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- 16 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 16, 2016
less likely to be aligned with company goals. However, the plan was associated with lower sales and gross profits and higher incidence of bad audits, absenteeism, and turnover in some situations where View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jan 2023
- In Practice
8 Trends to Watch in 2023
As 2023 begins, businesses and employees face an uncertain economy and labor market, as the twin dilemmas of inflation and interest rates weigh on forecasts. Harvard Business School faculty share the top trends that they believe will shape the workplace and markets... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 02 Sep 2015
- What Do You Think?
What's Wrong With Amazon’s Low-Retention HR Strategy?
high employee turnover for many years. What’s wrong with a low-retention HR strategy? What do you think? To read more: Wayne F. Cascio, The High Cost of Low Wages, Harvard Business Review, December 2006,... View Details
- 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
- 14 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 14, 2010
provide illustrations from the Toyota Motor Company to show how deliberate perturbation enables efficient exploration in the midst of intense exploitation. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-011.pdf Employee Selection... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Oct 2023
- Research & Ideas
Beyond the 'Business Case' in DEI: 6 Steps Toward Meaningful Change
both clarity and caution. While leaders have fallen back on the “business case” for hiring and promoting employees from historically marginalized groups, this rationale can trigger resistance, backlash, and biases, particularly among... View Details
- 28 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 28, 2016
turnover—the planned simultaneous exit of a large number of experienced employees and a similarly sized entry of new workers—on operational performance in the context of teaching hospitals. Specifically, we examine the impact of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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 distinguish extraordinary... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 08 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
Silos That Work: How the Pandemic Changed the Way We Collaborate
organizations. The authors saw an increase in turnover within communities, meaning silos were less stable after employees began working more regularly from home. “The observed changes suggest that... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 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 turnover among leaders,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 08 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Strategic Way To Hire a Sales Team
Google and Groupon, for instance, a higher percentage of employees work in sales than engineering or data mining. And at Facebook the salesforce's ability to translate 'likes' into advertisers will make or break that company's valuation... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
Harvard Business Review Can a Strong Culture Be Too Strong? By: Garvin, David A. Abstract—The article presents a case study of a business enterprise with high employee turnover that is considering adopting a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Dec 2017
- Op-Ed
Why Employers Must Stop Requiring College Degrees For Middle-Skill Jobs
Credit: Pixsooz American companies have a problem. Over the past decade, they have begun to demand a bachelor’s degree in hiring workers for jobs that traditionally haven’t required one. This uptick in credentialing, or “degree inflation,” rested on the belief that... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph Fuller
- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
confident that shareholders will approve changes made to the company’s executive incentive plan (EIP) and steps taken to accelerate the turnover of long-serving directors, but he wonders how much longer the company will be able to... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Apr 2022
- Op-Ed
Let’s Move Forward from COVID—Without Forgetting What We’ve Learned
burned out. The virtual meeting that runs back-to-back has shed light on the need for mini-breaks and recovery time. The result of the remote work environment, in some industries, is that leaders believe that employees are accessible... View Details
Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and MaShon Wilson
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Failure Analysis
can reach beyond the company walls to include customers. The importance of analysis related to employee turnover at another company, where managers became concerned when they observed high View Details
Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon
- 18 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Looking in the Mirror: Questions Every Leader Must Ask
an organization where employees are expending their energies in a number of divergent and uncoordinated directions." Leaders need to ask whether they articulate a clear vision and, just as importantly, whether their key View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 08 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 8
Turnover in India (revised) Authors: Lakshmi Iyer and Anandi Mani Abstract We develop a framework to empirically examine how politicians with electoral pressures control bureaucrats with career concerns as well as the consequences for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 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
- 04 Nov 2002
- What Do You Think?
What’s Best for the Corporate Brain?
organizations, like Southwest Airlines, seek to minimize employee turnover and go to great lengths to avoid downsizing, concentrating instead on very careful hiring and training. Others, like GE, in addition... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett