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Rowing South Africa: Leadership Lessons through Sport - Teaching Note
Verity Hawarden; Amy MooreTeaching Note IVEY-8B20C056-ELeadership and People ManagementTeaching note for product 9B20C056.Starting at €0.00
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Anglo American South Africa: Strategically Mining Leadership Talent for Succession - Teaching Note
Amy Moore; Verity Hawarden; Caren ScheepersTeaching Note IVEY-8B19C004-ELeadership and People ManagementTeaching note for product 9B19C004.Starting at €0.00
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Comair South Africa: Team Coaching Taking Off
Amy Moore; Verity Hawarden; Caren ScheepersCase IVEY-9B20C007-ELeadership and People Management, StrategyIn May 2019, the head of Organizational Development and Talent for Comair Limited (Comair), was contemplating the dilemma of stimulating higher buy-in for team coaching—a program in formal leadership development emphasizing collaboration and shared responsibility. The long-standing chief executive officer (CEO) had just resigned. He had focused over the last few years on enabling a leadership style of collaboration where departmental silos would ...Starting at €8.20
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The Best Advice I Ever Got: William P. Lauder (Spanish version)
Dowling, Daisy WademanArticle HBS-F0805DLeadership and People ManagementThe president and CEO of Estee Lauder Companies learned the importance of time management back when he worked under U.S. treasury secretary Donald Regan. The lesson sounds simple, but it has shaped his approach to strategy and his philosophy on motivating people.Starting at €8.20
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StratAFin Inc.: Auditing Change
Verity Hawarden; Margaret Sutherland; Mandla AdonisiCase IVEY-9B12C006-ELeadership and People Management, StrategyThis case focuses on organizational transformation in an accounting firm in South Africa. It describes how the impact of both globalization and the transformation that the country had undergone since the advent of democracy in 1994 steered StratAFin Inc. towards a process of building a new identity. The firm’s senior management realized the need for transformation based on the many new challenges in the changing environment. Change was experience...Starting at €8.20
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Why Did We Ever Go Into HR
Breitfelder, Matthew D.; Dowling, Daisy WademanArticle HBS-R0807B-ELeadership and People ManagementBreitfelder and Dowling are two recent Harvard MBAs who have worked in fields typically chosen by alumni of esteemed business schools: strategy consulting, investment banking, you know the score. Ultimately, however, these promising young professionals decided to do the unexpected and enter human resources. They switched gears not to achieve work/life balance or avoid tough challenges but to get in early on a good thing, as any smart value invest...Starting at €8.20
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The Best Advice I Ever Got: Linda Mason
Dowling, Daisy WademanArticle HBS-F0809D-ELeadership and People ManagementThe chairman and founder of Bright Horizons Family Solutions heeded the wisdom of visionary real estate developer James Rouse: Make your passions central to your life. By doing that, she has created a highly successful company with employees who are driven by its mission to give children the best possible start in life.Starting at €8.20
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The Best Advice I Ever Got: Maureen Chiquet
Dowling, Daisy WademanArticle HBS-F0811D-ELeadership and People ManagementThe CEO of Chanel recalls her days as a young merchant, when she was taken to task by a powerful executive for not listening. Twenty years later, his words still profoundly affect the way she thinks about her company's products and interacts with customers, employees, and other stakeholders.Starting at €8.20
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DineEquity Chairman and CEO Julia A. Stewart on leaders as teachers
Stewart, Julia A.; Dowling, Daisy WademanArticle HBS-F0903J-ELeadership and People ManagementThe chairman and CEO of DineEquity, the restaurant company that owns the Applebee's and IHOP brands, says the key to managing for performance across more than 3,300 sites is to turn the workplace into a classroom. "When employees feel like they're learning," she says, "they become more enthusiastic about their work, and that shows through to the customer in a hundred different ways."Starting at €8.20
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Life Stories of Recent MBAs: Motivations
Nohria, Nitin; Breitfelder, Matthew D.; Dowling, Daisy WademanCase HBS-410031-ELeadership and People ManagementStarting at €8.20