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  • 26 Jul 2023
  • Research & Ideas

STEM Needs More Women. Recruiters Often Keep Them Out

higher. The risks of shortcuts in a time crunch More men hold jobs in STEM—short for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics— professions at this level than women. With the tiered calling system, recruiters were more likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • January 2010 (Revised August 2010)
  • Background Note

Advanced Leadership Note: An Institutional Perspective and Framework for Managing and Leading

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Rakesh Khurana
Large-scale societal issues increasingly appear on the agenda of business leaders, including poverty, health, education, business-government relations, and the degradation of the environment. These problems are not entirely new, but the forces of globalization and the... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Framework; Global Range; Leadership; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Social Enterprise; Social Issues; Complexity
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  • 15 Feb 2022
  • Book

When Working Harder Doesn’t Work, Time to Reinvent Your Career

career well in advance. Brooks recalls not knowing exactly when his French horn skills started going downhill, but musicians, similar to athletes, rely on precise fine motor muscles that often deteriorate with age, use, and injury. People in knowledge-based View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • 17 Feb 2020
  • Sharpening Your Skills

How Entrepreneurs Can Find the Right Problem to Solve

discovery work to validate the problem or their target customers. While gut feel or personal experience with a problem can be a strong signal there is a problem to solve, without proper product discovery work you won’t truly know if you have a winning solution. For... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
  • 20 Jun 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Creating a Positive Professional Image

their profession and less loyal to their employing organizations. All of these stereotypes pose obstacles for creating a positive professional image. Members of negatively stereotyped identity groups may experience an additional form of... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
  • 11 Dec 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Doing Well by Doing Good? One Industry’s Struggle to Balance Values and Profits

other journalists. Analyzing the responses and drawing upon decades of academic research on institutional dynamics and careers, they detail how journalists have reconciled the moral calling of their profession with the collapse and... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
  • 07 Feb 2017
  • Research & Ideas

The Right Way to Cry in Front of Your Boss

full-time jobs, were asked to recall a recent time when a colleague was visibly distressed, and how that demonstrated either passion or emotion. The study also teased out whether the type of profession or relationship between participant... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
  • 29 Oct 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Are You Paying a Tip--or a Bribe?

"probably not related." "In the United States, people assume tipping and bribery are not related," Torfason says. "There's a clear distinction between professions that are tipped and situations where informal... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Mar 2023
  • What Do You Think?

How Much Does 'Deep Purpose' Matter to the Bottom Line?

importance for a concept that inevitably will become confused with other developments in management. For example, how will answers to that question be clouded by the political debate surrounding the importance of ESG (environment, social, and governance) and... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 01 Oct 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Dying to Lead: How Reaching the Top Can Kill You Sooner

Business Administration. The detrimental health impacts of pressure-filled professions are increasingly getting the attention of business leaders, who are not only concerned about the welfare of their workers, but also have an eye on... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
  • 15 Oct 2020
  • Research & Ideas

IT Job Wages Are No Longer 'Exceptional'

profession as a whole (computer support specialists) and the highest (computer research scientists), comparing them with patterns in other STEM professions like chemist. While salaries in five places—Silicon... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Information Technology
  • 13 Mar 2023
  • Research & Ideas

The Power of Personal Connections: How Shared Experiences Boost Performance

formed a relationship. The authors chose to focus on patient ratings of specialists instead of specific medical outcomes because they assess an “important dimension of quality” that transcends the clinical boundaries of medical specialties and are valued by the medical... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health
  • December 5, 2024
  • Article

A Consensus Definition of Creativity in Surgery: A Delphi Study Protocol

By: Alex Thabane, Tyler McKechnie, Phillip Staibano, Vikram Arora, Goran Calic, Jason W. Busse, Sameer Parpia and Mohit Bhandari
Introduction
Clear definitions are essential in science, particularly in the study of abstract phenomena like creativity. Due to its inherent complexity and domain-specific nature, the study of creativity has been complicated, as evidenced by the various... View Details
Keywords: Creativity; Health Care and Treatment; Outcome or Result; Measurement and Metrics
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  • 09 May 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Where to Find Remote Work Now: 250 Million Job Postings Paint a Complex Picture

technology, management processes that they already have, and probably the culture.” Who’s in your talent pool? So what’s a remote job-seeker to do? Finding the right job depends on profession and, perhaps more crucially, what individual... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 06 Oct 2020
  • Sharpening Your Skills

18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters

increasingly apparent across professions worldwide, for all kinds of working women as the coronavirus continues to wreak havoc in the United States and around the world. Leadership should consider childcare infrastructure at each... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Oct 2020
  • Book

Want to Be Happier? Make More Free Time

to go much farther, lest the 80 percent of Americans feeling time poor rises to 90 and then to 100. We need to test interventions beyond the typical white-collar ones to help workers at all economic levels and in all types of jobs, including the View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 29 Nov 2017
  • Research & Ideas

How to Succeed in Business (According to a 15th Century Trade Merchant)

Zanato, and Vera Ribaudo. A reluctant merchant Born into a family of cloth and wool traders, Cotrugli was a reluctant merchant, pulled from his studies at the University of Bologna to join a profession that he considered lacking in... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 28 May 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Investor Lawsuits Against Auditors Are Falling, and That's Bad News for Capital Markets

vigilance when they are auditing their clients. Of course, auditors might deny that litigation risk is what motivates them to uphold quality. The profession has high standards of conduct and their reputation matters. Professional... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services; Accounting
  • 2017
  • Other Book

Good Work: The Taylor Review of Modern Working Practices

By: Matthew Taylor, Greg Marsh, Diane Nicol and Paul Broadbent
I was not the only person appointed to the Review. My fellow Review team members, Greg Marsh, Diane Nicol and Paul Broadbent have not only been an important source of ideas and wisdom throughout the process but have led in engaging with key groups of... View Details
Keywords: Future Of Work; Labor Relations; Marketplaces; Employment; Labor and Management Relations; Labor; Markets
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  • 16 Jan 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Adam Smith, Behavioral Economist?

belief that managers have internalized the values we care about, and trust them to act on those, particularly when they might come in conflict with their own interests. There are similarly other professions where individuals are entrusted... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen

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