Study: Five Secrets of Innovation

"Professors from Harvard Business School, Insead and Brigham Young University have just completed a six-year study of more than 3,000 executives and 500 innovative entrepreneurs, that included interviews with high-profile entrepreneurs including Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Michael Dell, founder of Dell computers."

Fortune: World's Best Companies for Developing Leaders

"The most successful businesses know that developing talent is their top priority. Fortune ranks the companies that do it best."

Hiring Rivals' Workers Can Be An Advantage

"Losing key employees can hurt an organization or business despite a widespread notion no one is irreplaceable, U.S. researchers say."

President Obama on Making Difficult Decisions

Interview with President Obama where he discusses making difficult decisions.

How to Build Great Leaders

"To help prepare promising leaders for the future, top companies are forcing their employees to take on new (global) risks."

Byrd Becomes Longest-Serving Member of Congress

"West Virginia Sen. Robert Byrd has been around so long that nearly all lawmakers in Congress can remember reasons they love him - and many can recall how they once bitterly opposed him. The veteran Democrat on Wednesday became the longest-serving member of Congress in history, as he logged day No. 20,774, surpassing the record of Arizona Democrat Carl Hayden, who served in the House of Representatives and the Senate from 1912 to 1969."

Forty Business Leaders Under Forty

Meet these young innovators, value creators, and agents of change.

Turnaround President Makes the Most of His College’s Small Size

"But in higher education, Mr. Smith is known as a turnaround artist, a man with the talent and disposition to take a failing college and transform it into a winner. Here, at 74 years old, taking no salary, he is trying to save a tiny, debt-ridden college in one of the poorest states in the country. His strategy is so simple and earnest, it may sound naïve to the jaded."

Bishops in Fact If Not in Name

Bitel "compares two women who lived in vastly different societies and who acted outside conventional expectations for their gender. Both Genovefa (ca. 420-509) and Brigit (ca. 452-524) were builders of the new Christian communities in their respective regions—Genovefa in Gaul and Brigit in Ireland."

More U.S. Job Hunters Look for Work in Other Countries

"Fifty-four percent of executives said they'd be likely or highly likely to accept a foreign post, according to a survey of 114 executives Friday by talent management company Korn/Ferry. Just 37% of those surveyed in 2005 said they'd go abroad."

Forbes List: The World's Most Powerful People

"In compiling our first ranking of the World's Most Powerful People, we wrestled with these questions--and many more--before deciding to define power by four dimensions."

The 10 Best College Presidents

This slideshow discusses the ten best college presidents. It is from Time Magazine.

Misconceptions Stymie Women's Careers: Study

"Women's careers are being stymied by more than a glass ceiling. Bosses believe women have more family-work conflict, which is a misconception that is holding them back, according to new research."

What Makes a Good Boss?

What makes a good boss? "To find out, we asked employees about the best bosses they've had and what characteristics they hope to see in the people for whom they work."

Mandela Endures as South Africa’s Ideal

"Yet even as Mr. Mandela fades from view, he retains a vital place in the public consciousness here. To many, he is still the ideal of a leader — warm, magnanimous, willing to own up to his failings — against which his political successors are measured and often found wanting. He is the founding father whose values continue to shape the nation."

America's Best Leaders 2009

View the slideshow and the full articles on each leader.

Billy Graham's America

"Grant Wacker, professor of Christian History at Duke University and a member of the Christian History advisory board, is working on a cultural biography of Graham, titled Billy Graham's America, to be published by Harvard University Press in 2011. He is giving us an advance peek at his research in the following essay—which is a condensed version of an article by the same title published in Church History, September 2009."

237 Millionaires in Congress

"According to a report released this week by the Center for Responsive Politics, there are 237 millionaires serving in Congress, according to 2008 figures."

CEO of the Decade: Steve Jobs

"How's this for a gripping corporate story line: Youthful founder gets booted from his company in the 1980s, returns in the 1990s, and in the following decade survives two brushes with death, one securities-law scandal, an also-ran product lineup, and his own often unpleasant demeanor to become the dominant personality in four distinct industries, a billionaire many times over, and CEO of the most valuable company in Silicon Valley."

U.S. Working Women See Appearance as Key: Survey

"Nearly all U.S. working women believe that their professional appearance is crucial to success at work, and one in five female executives say they have withheld a promotion or a raise due to the way an employee dresses, according to a survey released on Tuesday."

Books Tackle Scarcity of U.S. Women in Leadership

"Women make up half the U.S. work force these days, yet they remain scarce in the ranks of top business leadership." Two recent books address this topic.

Gentleman of Justice

"From the oppressed side of apartheid, Albert Lutuli (1898—1967) became the first African to receive a Nobel Prize for Peace."

The Making of a Toxic Boss

"Power and incompetence are a bad combination. Behold the Mr. Dithers Syndrome."

Special Report: Women and Leadership

This site has a number of helpful articles related to female leadership.

Advice for the New Administrator

"What follows then are my recommendations both philosophical and practical -- to those who are embarking on a new academic leadership position, ranging from dean to president." This is written by Susan Resneck Pierce, president emerita of the University of Puget Sound.

Boards and Presidents -- After the Hire

Susan Resneck Pierce is president emerita of the University of Puget Sound. She argues that problems can be avoided, after a new presidential hire, if "the trustees and president come to an immediate understanding of how they would work together, how and what they would communicate and even more specifically who would be responsible for what."

Interview With Drew Gilpin Faust, President of Harvard

Interview with Drew Gilpin Faust, president of Harvard.

Bad Boss Can Increase Employee Heart Risk

"The longer a person has a 'poor' manager, the higher his or her risk of suffering a heart attack within a 10-year period, a researcher in Sweden found."

23 College Presidents Make More Than $1 Million

"Presidents of 23 private, non-profit colleges and universities each earned more than $1 million in total compensation in 2007-08, and Shirley Ann Jackson, president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., tops the list at nearly $1.6 million, says a report published today in the Chronicle of Higher Education."