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A few years ago I met Jose Gabrielli, the CEO of the Brazilian energy giant Petrobras, to talk about an article we were developing for HBR. Dressed in a dark suit and tie, I entered his office on a top floor of the company's monolithic building in downtown Rio to set up for our interview. Then in walks the man, the head of $100 billion multinational, wearing blue...

(Editor's note: This post is part of a six-week blog series on how leadership might look in the future. The conversations generated by these posts will help shape the agenda of a symposium on the topic in June 2010, hosted by HBS's Nitin Nohria, Rakesh Khurana, and Scott Snook.) I recently heard a retired general, a veteran of the Vietnam conflict, quoted as saying the only way he...

Featured Guest: Alexandra Samuel, director of the Social + Interactive Media Centre at Emily Carr University and the cofounder of Social Signal....

You just can't stop the word from spreading in China — as McDonald's recently discovered. In March, the American fast food chain invited people who had discount coupons on chicken wings from any restaurant in China — including rivals like KFC — to use them to buy McSpicy Wings at a discount. Building on the buzz, McDonald's promised that if one million people in China were to pledge...

The digital landscape is being reshaped by the news that Facebook is opening up its social graph. Twitter, too, has made waves by acquiring companies that made third-party services for Twitter. But if you take a closer look, this is part of a more macro trend that transcends two social platforms--despite their emerging dominance. That macro trend is ubiquitous sharing: What are you doing? Where are you doing...