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Winning the Race for Talent in Emerging Markets
Ready, Douglas A.; Hill, Linda A.; Conger, Jay A.Article HBS-R0811C-ELeadership 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. "This war for talent is like nothing we've ever seen before," write the authors, who have spent decades studying talent management and leadership development. Recently they interviewed executives at more than 20 global companies to identify strategies for attractin...Starting at €8.20
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Building a Game-Changing Talent Strategy
Ready, Douglas A.; Hill, Linda A.; Thomas, Robert J.Article HBS-R1401D-ELeadership and People ManagementWhen most of the world's financial services giants were stumbling and retrenching in the aftermath of the 2008 recession, the asset management firm BlackRock was busy charting a course for growth. Its revenues, profits, and stock price all performed consistently through this tumultuous period. The authors looked at BlackRock and other game-changing companies--the Mumbai-based global conglomerate Tata Group, and Envision, an entrepreneurial altern...Starting at €8.20
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Winning the Race for Talent in Emerging Markets (Spanish version)
Ready, Douglas A.; Hill, Linda A.; Conger, Jay A.Article HBS-R0811CLeadership 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. "This war for talent is like nothing we've ever seen before," write the authors, who have spent decades studying talent management and leadership development. Recently they interviewed executives at more than 20 global companies to identify strategies for attractin...Starting at €8.20
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Are You a High Potential? (Spanish version)
Ready, Douglas A.; Conger, Jay A.; Hill, Linda A.Article HBS-R1006ELeadership and People Managementa drive to excel, a catalytic learning capability, an enterprising spirit, and dynamic sensors that detect opportunities and obstacles. The authors' in-depth interviews with high potentials, their managers, and their HR departments reveal how you can develop your four X factors and, if you manage to get on your company's high-potential list, how to avoid falling off. The article also discusses the pros and cons companies face as they decide whet...Starting at €8.20
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El poder de la ambición colectiva
Ready, Douglas A.; Truelove, EmilyArticle HBS-R1112FLeadership and People ManagementEn los últimos años, algunas compañías no sólo han resistido la tormenta económica: Han surgido más fuerte que nunca. ¿Cómo los jugadores tales como cuatro estaciones, Sephora, y Standard Chartered Bank desafían la lógica convencional? En lugar de perseguir una única ambición, tales como los beneficios, los empleados definen una ambición colectiva. Como resultado, las organizaciones profundizaron su compromiso con los empleados y otras partes int...Starting at €8.20
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Are You a High Potential
Ready, Douglas A.; Conger, Jay A.; Hill, Linda A.Article HBS-R1006E-ELeadership and People ManagementSome employees are more talented than others, and nearly every company has its method for identifying their high-potential managers. So how can you get on your company's high-potential list? Douglas A. Ready, of the talent-management research center ICEDR; Jay A. Conger, of Claremont McKenna College; and Harvard Business School's Linda A. Hill have studied programs for high-potential leaders for 15 years. They have found that the rising stars who...Starting at €8.20
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The Case of the Floundering Expatriate (HBR Case and Commentary)
Adler, Gordon; Ready, Douglas A.; Schneider, Susan; Johansson, Bjorn; Trompenaars, Fons; Borboa, RomanArticle HBS-95401-ELeadership and People ManagementFrank Waterhouse, CEO of Argos Diesel, Europe, is exasperated. Bert Donaldson, who arrived in Zurich a year ago to create a European team--to facilitate communication among the parts suppliers that Argos has acquired over the past two years--just isn't working out. Although he has excellent credentials, both as a successful team builder at Argos International in Detroit and as a teacher in Cairo, his style seems abrasive here and he is behind sch...Starting at €8.20
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Indispensable (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
Beeson, John; Rowe, John W.; Reilly, Edward; Ready, Douglas A.; Jordan, Michael; Conger, JayArticle HBS-R0609A-ELeadership and People ManagementEdward Bennett has done wonders at Astar Enterprises. In the 15 years he's been CEO, the company has more than tripled in size through product line extension and disciplined acquisitions and is now distributing its cleaning, personal hygiene, and skin care products nationwide. But Astar's chief executive is 64 years old, and while all his attention is taken up with a new strategy to expand into international markets, board members are becoming in...Starting at €8.20
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The Power of Collective Ambition
Ready, Douglas A.; Truelove, EmilyArticle HBS-R1112F-ELeadership and People ManagementIn the past few years, some companies have not just weathered the economic storm: They've emerged stronger than ever. How did such players as Four Seasons, Sephora, and Standard Chartered Bank defy conventional logic? Instead of pursuing a single ambition, such as profits, employees defined a collective ambition. As a result, those organizations deepened their engagement with employees and other stakeholders and became sustainably profitable. Pur...Starting at €8.20