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. To keep leading, keep learning.

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In the CEO Afterlife

MAY 6, 2012

Most problems in business begin with leadership. Right away, he replaced the chief operating officer, chief marketing officer, chief technology officer and chief talent officer. Starbucks, Amazon, Google and Apple prove me wrong. Size need not matter.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

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? And even change management is changing as well.

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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. Romney would succeed or fail based on this single choice, making the number two the prime mover in the fate of the number one. Unlike the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

In particular, large companies want to partner with small firms that have developed advanced, game-changing technologies. For the hands-on managers, nearly 80% of CEOs took the most active role; in contrast, hands-off companies relied much more on their R&D head or chief technology officer.

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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. Resistance to change must be overcome. Knowledge capture and transfer will assist in a smooth transition.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 17, 2011

Consider the chief technology officer of a company who is able to influence standards by being on an industry body – the revenue impact of such a thing can be immense. Why could he not use the assembly line method used by the burger company to maximize the number of operations every surgeon performs?

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