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How Apple Is Organized for Innovation
Podolny, Joel M.; Hansen, Morten T.Article HBS-R2006F-ELeadership and People ManagementWhen Steve Jobs returned to Apple, in 1997, it had a conventional structure for a company of its size and scope. It was divided into business units, each with its own P&L responsibilities. Believing that conventional management had stifled innovation, JobStarting at €8.20
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The Buck Stops (and Starts) at Business School
Podolny, Joel M.Article HBS-R0906G-EPeople in America have come to believe that business schools are harmful to society, fostering in their graduates behavior that is self-interested, unethical, and sometimes even illegal. Many are convinced that managers are simply incapable of self-regulation and have called for laws to govern executive compensation and corporate financial reporting. Sure, legislation is cumbersome, but the consequences of self-governance are apparently even wors...Starting at €8.20
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La responsabilidad comienza y termina en las escuelas de negocios
Podolny, Joel M.Article HBS-R0906GKnowledge and CommunicationLas personas en Estados Unidos han llegado a creer que las escuelas de negocios son perjudiciales para la sociedad, fomentando en su comportamiento graduados que se auto-interesada, poco ético, ya veces incluso ilegales. Muchos están convencidos de que los gerentes son simplemente incapaces de auto-regulación y han llamado a las leyes que rigen la compensación ejecutiva y la información financiera corporativa. Sin duda, la legislación es engorros...Starting at €8.20
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Invictus: Introducing Leadership Competencies, Character and Commitment - Teaching Note
Gerard Seijts; Jeffrey Gandz; Mary M. CrossanTeaching Note IVEY-8B14C016-ELeadership and People ManagementTeaching note for product 9B14C016.Starting at €0.00
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Coping With Complexity
Niels Billou; Mary M. Crossan; Gerard SeijtsArticle IVEY-9B10TC01-EStrategyCoping with the complexity of today's business environment is not about predicting the future or reducing risk. It's about building the capacity, in yourself, your people, and the organization to adapt continuously and learn speedily, in order to maximize the chances of seizing fleeting opportunities. These authors' excellent suggestions will help today's leaders cope with complexity.Starting at €8.20
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A Not So Rosy Situation: Bill Aziz's Challenge at White Rose Crafts and Nursery Sales Limited - Teaching Note
Mary M. Crossan; Gerard Seijts; Ken MarkTeaching Note IVEY-8B07M53-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyTeaching note for product 9B07M053.Starting at €0.00
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Developing Leadership Character
Mary M. Crossan; Jeffrey Gandz; Gerard SeijtsArticle IVEY-9B12TA07-ELeadership and People ManagementThe sum of virtues, values, and traits equals good character, which, in addition to competence and commitment, is one of the three components that make a leader effective and respected. For many, however, virtues and values remain undefinable or elusive. These authors define and de-construct them, and in the process demonstrate how character helps people in their personal journeys to become better leaders. Furthermore, they explain how character ...Starting at €8.20
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The Cross-Enterprise Leader
Mary M. Crossan; Jeffrey Gandz; Gerard SeijtsArticle IVEY-9B08TD03-ELeadership and People ManagementVisualize a leader with virtues such as courage and integrity, as well as five key types of intelligence, and you've got a clear picture of the cross-enterprise leader. So equipped, such a leader has what it takes to adopt the enterprise-wide perspective that is necessary to make the right decisions for creating and delivering value to all stakeholders. These Ivey professors describe how an organization develops the type of leader to succeed in t...Starting at €8.20
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A Not So Rosy Situation: Bill Aziz's Challenge at White Rose Crafts and Nursery Sales Limited
Mary M. Crossan; Gerard Seijts; Ken MarkCase IVEY-9B07M053-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyIn late November 2002, halfway through the vital Christmas selling season, William E. Aziz, hired to turn around White Rose Crafts and Nursery Sales Limited (White Rose), has to decide what to do. White Rose is under Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act (CCAA) protection, having breached its debt covenants. The company's upper and middle management is frustrated that their efforts since 1999 have not turned the firm around. The remaining employee...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