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Eden McCallum
Gardner, Heidi K.; Eccles, Robert G.Case HBS-409060-ELeadership and People ManagementThis case illustrates the leadership and management challenges of starting a new firm based on a new business model and how success creates pressures that challenge the work/life balance which was one of the original goals of its two founders. The case also raises issues about the changing nature of careers and changing preferences people have for structuring their personal and professional lives.Starting at €8.20
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Michael Clark at Regency Consulting Partners
Gardner, Heidi K.Case HBS-414040-ELeadership and People ManagementStarting at €8.20
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Crafting a Career Narrative for New Professionals
Gardner, Heidi K.; Zalisk, AdamCase HBS-413122-ELeadership and People ManagementThis note suggests an approach for developing an effective "career narrative" - a tool for packaging and sharing a professional's past achievements, long-term goals, and forward-looking needs through a compelling story. It focuses mostly on the ways junior professionals can leverage their career story, but also consider what role more senior mentors can - and should - play in cultivating and sharing juniors' career narratives.Starting at €8.20
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GlaxoSmithKline: Sourcing Complex Professional Services, Supplementary Materials
Gardner, Heidi K.; Hodges Silverstein, SilviaCase HBS-414034-ELeadership and People ManagementStarting at €8.20
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Back Channels in the Boardroom
Gardner, Heidi K.; Peterson, Randall S.Article HBS-R1905G-ELeadership and People ManagementThe agendas of company boards are so packed that it's hard to get to every question and concern during regular meetings. So between meetings, directors do what members of a team always do in this situation: They start having conversations on the side. Conducted properly, side discussions allow directors to work together efficiently--to trade opinions, share information, and exert influence. But conducted improperly, they encourage political maneu...Starting at €8.20
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GlaxoSmithKline: Sourcing Complex Professional Services, Teaching Note
Gardner, Heidi K.; Hodges Silverstein, SilviaTeaching Note HBS-414050-ELeadership and People ManagementTeaching Note for 414003.Starting at €0.00
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Hiring Professionals in China: A Practitioner's Guide
Gardner, Heidi K.Case HBS-411029-ELeadership and People ManagementThis note outlines how leading professional service firms operating in China revise their standard hiring practices to fit local challenges and customs. Based on interviews with professionals in a number of established accounting, strategy consulting, and executive search firms presently operating in China, it explores best practices they use to hire exceptional professionals who will succeed in building high quality client relationships, deliver...Starting at €8.20
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Eden McCallum: A Network-Based Consulting Firm (A) & (B), Teaching Note
Gardner, Heidi K.; McFee, ErinTeaching Note HBS-410116-ELeadership and People ManagementTeaching Note for 410056 and 411027.Starting at €0.00
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Eden McCallum: A Network-Based Consulting Firm (A)
Gardner, Heidi K.; Eccles, Robert G.Case HBS-410056-ELeadership and People ManagementEden McCallum pioneered the network-based ("virtual") consulting firm model in the UK. Contracting freelance consultants on a per-project basis keeps overheads lean so that Eden McCallum's fees are a fraction of the big firms' rates. Their flexible, low-cost model has attracted top-notch corporate clients, resulting in steady double-digit annual growth in its first nine years. In January 2009, however, the global economic crisis has dramatically ...Starting at €8.20
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Marshall & Gordon: Designing an Effective Compensation System (B)
Gardner, Heidi K.; Herman, KerryCase HBS-411099-ELeadership and People ManagementCEO Kelly Browne wrestles with the design and roll-out of a new compensation system to promote the collaboration necessary for supporting her firm's new strategy. Marshall Gordon International, a global public relations (PR) firm, has recently expanded its service offering to include Executive Positioning, which requires significantly more teamwork, higher-level client interaction and more strategically-minded consultants than their traditional P...Starting at €5.74