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John Meredith of Hutchison Port Holdings
Kathleen E. Slaughter; Jeffrey Gandz; Nigel GoodwinCaso IVEY-9B07C027-EDirección estratégica, Liderazgo y Dirección de personasThis case examines the life, career and leadership style of John Meredith, the group managing director of Hutchison Port Holdings (HPH). Meredith established the company in 1972 based on his vision for more efficient global trade. Under his leadership, the company grew to become the world's largest container port operator. The company grew from owning and managing a single container port to owning and managing 45 container ports by May 2007. This...Desde 8,20 €
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Just Trying to Help (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
Kirby, Julia; Buckingham, Marcus; Bischmann, Joanne; Kolind, Lars; Blomquist, TomasArtículo HBS-R0606A-ELiderazgo y Dirección de personasEvery year, at the annual summit of Ralston Crane's marketing group, Chief Marketing Officer Ruth McViney homes in on an important organizational objective. Last year, the architecture and design firm was focused on green building initiatives. This year, Ruth says, is the year of customer loyalty. Toward the end of her keynote remarks, she introduces two kickoff projects. The goals of one, Project Holding Pattern, sound familiar to Ralston's Guy ...Desde 8,20 €
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Sara Tsien
Jeffrey Gandz; Elizabeth SpracklinCaso IVEY-9B10C007-ELiderazgo y Dirección de personasSara Tsien must decide what performance assessment to give one of her employees who has, uncharacteristically, failed to meet one of her key objectives for the year. The situation is difficult for several reasons; the causes of the unacceptable performance are not clear; the employee has previously received excellent appraisals, including a recent one by the vice-president; and the employee was absent for a good part of the year on maternity leav...Desde 8,20 €
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Developing Leadership Character
Mary M. Crossan; Jeffrey Gandz; Gerard SeijtsArtículo IVEY-9B12TA07-ELiderazgo y Dirección de personasThe 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 ...Desde 8,20 €
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Inventing HBR
Kirby, JuliaArtículo HBS-R1211E-EHarvard Business Review was launched in 1922 by a Harvard Business School dean who wanted to equip managers-in-training with better tools of the trade. Its initial print run was only 6,000 copies, and its initial subscription price--$5--was a point of contention between the dean and his outside publisher. For the next 25 years the magazine barely broke even. But between its founding and World War II, the HBS faculty became competent at translatin...Desde 8,20 €
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Dominion Defence Industries Inc.
Jeffrey GandzCaso IVEY-9B13M017-EDirección estratégicaThe regional manager of Latin America for a Canadian defence contractor must decide whether or not to employ a South American agent to represent the company and negotiate an agreement to supply body armour to the procurement group of a Central American country's armed forces. The Canadian manager is concerned about whether or not the employment of this agent poses a reputational risk to his company, given the current Canadian legislation with res...Desde 8,20 €
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Beyond Automation
Davenport, Thomas H.; Kirby, JuliaArtículo HBS-R1506C-EPeople in all walks of life are rightly concerned about advancing automation: Unless we find as many tasks to give humans as we find to take away from them, all the social and psychological ills of joblessness will grow, from economic recession to youth unemployment to individual crises of identity. What if, the authors ask, we were to reframe the situation? What if we were to uncover new feats that people might achieve if they had better think...Desde 8,20 €
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The Cross-Enterprise Leader
Mary M. Crossan; Jeffrey Gandz; Gerard SeijtsArtículo IVEY-9B08TD03-ELiderazgo y Dirección de personasVisualize 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...Desde 8,20 €
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VertiSoft Inc.: Raising the Bar
Jeffrey GandzCaso IVEY-9B08C003-EDirección estratégica, Liderazgo y Dirección de personasNew metrics have been introduced to a software technical support call center operation. These metrics have revealed a wide range of performance between employees both for time taken to answer customers' questions and the customer's perceived quality of service. The call center manager is wondering how to make use of these metrics. He is inclined to go public with them, whereas the head of human resources believes that this could be damaging to em...Desde 8,20 €
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Employee Engagement at Modern Appliances Inc. (C)
Jeffrey GandzCaso IVEY-9B07C037-ELiderazgo y Dirección de personasThis supplement to Employee Engagement at Modern Appliances Inc. (A), product # 9B07C035 features the chief executive officer talking about the need for engagement and the process that Modern Appliances used.Desde 5,74 €