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Un nuevo deseo de ganar
McGinn, DanielArticle HBS-R1009LLeadership and People ManagementEn 2004, Rick Hendrick, dueño de la Operación de las carreras de NASCAR Hendrick Motorsports, perdió gran parte de su equipo de gestión en un accidente aéreo. Entre los muertos estaba su hermano y su único hijo, Ricky, quien Hendrick había estado preparando para hacerse cargo del negocio. Sin embargo, este accidente devastador inspirara a todos en la compañía a luchar con más fuerza, y transformaría Hendrick en un líder sabio.Starting at €8.20
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Changing Gender on the Job
McGinn, DanielArticle HBS-R1011M-ELeadership and People ManagementMichael Wallent, twice married and the father of three, had been working at Microsoft for more than 11 years when he decided-with the full support of his wife-to transition to living as a woman. Rejecting the standard approach at big companies, whereby the HR department announces a transgendering (often at a meeting from which the affected employee is absent), Wallent chose to inform his superiors and his direct reports himself. He also urged the...Starting at €8.20
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Battling Back from Betrayal
McGinn, DanielArticle HBS-R1012M-ELeadership and People ManagementStephen Greer's Hong Kong-based scrap-metal-recycling company, Hartwell Pacific, was enjoying a period of fantastic growth in the late 1990s: Within 18 months, the firm grew from two employees to 200 and opened locations in seven countries. But Greer's experience offers a vivid illustration of what can go wrong when an entrepreneur ambitiously expands without understanding that emerging markets operate by very different rules. Greer didn't realiz...Starting at €8.20
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Developing Your Global Know-How
Russwurm, Siegfried; Hernandez, Luis; Chambers, Susan; Chung, Keumyong; McGinn, Daniel; Kuhn, Lothar; Geissler, CorneliaArticle HBS-R1103D-ELeadership and People ManagementFor up-and-coming executives, an overseas posting has long been a rite of passage, providing opportunities not available in their native countries and experience that can be invaluable to their companies both during the assignment and after their return home. How has the Great Recession affected this formula? HBR spoke with the top human resources executives at four multinationals about how their companies are adapting global assignments to meet ...Starting at €8.20
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Confronting Sexual Harassment
Dobbin, Frank; Kalev, Alexandra; Lawrence, Adrienne; Santos, Asha; McGinn, Daniel; Howard, Charles L.Article HBS-R2003B-ELeadership and People Management"Empower Managers to Stop Harassment," by Adrienne Lawrence, an attorney, television host, and author; "'If Something Feels Off, You Need to Speak Up,'" by Asha Santos, an employment attorney; and "What Happens When an Employee Calls the Ombudsman?" by Charles L. Howard, executive director of the International Ombudsman Association.Starting at €8.20
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Street Child Europe: Growing a Charity
Joerg Dietz; Anna ZampaCase IVEY-9B19C029-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People Management, StrategyAt the end of March 2018, the director of the Barcelona office of Street Child, a charity organization with headquarters in the United Kingdom, was looking back at the changes he had introduced in 2017. The Barcelona office was responsible for growing StrStarting at €8.20
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Developing Your Global Know-How (Spanish version)
Russwurm, Siegfried; Hernandez, Luis; Chambers, Susan; Chung, Keumyong; McGinn, Daniel; Kuhn, Lothar; Geissler, CorneliaArticle HBS-R1103DLeadership and People ManagementFor example, at Walmart, as Susan Chambers relates, a new emphasis on creative, shorter-term assignments is allowing more people (including more women) to obtain global experience without the major uprooting of a conventional expat assignment. It is also helping them get that experience earlier in their careers-when it can be of maximum benefit to the employee and the company alike.Starting at €8.20
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Kenexa
Joerg Dietz; Chetan JoshiCase IVEY-9B07C004-ELeadership and People ManagementThis case describes the measurement and evaluation of high performance principles of people management in a retail bank by a consulting company. This case serves as a platform for students to deliberate on what is involved in an organization's quest to achieve competitive success through its workforce. A unique strength of the case is that students are asked to quantitatively test their arguments with data provided in an Excel spreadsheet that ac...Starting at €8.20
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Medical Equipment Inc. in Saudi Arabia
Joerg Dietz; Ankur Grover; Laura GuerreroCase IVEY-9B07C042-ELeadership and People Management, Marketing, StrategyA recently hired U.S.-trained sales account manager at Medical Equipment Inc. (Medical Equipment) returned to his office after meeting with the head of the cardiology department at a specialist hospital and research center in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He had worked very hard to secure his first sale of US$725,000 for healthcare equipment, but was disheartened when the head of cardiology told him that the hospital's purchasing director intended to giv...Starting at €8.20
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A New Will to Win
McGinn, DanielArticle HBS-R1009L-ELeadership and People ManagementIn 2004, Rick Hendrick, owner of the NASCAR racing operation Hendrick Motorsports, lost most of his management team in a plane crash. Among those killed was his brother and his only son, Ricky, whom Hendrick had been grooming to take over the business. Yet this devastating accident would inspire everyone in the company to fight harder, and would transform Hendrick into a wiser leader.Starting at €8.20