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Grooming Next-Generation Leaders

Finding and nurturing future leadership talent is a primary concern for most organizations. How can they identify top people, train them, and - here's the catch - retain them? And do so in the face of ever-increasing global challenges?

Author: Martha Lagace, Senior Editor of HBS Working Knowledge
First published: 18 December, 2006. This article is published with the permission of HBS Working Knowledge.

Executive Education - Evaluating ROI - US appendix to 2005 Report

This report by Ashridge Business School with the assistance of Babson Executive Education builds on an earlier study "Executive Education: Evaluating the Return on Investment – Bringing the client voice into the debate" which reported the findings of a European survey of business school clients. The study explored attitudes towards evaluating customised executive programmes. We have now replicated the survey in the US. This gives us a much broader base of clients within the survey, and the ability to compare views of US clients with clients based in Europe.

Author:Kate Charlton, Ashridge

First Published: May 2006

Emerging Leaders: Implications for Engagement and Retention

A recent Economist magazine survey on talent highlighted urgent issues for companies around the world related to attracting and retaining the best people ("A Survey of Talent", The Economist, October 7^th 2006). The lead article in the survey points out that the war for talent is being fought not only by companies but by countries, and cites a poll from the Corporate Executive Board (CEB) in Washington, DC that shows that 75 percent of senior HR managers surveyed said that "attracting and retaining talent" was their number one priority.

Author: Rudi Plettinx, Managing Director, Center for Creative Leadership Europe
First published: 2006

A Conversation with Lucy Hughes, Novartis
Employee Engagement

Novartis is one of the world's leading healthcare companies. Created in 1996 through the merger of Ciba-Geigy and Sandoz its name is an amalgam of the latin words for "new skills". This could also be a neat summary of what the Global Talent team at Novartis Pharma are also looking for.

Author: Roderick Millar, Editor, IEDP.
First published: 2006