again. Stuart...

This field-based case introduces students to the challenges of building a professional brand through the lens of a college athlete. Since the National...

Your values should reflect the most important aspects of your life.

Kent Thiry, CEO of dialysis provider DaVita, is considering how to integrate employees from recently acquired Gambro Healthcare without damaging DaVita's...

If you read nothing else on managing yourself, read these definitive articles from Harvard Business Review. You have the power to position yourself for...

Executives of multinationals partnering with Chinese firms should be alert to Mao Zedong's lingering influence on some of the country's most successful...

What distinguishes great leaders? Exceptional leaders capture passion. They lead for real: from the heart, smart and focused on the future, and with a...

Business students nowadays are not, for the most part, poets. A growing proportion come to business school with a background in investment banking or...

In a famous experiment, researchers ran a lottery with a twist. Half the participants were randomly assigned a lottery number. The remaining half were...

Coming up with creative ideas is easy; selling them to strangers is hard. Entrepreneurs, sales executives, and marketing managers often go to great lengths...

Prepare in advance to showcase your best self and make the most of your time.

Park Hyeon-Joo, the founder and Chairman of Korea's earliest and largest mutual fund company, plans to expand internationally. After first offering emerging...