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Michael Useem

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useem@wharton.upenn.edu
William and Jacalyn Egan Professor of Management
Director, Center for Leadership and Change Management

Books on Leadership
Articles on Leadership
Articles on Leadership and Outsourcing
Articles on Leadership Trek to Mount Everest
Articles on Teaching Management and Leadership
Other Recent Publications

Books on Leadership

Leading Up: How to Lead Your Boss to You Both Win (Crown Business/Random House, 2001). 

The Leadership Moment: Nine True Stories of Triumph and Disaster and Their Lessons for Us All (Crown Business/Random House, 1998). 

Q&A with author

Two chapters in Portuguese in Voce. S.A. (Brazil)

Articles on Leadership

Manager’s Journal: The Strategy Business,” Wall Street Journal, February 4, 2003, p. B2 (online access for WSJ subscribers). 

“H-P’s Family Feud,” Wall Street Journal, March 11, 2002, p. A18 (online access for WSJ subscribers).  

"Leading Up," Executive Excellence Magazine, February, 2002. 

"Leading Up: Lessons for CEOs in 'Managing Their Boards,'" Directorship Magazine, November, 2001. 

"The Ups and Downs of Leading People," Financial Times, Mastering People Management, October 29, 2001. 

"Leaders Needn't Fear a Great Number Two," Wall Street Journal, October 8, 2001, p. A26 (online access for WSJ subscribers).  

“Board Games: Once-high-flying Internet companies need good governance now more than ever,” The Industry Standard, January 15, 2001. 

"How to Groom the Leaders of the Future," Mastering Management, Financial Times, November 20, 2000, pages 8 and 10. 

"Making Your Mark:  Leadership in the new economy requires flexibility, speed, passion – and a thick skin," The Industry Standard, October 9, 2000, pp. 205-207.


"Corporate Leadership in a Globalizing Equity Market
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Academy of Management Executive special issue on "Global Competition and Leadership in the 21st Century," Shaker A. Zahra, editor (Vol. 12, No. 4, 1998): 43-59.

"Can Leadership Be Taught?", Leaders (Vol. 21, No. 2, April, May, June 1998): 237-238.

Articles on Leadership and Outsourcing

“Leading Laterally in Company Outsourcing,” with Joseph Harder, Sloan Management Review (Vol. 41, No. 2, Winter, 2000): 25-36.

"Lateral Leadership for Organizations That Are Outsourcing," Infoserver: The Journal for Strategic Outsourcing Information, July, 1998

"The Lateral Leap," Chief Executive Magazine (July/August, 1998): 58-59.

"The Impact of Corporate Outsourcing on Company Value," with David Bryce, European Management Journal (Vol. 16, No. 6, December, 1998): 635-643.

Articles on Leadership Trek to Mount Everest

"The Leadership Lessons of Mount Everest," Harvard Business Review, October, 2001, pp. 51-58 (click here for a summary of the article and to order a copy from HBR).  

"Himalayan Diary. A Trek from M.B.A. to Mountaintop: Lessons in Leadership Improve One's View," with Andrea Useem, Chronicle of Higher Education (December 11, 1998): B10.

"Building Your Leadership in the Himalayas," with Edwin Bernbaum, Wharton Alumni Magazine (Fall, 1998): 13-17.  Abbreviated version (without all photos)  Full version (with all photographs, 344 Kb)

Articles on Teaching Management and Leadership

"Designing a Classroom That Works," Fast Company.com, 2001.

“Using Quality Circle to Master the Classroom,” University of Pennsylvania Almanac section on “Talk About Teaching,” September 24, 1996, p. 24.

“Managing Our Classroom and Our Ourselves,” University of Pennsylvania Almanac section on “Talk About Teaching,” December 8, 1998.

Other Recent Publications

Side Effects of Corporate Cultural Transformations", with Thomas Gilmore and Gregory Shea, Journal of Applied Behavioral Science (Vol. 33, No. 2, 1997): 174-189.

“When Does Corporate Restructuring Improve Economic Performance?” with Edward H. Bowman, Harbir Singh, and Raja Bhadury, California Management Review (Vol. 41, No. 2, Winter, 1999): 33-54.   

 

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