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Taking Off in a New Role: Reflections From Top Management
Stein, Guido; Cuadrado, MartaTechnical Note DPON-115-ECorporate Governance, Leadership and People Management, StrategyThe purpose of this technical note is to explore some of the initial actions that should be taken when starting out in a top management position through the experience of the president and CEO for Spain of a global U.S. financial services company - one of the 30 most prestigious companies in the United States - and three other senior executives from different sectors. It also addresses the competencies and characteristics that define an effective...Starting at €8.20
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The Merger of Banca Popolare (A, B and C) - Teaching Note
Pin Arboledas, José Ramón; Stein, Guido; Cuadrado, MartaTeaching Note DPOT-71-EThe objective of the case "The Merger of Banca Popolare" is to teach the real dynamic of merger and acquisition processes in companies, particularly their influence on people. However many attempts are made to carry out a balanced process, in which the managers from both companies have equal opportunities, it will be almost impossible to achieve this. Likewise, the case should be used to guide students on how to act if they work for one of the c...Starting at €0.00
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LIPA (A): Impact of a Merger
Rábago, Eduardo; Stein, GuidoCase DPO-172-ECorporate GovernanceThe human resources director of OLTRA, a leading Spanish manufacturer that has recently acquired one of the largest Argentinean companies, LIPA, must decide how to approach the task of integrating LIPAs existing employees. As far as the top-level executives are concerned, he feels that assessment results hardly count, as the decisions will be made elsewhere and for other reasons. How can the experience gained in Spain be combined with the chall...Starting at €8.20
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Human Decisions: The Role of the Will
Stein, Guido; Vázquez- Dodero, Juan CarlosTechnical Note ASNN-10-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Leadership and People ManagementThe objective of this teaching note is to explain why making good executive decisions does not just stem from intelligence, but more importantly from the will of the decision maker. To decide cleverly you have to think cleverly, but above all you need to have strong will. Current thinking about the significance of feelings and their influence on intelligence, usually known as emotional, has led to the anthropological foundations upon which manage...Starting at €8.20
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Sybila Börjesson at Catek (A, B, C and D) - Teaching Note
Stein, GuidoTeaching Note DPOT-25-ELeadership and People Management, Service and Operations ManagementThe objective of the first part of this case, entitled "Towards General Management", is to reflect on the key elements in the successful career of Sybila, a female executive, and also to look at the personal and professional challenges she has to face when appointed Managing Director of a logistics company under expansion. The second part, B, "The Decision Taken by the Boss" is a chance to discuss the reasons why she, as Managing Director, and th...Starting at €0.00
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West Line (B): Looking ahead
Stein, Guido; Pin Arboledas, José RamónCase DPO-459-ELeadership and People ManagementIn September 2014, Guillermo becomes part of a talent acceleration program. About to complete his third year as head of West Line Iberia, he asks himself what his next steps should be to continue growing professionally. His uncertainty about his next stop makes him reflect upon the characteristics that are needed to find a spot among high-level management at his company's headquarters. Case based on the homonymous DPO-317 case that was formerly p...Starting at €5.74
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Practical Guide to Settling Into a New Executive Position
Stein, Guido; García García, DavidTechnical Note DPON-111-ECorporate Governance, Innovation and Change, Leadership and People ManagementThis technical note gives a concise description of some basic factors in the process of settling into a new executive position, to which one must pay close attention to ensure an effective transition from the very start of the process. It does not aim to offer a comprehensive list of the elements involved in the various stages of taking charge - which is left to other technical notes - but rather to provide an essential and practical guide to hel...Starting at €8.20
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Agility Properly Understood and Better Implemented: The Digital Revolution: From Methodologies to People
Stein, Guido; Barrachina, AlbertoTechnical Note DPON-162-EInformation Technologies, Innovation and Change, Leadership and People ManagementCompanies need to take a more dynamic approach to decision-making and ensure that the decisions they take are right more often that they are wrong. This is only possible if we learn better and faster. We have gone from being knowledge workers to being learning workers. The pursuit of consensus is no longer just an organizational priority; now accord arises from the creation of "organisms" or communities where knowledge and its real application ar...Starting at €8.20
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Transformation at Telefónica: People as Drivers of Change
Quinn, Bernardo; Stein, GuidoCase DPO-732-EInformation Technologies, Leadership and People Management, StrategyAfter the meeting, as the newly appointed global director of Human Resources, Bernardo Quinn, walked back to his office in the West 2 Building of the Telefónica District in Madrid, he thought about what role Human Resources should play in the changes that were coming. He thought that the effort it would take to mobilize a company the size of Telefónica would be enormous. They would have to take a close look at the planned talent agenda and the co...Starting at €8.20
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The Othello Boss Syndrome in Businesses
Pin Arboledas, José Ramón; Stein, GuidoTechnical Note DPON-107-ELeadership and People ManagementOur teaching and consulting experience has often put us in the position of dealing with a manager's career problems that can only be fully understood under the hypothesis of a jealous boss. In a manner similar to that of Othello, whose love for Desdemona leads him to suffer the passion of jealousy that motivates all of his actions, in corporate life you come across managers and businesspeople whose quest for publicly recognized power, brilliance ...Starting at €8.20