'Prepare your students, as managers, to confront today's challenges and opportunities that are more dynamic and complex than ever before with the interconnected approach found only in Gulati/Mayo/Nohria's MANAGEMENT - PRELIMINARY EDITION. Written by award-winning instructors and prominent Harvard management experts Ranjay Gulati, Anthony Mayo and Nitin Nohria, this unique text demonstrates how success within a constantly changing business environment requires a clear understanding of the interactive and dynamic nature of strategy, organizational design, and leadership. Students clearly see how today's managers need to harness technological advances, manage and lead a dispersed and diverse workforce, anticipate and react to constant competitive and geopolitical change and uncertainty, compete on a global scale, and operate in a socially responsible and accountable manner. MANAGEMENT - PRELIMINARY EDITION demonstrates the mutual interconnectivity among the three key facets of management: strategic positioning, organizational design, and individual leadership. The authors highlight both the manner in which strategy informs leadership and how leaders influence strategic positioning and, ultimately, performance. Your students effectively prepare for leadership roles and truly think like managers as they master and address the many integrated facets involved in answering the key question: How are leaders successfully managing competitive companies in the 21st century?
' THIS HOLISTIC, INTERCONNECTED APPROACH TO MANAGEMENT CLEARLY DEMONSTRATES THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN STRATEGY, ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGN, AND LEADERSHIP. Students learn how all three facets contribute to organizational performance. This book''s unique approach by award-winning authors brings strategy, leadership, and organizational behavior concepts to a principles level in a book that''s relevant to how today''s organizations operate. CASE EXAMPLES AND REFLECTIVE EXERCISES EMPHASIZE THE RELEVANCE OF CONTENT TO EXCEPTIONAL BUSINESS PERFORMANCE. Readers quickly realize the value of the information they are learning as meaningful Case Examples and Reflective Exercises focus on today''s diverse business landscape. Personal Assessments further help students examine key factors that drive individual achievement and organizational results. "SELF-REFLECTION" FEATURES AT THE BEGINNING OF EACH CHAPTER OFFERS A CAPTIVATING "REALITY CHECK" FOR STUDENTS. These intriguing, insightful scenarios at the start of each chapter instantly draw readers into the content as students evaluate their own qualities and abilities and how they relate to the context of the chapter. "LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT JOURNEY" TRANSLATES MANAGEMENT THEORY INTO PRACTICAL ACTION. These comprehensive, skills-based activities allow students to develop both who they are and who they will become as managers. These practical "Leadership Development Journeys" work together, chapter-by-chapter to help activity translate important theory into effective action as students learn to turn the "what" into "how." "DIFFERENT VIEW" HELPS DEFINE UNCLEAR AREAS WITHIN TODAY''S BUSINESS LANDSCAPE. Students catch a captivating glimpse into how specific chapter concepts translate into real business world significance as the authors address emerging, diverse issues. "Different Views" examine challenges, such as reducing carbon footprint (Ch. 1), leading a "Small Giant" (Ch. 5), leading in a globalized world (Ch. 7), democratic workplaces (Chapter 8), managing positive office politics (Ch. 15), motivation in the 21st Century (Chapter 19), and nonprofit networking (Ch. 21). "CASE IN POINT" ACTIVITIES GUIDE FURTHER EXPLORATION. These engaging activities ask students to further examine Case Examples as they pursue various research opportunities that springboard from the book''s content. "TELL US WHAT YOU THINK" FEATURES GIVE YOU AN OPPORTUNITY TO PROVIDE SPECIFIC FEEDBACK AND SHAPE THIS EDITION''S CONTENT. Conveniently located in the margins of each chapter, "Tell Us What You Think" is your opportunity to share feedback with the authorship team on any element of this book. Your collaboration, as a user of this text, will help improve the learning and teaching experience for instructors and students using the next edition.
'PART 1: Introduction to Management. 1. Introduction to Management. PART 2: Strategic Perspective. 2. The Business Environment. 3. Introduction to Strategy. 4. Business-Level Strategy. 5. Corporate-Level Strategy. 6. Competitive Dynamics. 7. Globalization. PART 3: Organizational Perspective. 8. The Organizational Context. 9. Organizational Structure. 10. Organizational Culture. 11. Performance Management. 12. Organizational Change. PART 4: Individual Perspective. 13. Leadership in Organizations. 14. Becoming a Leader: Knowing Yourself. 15. Power and Influence. 16. Decision Making. 17. Conflict and Negotiation. 18. Leading Teams. 19. Motivation. 20. Communication. 21. Networking. 22. Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility.
