by John Cremer It is no small feat to be chosen as winner of the best faculty award the first time you teach for the Kellogg-HKUST EMBA programme, but that is exactly what Harry Kraemer has managed to achieve. Of course, with 10-plus years’ experience as clinical professor of strategy at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, he wasn’t exactly
Read moreWhat does it REALLY take to become the best? Listen in as Kelli McCauley talks values-based leadership with Harry. The podcast is available here.
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In his article for Quartz, Harry credits Alan Mullaly’s leadership for turning the Ford Motor Company around: When Mulally took over as Ford’s CEO in September 2006, the company was clearly broken: Its stock price had fallen precipitously (the low was $1.01 a share in 2008), its debt was at “junk” status, and 2006 would go down as the worst
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In honor of Father’s Day, here’s a look back at one of Harry’s interviews with Forbes magazine in 1999 when he was the CEO of Baxter and a father of four: Daddy Stress Happy Father’s Day!
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In his latest article for Forbes, Harry writes about why values-based leadership would be a far better alternative to Zappos’ “holacracy” to eliminate bureaucracy: “In late 2013 the online retailer Zappos announced that it would adopt “holacracy” — an organizational structure without job titles — to banish bureaucracy, essentially getting rid of managers and putting everyone in charge of their
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