Publications

November 1999
Case

SUPERVALU, Inc.: Professional Development Program

By: Francis Aguilar

SUPERVALU examines the creation and implementation of a training program for attracting and retaining college graduates for the nation's largest wholesale food distribution company. It addresses: 1) program design and 2) the management of the design effort and program... View Details

Keywords: Selection and Staffing; Recruitment; Retention; Training; Organizational Culture; Design; Business or Company Management; Higher Education; Programs; Food and Beverage Industry; Distribution Industry

13 Apr 2016
Research Event

What Does 'Diversity' Really Mean?

to talk the talk before you walk the walk. But talk is often infuriatingly cheap.” Holmes said it’s irritating that some business leaders seem to equate hiring a couple minority employees with making sweeping changes to corporate hiring and View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

15 Nov 2016
First Look

November 15, 2016

takes a closer look at the implementation of a global job model and how it has enabled the use of data analytics in the human resources function. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/417038-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 417-039 Zurich... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Sep 2013
First Look

First Look: September 3

flexible arrangements. 4. Recruit and promote from diverse pools of candidates. 5. Provide leadership education. 6. Sponsor employee resource groups and mentoring programs. 7. Offer quality role models. 8. Make the chief diversity officer... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Feb 2008
First Look

First Look: February 20, 2008

policies that maintain a low level of average inflation. Purchase the paper from SSRN ($5): http://papers.nber.org/papers/w13754 Minimally Altruistic Wages and Unemployment in a Matching Model Author:Julio J. Rotemberg Abstract This paper presents a model in which... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

06 Feb 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

have higher productivity than their counterparts from large cities. As a possible explanation of our results, we test for selection and find that employees hired from smaller towns outperform their large city counterparts in standardized logical tests at the View Details

12 Mar 2013
First Look

First Look: March 12

consultant Kevin Rumsfeld conceived of the idea for HealthCraft, he had worked resolutely to begin building the company by recruiting a talented colleague to help with marketing and fundraising and a junior member of one of his project... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Mar 2009
First Look

First Look: March 10, 2009

consistent with the theory that a lower cost of recruiting rebels is an important factor in starting conflict. On the other hand, geographic factors are not significantly associated with such onset, suggesting that they instead contribute... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

September 2019
Case

Teaming Up to Win the Rail Deal at GE (A)

By: Amy Edmondson, Ranjay Gulati and Rachna Tahilyani

In 2012, Nalin Jain, then head of GE aviation for South Asia, was given the added responsibility for GE’s transportation business in India, including bidding for a $2.5 billion contract to manufacture, service and maintain 1,000 diesel locomotives for state owned... View Details

Keywords: Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Human Capital; Groups and Teams; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Industrial Products Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Rail Industry; Transportation Industry; United States; India

January 2025
Case

Shifting Winds: DEI in Corporate America

By: Clayton S. Rose, Maisie Wiltshire-Gordon and David Lane

In the 2020s, intense and conflicting social and political pressures challenged organizational leaders around the world. Prominent among these were powerful competing views on workplace diversity, equity, and inclusion programs (DEI) in the United States. Public... View Details