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ISS Spain. La máquina integradora (A)
Agulles, Remei; Prats, Mª JuliaCase E-126Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Change, Leadership and People ManagementEl director de país de ISS Spain, Joaquim Borràs, preparaba una reunión con otros directores de país de ISS, a la cual había sido invitado para compartir con ellos su experiencia en adquisiciones e integraciones durante los diez años que ya llevaba en ese puesto. Tras hacer un repaso de la historia de la empresa, decidió hacer hincapié en dos puntos fundamentales: las primeras adquisiciones que condujeron a la constitución de ISS Spain, y el año ...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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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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Beyond Business Instinct
Agulles, Remei; Prats Moreno, Mª JuliaArticle ART-1450-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People ManagementWhile it is widely assumed that entrepreneurs need business competencies like industry analysis, negotiating skills and resource management, other competencies such as interpersonal skills and self-leadership are all too often overlooked. Yet such competencies play a vital role in entrepreneurship - indeed they are a prerequisite for mobilizing the other capabilities and putting them to work in the various contexts in which entrepreneurship take...Starting at €8.20
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ISS Spain. La máquina integradora (B)
Agulles, Remei; Prats, Mª JuliaCase E-133Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Change, Leadership and People ManagementEl director de país de ISS Spain, Joaquim Borràs, recordaba cómo el equipo de ISS Spain decidió en 2004 comprar la empresa de limpieza UNICA, además de Alitecnic, que operaba en las áreas de servicios de control de plagas e higiene medioambiental. De 1999 a 2004, la filial había pasado de 1 a 9.160 empleados por medio de 18 adquisiciones. La empresa tenía un crecimiento orgánico del 7% y unos ingresos de 132 millones de euros, y estaba sólidament...Starting at €5.74
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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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Leadership Lessons from India (Spanish version)
Cappelli, Peter; Singh, Harbir; Singh, Jitendra V.; Useem, MichaelArticle HBS-R1003GLeadership and People ManagementFar more than their Western counterparts, they create a sense of social mission, engage employees in give-and-take, empower them to find solutions, and invest in their training and development. Western leaders should understand the managerial approaches that have fueled the rise of India's largest companies, and mindfully adapt them.Starting at €8.20
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Problem with Proxies (Spanish version)
Useem, MichaelArticle HBS-F0411CLeadership and People ManagementWe can't observe how leaders make decisions, so we judge--and often misjudge--those decisions by appearances, explains business professor Michael Useem.Starting at €8.20