Leadership Development in a Global World: The Role of Companies and Business Schools

Global companies are facing a new, pressure to develop leaders with global mindsets. The war for managerial talent has never been so intense. Companies and business schools need not only to fine tune practices and models, but redesign current paradigms and create more effective and sustainable ways to invest in leadership development.

JORDI CANALS is the Dean and Professor of General Management at IESE Business School, University of Navarra, Spain. His areas of expertise include corporate strategy and corporate governance. He is the author of several books and articles, including Universal Banking (1996), Managing Corporate Growth (2000), Building Respected Companies (2010) and editor of The Future of Leadership Development (2011). He was a Fulbright Scholar, a Research Fellow at the Harvard Business School and a Visiting Scholar at The World Bank, The International Monetary Fund and The Brookings Institution, and a member of the government commission on corporate governance reform in Spain.