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- 03 May 2022
- Research & Ideas
Desperate for Talent? Consider Advancing Your Own Employees First
Job openings in the United States continue to hover at record high levels, exacerbated by the Great Resignation and a sputtering emergence from the pandemic. Competition remains fierce among companies struggling to find qualified workers. Yet many employers,... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 04 Oct 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Make Sure the Right People End Up with Power in Organizations?
Giroux, 1968) for the reference to Ken Kesey. Your feedback to last month’s column Can We Train for Trust? The sense of the discussion of this issue was that, while trust may be a combination of nature and nurture, to some degree it is... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 31 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
Can a ‘Basic Bundle’ of Health Insurance Cure Coverage Gaps and Spur Innovation?
Innovation Can Amazon Remake Health Care? A Rare Find in Health Care: A Simple Solution to Racial Inequity Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu. Image: iStockphoto/JazzIRT View Details
- 03 Jun 2022
- Research & Ideas
In a Work-from-Anywhere World, How Remote Will Workers Go?
like. “It’s presumably making workers happier and more productive, and helping their communities and their organizations,” he says. Related reading from the Working Knowledge Archives Marissa Mayer Should Bridge Distance Gap with Remote Workers View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
- 28 Jun 2022
- Book
The Moral Enterprise: How Two Companies Profit with Purpose
How can government and business work together in this fractious political moment, when finding solutions to pressing problems like inequality and climate change are more urgent than ever? Rebecca Henderson, Harvard University’s John and Natty McArthur University... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 25 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
What CEOs Do, and How They Can Do it Better
in order to increase the sample as well as to take cultural differences into account. Sadun says that the group has received nothing but positive feedback from the anonymous CEOs who participated in the study. In keeping with the adage... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 21 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
What's Missing from the Racial Equity Dialogue?
Don’t Include Them OneTen: Creating a New Pathway for Black Talent Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu. Image: iStockphoto/lakshmiprasad View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 04 Oct 2022
- What Do You Think?
Have Managers Underestimated the Need for Face-to-Face Contact?
think? Share your thoughts in the comments below. References: Ginia Bellefante, “Is the Era of Instant Groceries Already Over?” The New York Times, July 24, 2022. Chip Cutter, “The Back-to-Work Puzzle,” The Wall Street Journal, July 24-25, 2021. Your View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 10 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
High Commitment, High Performance Management
overprotective of people also causes us to avoid giving feedback to top management. Q: What kind of leadership is necessary for a HCHP firm? A: Leaders must have HCHP vision and values (empowerment, collaboration, maintaining firm... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 21 Aug 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
Companies Love Big Data But Lack the Strategy To Use It Effectively
streams that track performance feedback and organizational culture; and analyses of digital trace data to map and shape organizational networks. “As managers and employees work through these challenges and tradeoffs, the potential gains... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
How New Managers Become Great Managers
from their experiences, managers need to reflect on and consolidate the lessons of those experiences. To change and grow, they must be prepared to engage periodically in introspection—to collect feedback on and analyze their behavior,... View Details
Keywords: by Linda Hill
- 07 Aug 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is There Still a Role for Judgment in Decision-Making?
and provide accurate feedback . Most situations, especially in the business world, have poor validity, in which case intuition is a poor guide. Vance Kirklin appeared to disagree with this, saying that, "Transformative decisions... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 22 Aug 2022
- Research & Ideas
Can Amazon Remake Health Care?
appeared in the Harvard Gazette. You Might Also Like: Will Challenged Amazon Tweak Its Retail Model Post-Pandemic? A Rare Find in Health Care: A Simple Solution to Racial Inequity Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape? View Details
- 30 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
How to Recover Gracefully After Shutting Down Your Startup
postmortem, Eisenmann recommends that entrepreneurs seek honest feedback from as many people involved in the venture as possible. This helps entrepreneurs close any memory gaps and challenge the human tendency to blame external factors.... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 14 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact
those communities can offer frank feedback on the organization's work. Ebrahim's research suggests that measuring results is valuable as a discipline for nonprofit managers, even if they don't find universal metrics for social impact. "It... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 02 Apr 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Making the Move to General Manager
each other. It takes time for cohesion to build to the point where people want to help each other, and where they trust each other enough to give and receive very candid feedback. Few executives have access to this kind of insightful and very helpful View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 17 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
Why Quiet Quitters Need More Than Money to Re-Engage
workers are more prone to feeling this way than others. Some high achievers, for instance, flail about in feedback voids that make them doubt their worth. The essay cites an employee who was waiting for six months for a review from his... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 25 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
Is Baseball Ready to Compete for the Next Generation of Fans?
originally appeared in the Harvard Gazette. You Might Also Like: Team Success Starts with the Individual—and with Love What Actually Draws Sports Fans to Games? It's Not Star Athletes. Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19 View Details
- 21 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
How to Predict if a New Business Idea is Any Good
works, where there are usually a small number of partners in a group that all specialize in one industry.” It may be more important for entrepreneurs to quickly develop a prototype for a minimum viable product and get early feedback from... View Details
- 15 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Women Leaders and Organizational Change
that is necessary to make the changes in organizations that we are advocating involves the capacity to reflect on and learn from our own life and experience; to solicit and integrate feedback from others; to remain continually open to... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark