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  • 16 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 16, 2008

transition. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=509005 Sloan & Harrison: The Associate Challenge Harvard Business School Case 409-032 TThe law firm, Sloan & Harrison, was confronting issues... View Details
  • 08 Aug 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017

U.S., KP is facing an enormous potential liability from future costs of obesity and diabetes. Given low turnover in health plan membership, how should they respond to this crisis? How should they invest in the health of their covered... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 25

replacing directors, as they rarely succeed in getting a majority of shareholder support, our results suggest that director turnover takes place following shareholder activism even without shareholder activists engaging in, let alone... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Jul 2010
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Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide

with tools for identifying and solving these problems, engage their employees and suppliers in their improvement efforts. Q: Your book notes that typical stores experience staff turnover of 100 percent each year. How do you see successful... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Retail; Auto
  • 18 Jul 2016
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Is Greed Ruining Private Equity Firms?

founders and the rest of the team, and as far as I’m concerned that did cause [staff] turnover to a large extent.” Also in 2015, Charterhouse was said to be “a scene of frictions, involving both how its earnings are divided among the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Banking; Financial Services
  • 19 May 2009
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First Look: May 19, 2009

it had taken over 10 years and thousands of hours of meetings. Issues such as the continued availability of funding and leadership turnover still threatened the effectiveness of the collaboration, and the economic recession would almost... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 May 2007
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First Look: May 22, 2007

initiative. Its managers must determine how to alter their strategy going forward. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=507052 Ponsse: From Finland to Global Harvard Business School Case 507-002 Finland-based Ponsse Oyj,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 May 2007
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First Look: May 8, 2007

you may not know, how worried should you be? According to the authors—very. They investigated the 2002-2004 CEO turnover rates of the top 1,000 U.S. companies and interviewed more than a dozen CEOs, each of whom had taken over at least... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

its strategic goals for 2020. It aimed to double its turnover and headcount by that time, which would make SOS Group one of the largest social enterprise groups in Europe and in the world. Jean-Marc Borello, founder of the organization,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 31 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 31

likelihood of turnover and promotion. Survival analyses reveal that higher proportions of same-sex and same-race superiors enhance junior professionals' career mobility. On the flip side, we observe mobility costs accruing to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 10 Nov 2015
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November 10, 2015

share prices prior to turnover are not. A corollary is that a firm with poor stock market performance cannot, or will not, raise new capital unless the current CEO is replaced. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009

average quality) or on its costs (lower quantity). Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-094.pdf Traveling Agents: Political Change and Bureaucratic Turnover in India (revised) Authors:Lakshmi Iyer and Anandi Mani... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 3, 2008

association, fair pay practices) and whether these codes have affected their business outcomes (e.g., staff turnover and absenteeism, product defect rates, sales growth). In this paper, we review the existing evaluations of other private... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Feb 2016
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February 9, 2016

turnover in sales is 25% to 30%, while direct replacement costs for a telesales employee ranges from $75,000 to $90,000 and other sales positions cost as much as $300,000. Moreover, these figures do not reflect the lost sales while a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 16, 2010

"truth in giving" policies are highly responsive to recipient heterogeneity and biased against more generous giving. Traveling Agents: Political Change and Bureaucratic Turnover in India Authors:Lakshmi Iyer and Anandi Mani... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 5

quarters of strong revenue growth. James Hoffman, the new Senior Vice President of Human Resources, fears that the chain of success is shifting the company's focus away from effective performance management. Recently, Vitality has been faced with increasing View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 14

Harvard Business Review Can a Strong Culture Be Too Strong? By: Garvin, David A. Abstract—The article presents a case study of a business enterprise with high employee turnover that is considering adopting a personnel management... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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