Leading Blog

MARCH 8, 2019

A FTER 18 YEARS on the MIT faculty, I thought I knew a thing or two about leadership. But in 1999, at the height of the Internet boom, I took a two-year leave of absence to serve as director of system architecture at Akamai Technologies, an MIT start-up located here in Cambridge. Communication is key—and it involves effort.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

And even change management is changing as well. In their book, the authors use eight themes to offer guidance on how to change perspective and view the enterprise as a living organization, enabled by technology. Today, the authors answered these questions: How has the coronavirus pandemic challenged businesses’ operating principles?

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 17, 2011

The journey of the four decades, of growing from an entry-level professional to a leader among fellow professionals invariably calls for mastery over four things: the ability to efficiently manage resources, volume, complexity and finally, rainmaking. Sustainability is part of every professional’s job. We live in a complex world.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2012

political system, the business world has no rules requiring that every leader have a backup, or that every corporate chief executive has a chief operating officer. Sheryl Sandberg, who became COO, brought management savvy and government relations experience, both essential to an expanding high-profile company.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

They have an even harder time admitting that the answer might be new leadership. As a venture begins achieving a solid foothold in the marketplace, it needs different leadership capabilities to create maximum shareholder value. As the company grows, its management skills need to evolve. Break away from the past.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

In the survey, which examined 200 innovation collaborations between big firms and tech startups (100 in the United States, 50 in China, and 50 in India), we identified a major split in the way senior leadership at the large firms handled this challenge. Only 14% of the companies we studied were in the active management category.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2014

The company, founded in 1996 by an engineer from Xerox’s legendary Palo Alto Research Center , Pradeep Sindhu (who remains its chief technology officer and vice chairman), was one of the highest flyers of the fin de siècle tech stock boom. attempt to change the leadership and strategic direction of the company.

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