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Reaching Your Potential (Spanish version)
Kaplan, Robert StevenArticle HBS-R0807CLeadership and People Managementseeking frank feedback about your strengths and weaknesses from colleagues above and below you, and figuring out what you truly enjoy doing. That understanding-not other people's definition of success-should guide your career choices and goals. Next, it's critical to identify the three or four tasks central to your business and make sure you excel at them; otherwise, success is likely to elude you. Once you've chosen the right enterprise, you mu...Starting at €8.20
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Life's Work: Condoleezza Rice
Rice, Condoleezza; Bell, KatherineArticle HBS-R1001P-ELeadership and People ManagementFormer Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has made a career of arriving in positions of power during difficult times and, critics say, without the requisite experience. HBR talks to Dr. Rice about making transitions between sectors, managing without management experience, and relearning lessons in new contexts.Starting at €8.20
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Life's Work: Jane Goodall
Goodall, Jane; Bell, KatherineArticle HBS-R1004N-ELeadership and People ManagementThe renowned primatologist talks about her early, unconventional interest in science and the importance of stories in changing people's minds.Starting at €8.20
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Life's Work: Joe Girardi
Girardi, Joe; Bell, KatherineArticle HBS-R1006M-ELeadership and People ManagementJoe Girardi had wanted to play for the Chicago Cubs since he was a boy. He achieved that ambition, went on to coach for the Yankees, and is now the New York team's manager. He reflects in this interview on the value of numbers, how to keep players focused, and the challenges that come with being the most successful sports franchise in American history.Starting at €8.20
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Reaching Your Potential
Kaplan, Robert StevenArticle HBS-R0807C-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. Despite their lofty job titles and impressive pay, many high-achieving executives feel professionally dissatisfied and unfulfilled. Looking back, they wish they'd accomplished more or even chosen a different career altogether. Often they feel trapped in their job...Starting at €8.20
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Robert E. Rubin (B)
Kaplan, Robert Steven; Nohria, Nitin; Davison, NicoleCase HBS-407068-ELeadership and People ManagementSupplements the (A) case. An abstract is not available for this product.Starting at €5.74
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Leslie Brinkman at Versutia Capital
Battilana, Julie; Kaplan, Robert StevenCase HBS-407089-ELeadership and People ManagementLeslie Brinkman is the founder and CEO of a hedge fund, Versutia Capital. Leslie spent late 2002 and early 2003 assembling her team and launched the fund in early 2003. While the firm performed well during 2003 and 2004 (both in terms of returns and new assets), in 2005 the results began to suffer. Describes the process of designing the firm, the resulting team dynamics, the strains on the staff and the impact of Leslie's management style on the ...Starting at €8.20
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Robert E. Rubin (A) and (B), Teaching Note
Kaplan, Robert Steven; Nohria, NitinTeaching Note HBS-407107-ELeadership and People ManagementTeaching note to (407-064) and (407-068). An abstract is not available for this product.Starting at €0.00
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The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis
Kaplan, Robert Steven; Marquis, Christopher; Kazan, BrentCase HBS-408003-ELeadership and People ManagementMarc Buoniconti is the co-founder of the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, a nonprofit medical research organization. The project was founded in 1985 by Marc and his father Nick, a former Hall of Fame football player, when Marc suffered a spinal cord injury. In 2007, Marc was still confined to a wheelchair, but the Miami project had developed into the world's largest spinal cord injury research and treatment center. It had 250 employees, operated ...Starting at €8.20
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Mitch Daniels and the State of Indiana
Kaplan, Robert Steven; Winer, Wendy K.Case HBS-414049-ELeadership and People ManagementMitch Daniels, Governor of the State of Indiana, knew he had to make a difficult choice as he sat in his office in December 2010. Should he aggressively push the state legislature to pass comprehensive education reform-a major priority of his administration-or, instead, push for a new "right-to-work" law that he believed might be critical to improving his state's competitiveness? He was concerned that he wouldn't be able to do both during his sec...Starting at €8.20