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Corporate Governance (Spanish version)
Khurana, RakeshCase HBS-410S02Leadership and People ManagementExamines how Tyco and its board recovered from its corporate scandals. Describes how its CEO and board set out to institute processes, guidelines, and a culture that would make Tyco into a company widely recognized for its world class corporate governance.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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Ejecutar el cambio: siete consideraciones clave
Nohria, Nitin; Khurana, RakeshCase HBS-406S06Leadership and People ManagementProporciona un marco 7S para complementar el marco McKinsey 7S. Se centra en algunas de las decisiones críticas que deben realizarse en la implementación del cambio - Intención Estratégica, sustancia, escala, alcance, velocidad, secuencia y estilo. En general, la nota sostiene que estas decisiones deberán fabricarse de modo que sean coherentes y robusto.Starting at €8.20
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Advanced Leadership Note: An Institutional Perspective and Framework for Managing and Leading
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss; Khurana, RakeshCase HBS-410076-ELeadership and People ManagementLarge-scale societal issues increasingly appear on the agenda of business leaders, including poverty, health, education, business-government relations, and the degradation of the environment. These problems are not entirely new, but the forces of globalization and the economic crisis have made them more visible and increase their urgency. They share several characteristics that signal the need for new kinds of societal leadership and academic sch...Starting at €8.20
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Growing Talent as if Your Business Depended on It (Spanish version)
Cohn, Jeffrey M.; Khurana, Rakesh; Reeves, LauraArticle HBS-R0510CLeadership and People ManagementThis article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading. Traditionally, corporate boards have left leadership planning and development very much up to their CEOs and human resources departments--primarily because they don't perceive that a lack of leadership development in their companies poses the same kind of threat th...Starting at €8.20
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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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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
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PepsiCo, Performance with Purpose, Achieving the Right Global Balance
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss; Khurana, Rakesh; Lal, Rajiv; Baldwin, EricCase HBS-412079-ELeadership and People ManagementThis case explores a shift in strategic direction at PepsiCo, the second-largest food and beverage company in the world. It concentrates on the formation of a new group, the Global Nutrition Group, whose purpose was to bring focus to the company's efforts to significantly expand its offerings in nutritious food and beverages. The case explores the background to that decision and the complexities the company faced in altering its product portfolio...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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The World Economic Forum's Global Leadership Fellows Program
Khurana, Rakesh; Baldwin, EricCase HBS-413118-ELeadership and People ManagementThis case examines a distinctive leadership development program within the World Economic Forum. The program, born out of the conviction that the complexity of global challenges at the beginning of the 21st century required a new generation of global leaders, recruited a small number of "high potential" young leaders from around the world as "Global Leadership Fellows" each year. During the three-year program, Fellows combined a position at the F...Starting at €8.20