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Karen Leary (A) (Spanish version)
Hill, Linda A.; Elias, JaanCase HBS-403S05Leadership and People ManagementDescribes the evolution of the working relationship of Karen Leary, a new manager of a Merrill Lynch retail branch, and Ted Chung, a new financial consultant in the branch. Leary has some concerns about her working relationship with Chung and with his performance. Chung makes what Leary perceives to be an unreasonable request for a private office. Leary must respond to this request, taking into account the implications of her decision for her amb...Starting at €8.20
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United Parcel Service (A) (Spanish version)
Sonnenfeld, Jeffrey A.; Lazo, MeredithCase HBS-420S18Leadership and People ManagementUnited Parcel Service (UPS) in 1987 faced serious challenges to its long-standing policies of on-the-job training and promotion from within. Increased competition in its traditional business of ground transport found UPS lagging in computerization and in need of technical expertise it could not simply cull from within its ranks. Whether, when, and how the new people were to be hired and assimilated, and to what extent the UPS culture and/or the n...Starting at €8.20
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United Parcel Service (B) (Spanish version)
Sonnenfeld, Jeffrey A.; Lazo, MeredithCase HBS-420S19Leadership and People ManagementWith expansion into other countries (Germany), new areas of service (air express), and new ventures (two small acquisitions), UPS had to decide how to adjust its human resource policies to businesses and people which were substantially different from its traditional ones. The objective is to examine the tradeoffs in changing strong cultures and well established hiring, promotion, and reward practices to meet business needs.Starting at €5.74
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Warner Cable (A) (Spanish version)
Sonnenfeld, Jeffrey A.; Peiperl, MauryCase HBS-416S08Leadership and People ManagementThe new general manager of Warner Cable's Medford, Massachusetts complex faces a number of turnaround challenges in 1985, including service deficiencies, customer complaints, high turnover, and low employee morale. By 1988 he has turned the situation around, but some employees and superiors question his turnaround style. Their concerns have broad implications for career systems at Warner. Teaching objectives include the understanding of human res...Starting at €8.20
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Managing Xerox's Multinational Development Center (Spanish version)
Eisenstat, Russell A.Case HBS-419S13Leadership and People ManagementDescribes a manager's role in developing a staff group responsible for enhancing the efficiency of Xerox's worldwide logistics and inventory management systems. Illustrates a range of management strategies for upward and lateral influence in a complex organizational context, as well as the use of a number of innovative human resource management techniques. If used with John A. Clendenin it allows for the discussion of career development issues.Starting at €8.20
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Change-Dazed Manager
Havens, TimArticle HBS-93504-ELeadership and People ManagementGeorge Stanton helped build Sannas Pharmaceuticals in his six years there, and when he is promoted to vice president and director of risk management, he thinks he is set for life. But then a new president is appointed, and George can't tolerate his shady practices. Atwater-Jordan looks like a better company, and George is impressed with Joan, his potential new boss. So he takes the job, even though it means moving his family and asking his wife t...Starting at €8.20
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General Electric's Revolutionary (Spanish version)
Bower, Joseph L.; Dial, JayCase HBS-308S36StrategyDescribes the work of Jack Welch as CEO of General Electric from 1981 to 1992, focusing particularly on his transformation of the company's portfolio through extensive dispositions and acquisitions and the company's culture through a mandated process called "work out." To a considerable extent, the case tells the story in Welch's own words drawing on earlier cases on Welch prepared by Richard Hammermesh and Frank Aguilar, as well as a 1991 interv...Starting at €8.20
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Power Dynamics in Organizations (Spanish version)
Hill, Linda A.Case HBS-403S12Leadership and People ManagementDesigned to introduce the concepts of power and power dynamics to students in the MBA second-year elective course Power and Influence. Defines "power" and "influence," and explores the role of power dynamics in managerial work and in the life of organizations. Combats popular notions that "power is evil" and that "power corrupts" by illustrating how power is necessary to bring about productive and creative resolutions to organizational conflict. ...Starting at €8.20
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Exercising Influence (Spanish version)
Hill, Linda A.Case HBS-407S05Leadership and People ManagementProvides a framework for understanding the exercise of interpersonal influence in organizations. Describes some of the "myths and realities" of management that new managers discover--specifically, that managers are dependent on a complex network of relationships to get work done, and that they must influence others by relying on sources of power other than their formal positional authority. Describes influence as exchange within these networks of...Starting at €8.20
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Managing Your Career (Spanish version)
Hill, Linda A.Case HBS-403S32Leadership and People Management1) managing one's early career, 2) developing power as a minority in the organization and the "glass ceiling" phenomenon, and 3) developing ethical judgment. Focusing special attention on the importance of self-assessment and introspection in building a successful career, the note concludes with a list of questions individuals should ask themselves periodically to take stock of their career and personal development.Starting at €8.20