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El caso HBR: La novata estar a la altura
Green Carmichael, SarahArticle HBS-R0912BLeadership and People ManagementUna semana antes de Navidad, Tim O'Connell, un gerente de Driscoll Software, recibe una llamada de casinos Hybara. El sistema antiguo de cliente se ha estrellado, y la compañía quiere ser rescatado por el Día de Año Nuevo. El proyecto va a generar ingresos muy necesarios, pero se trata de un valor de seis semanas de trabajo embutida en dos - y durante las vacaciones, no menos. programador estrella de Tim, Alessandra Sandoval, dejó varios meses an...Starting at €8.20
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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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Is the Rookie Ready? (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
Green Carmichael, SarahArticle HBS-R0912B-ELeadership and People ManagementA week before Christmas, Tim O'Connell, a manager at Driscoll Software, gets a call from Hybara Casinos. The former client's system has crashed, and the company wants to be rescued by New Year's Day. The project will generate much-needed revenue, but it involves six weeks' worth of work crammed into two - and over the holidays, no less. Tim's star programmer, Alessandra Sandoval, quit several months earlier, and the rookie Kristen Hammersmith has...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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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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Is the Rookie Ready (HBR Case Study)
Green Carmichael, SarahArticle HBS-R0912X-ELeadership and People ManagementA week before Christmas, Tim O'Connell, a manager at Driscoll Software, gets a call from Hybara Casinos. The former client's system has crashed, and the company wants to be rescued by New Year's Day. The project will generate much-needed revenue, but it involves six weeks' worth of work crammed into two - and over the holidays, no less. Tim's star programmer, Alessandra Sandoval, quit several months earlier, and the rookie Kristen Hammersmith has...Starting at €8.20
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Is the Rookie Ready (Commentary for HBR Case Study)
Green Carmichael, SarahArticle HBS-R0912Z-ELeadership and People ManagementA week before Christmas, Tim O'Connell, a manager at Driscoll Software, gets a call from Hybara Casinos. The former client's system has crashed, and the company wants to be rescued by New Year's Day. The project will generate much-needed revenue, but it involves six weeks' worth of work crammed into two - and over the holidays, no less. Tim's star programmer, Alessandra Sandoval, quit several months earlier, and the rookie Kristen Hammersmith has...Starting at €8.20
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The Flight of the Boomerang Employee (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
Green Carmichael, SarahArticle HBS-R1004M-ELeadership and People ManagementLiana, a product developer-turned-entrepreneur, is invited back to her old company to take over her former boss's job. She's excited about the prospect of trying out some new ideas there, and the CEO says he's eager to see what she can do, but Liana wonders how receptive to change he and the rest of the executive committee will really be when projects are on the line-and whether her reputation as someone who'd previously quit will harm her abilit...Starting at €8.20