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The Future of Leadership Development

Corporate Needs and the Role of Business Schools

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  • © 2011

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  1. Jordi Canals

    1. IESE Business School, Spain

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Part of the book series: IESE Business Collection (IESEBC)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. The Deans’ Perspective on Leadership Development and Business Schools

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. In Search of a Greater Impact: New Corporate and Societal Challenges for Business Schools

      • Jordi Canals
      Pages 3-30

    3. Millennials and the Changing Landscape of Business Education

      • J. Frank Brown
      Pages 31-43

    4. Collaborative Leadership: New Perspectives in Leadership Development

      • Arnoud De Meyer
      Pages 44-63

    5. The Enduring Value of the MBA Degree

      • Dipak C. Jain, Matt Golosinski
      Pages 64-96

    6. Business Schools and the Demands of Business Leadership

      • Jay O. Light
      Pages 97-108

    7. The Contribution of Business Schools to the Twenty-first Century

      • Pedro Nueno
      Pages 109-116

  3. New Challenges in Leadership Development and Executive Education: The Scholars’ Perspective

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 117-117
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    2. From Action Theory to the Theory of the Firm

      • Antonio Argandoña
      Pages 119-142

    3. A Humanistic Approach to Organizations and Organizational Decision-making

      • Josep M. Rosanas
      Pages 143-176

    4. Bridging the Globalization Gap at Top Business Schools: Curricular Challenges and a Response

      • Pankaj Ghemawat
      Pages 177-217

    5. Leadership Development in Business Schools: An Agenda for Change

      • Jeffrey Pfeffer
      Pages 218-237

  4. The CEOs’ Perspective: What Companies Expect from Leadership Development

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 239-239
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    2. How to Develop and Promote Leadership from the Top

      • Mireia Las Heras, Nuria Chinchilla
      Pages 241-265

    3. Managing Managers as Professionals: Leadership Development and Talent Transfer in a Global World

      • M. Julia Prats, Remei Agulles
      Pages 266-291

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 292-328
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About this book

The current financial crisis highlights the need to rethink business leadership and the role of business schools in helping firms develop the leaders of the future. This book brings together the perspectives of deans of top international business schools,  and the views of CEOs and senior business leaders.

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'It would be important to know the thoughts of these leaders of leadership development regardless of whether they carried any merit - as they all carry crucial influence. The bonus is, of course, that they do know what they are talking about.' - Developing Leaders

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  • IESE Business School, Spain

    Jordi Canals

About the editor

JORDI CANALS is the Dean and Professor of General Management at IESE Business School, University of Navarra, Spain. His areas of expertize include corporate strategy and corporate governance. He is the author of several books and articles, including Universal banking (1996), Managing corporate growth (2000) and Building Respected Companies (2010). He was a Fulbright Scholar, a Research Fellow at the Harvard Business School and a Visiting Scholar at The World Bank and The Brookings Institution, and a member of the government commission on corporate governance reform in Spain.

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