Harvard Business School is celebrating its centennial this year. This might have not come at a more inopportune moment, what with the financial crisis and all. Financial Times aptly puts this in context.
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There is no doubt that most HBS graduates leave the institution with a very clear sense of their own worth and capabilities. They are not set up to fail. And yet, equally clearly, HBS alumni were involved at the heart of the investment banking and strategy consulting worlds that now stand accused of destabilising the world’s financial system to the point of destruction.
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But this financial crisis offers an opportunity for 21st century leadership. And which place is better poised to grab this opportunity other then HSB, however ironic it may be. As they say "Leadership skills are formed at the time of crisis". After all we do have a alumni of Harvard, if not Harvard Business School specific, as the next President of the United States.
Read the complete Financial Times article here.
Also see my previous posting Leadership in the 21st Century where five Harvard Business School alumni discuss the leadership challenges for the 21st century with Charlie Rose
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