"Higher Ambition: How Great Leaders Create Economic and Social Value,"

What is welcome and all too rare? Leaders who care about building great institutions, not just profits. What sets these leaders apart in their practice and outlook?

Harvard Business School’s Michael Beer in his new book, Higher Ambition: How Great Leaders Create Economic and Social Value http://hbr.org/product/higher-ambition-how-great-leaders-create-economic-/an/12957-HBK-ENG , examines how CEOs from major companies around the globe–Becton Dickinson, IKEA, Tata Group–made a positive difference for their employees, their customers, their community, and society while not neglecting profits. Beer cowrote the book with Russell Eisenstat, Nathaniel Foote (Harvard MBA’81/JD’82), Tobias Fredberg, and Flemming Norrgren.

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