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  • 01 Jun 2016
  • News

Feedback

undercut us. Our employees have to trust that we will deliver on our promises. We have to trust that business partners will deliver on their contracts. But I find it hard to know whom to trust, and I have proven to myself that I am bad at... View Details
  • 22 Oct 2013
  • First Look

First Look: October 22

  Publications August 2013 PLoS ONE Prosocial Bonuses Increase Employee Satisfaction and Team Performance By: Anik, Lalin, Lara B. Aknin, Elizabeth W. Dunn, Michael I. Norton, and Jordi Quoidbach Abstract—In three field studies, we... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • March 2015
  • Case

Clifford Chance: Women at Work

By: Boris Groysberg, Katherine Connolly and Stephanie Marton
It was October 2013, and global law firm Clifford Chance was coming under fire for the second time in less than a year for reputedly failing to provide a supportive work environment for its female associates. A memo entitled "Speaking Effectively" was just issued to... View Details
Keywords: Women; Law; Fairness; Employee Relationship Management; Retention; Human Capital; Organizational Culture; Performance Expectations; Work-Life Balance; Public Opinion; Problems and Challenges; Legal Services Industry; United States
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  • Web

Fostering Candor in Teams and Organizations - Recruiting

collaboration, along with employee retention and growth, are the true goals. To achieve these ends, leaders must create work environments where employees truly feel comfortable... View Details
  • 14 Sep 2021
  • Blog Post

How to Support Your Employees’ Career Development

organization that teach strategy setting, leadership, and giving and receiving feedback. Key Takeaways Career development is an important factor in employee satisfaction and retention as well as... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 14 Sep 2021
  • Blog Post

How to Support Your Employees' Career Development

setting, leadership, and giving and receiving feedback. Key Takeaways Career development is an important factor in employee satisfaction and retention as well as organizational success. To do it well takes... View Details
  • 30 Dec 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2013

Best Employees Many companies hand out awards such as "employee of the month," but do they work to motivate performance? Not really, says Ian Larkin. In fact, they may turn off your best employees... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 09 Jan 2020
  • Blog Post

Set Your Recruiting Vision for 2020

motivates employees and how that can be communicated in your recruiting process. Learn more strategies to “get to yes” based on a recent HBS research study focused on what matters most to students when evaluating job offers. Goal: Build a... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 14 Feb 2023
  • Blog Post

Recruiting During Uncertainty: How to Meet Students Where They Are

When companies encourage students to openly share about their career goals, important connections can be made between the company’s needs and the student’s ability to add value in various roles or functions. This can then lead to better hiring decisions and future... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 04 Jan 2021
  • What Do You Think?

How Do We Sustain Organization Diversity?

successes, the distraction of a later effort to improve gender diversity, the disproportionate number of Black employees laid off in a major downsizing, a drop in the number of Black candidates in the pipeline, and weak View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 18 Jul 2024
  • Research & Ideas

New Hires Lose Psychological Safety After Year One. How to Fix It.

welcome. In fact, new hires often enter fresh roles feeling optimistic and confident their organizations are eager to hear from them, but over time, employees increasingly feel less “psychologically safe” to contribute ideas, new research... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health
  • January 2004 (Revised July 2006)
  • Case

Executive Remuneration at Reckitt Benckiser plc

By: Jay W. Lorsch, V.G. Narayanan, Krishna G. Palepu, Lisa Brem and Ashley Robertson
Reckitt Benckiser plc has developed an executive compensation system. This case outlines the structure of the system, its emphasis on performance-based pay and a global outlook, and explains the role of the human resources department, the board of directors, and... View Details
Keywords: Governing and Advisory Boards; Employee Relationship Management; System; Executive Compensation; Retention; Performance; Human Resources; Recruitment; Business and Shareholder Relations
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  • 26 Mar 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019

engagement. In offices with high levels of employee engagement—with above-median rates of employee retention and willingness to log onto the training platform—each additional... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 20 Dec 2022
  • Blog Post

7 Resolutions for Recruiting in the New Year

sexual orientation, etc.? What do your employee retention numbers tell you about who on your team feels supported? Are you actively seeking out diverse candidates, and if so, what do your hiring numbers tell... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 06 Aug 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Who Will Give You the Best Professional Guidance?

objective—especially given that they know the players and may be coaching them as well. If you are hiring an internal coach be thoughtful on who they will work with and how to measure their success vis-a-vis employees’ growth. Success metrics can be everything from... View Details
Keywords: by Julia B. Austin
  • 01 Jun 2017
  • News

Better Hiring Through Brain Science

Illustrations by Marcos Chin Illustrations by Marcos Chin Hiring companies employ Pymetrics to source additional talent and filter massive applicant pools as well as to boost retention and serve as a development tool. “We follow the... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
  • 09 Jul 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Are Management Consulting Firms Failing to Manage Themselves?

After nearly a decade of uninterrupted growth, strategic consulting firms are now facing one of their most challenging periods in memory, prompting widespread cutbacks in staff and changes to recruiting. How did these firms get to this painful point? In response to... View Details
Keywords: by David Fubini; Consulting
  • March 1987 (Revised October 1993)
  • Case

Au Bon Pain: The French Bakery Cafe, The Partner/Manager Program

By: W. Earl Sasser
In recent years, Au Bon Pain (ABP), a chain of upscale French bakeries/sandwich cafes based in Boston, confronted a set of human resource problems endemic to the fast food industry (i.e., a labor shortage which made it difficult to attract and maintain quality crew... View Details
Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Managerial Roles; Retention; Employees; Performance Improvement; Recruitment; Problems and Challenges; Compensation and Benefits; Food and Beverage Industry; Service Industry; Boston
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  • 23 Mar 2020
  • News

Signal Boost

standpoint. As a businessperson who made her case for the minivan left-sliding door at Chrysler, Lara knows that diversity and retention within a company only make organizations stronger. “We can say, ‘Hey, large corporation, you need to... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2014
  • News

Case Study: Growing the Family Business

commitment from local employers whose staff would use our center. We would locate in the same building or very near a large employer to facilitate ease of use by their employees. The benefit to the employer was staff retention and... View Details
Keywords: childcare; Finance