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
Why People Resist Retirement
- July 22, 2024 |
- Article |
- Harvard Business Review Digital Articles
Jacqueline Cook at Vendasta: Debating an IPO
- July 2024 |
- Case |
- Faculty Research
Wizards of the Coast and Magic: The Rebounding
- July 2024 |
- Case |
- Faculty Research
Titan: OceanGate’s Tragedy of Titanic Proportions
- July 2024 |
- Case |
- Faculty Research
Lana Ghanem: Pushing the Boundaries of Health Care through Venture Capital
- June 2024 |
- Case |
- Faculty Research
SnapTravel: Betting on 'Super.com'
- June 2024 |
- Case |
- Faculty Research
Climate Governance at Linde plc (A)
- June 2024 (Revised June 2024) |
- Case |
- Faculty Research
SofMedica Group: Managing Growth
- May 2024 |
- Case |
- Faculty Research
Leading Culture Change at Microsoft Western Europe
- May 2024 |
- Case |
- Faculty Research
Michelin in Motion: Putting Purpose to Work
- April 2024 |
- Case |
- Faculty Research