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Teaching Smart People How to Learn
Argyris, ChrisArticle HBS-91301-ELeadership and People ManagementThis article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading. Competitive success depends on learning, but most people, including professionals in leadership positions, are not very good at it. Learning is a function of how people reason about their own behavior. Yet most people engage in defensive reasoning when confronted ...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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Analyst's Dilemma (A) (Spanish version)
Badaracco, Joseph L., Jr.; Useem, JerryCase HBS-309S37Business Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityA young investment banker returns home one night to find that her roommate and best friend has been laid off from Universal Bank because Universal is shutting down its capital finance group. Her roommate makes her promise to keep this information confidential because the news is not to be disclosed to the market for several days. The protaganist knows, however, that Universal's capital finance group is collaborating with her own investment bank o...Starting at €8.20
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Erik Peterson (D) (Spanish version)
Gabarro, John J.Case HBS-404S06Leadership and People ManagementImplicitly raises the question of what Peterson should do to extricate himself from his difficulties. Should he consider resignation, go directly to the company's president to seek relief, or clarify the situation within the company? A redisguised version of an earlier case.Starting at €5.74
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Erik Peterson (C) (Spanish version)
Gabarro, John J.Case HBS-404S05Leadership and People ManagementDescribes the outcome of Erik Peterson's one-day meeting with his superior and the events of the subsequent day's meeting with the president and vice president of operations of the parent company. Students should have read the (A) and (B) cases. The (C) case may be assigned with the (D) case. A redisguised version of an earlier case.Starting at €5.74
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Erik Peterson (A)
Gabarro, John J.Case HBS-494005-ELeadership and People ManagementDescribes the problems facing a recent MBA graduate in his job as general manager of a mobile cellular company owned by a parent corporation. Raises issues of corporate divisional relationships and the difficulties facing an inexperienced manager who seems to be receiving little support. A redisguised version of an earlier case.Starting at €8.20
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Erik Peterson (A) (Spanish version)
Gabarro, John J.Case HBS-404S03Leadership and People ManagementDescribes the problems facing a recent MBA graduate in his job as general manager of a mobile cellular company owned by a parent corporation. Raises issues of corporate divisional relationships and the difficulties facing an inexperienced manager who seems to be receiving little support. A redisguised version of an earlier case.Starting at €8.20
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Erik Peterson (B) (Spanish version)
Gabarro, John J.Case HBS-404S04Leadership and People ManagementThis one-paragraph case adds to the data presented in the (A) case. A redisguised version of an earlier case.Starting at €5.74
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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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Richard Jenkins (Spanish version)
Gabarro, John J.; Burtis, AndrewCase HBS-403S30Leadership and People ManagementWritten from the point of view of Richard Jenkins, the president of CelluComm. Presents his reflections on the series of events leading to the firing of one of CelluComm's general managers, Erik Peterson. A rewritten version of an earlier case.Starting at €8.20