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  • November 2008
  • Article

Winning the Race for Talent in Emerging Markets

By: Douglas A. Ready, Linda A. Hill and Jay A. Conger
"This war for talent is like nothing we've ever seen before," write the authors, who have spent decades studying talent management and leadership development. Recently they interviewed executives at more than 20 global companies to identify strategies for attracting... View Details
Keywords: Leadership Development; Selection and Staffing; Talent and Talent Management; Multinational Firms and Management; Organizational Culture; Recruitment; Diversity; Developing Countries and Economies
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    How Fast and Flexible Do You Want Your Information, Really?

    Almost all executives want more and faster information, and almost all companies are racing to provide it. What many of them are overlooking is that the real aim should not be faster information but faster decision making, and those aren't the same things. Executives... View Details
    • Web

    Illumination Studies and Relay Assembly Test Room – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

    Test Room, February 20, 1928, Western Electric Company, Hawthorne Studies Collection, Baker Library, Harvard Business School. Enter Elton Mayo Human Relations and Harvard Business School Women in the Relay Assembly Test Room The Interview... View Details
    • 03 Sep 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: September 3

    diversity that goes beyond rhetoric. But what motivates them to do so, and how do they actually create inclusive cultures? To find out, the authors interviewed 24 CEOs whose firms were known for embracing people of all backgrounds. These... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Web

    How to Apply | Predoctoral Researchers

    Resume Cover letter Transcript(s) — unofficial is acceptable at time of application, official are required before official start date. Writing sample Candidates who are selected to interview for quantitative roles will be asked to... View Details
    • Web

    Africa - Global

    School. This dinner marked the conclusion of Professor Iyoha’s visit to Lagos, during which she conducted in-depth case study interviews with senior executives of select companies and engaged in strategic discussions regarding future case... View Details
    • Web

    Enter Elton Mayo – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

    field for both industry and society and Mayo’s unique qualifications for the job. Human Relations and Harvard Business School Women in the Relay Assembly Test Room The Interview Process Spreading the Word The "Hawthorne Effect" Research... View Details
    • 06 Jul 2016
    • Research & Ideas

    The Truth About Authentic Leaders

    called authentic leaders. In contrast to IQ, which basically does not change in one’s adult lifetime, EQ can be developed. The first and most important step on this journey is gaining self-awareness. In preparing to write Discover Your True North, my research team and... View Details
    Keywords: by Bill George
    • 08 Mar 2021
    • In Practice

    COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace. What Should Companies Do Now?

    A year ago, COVID-19 forced many companies to send employees home—often with a laptop and a prayer. Now, with COVID cases subsiding and vaccinations rising, the prospect of returning to old office routines appears more possible. But will employees want to flock back to... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • January–February 2021
    • Article

    Making Space for Emotions: Empathy, Contagion, and Legitimacy’s Double-Edged Sword

    By: Andreea Gorbatai, Cyrus Dioun and Kisha Lashley
    Legitimacy is critical to the formation and expansion of nascent fields because it lends credibility and recognizability to once overlooked actors and practices. At the same time, legitimacy can be a double-edged sword precisely because it facilitates field growth,... View Details
    Keywords: Legitimacy; Collective Identity; Emotional Contagion; Field-congifiguring Events; Empathy; Natural Language Processing; Mixed Methods; Organizational Culture; Emotions; Groups and Teams
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    • September 2021
    • Article

    Joint Problem-solving Orientation in Fluid Cross-boundary Teams

    By: Michaela J. Kerrissey, Anna T. Mayo and Amy C. Edmondson
    Using interviews, a national field survey, and an online laboratory study, we have examined teamwork in fluid cross-boundary teams. Across three studies, we qualitatively discovered and quantitatively explored "joint problem-solving orientation" as a new team factor.... View Details
    Keywords: Problem Solving; Cross-boundary Teams; Groups and Teams; Problems and Challenges; Performance
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    • July 2020
    • Case

    PeopleAnswers (A): People Analytics

    By: Daniel P. Gross and Christian Godwin
    In the fall of 2009, founder and CEO Gab Goncalves has turned PeopleAnswers, Inc. from a fledgling startup to a steadily growing company of nearly 50 employees and $10 million recurring revenue. PeopleAnswers provides people analytics software which its clients use to... View Details
    Keywords: People Analytics; Entrepreneurship; Strategy; Growth and Development; Human Resources; Selection and Staffing
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    • June 2011
    • Article

    Implicit Voice Theories: Taken-for-granted Rules of Self-censorship at Work

    By: J. R. Detert and Amy C. Edmondson
    This article examines, in a series of four studies, the nature and impact of implicit voice theories-largely taken-for-granted beliefs about when and why speaking up at work is risky or inappropriate. In Study 1, qualitative data from 190 interviews conducted in a... View Details
    Keywords: Spoken Communication; Interpersonal Communication; Employees; Managerial Roles; Organizational Culture; Risk and Uncertainty; Behavior
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      SuperCorp: How Vanguard Companies Create Innovation, Profits, Growth, and Social Good

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        The New Market Conundrum

        Brand-new markets are like the wormholes of science fiction, where the usual rules of time and space do not apply. When a market has just been born, the forces of competition there are constantly in flux, it's unclear who your customers really are, and conventional... View Details

          Unleashed

          When leaders seek out advice, they’re often told to fix themselves. Should they?

          When leaders want to improve, they will find no shortage of ideas to help them. They’re told to identify and develop their natural-born strengths, mine failures... View Details

          • 11 Dec 2023
          • Research & Ideas

          Doing Well by Doing Good? One Industry’s Struggle to Balance Values and Profits

          social media. “In any organization, you want to make the moral and material coexist.” In a recent paper, Lakshmi Ramarajan, associate professor of business administration at Harvard Business School, and Erin Reid, a professor at McMaster University, View Details
          Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
          • 05 Dec 2022
          • What Do You Think?

          How Would Jack Welch’s Leadership Style Fare in Today’s World?

          polluted. Management repeatedly bought and sold companies, maybe more than they could manage coherently. After Welch’s departure, his successors couldn’t maintain his performance (something both authors believe was inevitable given the mess in which some of the people... View Details
          Keywords: by James Heskett; Industrial Products; Media & Broadcasting; Medical Devices & Supplies; Manufacturing
          • 08 Aug 2022
          • HBS Case

          Building an 'ARMY' of Fans: Marketing Lessons from K-Pop Sensation BTS

          immediately take off. Its first two albums flopped; its third album was a moderate success. Lead singer RM reminisced about BTS’ rough start in an interview with the Korea Herald: “At the time we debuted, I still remember how people... View Details
          Keywords: by Shalene Gupta; Media & Broadcasting; Music
          • 27 Sep 2018
          • Research & Ideas

          Religion in the Workplace: What Managers Need to Know

          were placed conspicuously near store entrances because “good-looking people attract other good-looking people, and we want to market to cool, good-looking people,” Jeffries said in a 2006 Salon interview. In 2008, 17-year-old Samantha Elauf felt confident she had... View Details
          Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage; Apparel & Accessories