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Learning from the India Way: Redefining Business Leadership
Cappelli, Peter; Singh, Harbir; Singh, Jitendra V.; Useem, MichaelBook Chapter HBS-5822BC-EThe roaring success of Indian business in the last two decades points the world toward a different enterprise model than the one widely practiced in the U.S., with its emphasis on financial goals and shareholder value. Indeed, the global economic crisis of 2008-2009-widely viewed as being triggered by American excesses-has rekindled the debate about the proper role of personal gain and shareholder value in business affairs. In this chapter, autho...Starting at €8.20
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The Make-Versus-Buy Decision: Deciding Whether to Hire Internally or From the Outside
Cappelli, PeterBook Chapter HBS-7578BC-ELeadership and People ManagementIn terms of hiring, employers have a choice, but it is a mistake to think that the choice is "make versus buy" - either developing your talent internally or hiring it from the outside. Instead, they should do some of both. Choosing the mix is crucial to meeting talent management challenges, especially the fundamental tasks of managing uncertainty. This chapter is excerpted from "Talent on Demand: Managing Talent in an Age of Uncertainty."Starting at €8.20
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Promises and Challenges of the Talent on Demand Model: Creating a New Paradigm
Cappelli, PeterBook Chapter HBS-7573BC-ELeadership and People ManagementThe old paradigm of talent management has no place in the contemporary business environment, and so we must find a new one. We can start by recognizing that even the best forecasts are inaccurate over the long term. Other steps involve assessing outside hiring possibilities and dangers, changing how we think about developing talent internally, and finding new approaches to matching candidates with jobs. This chapter is excerpted from "Talent on ...Starting at €8.20
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Managing an Internal Market to Match Talent to Jobs
Cappelli, PeterBook Chapter HBS-7574BC-ELeadership and People ManagementThe most important new idea in the management of careers is the effort to turn over control for at least some aspects of the process to employees. The most obvious win for a company comes when good and ambitious employees find an opportunity that suits their needs inside the company as opposed to elsewhere. There are various actions that companies can take to help achieve this, including creating an internal job board and using data mining to see...Starting at €8.20
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The Problem of Uncertainty in Talent Demand: Focusing on Internal Development
Cappelli, PeterBook Chapter HBS-7576BC-ELeadership and People ManagementWhen you recognize that talent management is a business problem, it makes sense to apply what you know about structuring challenges in ways that are most cost effective. This chapter explains how to structure internal development to reduce uncertainty and lower costs by using techniques from operations research. These techniques include shortening the forecasting cycle, relying on the principle of portfolios to reduce variability, and reorganizin...Starting at €8.20
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The Rise of Talent Management
Cappelli, PeterBook Chapter HBS-7579BC-ELeadership and People ManagementTo get a clear sense of contemporary talent management challenges and ways to handle them, it helps to take a long-term view. Most current practices were well established by the 1950s, a time period that has little in common with the present business environment. This chapter traces the early evolution of talent management from the 1880s to the 1950s, using the case of GE as an example. This chapter is excerpted from "Talent on Demand: Managing ...Starting at €8.20
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Indian Business Rising: The Contemporary Indian Way of Conducting Business-And How It Can Help You Improve Your Business
Cappelli, Peter; Singh, Harbir; Singh, Jitendra V.; Useem, MichaelBook Chapter HBS-5813BC-EIn America, the financial crisis of 2008-2009 shattered public confidence in corporate leaders-a confidence already weakened by huge bonuses, company jets, and golden parachutes. In contrast, Indian business leaders have achieved rock-star status, even as they deliver growth rates that would be the envy of any Western executive. In this chapter, authors Peter Cappelli, Harbir Singh, Jitendra Singh, and Michael Useem introduce "the India Way" of c...Starting at €8.20
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The Talent Management Problem: Why We Need to Think Differently About Talent Management
Cappelli, PeterBook Chapter HBS-7564BC-ELeadership and People ManagementTalent management practices fall into two equally dysfunctional camps: doing nothing to anticipate or address talent requirements or relying on complex bureaucratic models of forecasting and succession planning from the 1950s. The old model of the "Organization Man" is no longer practical. In this chapter, the author outlines four key principles for managing talent in the current business environment, where uncertainty is the major challenge. Th...Starting at €8.20
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The Return on Talent Management Investments: How to Maximize the Value of Internal Development
Cappelli, PeterBook Chapter HBS-7575BC-ELeadership and People ManagementIf you can find different and better ways to recoup your investments in development, you can dramatically improve your talent management options as well as expand your investments in employees. There are several ways to lower the cost of development: using opportunities outside the organization, getting employees to share the cost, and training before hiring, among others. This chapter is excerpted from "Talent on Demand: Managing Talent in an A...Starting at €8.20
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The End of an Era: Why Traditional Talent Management No Longer Works
Cappelli, PeterBook Chapter HBS-7577BC-ELeadership and People ManagementWith factors like the rise of outsourcing and internet job searches, the world is a different place than it was in the 1950s. The talent management models of that era no longer work, and so employers have moved from a model of planning to a model of shopping for talent. The fundamental challenge employers face in the modern competitive business environment is managing uncertainty. This chapter is excerpted from "Talent on Demand: Managing Talent...Starting at €8.20