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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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Gender at Work, Teaching Note
Groysberg, Boris; Ammerman, ColleenTeaching Note HBS-417058-ELeadership and People ManagementTeaching note for case 416026.Starting at €0.00
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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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Rethink What You "Know" About High-Achieving Women
Ely, Robin J.; Stone, Pamela; Ammerman, ColleenArticle HBS-R1412G-ELeadership and People ManagementOn the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the admission of women to Harvard Business School's MBA program, the authors, who have spent more than 20 years studying professional women, set out to learn what HBS graduates had to say about work and family and how their experiences, attitudes, and decisions might shed light on prevailing controversies. What their comprehensive survey revealed suggests that the conventional wisdom about women's career...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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Gender at Work
Groysberg, Boris; Ammerman, ColleenCase HBS-416026-ELeadership and People ManagementStarting at €8.20
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How to Close the Gender Gap
Ammerman, Colleen; Groysberg, BorisArticle HBS-R2103J-ELeadership and People ManagementMost companies say they're committed to advancing women into leadership roles. What they may fail to recognize, though, is that systemic barriers are holding women back. As a result, women remain disadvantaged at every stage of their employment and underrepresented in positions of power. Drawing on their own research and the scholarship of others, the authors describe common forms of gender discrimination in seven key areas of talent management: ...Starting at €8.20
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Glass-Shattering Leaders: Ana Paula Pessoa
Groysberg, Boris; Ammerman, ColleenCase HBS-421071-ELeadership and People ManagementAna Paula Pessoa built a career at the largest media conglomerate in Latin America, combining a passion for digital transformation with a commitment to doing work that had a posititve impact on society. Having grown up during a dictatorial miltary regime in Brazil, the value of a free press was clear to Pessoa. She ultimately rose to become CFO of the company's print media arm, before making a career shift to invest in technology startups and lat...Starting at €8.20