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- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
the democratization of data. The vast turnover at consultancies means armies of experienced strategists are available for hire by former clients, whose increasing sophistication allows them to allocate work instead of relying on one-stop... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
individual and community perspectives as they relate to knowledge creation, reuse, and recombination for innovation. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-065.pdf Will I Stay or Will I Go? Cooperative and Competitive Effects of Workgroup Sex and Race... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Podcasts - Managing the Future of Work
the Future of Work The staffing giant’s chairman and CEO lays out the opportunities and risks in the fast-changing and fragmented labor market. Riding the genAI wave, addressing workers’ career development needs, RTO and flex-work,... View Details
- 02 Sep 2015
- What Do You Think?
What's Wrong With Amazon’s Low-Retention HR Strategy?
employee replacement costs, low prices, and substantial but lower profit than Costco). The implied conclusion was that high retention strategies like Costco’s can be more attractive for employees, customers, and investors alike. (The irony here is that David Glass,... View Details
- 17 Jan 2020
- In Practice
6 Traits That Set Top Business Leaders Apart
With CEO turnover climbing, many business leaders are trying to hone skills that will keep them at the helm longer. We asked professors from Harvard Business School’s General Management Unit what qualities... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 31 Oct 2023
- Research & Ideas
Beyond the 'Business Case' in DEI: 6 Steps Toward Meaningful Change
disconnect between a company’s stated argument for diversity and the psychological reality of decision-making. “Your employees, future employees, customers and investors are watching.” As some CEOs weigh the future of their company’s DEI... View Details
- 09 May 2017
- What Do You Think?
Should Management Be Primarily Responsible to Shareholders?
Summing Up How Do We Encourage CEOs to Manage for Sustainability? Important forces encourage short-term perspectives among managers as well as investors today. These include governance biases, tax policies, faster View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Web
Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research
engagement and performance, reduce the time it took teachers to develop and grade learning assessments, enable administrators to better track data, and provide parents more insight into their children’s learning. Founder and CEO Pankaj... View Details
- Web
Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research
Barnett May 2025 | Case | Faculty Research In September 2024, Emily Wilburn Andrews, CEO of Wilburn Medical USA, is five years into her tenure leading the medical equipment supply company since taking over for her father, the company’s... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
Dying to Lead: How Reaching the Top Can Kill You Sooner
lifestyle, education, work environments, low employment turnover rates, and access to health care, I find higher-ranked employees at GE were more susceptible to a shorter lifespan,” Nicholas concludes in the paper. Job stress may vary by... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- Web
Health Care - Faculty & Research
Witkowski. "Dell Med: Transforming Care Delivery & Payment." Harvard Business School Case 125-117, May 2025. Wilburn Medical USA By: David Ager , Lynda M. Applegate and James Barnett May 2025 | Case | Faculty Research In September 2024, Emily Wilburn Andrews, View Details
- 16 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018
Jason, Richard Saouma, Nathan Seegert, and Christopher Stanton Abstract—Firms rarely cut compensation, so little is known about the after-effects when compensation reductions do occur. We use commission reductions at a sales firm to estimate how work effort and View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- Web
Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work
organizational practices varies across organizations within and across countries, and how this affects productivity at the micro and macro level. Research Communication within Firms: Evidence from CEO View Details
- 25 May 2011
- HBS Case
QuikTrip’s Investment in Retail Employees Pays Off
heard." "Retailers like Mercadona and QuikTrip have created ways to institutionalize improvement.” Ton notes that another commonality between QuikTrip and Mercadona lies in the strongly held values of its leadership. QuikTrip's View Details
- 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
- 18 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Hazard Warning: The Unacceptable Cost of Toxic Workers
what he calls the negative outliers. The estimated cost—based on turnover triggered by the toxic worker and the cost associated with new hires and training—is likely on the low end, Minor says, because it doesn’t take into account... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 05 Feb 2018
- What Do You Think?
Should Companies Disclose Employee Compensation?
experience, autonomy. These are naturally definers of where an individual should be placed within a salary range. Those differences should be easily explained and verifiable upon request." Dan S. pointed out that disclosing pay ranges "can improve morale,... View Details
- 11 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The IT Leader’s Hero Quest
careers at the Harvard Business School, we discovered that the turnover of CIOs ran at around 30 to 40 percent per year. As a result of our research, we described the driving cause as the rapid change of IT through the operation of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
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