During my decade as dean of Harvard Business School, I spent hundreds of hours talking with our alumni. To enliven these conversations, I relied on a favorite question: “What was the most important ...

In a spacious classroom in Aldrich Hall on the Harvard Business School campus, 100 students are passionately discussing a case called “Battle Over a Bank.” But these aren’t MBA students deliberating ...

When I was an interim dean in 2010, I was asked to serve on a search committee for the permanent dean. After a year in the temporary position, I was intimately aware of the skills needed to be ...