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Capturing Contemporary Latin American Business History - Creating Emerging Markets

Universidad de San Andrés, CONICET, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Universidad del Desarrollo, CIEPLAN, Universidad Adolfo Ibañez, Universidad de Los Andes, and Univesidad del Pacífico. There were lively discussions throughout the day about the relevancy and use... View Details

1998
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The Multinational Traders

By: Geoffrey Jones

This book examines the history and theory of multinational trading companies. The essays in this volume demonstrate the importance of trading companies in trade and investment flows in the world economy from the nineteenth century to the present day. The empirical... View Details

Keywords: Company History; Trade; Globalization; Books; Organizational Structure; Perspective; Diversification; Theory; Asia; Europe; United States

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01 Feb 2022
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Making Diverse Leadership a Priority at Whittier College

Keywords: Re: Debora L. Spar

First Quarter 2013
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Big Data in the Age of the Telegraph

By: Caitlin C. Rosenthal

Daniel McCallum's 1854 organizational chart for the New York and Erie Railroad resembled a tree rather than a pyramid. It empowered frontline managers by clarifying data flows. View Details

Keywords: Big Data; Telegraph; Organizational Charts; History; Data and Data Sets; Business History; Information Technology; Organizational Structure; Rail Industry

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June 2017
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Maggie Wilderotter: The Evolution of an Executive

By: Boris Groysberg, Sarah L. Abbott and Robin Abrahams

In a career that spanned over 30 years, Maggie Wilderotter served as CEO of two publicly traded companies and served on 32 corporate and 9 association and nonprofit boards of directors. As CEO of Frontier Communications, a U.S. telecom company with over $25 billion in... View Details

Keywords: Leadership; Managing People; Networks; Strategy And Leadership; Personal Development and Career; Personal Characteristics; Leadership Style; Social and Collaborative Networks; Gender; Power and Influence; Telecommunications Industry; United States

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08 Dec 2010
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Being the Boss: 3 Imperatives to Great Leadership

2002
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The Leader as Partner: A Contrast of European and American Leadership Styles

By: D. Quinn Mills, Stephan A. Friedrich, Hans H. Hinterhuber and Dirk Seifert

Keywords: Leadership Style; Europe; United States

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2012
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Leading Amidst Competing Technical and Institutional Demands: Revisiting Selznick's Conception of Leadership

By: Marya L. Besharov and Rakesh Khurana

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2013
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Fortune Tellers: The Story of America's First Economic Forecasters

By: Walter A. Friedman

The period leading up to the Great Depression witnessed the rise of the economic forecasters, pioneers who sought to use the tools of science to predict the future, with the aim of profiting from their forecasts. This book chronicles the lives and careers of the men... View Details

Keywords: Forecasting And Prediction; Economic History; Economics; History; Risk and Uncertainty; United States

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The World Needs Your Leadership Now More Than Ever

The Advanced Management Program (AMP) will expose you to new tools and thinking, providing you with the opportunity to self-reflect and renew yourself as a leader and changemaker. You'll engage with a global community of leaders who face... View Details

07 Nov 2012
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How President Obama Should Choose His Leadership Team

20 Mar 2022
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Some Traits for Leadership That Could Equal More Success

11 Jul 2023
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Harvard Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter on the Enduring Principles of Great Leadership

27 Mar 2019
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Harvard Business School Joins Farm Forward’s Leadership Circle

July 2020 (Revised November 2020)
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Gera Developments: Leadership at a Crossroads

By: Christina R. Wing and John Masko

For decades, Gera Developments (Gera) was a boutique family-owned real estate development firm in Pune, India. But since 2000, managing director Rohit Gera had turned the company into a dynamic innovator in housing solutions for urban Indian families. Over the 2010s,... View Details

Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Business Growth and Maturation; Construction; Geographic Location; Global Strategy; Globalized Firms and Management; Housing; Leadership Style; Management Succession; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Family Ownership; Family and Family Relationships; Urban Development; Customization and Personalization; Real Estate Industry; Maharashtra; India; United States

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With the new year comes a host of new resolutions. To work smarter. Lead better. Get organized. Read more. Yet among business and leadership books — an overcrowded, underwhelming genre if there ever was one — what's worth picking up?

We scanned publishers'... View Details