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- 09 Apr 2024
- Research & Ideas
When Climate Goals, Housing Policy, and Corporate R&D Collide, Social Good Can Emerge
For almost four years, Omar Asensio and his colleagues have been studying the impact of federal energy programs on low-income neighborhoods. The intersection of technology—artificial intelligence, in particular—and public policy has long been an area of focus for... View Details
Keywords: by Glen Justice
- 01 Jun 2007
- What Do You Think?
How Should Pay Be Linked to Performance?
sustainable outcomes to the benefit of shareholders." However, Gary Johnson cautions that "Because excitement is so critical to success, pay for performance value can be diminished the longer the time delay for receiving performance pay." Xu Jian... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 03 Dec 2014
- What Do You Think?
Can the Brilliant Jerk Be Managed Effectively?
on; beginning an intervention with the offender early on; providing an opportunity for attitude improvement, possibly with the engagement of a counselor or coach; and then terminating in a timely fashion the employee who is unable to change. Of course, the best course... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 29 Jul 2022
- Research & Ideas
Will Demand for Women Executives Finally Shrink the Gender Pay Gap?
reading from the Working Knowledge Archives It Pays to Hire Women in Countries That Won’t Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu. Image: iStockphoto/sanjeri View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 28 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
Can Apprenticeships Work in the US? Employers Seeking New Talent Pipelines Take Note
the hiring market continues to prove challenging, and employers across the spectrum commit to diverse hiring practices, apprenticeships could create a pipeline for homegrown talent. “It raises a lot of... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 23 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
8 Strategies to Sustain Business Innovation
marketed. As McDonald says, “People buy a product or service to solve a problem. They hire it to do a job.” He says the online service TurboTax is successful at this: The name says what the job is. It’s more important for a leader to... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 20 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
How Partisan Politics Play Out in American Boardrooms
don’t match the majority in the C-suite, but causing financial repercussions for businesses as well. “Investors may worry that executive teams are not hiring the best talent they can get, but are instead recruiting those with particular... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- 27 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Remote Work Changes What We Think About Onboarding
practice of onboarding new employees. Although hiring is already a forgotten luxury for many firms, at least for the time being, others are still bringing aboard new people, such as those who made hiring... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg
- 23 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 23
PublicationsInflection Point: New Vision, New Strategy, New Organization Authors:Nancy O.Andrews and Nicolas P. Retsinas Publication:In Investing in What Works for America's Communities. San Francisco: Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, 2012 Abstract An abstract is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- July 2019 (Revised May 2021)
- Case
Acelerex
By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
In early 2019, Randell Johnson, Founder and Chief Executive of Acelerex, was reflecting on the company’s first year of rapid growth and the challenges of scaling the business that lay ahead. Acelerex was riding the waves of change taking place in electrical power grids... View Details
Keywords: Energy; Energy Sources; Growth Management; Expansion; Global Strategy; Cash Flow; Energy Industry; Web Services Industry; Consulting Industry
Wells, John R., and Benjamin Weinstock. "Acelerex." Harvard Business School Case 720-360, July 2019. (Revised May 2021.)
- 18 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
Who Really Determines CEO Salary Packages?
solutions versus what drives some to drive more individual solutions.” Gallani also wants to look into why there aren’t more government regulations to hold compensation consultants accountable for their role in determining CEO pay. She notes that while companies often... View Details
- 01 Feb 2021
- What Do You Think?
Has the New Economy Finally Arrived?
comments below. Summing up last month’s column Last month, I asked what we could do to sustain organization diversity and whether we err in first hiring a more diverse workforce, perhaps to meet a goal, before working on skills to ensure... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 May 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Ethical Can We Be?
them, probably through a process, as Mike Flanagan put it, of "more open discussion at home, work and at play." Other suggestions came from C. J. Cullinane when he said "we can make better, fairer decisions by being aware of these biases." Ajay... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 21 Aug 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
Companies Love Big Data But Lack the Strategy To Use It Effectively
managers, HR specialists, and data scientists work together to use data to improve employee-related decisions and practices. New analytic approaches and new sources of digital data are starting to revolutionize this field, he said, such as algorithmic approaches to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 31 Jul 2017
- HBS Case
It’s Hard to Fix the Family Business Without Offending the Family
hiring new staff at higher wages, and renovating the restaurant’s interior. As his father scales back involvement in Pho Hoa, Tam realizes that significant change is needed to the restaurant’s finances and operations to ensure... View Details
- 21 Jun 2022
- HBS Case
Free Isn’t Always Better: How Slack Holds Its Own Against Microsoft Teams
providing a basic service for free and paid subscriptions to an advanced version. By 2019, Slack had 88,000 paying customers and 10 million daily users. The company hired its first sales teams to recruit large corporations. Microsoft... View Details
- 08 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Building Effective R&D Capabilities Abroad
excellence. Xerox also realized that it had to hire a renowned local scientist as the initial laboratory leader. The leader needed to be able to understand the local scientific community, attract junior scientists with high potential, and... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
- 31 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Powerful Workplace Motivator
Any parent can tell you that a surefire way to turn joy into rage is to offer your child a big candy bar—and then turn around and offer an even bigger one to his sister. Suddenly, a special treat turns into a great injustice. "Hey! How come she got more? That's not... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 14 Oct 2021
- In Practice
Reunited and It Feels (Not) So Good: Tips for Managing a Rocky Return
a work-from-home regime to WFA. Beyond improved productivity (under some conditions), WFA might enable companies to hire beyond their local labor markets and reduce real estate and utilities costs. As companies grapple with workers... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 01 Sep 2021
- What Do You Think?
Can We Train for Trust?
have created. Or is this all too manipulative in its nature to contemplate? For years, research in the service sector by my colleagues and myself has suggested that great service organizations are especially good at hiring for attitude... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett