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As somebody who started teaching more than 30 years ago in what was then the General Management area at the Harvard Business School, I have long been interested in leadership development, broadly defined. In the last 15 years, my work has mostly focused on globalization and its implications for business, with a particular focus on business strategy and, more recently, leadership development. I discuss at some length my perspectives on the globalization of leadership development in a chapter included in Canals (2012). That chapter, “The ABCDs of Leadership 3.0,” proposed a different way of addressing the distinctive complexities that leaders grapple with in a global (or international) context: by thinking through as well as experiencing the differences and distances between countries and acting on the implications (Ghemawat, 2012). The model was grounded in logic, empirical research, an AACSB-sponsored survey of academic thought leaders worldwide, participation in the AACSB’s Globalization of Management Education Taskforce, and my experience teaching these ideas—and experimenting with them—over more than a decade.
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Ghemawat, P. (2015). Global Leadership Development and Innovation Inside. In: Canals, J. (eds) Shaping Entrepreneurial Mindsets. The Palgrave Macmillan IESE Business Collection. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137516671_8
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