human resources - Publications - Faculty & Research

December 2021
Article

Employee Responses to Compensation Changes: Evidence from a Sales Firm

By: Jason Sandvik, Richard Saouma, Nathan Seegert and Christopher Stanton

What are the long-term consequences of compensation changes? Using data from an inbound sales call center, we study employee responses to a compensation change that ultimately reduced take-home pay by 7% for the average affected worker. The change caused a significant... View Details

Keywords: Employees; Wages; Compensation and Benefits; Change; Performance; Resignation and Termination; Retention; Analysis

Citation

Find at Harvard

Read Now

30 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company

questions: "What resources do I control to accomplish my tasks?" "What measures will be used to evaluate my performance?" "Who do I need to interact with and influence to achieve my goals?" "How much... View Details

Keywords: by Robert Simons

12 Jan 2009
Research & Ideas

The Value of a ‘Portable’ Career

determined by what industry you are in, or what particular company you work for, but it's also a result of how collaborative your job is. This suggests that workers who have already developed extensive firm-specific human capital (in the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Sports

30 Oct 2018
News

Paths of Victory

Reflecting HBS’s standing as the top school for entrepreneurs (according to the most-recent PitchBook rankings), the annual HBS New Venture Competition has helped Harvard Business School students and alumni launch dozens of new enterprises. Sponsored by the Arthur Rock... View Details

Keywords: Alumni New Venture Contest; Administration of Human Resource Programs; Administration of Human Resource Programs; Administration of Human Resource Programs; Administration of Human Resource Programs; Administration of Human Resource Programs; Administration of Human Resource Programs

05 Nov 2021
Op-Ed

How to Tap the Talent Automated HR Platforms Miss

As the global staffing shortage grinds on, corporate recruiters everywhere are relying on their online hiring platforms and automated systems to deliver the candidates they need. Too often, these tools will fail them, sidelining many qualified workers in the process.... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller

08 Aug 2023
Research & Ideas

The Rise of Employee Analytics: Productivity Dream or Micromanagement Nightmare?

hiring and productivity, says Jeffrey T. Polzer, the UPS Foundation Professor of Human Resource Management at Harvard Business School. His recent paper probes how organizational researchers should study... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand

June 2000
Case

Egon Zehnder International: Managing Professionals in an Executive Search Firm

Compares the management of professionals at Egon Zehnder International, a leading executive search firm, and its competitors. Highlights recruitment, rewards, and retention as key dimensions of strategy in professional service firms. View Details

Keywords: Management; Retention; Recruitment; Compensation and Benefits; Service Industry

Citation

Educators

Purchase

Profile

Rocio Parra

departments and P&Ls, human capital management and higher level strategic decision-making. What did you learn during the job search process? Through the job search process, I learned about the power of networking and the benefits of... View Details

Keywords: Retail

05 Jul 2004
What Do You Think?

Work-Life: Is Productivity in the Balance?

suggests the questions of the month. He writes: "... Natural resources and geopolitical advantages played no small role in the American rise to power, but the bulk of the credit belongs to the American work ethic and entrepreneurial... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

11 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Non-competes Push Talent Away

Several years ago, on his first day of work at a Boston-based speech-recognition software company, Matt Marx's new employer surprised him with a non-compete agreement. The terms stated that if Marx left the company, he couldn't work anywhere else in the industry for... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology

17 Jul 2008
Working Paper Summaries

A Replication Study of Alan Blinder’s “How Many U.S. Jobs Might Be Offshorable?”

Keywords: by Troy Smith & Jan W. Rivkin

08 Dec 2006
Working Paper Summaries

When Learning and Performance are at Odds: Confronting the Tension

Keywords: by Sara J. Singer & Amy C. Edmondson

June 2010
Article

Star Power: Colleague Quality and Turnover

By: Boris Groysberg and Linda Eling-Lee

In this article, we argue that the existence of greater organizational resources, in the form of higher quality colleagues, acts as a retention mechanism. We test our hypotheses using a panel data set of securities analysts in 24 securities firms over a 9-year period.... View Details

Keywords: Quality; Human Resources

Citation

Find at Harvard

Purchase