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Is Silence Killing Your Company? (Spanish version)
Perlow, Leslie A.; Williams, StephanieArticle HBS-R0305CLeadership and People ManagementMany times, often with the best of intentions, people at work decide it's more productive to remain silent about their differences than to air them. But as new research by the authors shows, silencing doesn't smooth things over or make people more productive. It merely pushes differences beneath the surface and can set in motion powerfully destructive forces. When people stay silent about important disagreements, they can begin to fill with anxie...Starting at €8.20
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George Martin at The Boston Consulting Group (C)
Perlow, Leslie A.; Herman, KerryCase HBS-410118-ELeadership and People ManagementGeorge Martin, managing partner at The Boston Consulting Group, is worried as some of his best performers have recently pulled him aside to discuss the challenges they face managing the demands of their work lives with their desire for more predictable time with their families. BCG had instituted multiple initiatives to help its consulting staff better achieve work-life balance, yet some of Martin's top consultants still struggled. The case consi...Starting at €5.74
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George Martin at The Boston Consulting Group (A) (Spanish Version)
Perlow, Leslie A.; Herman, KerryCase HBS-420S07Leadership and People ManagementGeorge Martin, socio gerente de The Boston Consulting Group, está preocupado de que algunos de sus mejores intérpretes recientemente le han tirado a un lado para hablar de los desafíos que enfrentan la gestión de las demandas de su vida laboral con su deseo de tiempo más predecible con sus familias. BCG había instituido varias iniciativas para ayudar a su personal consultar a lograr el equilibrio entre trabajo y vida mejor, sin embargo, algunos d...Starting at €8.20
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NatureSweet
Alvarez, Jose B.; Reinhardt, Forest L.; Kindred, NatalieCase HBS-518002-ELeadership and People ManagementThis case describes the business model and workplace philosophy of NatureSweet, a privately owned, vertically integrated greenhouse grower and marketer of fresh tomatoes with sales across the U.S. and $329 million in 2016 revenues. CEO Bryant Ambelang treated NatureSweet more like a consumer-packaged goods manufacturer than an agricultural producer, with a focus on consistency, branding, margin and price stability, and a frontline-worker-centric ...Starting at €8.20
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George Martin at The Boston Consulting Group (A)
Perlow, Leslie A.; Herman, KerryCase HBS-410112-ELeadership and People ManagementGeorge Martin, managing partner at The Boston Consulting Group, is worried as some of his best performers have recently pulled him aside to discuss the challenges they face managing the demands of their work lives with their desire for more predictable time with their families. BCG had instituted multiple initiatives to help its consulting staff better achieve work-life balance, yet some of Martin's top consultants still struggled. The case consi...Starting at €8.20
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George Martin at The Boston Consulting Group (B)
Perlow, Leslie A.; Herman, KerryCase HBS-410117-ELeadership and People ManagementGeorge Martin, managing partner at The Boston Consulting Group, is worried as some of his best performers have recently pulled him aside to discuss the challenges they face managing the demands of their work lives with their desire for more predictable time with their families. BCG had instituted multiple initiatives to help its consulting staff better achieve work-life balance, yet some of Martin's top consultants still struggled. The case consi...Starting at €5.74
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La Noticia se Hizo Pública: KANA y la Reducción de Plantilla que Se Les Fue de las Manos (A)
Perlow, Leslie A.; Ager, David L.Case HBS-408S21Leadership and People ManagementVicki Amon-Higa, vicepresidente de Kana, un cotizan en bolsa, la compañía de desarrollo de tamaño mediano, estaba trabajando con Bryan Caldera, director financiero de Kana, para planificar un despido en el que KANA reduciría el tamaño de su fuerza laboral en casi un 40%. A pesar de las mejores intenciones, las noticias del despido filtró antes del anuncio planificada. La situación se deterioró rápidamente como una serie de gestores furiosos llama...Starting at €8.20
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Kent Thiry: "Mayor" of DaVita
George, William W.; Kindred, NatalieCase HBS-410065-ELeadership and People ManagementKent Thiry, CEO of dialysis provider DaVita, is considering how to integrate employees from recently acquired Gambro Healthcare without damaging DaVita's robust, unconventional internal culture. When Thiry joined DaVita in 1999, breaking an important promise to his family in order to do so, he was determined to create a differentiated company with a community-like culture. Over six years, he had engineered an impressive financial turnaround and s...Starting at €8.20
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Omar Ishrak: Building Medtronic Globally
George, Bill; Kindred, NatalieCase HBS-413065-ELeadership and People ManagementOmar Ishrak, Medtronic's first non-American CEO, aims to reinvigorate the medical device maker's growth by focusing on emerging markets, therapy innovation, and creative business models. In 2012, budget constraints in mature economies, the lack of new medical therapies coming to market, and the decline in growth of Medtronic's core businesses has reduced the company's once dynamic growth close to zero. As the newly appointed CEO, Ishrak faces the...Starting at €8.20