Meg Whitman and her Leadership style Meg Whitman was born in 1957 and she grew up in Cold Spring Harbor‚ Long Island‚ New York. When Whitman entered Princeton University‚ she planned a career in medicine‚ but she became an economics major after a summer job selling advertising for a campus publication. She graduated with an economics degree in 1977 and earned an MBA from Harvard Business School two years later. Whitman joined Procter & Gamble‚ later worked for the consulting firms of: Bain & Co
Premium Nursing Nurse Health care
STUDENT LEADERSHIP* Lead as I would like to be led. Exemplify a passion for excellence. Accountability‚ Commitment‚ and Integrity. Dare to be All I Can Be. Leadership IMAPCTS Practice … Preparation...Performance … Profess ionalism Leadership Begins with Self‐Leadership Begin with who am I? What are my values and Core beliefs? What kind of Leader do I want to be? What motivates me? What do I value? Student Leadership habits: Adapted from The 7 Habits of Highly
Premium Marching band Leadership Responsibility
Meg Whitman‚ CEO of EBay‚ started her career by learning from numerous companies. She was often the new employee in many organizations. She began her career in brand management at Proctor & Gamble. This is where she learned the very valuable listen that customers come first. Then‚ Whitman went on to be a business management consultant for Bain. Bain was a decentralized environment. Meg Whitman learned that collaborating with others is a better way to get things done then controlling your employees
Premium Meg Whitman Management consulting Management
Meg Whitman Case Writing Assignment Raymond McDaniel Jr. Leadership and Organizational Behavior Professor Dennis Darlak May 15‚ 2010 In the following I will discuss certain questions and views dealing with Meg Whitman‚ CEO of eBay Case. I will discuss how Meg Whitman’s leadership reflects transaction leadership. I will identify the aspects of Meg Whitman’s leadership that reflect authentic leadership. I will discuss how Meg Whitman used her leadership skills to transform the company
Premium
colleagues; reflect on your best and worst moments; train gradually; broaden your model of leadership to include a full range of styles; and honor high ethical standards.” (Avolio‚ 2009) These are qualities held by Meg Whitman‚ former CEO of eBay. Although there are many types of leadership models‚ we will discuss Transactional‚ Authentic and Transformational leadership. They are defined as such: 1. Transactional leadership involves motivating and directing a group‚ through the pleasing of their own self-interest
Premium Leadership
009102012022 Subject: Critical Thinking The leader‚ who I admire and choose to analyze‚ is Meg Whitman (Margaret Cushing Whitman). She has been the Chief Executive Officer and President of Hewlett-Packard Company and held the important positions of other companies. The position‚ which made her to become a famous and successful CEO‚ was the CEO of eBay. * Analyze the personal characteristics of Meg Whitman: Beginning with her childhood‚ she was an excellent student and got an M.B.A from Harvard
Premium Learning Skill Leadership
Based on reading over the Harvard case study‚ eBay should acquire Kruse. The eBay case is about the first CEO of eBay‚ Meg Whitman and potential cultural impact of Kruse purchase on two groups: the user community and the eBay associates‚ especially the management team. Meg Whitman was hired by the founder of eBay‚ Pierre Omidyar in March 1998 at a time when the company was still very young and experiencing a fast paced growth. It was the intention of Omidyar to hire someone who would be instrumental
Premium Management Meg Whitman
A study on Meg Whitman and Hewlett-Packard George Davies Dr. Laura Poluka Business 520 Organizational Behavior 9/01/13 1 A Study on Meg Whitman and Hewett-Packard Introduction Meg Whitman was born Margaret Cushing Whitman on August 4‚ 1956‚ in Cold Spring Harbor‚ Long Island‚ New York. The youngest of the Hendricks and Margaret Cushing’s three children‚ Meg grew up in Cold Harbor Spring‚ New York. Her father worked for Wall Street while her mother was a stay-at-home mom. Confident and
Premium Meg Whitman Harvard Business School Ethics
Meg Whitman‚ CEO of eBay Leadership and Organizational Behavior Transaction Leadership Transactional leadership involves motivating and directing followers primarily through appealing to their own self-interest (Hellriegel‚ D.‚ & Slocum‚ J. W‚ Jr. 2009). In this case Meg Whitman’s leadership reflects transaction leadership through the focus on basic management process of controlling‚ organizing and short-term planning. Hellriegel and Slocum mentions Whitman craves for statistics and
Premium Leadership Management
weren’t for [the] community.” In 1998‚ Meg Whitman was brought in as CEO to strengthen the eBay brand and to develop a stronger marketing strategy. In this‚ she was remarkably successful. In little over a year‚ eBay registrants grew from 88‚000 to 3.8 million users. The company successfully went public‚ revenue just about doubled every quarter‚ and acquisitions and partnerships were made to increase the customer base. However‚ the rapid growth under Whitman caused a major problem for eBay: it put
Premium Decision making