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09 May 2000
Research & Ideas

Stock Options Are Not All Created Equal

Most of the companies I've studied don't pay a whole lot of attention to the way they grant options. Their directors and executives assume that the important thing is just to have a plan in place; the details are trivial. As a result, they let their View Details

Keywords: by Brian Hall

18 May 2015
Research & Ideas

Advertisers Get Serious About Playing With Their Brands

company's recruitment costs took a dive. "That's advertising and HR resources that they don't have to use anymore," Kornfeld says. Types Of Play The researchers categorize several types of play engaged in by marketers. One is "playing... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Advertising

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The Arts of Communication - Course Catalog

reason a student must miss a class when their peers deliver speeches, they are expected to watch the class video and send feedback via email, cc’ing the course instructor, to each student who delivered a speech that day. This must be done within 36 View Details

19 Dec 2016
Research & Ideas

The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2016

corporate HR function. Becoming a Cognitive Referent: Market Creation and Cultural Strategy Rory McDonald describes the making of a "cognitive referent," which is a firm that customers, the media, analysts, and employees... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

26 Jan 2010
First Look

First Look: Jan. 26

case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/210012-PDF-ENG Managing Talent at Bertelsmann AG (A) Boris Groysberg, Nitin Nohria, Mark C. Maletz, and Kerry HermanHarvard Business School Case 410-010 Bertelsmann's EVP HR Immanuel Hermreck and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Executive Education Courses - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

responsible for overseeing care delivery Financial executives who direct cost management for health care delivery organizations HR executives from large organizations who manage health care for employees, collaborate with health care... View Details

01 Dec 2009
News

Alumni Books

development opportunities, or proper rewards. Expanding on their previous books, The HR Scorecard and The Workforce Scorecard, the authors recommend that workforces be managed like portfolios, with more investments in the jobs that create... View Details

12 Mar 2012
Research & Ideas

Crowded at the Top: The Rise of the Functional Manager

managers) and those focused on administrative functions (such as finance managers, HR directors, and legal department managers). Wulf explains that the administrative functional managers were those most directly affected by IT... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

12 Jan 2004
Research & Ideas

Does Your HQ Operation Fit With Corporate Strategy?

such as pension administration or IT, that are made available to the business units should also be subject to a market test, even if they can be quite large. It is really only the value adding functions—corporate R&D (if the firm has such a function), business... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

10 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

Women at Work

a part-time, off-career job in HR for one year. Then, if and when things were under control, she could come back and see clients again. Kara Gruver Though it seemed like a step back career-wise, she took the offer. Why? "You have to... View Details

Keywords: by Wendy Guild

03 May 2016
First Look

First Look, May 3, 2016

By investing in training that is not likely to yield a good return, senior executives and their HR professionals are complicit in what we have come to call the "great training robbery." Download working paper:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Oct 2002
News

Class Notes Extra

openly discuss and critique a peer's actions.” In working to “close the gap” between East and West, Banthoon appointed two Americans to top-level positions — EVP of HR and EVP of retail business. The idea, admits Banthoon, whom Business... View Details

13 Jun 2017
News

Finding Common Ground

and his partners created SharedXpertise Media and took over Corporate Responsibility Magazine, a publication modeled on CFO and Workforce magazines. “We were betting there would be a corporate responsibility officer who would have a similar budget to a head of View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

24 Jan 2012
First Look

First Look: Jan. 24

Emerging Challenges for Business and HR Leaders Authors:Gilbert Probst, Sebastian Raisch, and Michael Tushman Publication:Organizational Dynamics 40, no. 4 (2011) Abstract Large firms are prone to failure in the face of changing industry... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Nov 2007
What Do You Think?

Why Is Succession So Badly Managed?

complex processes that often don't exist? (The respondents to a poll of 1200 HR managers indicated that 60 percent did not have a CEO succession plan in place.) Are CEOs reluctant to initiate plans that require substantial effort and... View Details

Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett

08 Nov 2021
Blog Post

Building an Internship Program at Your Startup: An Interview with Facily’s Diego Dzodan (MBA 1999)

program as time is our most valuable resource, but it’s definitely worth it. We have the evidence. We got a $1B valuation with the model Eric built in his internship so the impact is very clear.” Fast forward to today, and Facily has hired a Head of View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Consumer Products / Retail

10 Sep 2018
Research & Ideas

Celebrating 'The Men and Women of the Corporation' 40 Years Later

writing in an HR department. What addresses the issue is having numbers of men and women that are more equal—more gender balance. In Men and Women of the Corporation, I recommended working together and depending on one another and not... View Details

Keywords: by Robin J. Ely

04 Aug 2021
Research & Ideas

Worried About the Great Resignation? Be a Good Company to Come From

tasks that are relevant to Recruit. For example, an HR manager who had wanted to be a rock star worked on creating large splashy events for Recruit’s annual company gathering and played in the company’s band. "Managers are evaluated on... View Details

Keywords: by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta

16 Sep 2024
Blog Post

Creating a Candidate-Centered Recruiting Process

HR for Netflix Animation Studio, Aaron Mitchell (MBA 2011) ensured that each round of interviews was focused on a theme related to a value of the company or capability for the role so that even if questions are not asked in the exact same... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

22 Feb 2022
News

Launch Codes

working was critical. So we literally wrote down our unwritten rules and created a handbook for onboarding. I was a bit skeptical about the idea; it felt like a very old-school HR effort. But the results were tangible. It instantly gave... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Alvaro Dominguez

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