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- 08 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Who Is the Chief Sustainability Officer?
Since the start of the 2000s, a high-level corporate position has evolved that is still something of a mystery. As companies have engaged in more efforts around sustainability, environmental and otherwise, the "chief sustainability... View Details
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Creating a Candidate-Centered Recruiting Process - Recruiting
employers can do to try and get stories out there and in front of students and alumni is helpful. Seeing others with diverse abilities be successful in the work environment signals how a company encourages employees to bring their full... View Details
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Diversity on Teams: Our Own Harvest - Race, Gender & Equity
for Employee Resource Groups allocated (including but not exclusive to time, funding, and decision-making ability)? What policies address identity-based harassment? How does your organization respond when an employee’s physical boundaries... View Details
- 05 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 5, 2010
supplier capabilities and hence about future supplier performance. This paper presents a multi-period model of service level competition among suppliers selling substitutable products to a customer that engages in supply learning. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 22, 2016
found (or potentially found) in practice and whose hypotheses connect independent variables within the control of practitioners to outcomes they care about using logic they view as feasible. I provide several suggestions for how scholars can enhance research relevance,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 9
communication and engagement practices, can encourage frontline workers to conduct problem solving. We test our hypotheses in the health care context, in which the use of incident reporting systems to highlight operational failures is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
2+2 Program | MBA
and technology. Employees within these companies engage with customers, create products and services, and manage staff.) Entrepreneurship (including founding an organization or joining an early-stage... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Faculty Books
Moral Gray Zones: Side Productions, Identity, and Regulation in an Aeronautic Plant by Michel Anteby (Princeton University Press) Employees know that not every workplace regulation must be followed. When management consistently overlooks... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Research Brief: Better Brainstorming
Sharique Hasan in a recent working paper. Their field research shows that the highest quality ideas are generated by people open to new experiences engaging with extroverted peers. In 2014, the researchers headed to New Delhi to study the... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 06 Mar 2019
- News
Making Sabbaticals Mainstream
experiences also sent him on a quest to find academics who were studying sabbaticals so he could better understand how the implementation of sabbatical policies impact employee behavior. Informally called the Sabbatical Project, DiDonna’s... View Details
- 29 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Research Symposium 2014
of Leadership and Management; Associate Professor Karthik Ramanna ; and Michael Porter, Bishop William Lawrence University Professor. Speaking Up Recognizing problems in the workplace is commonplace. Speaking up about those problems is less so. Why? Because View Details
- 28 Oct 2001
- What Do You Think?
What Can We Expect in the Other War?
In light of the outset of the war on terrorism, how does this affect what has been called the war for talent? A book by the same name 1 has recently characterized this as an "endless journey" to address the enduring challenge to provide winning View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 07 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
How to Help Small Businesses Survive COVID's Next Phase
of business closures.” “We’re finding that you can’t save businesses by just allowing them to reopen,” Mills says. “Until it’s safe, their employees don’t want to come back. Their customers don’t want to come back. There’s no one out... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Action Plan: Brewing Awareness
rental expenses to preserve jobs. Now, as India begins a massive vaccination program, Murad is glad to have made it through the worst of the pandemic with White Owl’s workforce of 120 employees largely intact. “It’s easy to abandon ship... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Enron’s Legacy
If Enron had been owned and controlled by a small group of private-equity investors, could the monitoring and control practices of a professionally run buyout shop have protected Enron’s shareholders and employees from the problems that... View Details
- 30 Sep 2019
- Book
Book Excerpt: Why a Volume on Race, Work, and Leadership
senior leadership positions, the most frequently adopted strategy is to remain silent about race or other issues of inequality or injustice in order to avoid being labeled as an agitator (Cose, 2011). Nearly 40 percent of black employees... View Details
- 19 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
A Day at Royal FloraHolland: The Epicenter of the Global Flower Market
for the quality of the flowers they sell, RFH employees will also engage in quality checks and research. In fact, quality assurance is a hallmark of RFH's operations. The auction house's dedicated Product... View Details
- 19 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Do I Dare Say Something?
As every company knows, employees are its greatest resource. It's more than a shame, then, that many workers are either not encouraged or afraid to speak up and communicate ideas at work. Employers are losing valuable knowledge and... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 10 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 10
make a significant decision about their young company's sales function. DoubleDutch's key product was a mobile application (app) and event management platform that customers could use to better engage and connect with their event... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Enterprising Women
is developing stem cell products to treat cancer, genetic disorders, and immune deficiencies. Keep Business Model Fluid "Know your timing," advised Susan Willet Bird, founder and president of Women.future, an organization that uses live and Web-based events... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna