High Potentials Leadership Program

Thank you for your interest in this program. The May 2012 session currently is filled to capacity. The Admissions Committee will consider additional applications should space become available. You may wish to consider applying to the October 2012 or June 2013 session.

Meet the Program Faculty

Like all Harvard Business School Executive Education programs, the High Potentials Leadership Program is developed and taught by a core faculty of HBS professors. Our faculty members are widely recognized as skilled educators, groundbreaking researchers, and award-winning authors.

Through publishing, consulting, and teaching, they leverage their business expertise and field-based research to create new knowledge and enduring concepts that shape the practice of management. The result is a teaching team that exposes participants to multiple perspectives, challenging their thinking and encouraging new practices that result in superior business leadership. For more detailed biographies, click on each faculty name.

Linda A. Hill, Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration. Faculty cochair of the HBS Leadership Initiative; member of the Organizational Behavior Unit; and faculty chair of the "High Potentials Leadership Program" and "Leading with Impact: Staying on the Fast Track."

John P. Kotter, Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership, Emeritus.

Joshua D. Margolis, James Dinan and Elizabeth Miller Professor of Business Administration. Member of the Organizational Behavior Unit.

Anthony Mayo, Thomas S. Murphy Senior Lecturer of Business Administration. Director of the Leadership Initiative. Member of the Organizational Behavior Unit.

"Come with an open mind and you will leave enlightened. The program provided the tools and vocabulary for me to identify, assess, and articulate critical issues and situations. I have a better understanding of various leadership styles as well as a personal development plan for addressing my leadership challenges."
Mei Y. Hon [Internal Audit Marketplaces and GSI Commerce], eBay Inc., U.S.