Career Imprints: Creating Leaders Across An Industry (J-B Warren Bennis Series)

418 Pages·2005·5.02 MB·English

by  Monica C. Higgins

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Career Imprints
Creating Leaders Across an Industry
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This book is dedicated to my favorite teachers:
my parents,
my husband, Michael,
and my children, Sarah and Rebecca
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Career Imprints
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Monica Higgins
with a foreword by Ed Schein
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Career Imprints
Creating Leaders Across an Industry
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:
Higgins, Monica C., 1964-
Career imprinting : creating leaders across an industry / Monica C.
Higgins.—1st ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-7879-7751-9 (alk. paper)
1. Leadership. 2. Executives—Training of 3. Career development.
4. Corporate culture. 5. Baxter Healthcare Corp.—Personnel
management. I. Title.
HD57.7.H528 2005
658.4'092—dc22 2004030568
Printed in the United States of America
FIRSTEDITION
HB Printing10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
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Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Foreword xv
Preface xvii
Part One: Setting the Stage 01
1. Introduction: Career Imprints and Senior Executive
Mobility 03
2. From Baxter to Biotechnology: The First Wave
of Baxter Boys 21
Part Two: The Career Imprinting Process 51
3. Place: Understanding Breeding Grounds
for Career Imprinting 53
4. People: Characteristics and Susceptibility
to Career Imprinting 85
5. Paths: The Baxter Career Experience
and Resulting Career Imprint 107
6. Beyond Baxter: Career Imprints of Merck,
Johnson & Johnson, and Abbott 143
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viii CONTENTS
Part Three: The Consequences of Career Imprints 179
7. The Spawning Effect: Career Imprints and
Industry Evolution 181
8. The Legacy of Career Imprints for Organizations 217
9. The Opportunities and Constraints
of Career Imprints 253
10. Career Imprints: New Answers, New Questions 275
Appendix A: Research Design and Methods 295
Appendix B: Analyses of Baxter’s Impact on IPO Success 315
Appendix C: Baxter’s Business and Product Timelines 327
Notes 331
References 365
Index 382