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- 05 Dec 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Walmart Defying Economic Gravity?
turnover among the largest business firms, characterized in the United States by the fact that only one company, General Electric, has survived in the Dow Jones Industrials index since its beginning. We are reminded of the matter as... View Details
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
The State of the Markets
of old firms, and the creation of new and appealing jobs. "The larger and more liquid an equity market is," Seifert emphasized, "measured in terms of its turnover ratio [that is, the average number of times a share changes... View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner
- 01 May 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 1, 2018
Christopher Stanton Abstract—Wage rigidity creates real and financial frictions, though the real-world drivers of rigidities remain largely unstudied. We use staggered commission reductions at a sales firm to estimate effects on worker View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Private Meetings of Public Companies Thwart Disclosure Rules
period, while only 13 percent scored at least one meeting per year. But seven investors in the sample met at least 15 times during the six-year period; of those, four managed hedge funds and three represented large buy-side investor firms. Investor firms with high... View Details
- Profile
Maliha Khan
business case for the program." She found it in the high employee-turnover rates. "I repositioned the program as a way to reduce attrition, to save money on hiring and training new workers." An initial six-month pilot program proved a huge success. View Details
- 18 Oct 2016
- News
China, artificial intelligence, and Jim Breyer
technology, media, health care, and energy companies in China, as well as companies seeking to enter the Chinese market. It is their seventh and largest fund. Breyer credits his partnership with IDG with his ability to identify opportunities on the ground in China.... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 26 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 26
data from a large law firm, we examine the influence of demographic match with workgroup superiors and workgroup peers on attorneys' likelihood of turnover and promotion. Survival analyses reveal that higher proportions of same-sex and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
Publication:Harvard Law Review 120, no. 5 (March 2007) No abstract is available at this time. Read the article: http://www.harvardlawreview.org/issues/120/march07/subramanian.pdf Managing the Impact of Employee Turnover on Performance:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Feb 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
How Following Best Business Practices Can Improve Health Care
Either Heal Health Care?A public insurance option could use its scale to hold prices down, but only if the approach avoids the financing gimmicks that are undermining Medicare. Research Papers Cohort Turnover and Operational Performance:... View Details
- Student-Profile
Hummy Song
times in the Emergency Department of a hospital. Another considers the impact of the cohort turnover of resident physicians on resource utilization and health care quality in teaching hospitals. Health Policy Management Program This is a... View Details
- 25 May 2021
- Blog Post
The Surprising Power of Nostalgia at Work
can help make work feel meaningful and reduce turnover As an existential resource, nostalgia helps people maintain and enhance meaning in the present — when they reflect on past meaningful experiences, they become motivated to prioritize... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
William K.L. Fung
earned a Ph.D. in economics at Harvard in 1971, Fung has built Li & Fung into a multinational trading and retailing company with 36 offices in 20 countries and an annual turnover of more than $1.6 billion. In Hong Kong, where Li & Fung... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 04 Nov 2002
- What Do You Think?
What’s Best for the Corporate Brain?
organizations, like Southwest Airlines, seek to minimize employee turnover and go to great lengths to avoid downsizing, concentrating instead on very careful hiring and training. Others, like GE, in addition to providing an array of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Avoiding a Succession Crisis
leadership. Instead we find that CEO turnover is up, and that the number of outsiders brought in to do the job is increasing. How could this be? The answer appears to be as depressing as its consequences. Companies are not making the... View Details
- 19 Apr 2016
- Blog Post
First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation
amazing," Gino says. The turnover rate in the control group was 47.2 percent higher than that of the individual identity group, and 16.2 percent higher than that of the organizational identity group. And View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 30 Oct 2018
- News
Paths of Victory
platform that screens temporary employees and places them where they would fit best, within 24 hours. In Latin America, 5 billion days of work are lost annually due to turnover and absenteeism. At the same time, there are 100 million... View Details
- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
Schumpeterian entry, and Penrosian dynamics. A major goal of the paper is to identify important gaps in our theoretical and empirical knowledge that should be a focus for future scholarly research. Download working paper:... View Details
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Professors Introduce Valuation Software
key performance variables (sales growth, profit margins, working capital turnover and long-term asset turnover) as well as financial leverage and cost of capital. Users can judge whether their forecasts are reasonable by comparing them... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Finding Success in the Middle of the Market
offers consumers three options—good, better and best—in most high turnover product categories. In addition, Tesco doesn't just sell groceries through one-size-fits-all supermarkets. Recognizing the need to shape as well as respond to an... View Details
- 23 Mar 2020
- News
Signal Boost
workforce is changing tremendously,’” says Lara. “‘If you want to keep your turnover low, you’ve got to be able to determine how to make your employees feel like they’re a part of your organization.’” In addition to its annual Summit on... View Details