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  • 24 Jul 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Part-Time Employees Want More Hours. Can Companies Tap This ‘Hidden’ Talent Pool?

jobs that balance with personal circumstances. 29 percent said that they work part-time due to caregiving responsibilities. Spotlight on women and caregivers Caregivers are the largest segment of these untapped workers, comprising a third... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
  • March 2000 (Revised January 2001)
  • Case

Microsoft's Vega Project: Developing People and Products

By: Christopher A. Bartlett and Meg Wozny
With a focus on Matt MacLellan and his careful development as a project manager under his boss and mentor, Jim Kaplan, the case describes the evolution of Microsoft's human-resource philosophies and policies and illustrates how they work in practice to provide the... View Details
Keywords: Human Resources; Competitive Advantage; Retention; Personal Development and Career; Organizational Design; Information Technology; Motivation and Incentives; Leadership Development
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  • Web

Strategy - Faculty & Research

Strategy Overview Faculty Curriculum Seminars & Conferences Awards & Honors Doctoral Students April 2025 Case #FutureFresenius: Implementing a New Strategy to Transform the Company and Advance Patient Care By: David J. Collis , Benjamin... View Details
  • 15 Feb 2022
  • Book

When Working Harder Doesn’t Work, Time to Reinvent Your Career

a young professor had been his bread and butter. “It was less fun and it was harder, and the paper was lower quality than what I had done 10 years before,” he recalls. “It was a tipoff that something had changed in the way I was thinking and in my own View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • 26 Mar 2024
  • Research & Ideas

How Humans Outshine AI in Adapting to Change

AI is more likely to struggle in situations where environments shift enough to require a pivot of the self. “In any sort of changing environment setting—like shifting between different workflows, providing personalized View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology; Information Technology
  • 2018
  • Chapter

Competing Interests

By: Joel Goh
Book Abstract: The editors, aided by a team of internationally acclaimed experts, have curated this timely volume to help newcomers and seasoned researchers alike to rapidly comprehend a diverse set of thrusts and tools in this rapidly growing cross-disciplinary field.... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare; Analytics; Health Care and Treatment; Research; Competition
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  • February 2006
  • Case

Michelle Levene (A)

Michelle Levene discovers that she is pregnant a few days before receiving an offer for her dream job. The new position would require Levene to travel extensively, something she would not be able to do towards the end of the pregnancy and while caring for a newborn.... View Details
Keywords: Work-Life Balance
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  • 22 Aug 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Master the One-on-One Meeting

don’t do after work drinks—that suggests a less serious discussion. The agenda If a meeting is important enough to have, it should have an agenda. Topics in a 1:1 should be about professional growth, personal connection and for giving... View Details
Keywords: by Julia B. Austin
  • 02 Mar 2007
  • What Do You Think?

What Is the Government’s Role in US Health Care?

Butler believes that it could come in the form of a two-tiered system of private treatment at personal expense layered on a service free to all with protections for healthcare givers and the elimination of third party insurance. Are these... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Health
  • 11 Feb 2002
  • Research & Ideas

The Quiet Leader—and How to Be One

them; it gets under their skin. While other people would say, "Hey, why are you getting carried away about this?", they care about it. They commit themselves and keep working tenaciously, so that over a period of time they find... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 06 Jun 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Why Leaders Lose Their Way

rustling around inside their heads. Meanwhile, their work lives and personal lives get out of balance. They lose touch with those closest to them their spouses, children, and best friends—or co-opt them with their points of view.... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
  • 06 Jun 2024
  • Research & Ideas

How Younger Immigrants Gain an Edge in American Business

they are more frequently in jobs with “supervisor” as part of the title. They are also less likely to be in the nail care sector, itself a unique and well-developed entrepreneurship path among Vietnamese immigrants to the US—but one that... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 25 Apr 2012
  • Research & Ideas

The Importance of Teaming

interdependence, establishing trust, and figuring out how to coordinate. But there usually isn't time to build a foundation of familiarity through the careful sharing of personal history and prior... View Details
Keywords: Re: Amy C. Edmondson
  • 22 Feb 2024
  • News

Combat-Tested Cancer Coaching

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Kathy Giusti (MBA 1985) was diagnosed with multiple myeloma in 1996, she was overwhelmed. It was the pre-Internet era, with limited available information, but... View Details
  • 22 Feb 2024
  • Research & Ideas

How to Make AI 'Forget' All the Private Data It Shouldn't Have

and then realize after the fact that some of these documents that we used to train ChatGPT contain a lot of racist content or misinformation. A more mundane example would be if during training the year was 2019 and one person was... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology; Information Technology
  • 27 Jan 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Hard Work Isn't Enough: How to Find Your Edge

Associate Professor Laura Huang, who studies early entrepreneurship, where failure is common. “You can take two people who work equally hard, and one person will naturally have an advantage and achieve success, while the other can’t climb... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • Web

A New Vision – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

activities, sentiments, interactions, norms, and personal and professional connections of individuals and groups that had developed over extended periods of time. The existence of the informal organization, argued the Hawthorne... View Details
  • 30 Apr 2024
  • Book

When Managers Set Unrealistic Expectations, Employees Cut Ethical Corners

she contributed to the recently published Research Handbook on Organisational Integrity, Paine revisits her earlier work and again urges managers to see ethics as an organization-wide imperative, not just a personal issue, and lead... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 14 Feb 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Curiosity, Not Coding: 6 Skills Leaders Need in the Digital Age

learning, pivoting all along the way. Though it won’t be easy, even perfectionist Type-A personalities must open their minds to a more experimental approach. Those who rely on traditional strategic thinking—an approach one roundtable... View Details
Keywords: by Linda A. Hill, Ann Le Cam, Sunand Menon, and Emily Tedards; Technology
  • 27 Jul 2020
  • Book

Reflection: The Pause That Brings Peace and Productivity

sought out meaningful conversations with trusted others, relying on regular calls to their parents or turning to a colleague who, as one manager said, is “the kind of person you go see when you need to talk something through, so you go to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman