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Transforming AMFAM , Teaching Note
Khurana, Rakesh; Lal, RajivTeaching Note HBS-513079-EMarketingTeaching Note for 508081Starting at €0.00
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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
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Revisiting the Meaning of Leadership
Podolny, Joel M.; Khurana, Rakesh; Besharov, MaryaBook Chapter HBS-6123BC-ELeadership and People ManagementThe authors of this chapter contend that the study of leadership in organizational theory went awry when interest in leadership became too tightly coupled with organizational performance. Leading organizational theorists in the latter part of the twentieth century, such as Max Weber, Chester Barnard, and Philip Selznick, were not concerned with leadership because of its ability to explain financial performance. Instead, they were concerned with l...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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Teaming at GE Aviation
Khurana, Rakesh; Polzer, Jeffrey T.; Shih, Willy; Baldwin, EricCase HBS-413074-ELeadership and People ManagementDescribes the challenges and successes encountered by GE's Aviation business in implementing a teaming work structure and culture in plants across its supply chain. GE Aviation leadership had seen dramatic gains in productivity, quality, and worker satisfaction in manufacturing plants where it had implemented teaming, which was designed to move decision-making as close to the product as possible by delegating authority, responsibility, and accoun...Starting at €8.20
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Messier's Reign at Vivendi Universal, Teaching Note
Khurana, RakeshTeaching Note HBS-407098-ELeadership and People ManagementTeaching note to (405-063). An abstract is not available for this product.Starting at €0.00
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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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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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Raymond Jetson's MetroMorphosis and the Effort to Transform Baton Rouge
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss; Khurana, Rakesh; Penrice, DanielCase HBS-315057-ERaymond Jetson, an inner-city pastor, former Louisiana state legislator, and 2010 Harvard University Advanced Leadership Fellow, has embarked on a new career as a social entrepreneur. The case charts Jetson's career in public life and the ministry, his experience as an Advanced Leadership Fellow, and his efforts to establish and grow a nonprofit organization, MetroMorphosis, with a mission "to develop and mobilize a critical mass of citizens in i...Starting at €8.20
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HBS Class of 2009: All Talk As They Prepare to Walk
Khurana, Rakesh; Nohria, Nitin; Rahman, DaliaCase HBS-411024-ELeadership and People ManagementMax Anderson, HBS Class of 2009, founded the MBA Oath Initiative. The oath was a voluntary pledge "to create value responsibly and ethically." Anderson and a team of students and faculty worked to launch the first MBA Oath Ceremony conducted on campus during Harvard graduation week.Starting at €8.20