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Casium \ka-zē-əm\
Noun
Company that provides content on management topics to business schools, publications and corporations. Focuses on salient facts and potential management lessons, as in business school cases. Emphasizes clarity through tight writing and concise charting.

Leadership

Leading the best auto alliance
Carlos Ghosn is a multi-cultural, multi-lingual industrialist-- at Michelin tyres in France and the USA; at Renault in France; at Nissan in Japan; and now at Renault again. But is he exceptional enough to be able to cope with today's inauspicious times?

Cuisine meets R&D
IESE professors Julia Prats and Javier Quintanilla explore how elBulli went from a sleepy scuba diver’s bar to the world’s top restaurant, using plain marketing positioning concepts and not so common genius.

A leadership pentalogue
In "The Leadership Code" Dave Ulrich, Norm Smallwood and Kate Sweetman synthesize their years of teaching and consulting in the leadership field. Their synthetic code consists of five rules and five leadership caps. Discover the pentalogue.

Lither-ship in cement
By marrying an engineer’s boldness and analytical skills with an ability to partner in formal and informal ways, Brian Bruce has grown the South African construction leader, Murray & Roberts, to over $4 billion in revenue while restoring profitability.

Liberating leadership
In "Freedom, Inc." Brian Carney (Wall Street Journal) and professor Isaac Getz (ESCP Europe) look at some companies which have moved away from a hierarchical, bureaucratic mindset to a more freedom-based framework.

Latest in Leadership

Getting an iron elephant to dance
Professors Tarun Khanna and Aldo Musacchio (Harvard Business School) look at the turnaround effected by Lalu Prasad Yadav and Sudhir Kumar at Indian Railways.

Head scarf and no glass ceiling
Fatima Al Jaber is the COO of a large Abu Dhabi construction-based conglomerate, the Al Jaber Group. Professor Kets de Vries (INSEAD) has studied the path she followed to the top and the problems she faces.