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The HBR Agenda 2011 (Spanish version)
Ariely, Dan; Brown, Tim; Cappelli, Peter; Davenport, Thomas H.; Duflo, Esther; Fernández-Aráoz, Claudio; Govindarajan, Vijay; Gratton, Lynda; Hackman, J. Richard; Ibarra, Herminia; Kedrosky, Paul; Lafley, A.G.; Li, Charlene; Ma, Jack; Manzoni, Jean-Francois; Pink, Daniel H.; Porter, Michael E.; Schein, Edgar H.; Schmidt, Eric; Schwab, Klaus; Shirky, Clay; Stiglitz, Joseph E.; Sutton, Robert I.; Tyson, LaArticle HBS-R1101BKnowledge and CommunicationJoseph E. Stiglitz will be crafting a new postcrisis paradigm for macroeconomics whereby rational individuals interact with imperfect and asymmetric information. Herminia Ibarra will be looking for hard evidence of how "soft" leadership creates value. Eric Schmidt will be planning to scale mobile technology by developing fast networks and providing low-cost smartphones in the poorest parts of the world. Michael Porter will be using modern cost a...Starting at €8.20
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What Is This Thing Called Leadership
Hackman, J. RichardBook Chapter HBS-6124BC-ELeadership and People ManagementIn the wake of the global economic crisis, society is demanding that the topic of leadership be given urgent attention because leadership strongly influences organizational behavior-not just financial performance. In this chapter, J. Richard Hackman, an expert on organizational psychology, argues that the role of leaders is best understood not in terms of their direct impact on organizational outcomes but through their indirect influence, which s...Starting at €8.20
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Scotty Smiley
Snook, Scott A.; Crandall, DougCase HBS-412058-ELeadership and People ManagementU.S. Army Lieutenant Scotty Smiley faces the biggest challenge of his young life. What will he do after learning that the wounds he received from a car bomb in Iraq have left him permanently blinded? On April 6, 2005, Lieutenant Scotty Smiley was grievously wounded by a suicide bomber while leading his infantry platoon during a combat patrol in Iraq. This is a biographical case that outlines who Scotty was prior to this incident and asks readers ...Starting at €8.20
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Friendly Fire, Teaching Note
Snook, Scott A.Teaching Note HBS-408078-ELeadership and People ManagementTeaching Note to (404-083). An abstract is not available for this product.Starting at €0.00
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Love and Fear and the Modern Boss (Spanish version)
Snook, Scott A.Article HBS-F0801ALeadership and People ManagementShould a leader be loved or feared? That age-old question still has no simple answer. It depends on who the leader is and whom she's leading. Successful executives adapt their styles when they need to; they also know their limits.Starting at €8.20
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Coach Hurley at St. Anthony High School
Snook, Scott A.; Lawrence, Bradley C.Case HBS-413091-ELeadership and People ManagementCoach Bob Hurley of St. Anthony High School is one of the winningest coaches in the history of high school basketball. At age 65, he has won more than 1,000 games and 25 New Jersey State Championships. His players come from the toughtest streets in the country and yet all but 3 have gone on to college. As head coach, he earns less than $10,000 a year; his circa 1917 school building doesn't even have a gym. And yet, for almost 40 years he has turn...Starting at €8.20
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Bandwidth.com: Answering the Call
Snook, Scott A.; Raetzman, Brittany; Schoppe, Christine; Schoppe, JenniferCase HBS-416014-ELeadership and People ManagementStarting at €8.20
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Leadership Development at Goldman Sachs, Teaching Note
Groysberg, Boris; Snook, Scott A.Teaching Note HBS-407080-ELeadership and People ManagementTeaching note to (406-002). An abstract is not available for this product.Starting at €0.00
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Children's Hospital Boston (A)
Snook, Scott A.; Connor, Jeffrey C.Case HBS-411041-ELeadership and People ManagementFive year old Matty died at Children's Hospital Boston as a result of elective neurosurgery to "cure" his epilepsy. The organizational system, not the surgery, had failed. During post-operative recovery, he experienced a prolonged seizure that resulted in his death. Confused leadership, organizational differentiation, structurally induced silence, and organizational mis-alignment contributed to the death. How could this happen in such a world cla...Starting at €8.20
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Why Teams Don't Work
Hackman, J. Richard; Coutu, DianeArticle HBS-R0905H-ELeadership 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. The belief that teams make us more creative and productive - and are the best way to get things done - is deeply entrenched. But Hackman, a professor of organizational psychology at Harvard and a leading expert on teams, is having none of it. Research, he says, con...Starting at €8.20