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Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life (Spanish version)
Friedman, Stewart D.Article HBS-R0804HLeadership and People ManagementThis article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading. Work fills most executives' lives to the brim, leaving insufficient time for their families, their communities, and themselves. But Wharton professor Friedman suggests that, rather than view the problem as a set of trade-offs, executives use their leadership talen...Starting at €8.20
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Maintaining the “Single Samsung” Spirit: New Challenges in a Changing Environment
Shaista E. Khilji; Chang Hwan Oh; Nisha ManikothCase IVEY-9B11C010-ELeadership and People Management, StrategyThis case examines how Samsung has grown to become one of the world’s leading companies. It presents a detailed description of Samsung’s “top priority to the people” philosophy and its strong cultural values, both of which have been instrumental in ensuring its continued success in recent decades. Since 1982, the Samsung Human Resource Development Center (SHRDC) has played a critical role in supporting Samsung’s corporate strategy of achieving gl...Starting at €8.20
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SK Telecom: Pursuing Happiness through Corporate Social Responsibility
Marquis, Christopher; Ryu, Kwang Y.; Mirvis, Philip; Thomason, BobbiCase HBS-410042-ELeadership and People ManagementSince 2006, SK Telecom has worked to develop strategic corporate social responsibility programs that are aligned with its business operations and corporate mission. The case tracks the original assessment process the company went through and successive organizational design efforts to align its CSR strategy and implementation architecture. In 2009, the company is going through reorganization, and the protagonist is considering how well the existi...Starting at €8.20
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Arrebato por unas nueces - Una cultura corporativa en crisis
Herrera Espaliat, Felipe; de la Cierva, YagoCase DPO-468Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Knowledge and Communication, Leadership and People ManagementEl presente caso describe los acontecimientos que detonaron una crisis corporativa en la compañía aérea Korean Air en diciembre del 2014. Al tiempo que se ofrece un escenario cronológico de los hechos, se identifican tanto los fallos en la gestión de los problemas como los desaciertos comunicacionales y el consiguiente debilitamiento en la relación con sus diversos stakeholders. Progresivamente, se muestra la escalada de errores que hicieron que ...Starting at €8.20
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The "Nut Rage Incident" - Corporate Culture in Crisis
Herrera Espaliat, Felipe; de la Cierva, YagoCase DPO-468-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Knowledge and Communication, Leadership and People ManagementThis case describes the events that triggered a corporate crisis at Korean Air in December 2014. The case provides the time line of events while also identifying the company's shortcomings in conflict management, as well as the communication missteps it took and how these blunders weakened the relationship between the company and its various stakeholders. The case illustrates, step by step, how the company's mistakes kept snowballing until a top ...Starting at €8.20
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Samsung: The Internet of Things
Paul Okundaye; Nicole R.D. HaggertyCase IVEY-9B19E020-EInformation Technologies, StrategyIn 2014, the Internet of things (IoT) was still considered in its infancy stage. Over the next two years, the IoT matured and represented a considerable amount of uncertainty for the entire electronics industry. In 2016, the industry was at an inflection point regarding the technology, and its largest competitors had to make a choice: risk investing in research and development for a potential return (or failure), or stay the course and let compet...Starting at €8.20
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An English Teacher in South Korea
Stacey R. Fitzsimmons; Paul ShantzCase IVEY-9B10C027-ELeadership and People Management, StrategyBert took a position to teach English in South Korea after graduating with his business degree from a Canadian university. It was his second time teaching English in South Korea, and because he had a fantastic experience the first time, he took a second position without doing a lot of due diligence before arrival. Soon, however, he realized that a city tax was being deducted from his pay, and he had suspicions that his boss was making up the city...Starting at €8.20