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Pioneering entrepreneur Yoshiko Shinohara on turning temporary work into big business in Japan (Spanish version)
Mayo, Anthony J.; Yamazaki, MayukaArticle HBS-F0910ELeadership and People ManagementTempstaff's founder, a pioneering Japanese entrepreneur, wondered whether she would go to jail for launching her business.Starting at €8.20
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What's Needed Next: A Culture of Candor
O'Toole, James; Bennis, Warren G.Article HBS-R0906F-ELeadership and People ManagementIf there's one thing that the past decade's business disasters should teach us, it's that we need to stop evaluating corporate leaders simply on the basis of how much wealth they create for investors. A healthier yardstick would be this: the extent to which leaders create firms that are economically, ethically, and socially sustainable. The first step toward accomplishing that task is to create a culture of candor. Companies can't innovate, respo...Starting at €8.20
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Tomar decisiones basadas en el criterio
Tichy, Noel M.; Bennis, Warren G.Article HBS-R0710ELeadership and People ManagementEste artículo incluye una vista previa de una página que resume rápidamente las ideas clave y proporciona una visión general de cómo los conceptos funcionan en la práctica, junto con sugerencias para la lectura adicional. Según el punto de vista tradicional, el juicio es un evento: a tomar una decisión y luego seguir adelante. Sin embargo, Tichy, de la Universidad de la Escuela de Negocios Ross de Michigan, y Bennis, de la Universidad de Marshall...Starting at €8.20
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Lo que se necesita para el futuro: una cultura de la sinceridad
O'Toole, James; Bennis, Warren G.Article HBS-R0906FLeadership and People ManagementSi hay una cosa que los desastres de negocio de la última década nos deben enseñar, es que tenemos que dejar de evaluar a los líderes corporativos simplemente sobre la base de la cantidad de riqueza que crean para los inversores. Un criterio más saludable sería la siguiente: el grado en que los líderes crean empresas que son económicamente, ética y socialmente sostenibles. El primer paso hacia el cumplimiento de esa tarea es crear una cultura de ...Starting at €8.20
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Pioneering entrepreneur Yoshiko Shinohara on turning temporary work into big business in Japan
Mayo, Anthony J.; Yamazaki, MayukaArticle HBS-F0910E-ELeadership and People ManagementTempstaff's founder, a pioneering Japanese entrepreneur, wondered whether she would go to jail for launching her business.Starting at €8.20
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Preparing for a Pandemic (Spanish version)
Staples, Jeffrey; Dowell, Scott F.; Bresee, Joseph S.; Nohria, Nitin; Bennis, Warren G.; Fischhoff, Baruch; MacGowan, William; Brilliant, Larry; Susser, Peter; Cooper, Sherry; Dobson, Wendy; Golden, Brian R.Article HBS-F0605AThis month, all of Harvard Business Review's Forethought contributions address avian influenza, its potential to become a pandemic, and the red flags this possibility raises for businesses. Jeffrey Staples warns that the H5N1 strain of the avian flu represents a new class of global threat and urges companies to plan accordingly. Scott F. Dowell and Joseph S. Bresee show how mutations of the virus could boost its ability to spread from person to p...Starting at €8.20
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Give Your Colleague the Rating He Deserves--or the One He Wants (HBR Case Study)
Mayo, Anthony J.; Margolis, Joshua D.; Gallo, AmyArticle HBS-R2001X-EIn this fictional case, an associate director of business development at a gaming company is selected for a prestigious cross-functional innovation group. When one of her peers in the work group isn't able to meet his deadlines because of his heavy workload, she picks up his slack. But at the end of the project, she needs to give him a rating in the company's new peer-feedback system, and she's worried that if she's honest, it will hurt his caree...Starting at €8.20
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Give Your Colleague the Rating He Deserves--or the One He Wants (Commentary for HBR Case Study)
Mayo, Anthony J.; Margolis, Joshua D.; Gallo, AmyArticle HBS-R2001Z-EIn this fictional case, an associate director of business development at a gaming company is selected for a prestigious cross-functional innovation group. When one of her peers in the work group isn't able to meet his deadlines because of his heavy workload, she picks up his slack. But at the end of the project, she needs to give him a rating in the company's new peer-feedback system, and she's worried that if she's honest, it will hurt his caree...Starting at €8.20
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Making Judgment Calls
Tichy, Noel M.; Bennis, Warren G.Article HBS-R0710E-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. According to the traditional view, judgment is an event: You make a decision and then move on. Yet Tichy, of the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business, and Bennis, of the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business, found that good le...Starting at €8.20
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Beating the Odds
Roberts, Laura Morgan; Mayo, Anthony J.; Ely, Robin J.; Thomas, David A.Article HBS-R1802K-EAny list of top CEOs reveals a stunning lack of diversity. Among the leaders of Fortune 500 companies, for example, just 32 are women, three are African-American, and not one is an African-American woman. What's going on? The authors studied the careers of the roughly 2,300 alumni of African descent who have graduated from Harvard Business School since its founding, focusing on the 67 African-American women who have attained top positions in corp...Starting at €8.20