Publications

Keywords: Growth and Development; Performance

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2019
Book

Becoming a Manager: How New Managers Master the Challenges of Leadership

In your career, or anyone's, there is one transition that stands out as the most crucial—going from individual contributor to competent manager.

New managers have to learn how to lead others rather than do the work themselves, to win trust and respect, to... View Details

Keywords: Management; Leadership; Leadership Development; Management Skills; Learning

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2015
Introduction

Globalization

Keywords: Innovation; Globalization; Information Technology; Information Technology Industry

January 1989
Supplement

Suzanne de Passe at Motown Productions, Video

Updates events in the case and draws a tighter focus on managing a start-up and women in leadership. View Details

Keywords: Management; Leadership; Gender; Business Startups

2005
Working Paper

Leadership Development: A Strategic Imperative for Higher Education

August 1995
Case

Slade Plating Department, The

Describes a conflict between the values and norms of a segment of an internal social system and those of management and the wider culture. Includes decision opportunity. A rewritten version of an earlier case. View Details

Keywords: Conflict and Resolution; Values and Beliefs; Organizational Culture; Decision Making

Educators

June 1994
Supplement

Rudi Gassner at BMG International, Video

Shows excerpts from a class discussion with Gassner and an MBA class. He describes his leadership style and the challenges he faces as the senior executive of a global entertainment enterprise. View Details

Keywords: Entertainment; Globalization; Leadership Style; Problems and Challenges; Entertainment and Recreation Industry

January 1994 (Revised April 1994)
Supplement

Suzanne de Passe at Motown Productions (B)

Provides an update of the (A) case. Describes de Passe's career from 1986 to 1993. View Details

Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Music Industry

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February 1993 (Revised March 1995)
Case

Bernd Sterzel at the IVth Medizinische Klinik (A)

After 10 years of running a small laboratory at Yale Medical School, Dr. R. Bernd Sterzel assumes leadership of a nephrology clinic in Nurnberg and Erlangen, Germany. In his ambitious efforts to transform the clinic into a leading academic research institution, he... View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Problems and Challenges; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Health Industry; Germany; Connecticut

Educators

October 1986 (Revised March 1995)
Supplement

Karen Leary (B)

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Other Article

Les dirigeants d’entreprise face au défi de l’innovation [Business Leaders Facing the Challenge of Innovation]

Keywords: Innovation; Business Leaders; Innovation Leadership

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Incorporating the Arts to Create Technical Leaders of the Future

Engineering education should be reimagined to create a new generation of technical leaders prepared to dream, invent, and steward the future. These leaders of tomorrow will need to bridge business, engineering, and the arts. View Details

Keywords: Education; Engineering; Arts; Leadership Development