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

'It would be important to know the thoughts of these leaders of leadership development regardless of whether they carried any merit - as they all carry crucial influence. The bonus is, of course, that they do know what they are talking about.' - Developing Leaders

• Introduction; J.Canals PART I: THE DEANS' PERSPECTIVE Globalization Strategies for Business Schools; F.Brown Towards Better Leadership Development Processes: New Corporate and Societal Challenges for Business Schools;  J.Canals Collaborative Leadership: A New Perspective for Leadership Development;  A.de Meyer The New Landscape for MBA Programs; S.Datar The Enduring Value of the MBA Program;  D.Jain Renewing the Model of the Contemporary Business School;  P.Nueno PART II: NEW CHALLENGES IN LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT: THE SCHOLARS' PERSPECTIVE Globalization of Business Education;  P.Ghemawat Leadership Development in Business Schools: An Agenda for Change;  J.Pfeffer A Humanistic View of Management and Decision Making;  J.M.Rosanas Towards a New Theory of the Firm: Its Impact in Leadership Development;  A.Argandona PART III: THE CEO'S PERSPECTIVE: WHAT COMPANIES EXPECT FROM LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT? WHAT SENIOR EXECUTIVES AND BUSINESS SCHOOLS CAN DO? Leadership Development and Talent Transfer in a Global World;  M.J.Prats How to Develop and Promote Leadership from the Top;  N.Chinchilla  & M.Las Heras