'Ranjay Gulati Dr. Gulati is Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo Professor at the Harvard Business School. An expert on leadership, strategy, and organizational issues in firms today, his recent work explores leadership and strategic challenges for building high growth organizations in turbulent markets. Prior work has focused on the enablers and implications of within-firm and inter-firm collaboration. Dr. Gulati has examined both when and how firms should leverage greater connectivity within and across their boundaries to enhance performance. Dr. Gulati teaches courses in Harvard Business School's MBA, AMP, and Executive Education programs. He has directed several executive programs on such topics as Building and Leading Customer Centric Organizations, Managing Customer Relationships, Managing Strategic Alliances, Mergers & Acquisitions, and Sustaining Competitive Advantage in Turbulent Markets. He is also active in custom executive education. He has received a number of awards for his teaching including the Best Professor Award for his teaching in the MBA and executive MBA programs at the Kellogg School, where he was on the faculty prior to coming to Harvard. He is also a frequent guest on CNBC and has been a panelist for series on the Business of Innovation, Collaboration, and Leadership Vision. Dr. Gulati holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University, a Master's Degree in Management from M.I.T.'s Sloan School of Management, and two Bachelor's Degrees in Computer Science and Economics from Washington State University and St. Stephens College, New Delhi, respectively. He lives in Newton, Massachusetts with his wife Anuradha and their two children, Varoun and Shivani. Anthony J. Mayo Professor Anthony Mayo is the Thomas S. Murphy Senior Lecturer of Business Administration in the Organizational Behavior Unit of Harvard Business School (HBS). He currently teaches FIELD, Field Immersion and Experiential Leadership Development, a new required experiential, field-based course in the first year of the MBA Program. Previously, he co-created and taught the course, "Great Business Leaders: The Importance of Contextual Intelligence." Professor Mayo also teaches extensively in leadership-based executive education programs. He co-authored IN THEIR TIME: THE GREATEST BUSINESS LEADERS OF THE 20TH CENTURY, which has been translated into five language and two corresponding books in the series that profile business leaders. These books are derived from the development of the Great American Business Leaders database that co-author Dr. Nohria and Professor Mayo created. Professor Mayo also serves as the Director of the HBS Leadership Initiative, an interdisciplinary center that serves as a catalyst for cutting-edge research and course development on leaders and leadership. As Director, Professor Mayo oversees comprehensive research projects on emerging, global, and legacy leadership and manages a number of executive education programs on leadership development. He has co-created the High Potentials Leadership Development and the Leadership Best Practices programs and has been a principal contributor to a number of custom leadership development programs. He designed and currently oversees the executive coaching component of Harvard Business School's Program for Leadership Development. Professor Mayo completed his MBA from Harvard Business School and received his Bachelor's Degree, summa cum laude, from Boston College. He lives in Needham, MA with his wife, Denise, and their three children, Hannah, Alex, and Jacob. Nitin Nohria Dr. Nitin Nohria serves as the 10th dean of Harvard Business School. He previously served as co-chair of the Leadership Initiative, Senior Associate Dean of Faculty Development, and Head of the Organizational Behavior unit. His intellectual interests center on human motivation, leadership, corporate transformation and accountability, and sustainable economic and human performance. A prolific author, Dr. Nohria has co-authored or co-edited 16 books, including a recent HANDBOOK OF LEADERSHIP THEORY AND PRACTICE, a compendium dedicated to advancing research on leadership. He also recently co-authored a book chronicling how leaders from various backgrounds rose to power in American businesses, which joins two others in the series that detail the greatest business leaders in the 20th century and offer historic leadership profiles. In addition, he recently collaborated to develop a video designed to generate discussion of the value and importance of leadership in addressing some of society's most pressing problems. He also co-launched a Harvard Business Review six-week blog on how leadership might look in the future. Dean Nohria has taught courses across Harvard Business School's MBA, Ph.D., and Executive Education programs. He also served as a visiting faculty member at the London Business School in 1996. Prior to joining the Harvard Business School faculty in July 1988, Dr. Nohria received his Ph.D. in Management from the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a B. Tech. in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (which honored him as a Distinguished Alumnus in 2007). He and his wife live in the Boston area with their two daughters.
