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- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Howard Stevenson on the Lessons of the Internet Era
nice," Stevenson quipped. In the new world order, Stevenson said, here are the keys: Hire great people; take a pass on the mediocre Understand and use technology Think globally Don't believe your own financial PR Happiness is a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Worried About the Great Resignation? Be a Good Company to Come From
career counselors who meet with employees to discuss their futures and how to prepare to leave. Furthermore, the focus on voluntary attrition means Recruit always has room to hire fresh talent with new ideas and new skillsets. Build an... View Details
Keywords: by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta
- 16 Jul 2014
- HBS Case
Marketing Obamacare
unpacks Connecticut's winning strategy, which led to a sign-up rate of about 65 percent of uninsured in the state. Key to the effort, he says, was that the quasi-state agency Access Health CT (AHCT) put marketing at the forefront early—including View Details
- 16 Dec 2013
- HBS Case
D’O: Making a Michelin-Starred Restaurant Affordable
professionals. The waiters who work at a Michelin-starred restaurant are professionals. The cooks are professionals. These are 40-hour-a-week jobs, and you hire them for a full week. If you're a Michelin-starred restaurant you have to... View Details
- 08 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
A Bold Proposal for Investment Reform
Stock exchanges as auditors? The stock exchanges should be responsible for hiring and firing auditors, negotiating their fees, and overseeing the outcomes of the audits themselves, say Healy and Palepu. As they see it, the exchanges have... View Details
- 16 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs
to sitting CEOs with supposedly proven track records? The pool of these marquee names is limited. Such scarcity naturally drives up wages; the compensation of the ten highest paid CEOs has soared 4,300 percent during the past twenty years, the same period that outside... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 24 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
With Millions of Workers Juggling Caregiving, Employers Need to Rethink Support
or it’s a bad air-quality day and my child really shouldn’t be outdoors, I’m going to keep them home from school. As a normal working adult, I don’t have money to hire a service, so I’m going to miss a day of work. Fifty percent of women... View Details
Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 29 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rich or Royal: What Do Founders Want?
remaining CEO of the venture versus bringing in an experienced CEO who could build a more valuable company. The very different choices that I saw founders making regarding these co-founder, investor, and hiring decisions led me to... View Details
- 26 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward
negotiate in the right order. Sorting Out The Possibilities When Steve Perlman was preparing to launch WebTV in 1996, he faced a critical sequencing dilemma. He had obtained seed funding, developed the technology to bring the Internet to ordinary television sets,... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 22 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
How to Build a Better Board
As more and more corporate executives have been paraded on perp walks these last few years, a question has repeatedly been raised: Where was the board? After all, isn't it the board's responsibility to make sure the fox isn't hired to run... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 11 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now
doors, with the belief that they can get away with it. Men supervising the trading floors of Wall Street overlooking raunchy locker room humor by adopting a boys-will-be-boys attitude. Changing that dynamic requires making sure an organization View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 08 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity
workplace in the early 1990s, BigAC found discrepancies between its own hiring rates and promotion rates for women. At the CEO's prompting, an initial analysis phase focused on the question, "Why are women leaving?" A task force... View Details
- 03 Nov 2003
- What Do You Think?
Can Investors Have Too Much Accounting Transparency?
not only a company's numbers but also the systems that produce the numbers. Finally, public accountants will have to evaluate the work of the boards' audit committees that hired them. The bill for the additional external auditors and... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
What it Takes to Lead Through Turmoil
When electronic component distributor Arrow decided it had to be on the Internet, it gave the Arrow.com team terrific new offices, hired young newcomers, and essentially sent a message to mainstay Arrow employees that they were now... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Biotech
hired—and receive health insurance? Some would counter that such personal information is, in a sense, already available, pointing to the fact that many companies require physicals for their employees as part of the hiring process. And if... View Details
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Knowledge Coach
toward the end of the chain, the "coach" (Reddy) was still struggling with the same issues as the "protégé" (Majmudar). For example, Reddy had not yet solved the problem of how to hire people who would be able to scale... View Details
Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
- 07 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 8, 2018
between men and women—as opposed to hiring biases, gender discrimination, or a hostile workforce—were at least partially responsible for the low numbers of women in tech. At the time, 20% of Google’s tech workforce, and 31% of its overall... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jul 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Airbnb Lesson for Startups? Success Takes More Than Technology
starting a new company, you have to be on the ground. Forget about technology, hiring a CTO, or getting a bunch of engineers. You need to be on the ground, talking to customers and acquiring suppliers. Later on, a new company can figure... View Details
- 09 Jan 2006
- What Do You Think?
Should More Transparency Extend to Education for Management?
[master's and doctoral work] is when we focus our passion, and this work should reflect our abilities in a chosen field." As Robert Downing put it, "I suspect that most employers do not use grades as their sole hiring criteria.... View Details
- 05 Nov 2024
- Research & Ideas
AI Can Help Leaders Communicate, But Can't Make Employees Listen
conventions, and peculiarities. Ask me anything The researchers then chose 10 real questions from a pool of 148 that came from new hires at a recent “ask me anything” session and put them to both the CEO and the CEO Bot. All 800 employees... View Details