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Lattice Ways to Participate: Creating a Company Culture of Collaboration and Transparency
Benko, Cathleen; Anderson, MollyBook Chapter HBS-7012BC-EThe traditional corporate ladder is giving way to a new kind of organizational structure-the corporate lattice-in which success is no longer defined as a linear climb to the top, and rigid definitions of what work is, how it should be accomplished, and who gets to participate are being transformed. In this chapter, the authors examine how companies can enable broad-based, nonhierarchical forms of participation through the interrelated forces of c...Starting at €8.20
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Lattice Ways to Build Careers: An Operational Approach to Career Customization
Benko, Cathleen; Anderson, MollyBook Chapter HBS-7018BC-EThe changing world of work is dismantling the corporate ladder step by step. Tom Peters, the best-selling author of "In Search of Excellence," sums it up this way: "It's over. No more vertical. No more ladder. A career is now a checkerboard. Or even a maze." In this chapter, the authors explore how companies can redesign their talent practices through career enhancement and customization. They introduce the mass career customization (MCC) tool, w...Starting at €8.20
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The Individual's Guide to the Shifting Landscape: Charting Your Career Path Within the Corporate Lattice Structure
Benko, Cathleen; Anderson, MollyBook Chapter HBS-7019BC-EThe traditional corporate ladder is giving way to a new kind of organizational structure-the corporate lattice-in which success is no longer defined as a linear climb to the top, and rigid definitions of what work is, how it should be accomplished, and who gets to participate are being transformed. In this chapter, the authors explore the changing role each individual plays in directing his or her own lattice journey. Individuals need to treat th...Starting at €8.20
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El rol de Miles Everson en PricewaterhouseCoopers
Eccles, Robert G.; Lane, DavidCase HBS-410S23Leadership and People ManagementMiles Everson, socio de PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), es el socio del encargo Mundial (GEP) para una gran institución financiera EE.UU. y punto de asumir este papel de una institución financiera global mucho mayor. El papel GEP es crítica en PwC. GEPs tienen la responsabilidad de los clientes más grandes e importantes de la empresa. Deben gestionar una vasta red externa de los empleados y clientes de forma igualmente masiva a la red interna de lo...Starting at €8.20
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From Ladder to Lattice: The New Workforce Imperative
Benko, Cathleen; Weisberg, AnneBook Chapter HBS-3881BC-ELeadership and People ManagementScaling the corporate ladder has been the enduring gold standard for personal success since organizational hierarchy was invented at the beginning of the industrial age. However, a confluence of market and demographic forces in the past twenty years has compressed hierarchies, shortened the ladder, and reduced the qualified pool of high-potential employees available to climb it. Another set of business and societal influences has reshaped the Ame...Starting at €8.20
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The Nontraditional Is the New Traditional: Six Trends that have Created a New Workforce Imperative
Benko, Cathleen; Weisberg, AnneBook Chapter HBS-3882BC-ELeadership and People ManagementWhy is here and now the time to acknowledge and respond to the notion that corporate structures are morphing from a ladder to a lattice construct? One reason is that six key trends are converging in ways that create an unprecedented workforce challenge for business executives. This convergence is creating sweeping changes in workforce composition, attitudes, and capabilities. This chapter dissects the six trends and illustrates how each is exacer...Starting at €8.20
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Womenomics in Japan
Groysberg, Boris; Yamazaki, Mayuka; Sato, Nobuo; Lane, DavidCase HBS-417002-ELeadership and People Management"Womenomics in Japan" profiles Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's vigorous attempts to revive Japan's economy, specifically by advocating for a larger role for women in the economy--not as a matter of social policy or gender equity per se, but as an essential element of any solution to Japan's persistent low economic growth. Several decades of economic stagnation led Abe to spearhead a multi-faceted reform effort to shake off deflation and come to grips...Starting at €8.20
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Robert K. Steel at Wachovia (A)
Mukunda, Gautam; Hsieh, Nien-he; Lane, DavidCase HBS-418055-ELeadership and People ManagementIn September 2008, Robert Steel presided over the sale of Wachovia, a top U.S. bank, less than three months after becoming its CEO. Wachovia's exposure to risky home loans led depositors and creditors to flee the bank on Friday, September 26, after the FDIC seized and sold a smaller bank with similar exposure, whose collapse nonetheless made it the biggest bank failure in U.S. history. Faced with Wachovia's impending bankruptcy, the FDIC interven...Starting at €8.20
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Zurich Insurance, Teaching Note
Groysberg, Boris; Lane, David; Coughlin, JoniTeaching Note HBS-418071-ELeadership and People ManagementThis teaching note addresses six cases in the Zurich Insurance series, the overview case (HBS No. 417-035) and five cases focused on particular change efforts (HBS No. 417-036 through 417-040). Zurich Insurance was undergoing organizational change after implementing five new people practices focused on manager development, diversity and inclusion, job model and data analytics, recruitment, and talent pipeline. The overview case provides backgrou...Starting at €0.00
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Lincoln Financial Group (A)
Godes, David B.; Lane, DavidCase HBS-508028-EMarketingLFG reorganizes its business in order to improve customer intimacy. However, to implement the strategy, they need to effect significant changes in the skills of their salespeople. This case series straddles human resource management, corporate strategy, and sales management by exploring the link between a shift in the firm's overall strategy (customer intimacy), the structural implementation of this strategy in the form of the creation of a new d...Starting at €8.20