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Leadership Lessons from India
Cappelli, Peter; Singh, Harbir; Singh, Jitendra V.; Useem, MichaelArticle HBS-R1003G-ELeadership and People ManagementUntil recently India was seen by Western businesses primarily as a source of cheap, low-skill labor. But over the past decade the country has attracted a flood of high-skill jobs from the West. Meanwhile, India's economy has grown at roughly 9% a year, and some of its largest companies have grown at twice that rate. What accounts for this? A host of economic, policy, and other environmental factors have played important roles, but the authors asc...Starting at €8.20
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Four Lessons in Adaptive Leadership
Useem, MichaelArticle HBS-R1011F-ELeadership and People ManagementThe armed services have been in the business of leadership development much longer than the corporate world has. Today's military leaders need tools and techniques to face a fast-changing and unpredictable type of enemy-so the armed services train their officers in ways that build a culture of readiness and commitment. Business leaders need to foster an adaptive culture to survive and succeed, given that they, too, face unprecedented uncertainty-...Starting at €8.20
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Picking the Right Insider for CEO Succession
Carey, Dennis; Phelan, Dan; Useem, MichaelArticle HBS-F0901E-ELeadership and People ManagementGlaxoSmithKline's radical process for choosing the best CEO candidate shows the benefit of running parallel evaluations of the finalists.Starting at €8.20
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Amazon.com, Inc: la transformación mediante IA
Samila, Sampsa; Sastre Boquet, IsaacCase SM-1724Information Technologies, Innovation and Change, Leadership and People Management, StrategyEste caso describe el desarrollo y utilización de la IA en Amazon. Este caso ha sido usado en clase para discutir el amplio abanico de aplicaciones de IA en Amazon, los efectos competitivos de estas aplicaciones, el proceso para desarrollar estas aplicaciones, y el estado actual de la organización de Amazon.Starting at €8.20
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Decision Making as Leadership Foundation
Useem, MichaelBook Chapter HBS-6153BC-ELeadership and People ManagementAll organizations have an interest in ensuring that their leaders make good and timely decisions, but good decision making-so vital to effective leadership-is not a skill that comes naturally to every leader. Studies of what Nobel laureate and noted expert on decision making Daniel Kahneman terms "systemic biases"-the mental flaws that separate the choices leaders actually make from what rational agent models expect-reveal that these biases can b...Starting at €8.20
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Picking the Right Insider for CEO Succession (Spanish version)
Carey, Dennis; Phelan, Dan; Useem, MichaelArticle HBS-F0901ELeadership and People ManagementGlaxoSmithKline's radical process for choosing the best CEO candidate shows the benefit of running parallel evaluations of the finalists.Starting at €8.20
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The Promotion Decision
Almandoz, John; Samila, SampsaCase DPO-776-EInformation Technologies, Leadership and People Management, StrategyThis is a choice to fill a director position in a company. What are the benefits of following the recommendation provided by the algorithm that favors one candidate versus following the preference of a manager who knows the other candidate very well and in fact has developed that candidate through coaching? Biases can be discussed and the merits of AI in hiring and promotion decisions.Starting at €8.20
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Ferrer: AI and Digital Transformation in the Pharmaceutical Industry - Teaching Note
Samila, Sampsa; Elvira, MartaTeaching Note SMT-145-EInformation Technologies, Innovation and Change, Leadership and People ManagementIn spring 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic spread throughout the world. Most nations started implementing severe restrictions on personal mobility and business operations. In Spain, access to hospitals was restricted to protect healthcare professionals from contagion. As a result, Spanish pharma companies lost access to their main sales channels: visits to doctors and hospital managers. Ferrer, the largest Spanish pharmaceutical company, responded by ...Starting at €0.00
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Siemens IT Transformation (B): Culture
Samila, Sampsa; Tumbocon, PiaCase SM-1732-EInformation Technologies, Innovation and Change, Leadership and People ManagementThis case describes the transformation of the Siemens corporate IT function from a traditional hierarchical organization to an agile organization and from a provider of basic infrastructure services to an innovation partner of the rest of the corporation to enable digital and AI transformation.Starting at €5.74
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Ferrer: IA y transformación digital en el sector farmacéutico
Samila, Sampsa; Elvira, MartaCase SM-1726Information Technologies, Innovation and Change, Leadership and People ManagementEn la primavera del 2020, la pandemia de COVID-19 se extendió por todo el mundo. Para frenar su expansión, la mayoría de los países empezaron a implementar restricciones severas a la movilidad personal y al funcionamiento de los negocios. En España, se restringió el acceso a los hospitales para proteger a los profesionales sanitarios frente al contagio. Como resultado, las empresas farmacéuticas en España perdieron el acceso a su principal canal ...Starting at €8.20