HBSP (USA)
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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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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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Life Stories of Recent MBAs: Motivations
Nohria, Nitin; Breitfelder, Matthew D.; Dowling, Daisy WademanCase HBS-410031-ELeadership and People ManagementStarting at €8.20
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Taran Swan at Nickelodeon Latin America (A) (Spanish version)
Hill, Linda A.; Doughty, Kristin C.Case HBS-404S02Leadership and People ManagementThe Inside the Case video that accompanies this case includes teaching tips and insight from the author (available to registered educators only). Eighteen months after launching Nickelodeon Latin America, general manager Taran Swan must leave the company's Miami headquarters for her New York home because of complications with her pregnancy. Unable to travel for at least the next six months, Swan must decide how she will continue to run the chann...Starting at €8.20
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Paula Evans and the Redesign of the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School (A) (Spanish version)
Hill, Linda A.; Doughty, Kristin C.; Pruyne, EllenCase HBS-404S18Leadership and People ManagementPaula Evans is in her second year as principal of the only high school in Cambridge, MA. Her mandate when she arrived was to redesign the high school so that long-standing inequities in academic achievement rates across race and socioeconomic class were removed. In her first year, she succeeded in obtaining approval for her proposed redesign and completing the physical and administrative restructuring of the high school. Now in her second year, t...Starting at €8.20
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Taran Swan en Nickelodeon América Latina (D)
Hill, Linda A.; Doughty, Kristin C.Case HBS-406S04Leadership and People ManagementComplementa el caso (A).Starting at €5.74
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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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Why Did We Ever Go Into HR? (Spanish version)
Breitfelder, Matthew D.; Dowling, Daisy WademanArticle HBS-R0807BLeadership and People ManagementIt, like a business school, promotes active learning; it serves as an engine for both savings and revenue; it hatches and harvests ideas across organizational boundaries; it makes big places smaller by connecting people intimately and often; and it focuses on the positive, moving beyond fixing problems and enforcing rules to enhancing employee engagement and capitalizing on people's strengths. If that's what HR is becoming, why wouldn't you go i...Starting at €8.20