"Forged in Crisis" author on the makings of a great leader 04:14. Historian Nancy Koehn says great leaders are not born, they're made. Koehn, a Harvard Business School historian, is the author of ...

NANCY KOEHN: Lincoln’s position on slavery, which evolved throughout his life, was all the way to the time he won the White House, including his first Inaugural, was what today we would consider ...

NANCY KOEHN: If we think about the foundations of consumer society as it emerged by the end of the 1920s we can see a number of important changes that are again more clear, ...

This is an undated photo of abolitionist Frederick Douglass. Douglass is one of the subjects of historian Nancy Koehn's book about leadership in turbulent times. In her new book, Harvard historian ...

NANCY KOEHN:: Pleasure to be here. Ryssdal: This is what a 300-something-page book — 375, 400 pages — it almost seems not enough to capture the history of American business.

Harvard's Nancy Koehn joined Jim Braude and Margery Eagan to talk about why they should. Is Human Resources experiencing an identity crisis? As corporate America explores its values, HR departments ...

Koehn agrees, stating, “You don’t offer compassion and then compassion becomes some kind of get-out-of-jail-free card, where you can just let go of the mission.” ADVERTISEMENT Use your knowledge of ...

Her name was Nancy Lynn Koehn.She was born in Grand Island. Nancy attended Grand Island public schools, graduating from Grand Island Senior High in 1993.She worked for the Nebraska Credit Union ...

Harvard University historian and bestselling author Nancy Koehn was presented with the Westmont Leadership Award at Friday’s 16th annual Westmont President’s Breakfast, where she discussed the ...

In her new book, “Forged in Crisis,” Harvard Business School professor and historian Nancy Koehn shows us how five ordinary people became unforgettable leaders. Koehn spent 10 years poring ...

Harvard business historian Nancy Koehn joined Boston Public Radio to discuss the historical changes in the Republican party since the days of Lincoln. In 2015, Sen. Lindsey Graham called Trump a "race ...

Maybe every economist, pundit, and historian who writes a book on income inequality should dedicate his or her work to the Occupy Wall Street movement. If those protestors hadn't given us the elegant ...