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Leaders for Knowledge Work: Types of Organizational Leaders
Maccoby, MichaelBook Chapter HBS-6436BC-EIn knowledge-creating companies, we find three kinds of leaders who have to work together: strategic visionaries, operational implementers, and bridge-builders. This chapter describes the different types of organizational leaders required for knowledge work and shows the role of social character in both facilitating and resisting the changes needed to make organizations more effective and efficient. This chapter is excerpted from "The Leaders We...Starting at €8.20
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The President We Need: Assess Personality Intelligence to Pick the Best Candidate
Maccoby, MichaelBook Chapter HBS-6439BC-ECiting history and using psychological analysis, in this chapter the author describes the qualities of a president who would be able to mobilize Americans to meet the tremendous challenges of our time. Since we can't always predict how a president will act from past behavior, he also lists the questions we should ask candidates to discover whether they have the Personality Intelligence we need in a president. This chapter is excerpted from "The ...Starting at €8.20
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Attijariwafa Bank: Egypt Expansion
Ivashina, Victoria; Thapar, AlpanaCase HBS-219008-EFinanceThis case follows Attijariwafa Bank, a leading Morocco-based commercial bank, giving insight into its risk management practices and its international expansion over time. In particular, the case focuses on its planned acquisition of Barclays Bank Egypt in 2017. At this time, Mohamed El Kettani, Chairman, and Ismail Douiri (MBA 1999), General Manager for finance, technology and operations of Attijariwafa Bank, have to decide whether or not to purs...Starting at €8.20
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Sobha Group Real Estate: Backward Integration for Quality
Macomber, John D.; Thapar, AlpanaCase HBS-219034-EFinanceFrom humble beginnings in Kerala, India, Mr. PNC Menon built a reputation for quality, detail, and trustworthiness, earning him major construction commissions in the Gulf region. This paved the way for venturing into real estate development in Dubai, UAE. Striving to control quality and schedule, his firm, Sobha Middle East, self-performs a wide range of tasks - an unusual set of choices in the global real estate and construction industry. In mid...Starting at €8.20
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Ghassan Nuqul and the Nuqul Group: Preserving a Father's Legacy
Wing, Christina R.; Cohen, Lauren H.; Thapar, AlpanaCase HBS-624030-EService and Operations ManagementThe Nuqul Group was established in 1952 by Elia Nuqul, a Palestinian refugee who fled his hometown in 1948 with his family to Jordan. He overcame many hardships in his initial years there, but subsequently started a trading business that grew to become one of Jordan's largest family businesses. Its flagship company, Fine Hygienic Holding (FHH), was a leader in hygienic paper products across the Middle East and North Africa. In March 2023, Ghassan...Starting at €8.20
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Guild Education: Unlocking Opportunity for America's Workforce
Sahlman, William A.; Smith, Michael D.; Tempest Keller, Nicole; Thapar, AlpanaCase HBS-821050-EEntrepreneurshipFounded in 2015, Guild Education is an education marketplace that connects employers and universities to provide employees with 'education as a benefit.' The Denver-based company is transforming traditional tuition assistance programs by facilitating direct payment by the employer to the academic institution and by supporting students with coaching and advising. By October 2020, Guild had gained market traction and demonstrated impressive results...Starting at €8.20
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Souqalmal: The Choice Is Yours (A)
Narayanan, V.G.; Thapar, AlpanaCase HBS-120028-EAccounting and ControlThis case describes how Ambareen Musa, Founder and CEO of Souqalmal, a Dubai-based online comparison aggregator of banking and insurance products launched her business in 2011 and rapidly grew it over next couple of years. However, by 2017, the MauritianStarting at €8.20
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Careem: Base Camp or Mountain Peak Designing an OS for Scaling
Ghosh, Shikhar; Yucaoglu, Gamze; Thapar, AlpanaCase HBS-819049-EEntrepreneurshipStarting at €8.20
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The Incredible Pros, the Inevitable Cons (HBR Classic) (Spanish version)
Maccoby, MichaelArticle HBS-R0401JLeadership and People ManagementIn the winter of 2000, at the height of the dot-com boom, business leaders posed for the covers of Time, BusinessWeek, and the Economist with the aplomb and confidence of rock stars. These were a different breed from their counterparts of just 10 or 20 years before, who shunned the press and whose comments were carefully crafted by corporate PR departments. Such love of the limelight often stems from what Freud called a narcissistic personality, ...Starting at €8.20
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Why We Follow: The Power of Transference
Maccoby, MichaelBook Chapter HBS-6433BC-EThe most powerful unconscious motivation for following is what Freud first described as transference of childhood images onto a leader. However, as a result of the changing social character, the transferential glue that worked in the past no longer holds followers to organizational leaders and has shifted to a more sibling-like, collaborative dynamic as opposed to a parental, autocratic one. And as organizations become global, leaders are faced w...Starting at €8.20