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- 05 Mar 2001
- What Do You Think?
Fine Coupling: Can Human Resource Management Learn from Supply Chain Management?
Productivity will improve as the alternation of job assignments eliminates the 'indispensable' worker." Connie Luthy says, "I have practiced 'Just-In-Time' hiring ... in the pharmaceutical... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 08 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is it Worth a Pay Cut to Work for a Great Manager (Like Bill Belichick)?
indicates the answer is yes. That is, by enhancing employee value managers can potentially add significant value to an organization. This research is particularly important to recall this week, when, with the close of the NFL’s regular season, teams fire... View Details
- 21 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Are We Thinking Too Little, or Too Much?
instance, a manager might hire or disqualify job candidates based on whether they make good eye contact during an interview, just because past candidates who made good eye contact ended up performing well at the company. "So they... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 04 Feb 2015
- What Do You Think?
Is There a Stanford-Google-Silicon Valley School of Management?
to several of the responses. As Carl X. Parks put it, "Organizations can utilize tools from Google's best practices to enhance or redevelop their own (where applicable). But as a whole, this may not always be directly transferable to... View Details
- 16 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 16, 2016
answer two key questions. Can anyone, including MBAs and executives with superb analytical skills, learn to think more innovatively? If so, how might we go about developing these skills? Through close collaboration with individuals from major design thinking View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Nov 2014
- What Do You Think?
Are We Entering an Era of Neuromanagement?
Summing Up: Where Do We Draw the Line on the Use of Technology in Hiring Practices? The idea of using brain scans in hiring, while it generated limited enthusiasm among respondents to this month's column, nevertheless was rejected by only... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 21 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
It Matters That Your CEO Doesn't Know Much About Sales
Hence, the call criteria used in sales directly impact which projects the firm invests in. Yet, how many in the C-suite understand how compensation, deployment, and other core sales management practices determine these activities daily?”... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 13 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 13, 2010
their standard hiring practices to fit local challenges and customs. Based on interviews with professionals in a number of established accounting, strategy consulting, and executive search firms presently... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Nov 2003
- What Do You Think?
Can Investors Have Too Much Accounting Transparency?
not only a company's numbers but also the systems that produce the numbers. Finally, public accountants will have to evaluate the work of the boards' audit committees that hired them. The bill for the additional external auditors and... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 08 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity
gender and work, the paper, An Outside- Inside Internalization of Shifting Gender Logics in Professional Work, identifies cycles of organizational analysis and resulting actions sparked by transformations in societal beliefs and practices... View Details
- 12 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019
successful dual-purpose companies build a commitment to creating both economic and social value into their core activities. This approach, which they call hybrid organizing, includes: setting and monitoring social goals alongside financial ones, structuring the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Rupert Murdoch and the Seeds of Moral Hazard
Management Practice and leadership expert Robert Steven Kaplan comments on these issues. Michel Anteby Many companies today operate like Russian nesting dolls, where one large figure is actually made up of many smaller ones. These... View Details
- 05 Feb 2009
- What Do You Think?
Why Can’t We Figure Out How to Select Leaders?
research and practice that can guide and improve the selection process and its outcomes. Their message was: "We know how to do it. And here's how." As Al Shealy commented, "The research isn't being used." Dan Erwin... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 03 Oct 2018
- What Do You Think?
How Should Managers Deal with the Challenges of Building an Inclusive Workplace?
quotas Instead, I favor an individualized approach where the organization names diversity and inclusion as values and then individuals are evaluated based on their words and behavior rather than on numbers.” Frances Pratt suggested that, “ there needs to be a more... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 08 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Negotiate “Yes” Across Cultural Boundaries
through most commercial disputes. Present-day Russia has practically no functioning judiciary. Many countries' legal systems are corrupt or controlled by local political powers. The fact is, there can be a great gulf between the laws on... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 25 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Studying Japan from the Inside
Harvard Business School started its Japan Research Office in December 2001—smack in the middle of an incredibly turbulent time for the country's economy. The boom years of the 1970s and 1980s—when Japanese management practices and... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 04 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Worried About the Great Resignation? Be a Good Company to Come From
practices that companies can follow to put this into place: Link work to social purposes employees care about Recruit Holdings believes work should add value to society. It also operates under the philosophy that a good manager should... View Details
Keywords: by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta
- 28 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Meeting China’s Need for Management Education
practices in management education. "Overall, we were delighted to see the impact that PCMPCL is having in the area and on these leading schools of business," Wheelwright says. Report: Q: What general advice would you give our... View Details
- 11 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 11
ability individuals can be constrained from commensurate employment opportunities due to their geographic location. In the face of physical, informational, and social barriers to migration, firms with nation-wide hiring View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Keeping Track: Performance Measurement, Control & Strategy
professor Robert Simons has been adding to that body of knowledge and practice through an extensive research agenda that has resulted in numerous books, articles, and case studies. Working Knowledge editor Jim Aisner sat down recently... View Details
Keywords: Re: Robert Simons