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Advanced Leadership Note: An Institutional Perspective and Framework for Managing and Leading
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss; Khurana, RakeshCase HBS-410076-ELeadership and People ManagementLarge-scale societal issues increasingly appear on the agenda of business leaders, including poverty, health, education, business-government relations, and the degradation of the environment. These problems are not entirely new, but the forces of globalization and the economic crisis have made them more visible and increase their urgency. They share several characteristics that signal the need for new kinds of societal leadership and academic sch...Starting at €8.20
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PepsiCo India: Performance with Purpose
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss; Khurana, Rakesh; Lal, Rajiv; Kindred, NatalieCase HBS-512041-ETo maximize their effectiveness, color cases should be printed in color. In 2010, PepsiCo India's management is working to translate PepsiCo's new mission, "Performance with Purpose," into practice in the India market. The mission calls for continued financial performance and market leadership, as well as greater emphasis on healthy products, natural resource management, and employee empowerment. PepsiCo India and other regional PepsiCo business ...Starting at €8.20
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It's Time to Make Management a True Profession (Spanish version)
Khurana, Rakesh; Nohria, NitinArticle HBS-R0810DStrategyTrust us to control and exercise jurisdiction over an important occupational category, and, in return, we will ensure that the members of our profession are worthy of your trust - that they will not only be competent to perform the tasks entrusted to them, but that they will also conduct themselves with high standards and great integrity. The authors believe that enforcing educational standards and a code of ethics is unlikely to choke entrepren...Starting at €8.20
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Growing Talent as if Your Business Depended on It (Spanish version)
Cohn, Jeffrey M.; Khurana, Rakesh; Reeves, LauraArticle HBS-R0510CLeadership 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. Traditionally, corporate boards have left leadership planning and development very much up to their CEOs and human resources departments--primarily because they don't perceive that a lack of leadership development in their companies poses the same kind of threat th...Starting at €8.20
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Advancing Leadership Theory and Practice
Nohria, Nitin; Khurana, RakeshBook Chapter HBS-6121BC-ELeadership and People ManagementMore than a means of getting ahead and gaining power, leadership must be understood as a serious professional and personal responsibility. In this introductory chapter, editors Nitin Nohria, the dean of Harvard Business School, and Rakesh Khurana, a professor of leadership development at HBS, point out that while many university graduate programs in business, law, education, and public policy claim that their mission is to educate leaders who wil...Starting at €8.20
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It's Time to Make Management a True Profession
Khurana, Rakesh; Nohria, NitinArticle HBS-R0810D-EIn the face of the recent institutional breakdown of trust in business, managers are losing legitimacy. To regain public trust, management needs to become a true profession in much the way medicine and law have, argue Khurana and Nohria of Harvard Business School. True professions have codes, and the meaning and consequences of those codes are taught as part of the formal education required of their members. Through these codes, professional inst...Starting at €8.20
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PepsiCo Peru Foods: More than Small Potatoes
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss; Khurana, Rakesh; Lal, Rajiv; Bird, MatthewCase HBS-311083-EFor best results, this case should be printed in color Jorge Tarasuk, VP of Operations and Supply Chain for PepsiCo South America Foods, and his team had worked for 10 years to realize their dream of creating an agro research center in Peru that could provide more productive and healthier varieties of potatoes for the Frito-Lay businesses in PepsiCo's tropical regions, including Brazil, China, Egypt, India, Thailand, and Vietnam, where much of it...Starting at €8.20
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The World Economic Forum's Global Leadership Fellows Program
Khurana, Rakesh; Baldwin, EricCase HBS-413118-ELeadership and People ManagementThis case examines a distinctive leadership development program within the World Economic Forum. The program, born out of the conviction that the complexity of global challenges at the beginning of the 21st century required a new generation of global leaders, recruited a small number of "high potential" young leaders from around the world as "Global Leadership Fellows" each year. During the three-year program, Fellows combined a position at the F...Starting at €8.20
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Transforming AMFAM
Khurana, Rakesh; Lal, Rajiv; Ross, CatherineCase HBS-508081-EMarketingTo maximize their effectiveness, color cases should be printed in color. On a winter day in December 2007 at the American Family Mutual Insurance Company (AMFAM) headquarters in Madison, Wisconsin, Dave Anderson and Jack Salzwedel remained in the conference room after the senior management meeting had concluded. Anderson, CEO of AMFAM since January 2007 and Salzwedel, named President in August 2006, reflected together on how far the company had c...Starting at €8.20