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| Management | Costas Markides | Nader Tavassoli |
| Strategy | Don Sull | Nikos Mourkogiannis |
| Leadership | Doug Ready | Nigel Nicholson |
| Marketing | Freek Vermeulen | Lynda Gratton |
| Finance | Henri Servaes | Rob Goffee |
| HR | John H Roberts | Zegar Degraeve |
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| General Management |
Nikos Mourkogiannis - On Purpose (January 2008)
"Determining the purpose that motivates you can be the key to finding fulfilment in life and success at work..."
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- Nigel Nicholson - Critical leader relationships (September 2007)
"It's really important that we, when we're selecting people that we work with, don't just clone ourselves..."
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Related programmes - Senior Executive Programme, Proteus, High Performance People Skills Programme
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Costas Markides - Radical New Product Innovation (August 2007)
"The importance for a big company with this kind of innovation is that they should not even be in the market of creating the products, because they need to emphasise their existing business and the creation of radical new products requires totally different cultures and structures..."
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Related programmes - Senior Executive Programme
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Henri Servaes - What impact will a takeover have on your market? (May 2007)
"The repercussions for other companies within an industry when one company is targeted for a hostile takeover..."
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Related programmes - Senior Executive Programme
| Strategy |
- Freek Vermeulen - The vicious cycle of Strategic Imitation (February 2008)
"We are hugely affected in our decision-making and behaviour by our notion of what others are doing, although we usually don't realise it
(and deny it vigorously). It takes a brave firm to stop following the crowds…"
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---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Don Sull - Managing by commitments (March 2007)
"Some of the key insights from my recent research on Managing by Commitments..."
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Related programmes - Achieving Strategic Agility
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Costas Markides - What exactly is strategic innovation?
Every company wants to achieve growth and profitability and what better way to do so than by creating totally new market space..."
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Related programmes - Senior Executive Programme, Developing Strategy for Value Creation
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Don Sull - Emerging market challenges (August 2005)
"Why businesses that have survived tough economic conditions at home have valuable lessons for western managers..."
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Related programmes - Achieving Strategic Agility
| Leadership |
Rob Goffee - Do you know how to lead clever people? (April 2007)
"The challenge of leading clever people, the people that have the intellectual capital which is at the core of the value of the firms within which they work..."
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Related programmes - Senior Executive Programme, Essentials of Leadership
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nigel Nicholson - Critical leader relationships (September 2007)
"It's really important that we, when we're selecting people that we work with, don't just clone ourselves..."
2 minute video - Play now | Audio - Listen now
Related programmes - Proteus, High Performance People Skills Programme, Senior Executive Programme.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Zegar Degraeve - The dynamics of decision making in teams (June 2007)
"How individuals use shortcuts in making decisions, which differ not only among individuals but also among cultures..."
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Related programmes - Negotiating and Influencing Skills for Managers, Senior Executive Programme, Accelerated Development Programme.
| Marketing |
Nader Tavassoli - What's in a name (January 2008)
"How messages are processed differently by readers of Chinese and English..."
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Related programmes - Customer Focused Marketing, Accelerated Development Programme, Senior Executive Programme
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nader Tavassoli - Brand polarisation (July 2007)
"Suggests that marketers should actively manage those people who love their brand, but also actively manage those people that don't."
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Related programmes - Customer Focused Marketing, Accelerated Development Programme, Senior Executive Programme
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - John H Roberts - Defending against new entrants (Marketing Insight , Issue 6, September 2006)
"This article aim to help players understand the marketing environment in which they are currently leaders..."
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Related programmes - Customer Focused Marketing
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Fast-forward puts TV advertising to the test (Marketing Insight , Issue 5, February 2006)
"The uncertainties that govern consumer behaviour make it hard to assess the likely impact of new technologies that promise dramatic revolutions in their respective industries ..."
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Related programmes - Customer Focused Marketing, Market Driving Strategies
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Tesco - A dominating retailer (Marketing Insight , Issue 3, May 2005)
"As recently as the early 1990s, Sainsbury's was the clear market leader of UK supermarkets...by the end of the decade, the positions were reversed. Tesco had increased sales..."
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| HR |
- Lynda Gratton - What does 2008 hold for HR (February 2008)
Lynda Gratton gives a quick insight into what she thinks the next couple of years will bring.
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Related programmes - Strategic Talent Management, Human Resource Strategy in Transforming Organisations
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Lynda Gratton, Innovative Potential - Men and Women in Teams (December 2007)
Professor Lynda Gratton explores what impact gender has on the way a team member functions and
behaves and the impact this has on the broader team outcome.
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---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Doug Ready - Talent Management: "The Perfect Storm" (October 2007)
"The driving factors and impact of "the perfect storm" in talent management..."
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Related programmes - Strategic Talent Management
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Lynda Gratton - Hot Spots (June 2007)
"What you as an individual and your company can do to help create 'Hot Spots' of innovation and energy within your organisation..."
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Related programmes - Human Resource Strategy in Transforming Organisations
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Doug Ready - Building a talent factory (June 2007)
"How you can transform your organisation into a talent factory and leverage the potential of your talent pools.."
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Related programmes - Strategic Talent Management
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Strategic talent management report. (May 07)
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Related programmes - Strategic Talent Management, Human Resource Strategy in Transforming Organisations
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Lynda Gratton - Creating a signature process. (April 2007)
"In the war for talent, only exceptional firms are able to attract and retain the right people..."
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Related programmes - Human Resource Strategy in Transforming Organisations
| Financial Management |
Jeremy Dent - Creating shareholder value. (November 07)
"How do you know your strategies are going to deliver optimal value..."
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Related programmes - Financial Seminar for Senior Managers Programme
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Henri Servaes - What impact will a takeover have on your market? (May 2007)
"The repercussions for other companies within an industry when one company is targeted for a hostile takeover..."
2 minute video - Play now | Audio - Listen now
Related programmes - Senior Executive Programme
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