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  • 01 Apr 1999
  • News

Short Takes

the 'best game in town' for using information resources to realize strategic advantage in serving customers." The Spotlight and the Bottom Line Do multinational corporations concern themselves with improving human View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
  • 05 Nov 2014
  • What Do You Think?

Are We Entering an Era of Neuromanagement?

don't know enough about the human brain to make hiring judgments based on monitoring activity within certain parts of the brain, or about the people who plan to use neuromanagement or about their motives I caution you to be careful what... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 01 Mar 2025
  • News

Venture: Time Heals All

Health (named for the ward where Borkenstein worked) in 2022 with the goal of modernizing nursing workforce management. Their user-friendly mobile app, powered by cutting-edge data science, is being deployed in hospitals across the United States. View Details
Keywords: Amy Crawford; Illustration by Klaus Kremmerz; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance
  • 22 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 23

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52978 July 2017 Business and Human Rights Journal Business Responsibilities for Human Rights: A Commentary on Arnold By: Hsieh,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Nov 2024
  • In Practice

Layoffs Surging in a Strong Economy? Advice for Navigating Uncertain Times

stations,” the Journal reported. “Doing a layoff for the right reason is not just smart strategically, it’s smart organizationally.” Two months earlier, in July, Intuit CEO Sasan Goodarzi published a note in the financial software firm’s... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology; Information Technology
  • 27 Feb 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Take Responsibility for Rising Stars

bench strength. At Starbucks, for example, the board oversees a formalized succession-planning process for 2,500 positions. Its goal is to make sure the company always has the right people with the right... View Details
Keywords: by Jeffrey M. Cohn, Rakesh Khurana & Laura Reeves
  • 30 Oct 2018
  • News

Paths of Victory

NVC was “the right visibility at the right time,” exposing the company to future clients and potential investors, as well as helping it recruit top talent in the US and Canada. “Growth has been extremely... View Details
Keywords: Alumni New Venture Contest; Administration of Human Resource Programs; Administration of Human Resource Programs; Administration of Human Resource Programs; Administration of Human Resource Programs; Administration of Human Resource Programs; Administration of Human Resource Programs
  • 08 Aug 2023
  • Research & Ideas

The Rise of Employee Analytics: Productivity Dream or Micromanagement Nightmare?

With more data available than ever before, why would any executive gamble on a hunch—especially for decisions that involve their own employees? An emerging field that uses data to study human behavior at work, “people analytics” is... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
  • 01 Jun 2017
  • News

Better Hiring Through Brain Science

Data-driven hiring practices have taken off. As early as 2010, Google was using talent analytics to help hire the right people. Research supports this strategy; in studies, algorithms outperformed humans in... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
  • 01 Oct 1997
  • News

Theory & Practice

of a product you know will be controversial? Resolving such dilemmas often requires more than simply following the injunction to "do the right thing," says HBS professor Joseph Badaracco in Defining Moments: When Managers Must Choose... View Details
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Didier Dumerjean

for Human Rights & Global Justice (Human Rights & Translation), Harlem Educational Activities Fund (Board Member), Aspen Institute (Socrates Fellow - Thought... View Details
  • Portrait Project

Brooke-Logann Williams

food was being thrown into the garbage. I never forgot my running sneakers again. Becoming accustomed to evading rats was one thing, but we could never accept the sight of children in the adult prison, a place infamous for its violence and View Details
  • Mar 2012
  • Report

A Jobs Compact for America's Future

human capital in the United States. In short, badly needed investments in the workforce are not being made, thereby threatening the country's future competitiveness and living standards. So argues Kochan, of MIT's Sloan School of... View Details
  • 13 Sep 2006
  • Op-Ed

Rising CEO Pay: What Directors Should Do

Ask any thoughtful corporate board member what they are most concerned about these days, and it is not Sarbanes-Oxley. It is CEO pay. Directors worry because shareholders continue to express outrage, and the media attention to the issue will not go away. Directors are... View Details
Keywords: by Jay W. Lorsch
  • 06 Jul 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Money and Quotas Motivate the Sales Force Best

Chung says. "I think it's because they thought they were being compensated for past performance. The thinking is, 'Hey, I must be doing something right thus far. I think I may be overworking, so maybe I should slack off.'" An unintended... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Retail
  • 07 Sep 2021
  • News

One Degree of Difference

which means that all employees are “really focused on efficiency,” Wallace says. They developed a multilayered interview process to match the right person for each job, as the wrong hire can be extremely costly. It culminates with a two-... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance
  • 06 Feb 2025
  • News

How to Judge Your Next Job

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Clay Christensen was a legendary professor and thinker and his “Jobs to Be Done” theory—this idea that customers buy products to solve problems—was one of his iconic intellectual contributions.... View Details
  • Portrait Project

Jimmy Tran

nature as I tinker behind facts and figures to determine the right course of action. Yet even in the most technical problems, I seek out the human element of my work. No matter where life takes me, I will... View Details
  • 19 Mar 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Do I Dare Say Something?

therefore a tendency toward silence—is over-determined by both the general nature of humans and the specific realities of the modern economy. Even from an evolutionary point of view, it seems we're all hard-wired to overestimate rather... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
  • 01 Mar 2008
  • News

Avoiding a Succession Crisis

Citigroup appear to be. One survey of human resource directors of large corporations indicated that 60 percent lacked CEO succession planning. This situation is hardly optimal — not when global competition and technical change, in the... View Details
Keywords: Joseph L. Bower; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management
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