Paths to Power (Hardcover)

Tony Mayo is the Thomas S. Murphy Senior Lecturer of Business Administration in the Organizational Behavior Unit of Harvard Business School (HBS). He currently teaches Leadership and Organizational Behavior and Authentic Leader Development in the MBA Program. He recently co-created the HBS Online course, Leadership Principles, designed to help new and aspiring leaders unleash the potential in themselves and others. Previously, he was the course head of FIELD, Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership Development, a required experiential, field-based course in the first year of the MBA Program focused on leadership, globalization, and integration. Prior to his work on FIELD, he co-created and taught the elective course, “Great Business Leaders: The Importance of Contextual Intelligence.” In addition, Tony teaches extensively in leadership-based executive education programs He is a co-editor of the forthcoming edited volume, Race, Work, and Leadership: New Perspectives on the Black Experience (Harvard Business Review Press, 2019) for which he also co-authored three chapters including “Pathways to Leadership: Black Graduates of Harvard Business School.” In addition, he co-authored the second edition of the textbook Management, which features a new approach for teaching the core principles of management course to undergraduate students based on the integration and dynamic interaction of strategic management, organizational design, and individual leadership. His previous co-authored works include In Their Time: The Greatest Business Leaders of the 20th Century, which has been translated into 6 languages, Paths to Power: How Insiders and Outsiders Shaped American Business Leadership, and Entrepreneurs, Managers and Leaders: What the Airline Industry Can Teach Us About Leadership. These three books were derived from the development of the Great American Business Leaders database that Dean Nitin Nohria and Tony created (see http://www.hbs.edu/leadership/database/index.html). Tony served as the Director of the Leadership Initiative from 2002 to 2018, and in this capacity, he oversaw several comprehensive research projects on emerging, global, and legacy leadership and managed a number of executive education programs on leadership development. He was a co-creator of the High Potentials Leadership Development, Leadership for Senior Executives, Leading with Impact, Maximizing Your Leadership Potential, and Leadership Best Practices programs and has been a principal contributor to a number of custom leadership development initiatives. He currently serves at the Faculty Chair of the Leadership for Senior Executives program. As part of his work in executive education, he launched the executive coaching component for the Program for Leadership Development.