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Ensuring Better Leaders and Leadership: Implementing the Five Rules of Effective Leadership
Ulrich, Dave; Smallwood, Norm; Sweetman, KateBook Chapter HBS-3929BC-EAccording to Dave Ulrich, Norm Smallwood, and Kate Sweetman, there are five rules of effective leadership that comprise a leadership code. However, in order to be useful, rules not only have to be defined, but be used and lead to action. In this chapter, the authors explore ideas about how to use all five elements of the code together to build better leadership and to be a better leader. This chapter is excerpted from "The Leadership Code: Five R...Starting at €8.20
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Rule 4: Build the Next Generation--A Cardinal Rule of Effective Leadership
Ulrich, Dave; Smallwood, Norm; Sweetman, KateBook Chapter HBS-3927BC-EToday's talent matters, but tomorrow's talent matters just as much. Leaders who invest in tomorrow's talent build for the future, create sustainability, and ensure a legacy. Human capital should be enhanced just as financial, information, and relationship capital are. To build the next generation, you must be a human capital developer--this chapter shows you how. This chapter is excerpted from "The Leadership Code: Five Rules to Lead By."Starting at €8.20
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Defining Leadership Code: The Five Rules of Effective Leadership
Ulrich, Dave; Smallwood, Norm; Sweetman, KateBook Chapter HBS-3921BC-EKnowledge and CommunicationEveryone agrees that leadership matters. But what makes an effective leader? The answer to this simple question is elusive, but according to Ulrich, Smallwood, and Sweetman, there is actually a leadership code comprised of five rules. If you want to be aStarting at €8.20
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Financing Higher Education in Australia
Moss, David A.; Lo, StephanieCase HBS-711047-EFinanceEven before Australian lawmakers abolished university tuition in 1973, students in Australia had long benefited from low tuition and large government subsidies. By the early 1980s, however, the nation's universities faced growing budget challenges and an apparent shortage of capacity as demand for higher education surged. Policymakers, cognizant of a growing budget deficit as well as a hard-hitting recession, hesitated to provide increased fundin...Starting at €8.20
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Fannie Mae: Public or Private
Moss, David A.; Bolton, ColeCase HBS-709025-EEconomicsIn 1987, President Ronald Reagan established the President's Commission on Privatization to identify federal government functions that could be shifted to the private sector. One agency that the Commission considered was the Federal National Mortgage Association, or Fannie Mae. Fannie Mae was a Depression-era creation that was charged with establishing a secondary market for home loans. By purchasing qualifying residential mortgages from individu...Starting at €8.20
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Steering Monetary Policy Through Unprecedented Crises
Moss, David A.; Bolton, ColeCase HBS-711048-EEconomicsIn early April 2008, economic conditions in Europe appeared to be deteriorating on almost all fronts: sales figures were falling, business and consumer confidence were slumping, forecasts for European growth were being revised downward, and inflation was rising. In fact, figures for the month of March revealed that inflation had reached an annualized rate of 3.5%, Europe's highest level since 1992. On top of these broad economic problems, the Eur...Starting at €8.20
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Envisioning "Free Banking" in Antebellum New York (A)
Bolton, Cole; Moss, David A.Case HBS-708038-EFinanceBanks throughout New York State suspended specie payments (i.e., payments in gold and silver) in May 1837 following the collapse of several state banks, and the onset of a nationwide financial panic. Amid the chaos, the upstart Whigs were able to depose the longstanding Republican majority in the state legislature. Responding to citizen anger, as well as perennial calls for more banking capital, the Whigs drafted a novel "free banking" bill, whic...Starting at €8.20
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The Pecora Hearings
Moss, David A.; Bolton, Cole; Kintgen, EugeneCase HBS-711046-EFinanceIn 1932, in the depths of the Great Depression, the Senate Banking Committee began a much-publicized investigation of the nation's financial sector. The hearings, which came to be known as the Pecora hearings after the Banking Committee's lead counsel Ferdinand Pecora, revealed how the country's most respected financial institutions knowingly misled investors as to the desirability of certain securities, engaged in irresponsible investment behavi...Starting at €8.20
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Rule 3: Engage Today's Talent--A Cardinal Rule of Effective Leadership
Ulrich, Dave; Smallwood, Norm; Sweetman, KateBook Chapter HBS-3926BC-ELeadership can never occur in isolation from followers. Leaders must be talent managers. Talent managers know how to identify, build, and engage talent to get results now. Talent managers identify what skills are required, draw talent to their organizations, develop people, engage them, and ensure that employees turn in their best efforts. Talent managers generate intense personal, professional, and organizational loyalty. How to optimize talent ...Starting at €8.20
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Rule 1: Shape the Future--A Cardinal Rule of Effective Leadership
Ulrich, Dave; Smallwood, Norm; Sweetman, KateBook Chapter HBS-3924BC-EStrategy is being clear about where you want to go. The language may differ--mission, vision, goals, strategies, objectives, and outcomes--but any leader's intention is to create a future that is even more attractive than the present by occupying a strategic position that no one else can touch. Shaping the future--one of the cardinal rules of leadership--requires you to master the four strategy principles that are outlined in this chapter. This c...Starting at €8.20