Featured series 
Tag: Leadership
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McNally named chief development officer for FAS
Accomplished fundraiser has significant experience in higher education and healthcare.
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Key to doing your best at work? Be yourself (no, really)
Being true to yourself at work, not trying to fit in, is key to personal success and an essential “first step” for corporate diversity, HBS professors say.
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Lessons for leadership in a riven nation
Former governor Deval Patrick and scholars from various fields wrestle with ways to launch change.
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A master class in leadership
Carlyle Group co-founder David Rubenstein and Harvard President Larry Bacow reflect on the qualities of leadership.
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Harvard coronavirus survey: How’re we doing? Not bad so far
An ongoing survey by researchers at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative is examining public attitudes toward the coronavirus pandemic.
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Leadership lessons from Harvard’s president
Harvard President Larry Bacow talks about his leadership journey and the lessons along the way.
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Growing up in Cleveland set Finch’s trajectory
Jay Finch attended a conference at the Harvard Kennedy School that brought undergraduate sophomores from diverse backgrounds to campus for a weekend introduction to graduate school in public service. The conference changed his path as a public servant.
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Seeking new momentum in malaria fight
Harvard Business School hosted a weeklong leadership workshop supporting global efforts to eradicate malaria.
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Harvard program hears from Sirleaf on putting education first
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf shared her experiences as president of Liberia in a session of the Harvard Ministerial Leadership Program.
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Drew Faust to step down as Harvard president
Drew Faust, who became Harvard’s 28th president in 2007, has announced that she will step down on June 30, 2018.
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To speak, and move others to act
Language, literature, and the liberal arts are key disciplines in forming leaders, Harvard President Drew Faust said during a speech at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
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Leadership under stress
Leadership under fire and decision-making under stress were invoked, praised, and perhaps slightly demystified on Wednesday during an event that brought 600 Harvard alumni a taste of the campus today even as it urged them to consider the Harvard of tomorrow.
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Women who lead
Harvard President Drew Faust will host a panel discussion on Monday at Sanders Theatre to consider the changing roles of women.
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Truth in fiction
HBS Professor Joseph Badaracco trains students for the complexities of the business world by examining great works of literature.
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Ministering to health
Ministers of health from around the world came to the Harvard Kennedy School this week as part of a leadership workshop, co-sponsored with the School of Public Health, to improve health leadership globally.
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‘Sisterhood of the traveling pantsuit’
This week, Harvard Business School celebrated 50 years of women in its M.B.A. program with a summit that drew hundreds of the School’s female graduates to campus. But as a new alumni survey demonstrates — and as speakers like “Lean In” author Sheryl Sandberg acknowledged — women still have a long way to go to…
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The making of a stellar president
For all of their differences, Barack Obama and Mitt Romney share an important quality: their outsider status as politicians. But as Harvard Business School’s Gautam Mukunda argues in a new book, the very trait that makes them likely to be high-impact leaders also makes them unpredictable.
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Managing just fine
Measurements of stress hormones and self-reports of anxiety show that leaders in stable organizations experience less stress than their subordinates, likely because they have greater control over their office lives.
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Empowering a growing minority
Now in its third year, the Latino Leadership Initiative brought 41 students from eight universities to Harvard for a week of leadership training, reflection, and strategizing on projects they will implement when they return to their largely Latino communities.
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Not your average road trip
Harvard Business School just sent all 900 first-year M.B.A. students into the field to solve real-world problems in emerging markets from Buenos Aires to Mumbai, in the most ambitious element of an experimental new course. HBS, pioneer of the celebrated case-study method, is working to craft a business education model for the 21st century.
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Using the bully pulpit
In his new memoir, former Harvard Medical School Dean Joseph Martin recalls a small-town childhood, an attraction to medicine, and the ups and downs of leadership.
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Connie Wong to talk leadership
On Dec. 15 Connie Wong will present “Inclusive Leadership: Managing Successful Teams,” as part of the FAS series Diversity Dialogues.
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Lessons from a leader
At an event sponsored by the Women’s Initiative in Leadership at Harvard’s Institute of Politics, President Drew Faust discussed qualities that make a great leader and offered insights into her own role heading Harvard.
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Enduring inspiration
Richard Olivier, son of famed actor Sir Laurence Olivier, used Shakespeare’s “Henry V” to teach Harvard students about the role of identity in conflict in Sever Hall Oct. 24. The presentation was part of “Negotiation and Conflict Management,” a course that focuses on the emotional and identity-based aspects of conflict that often confound easy resolution.
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FAS presents Diversity Dialogues
Leadership in a diverse community, unintended bias, and the impact of devaluing messages that can impair productivity are among the issues that will be addressed in Diversity Dialogues, a series of seminars to be offered by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
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HBS students win Dean’s Award for service
Four members of the Harvard Business School M.B.A. Class of 2011 have been named winners of the School’s prestigious Dean’s Award.
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Driven to Lead: Good, Bad, and Misguided Leadership
Paul Lawrence, a professor emeritus at Harvard Business School, offers an integrated explanation of both human behavior and leadership using a scientific approach — and Darwin, too! — to illustrate how good, bad, and misguided leadership are natural to the human condition.
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What it takes to lead
Do leaders need competence, character, or both? And can such traits be taught? On Feb. 7, Harvard experts gathered to discuss the University’s role in fostering leaders in business, education, and the public sector in honor of Harvard Corporation member Nan Keohane’s new book, “Thinking About Leadership.”
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HKS receives $1 million
Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government announced a $1 million gift from the Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Court. The gift will be used to launch a new graduate fellowship that will support emerging leaders from the United Arab Emirates.
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Ash Center welcomes 2010-11 student and executive fellows
The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School announced its 2010-11 student and executive fellows for the 2010-11 academic year.