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3 Myths About Hiring People with Criminal Records
Global Business Digital ArticleWhy employers should embrace fair-chance hiring practices. -
The Big Reason to Hire Superstar Employees Isn't the Work They Do
Organizational Development Digital ArticleIt's who they let you hire next. -
Learn How to Spot Portable Talent
Organizational Development Digital ArticleBecause most executives don't transition to new roles as well as you'd think. -
The Online Talent War
Hiring and recruitment Digital Article(I wrote this post with Diamond CTO Chris Curran) Are you taking no more than a squirt gun to the talent wars? Most people find jobs through social connections. In 1974, Harvard sociologist Mark Granovetter published his landmark study that showed four out of five people find jobs through personal connections. Yet, in our recent […] -
A CEO’s Common Sense of CIM: An Interview with J. Tracy O’Rourke
Hiring and recruitment Magazine ArticleAccording to Wickham Skinner (“What Matters to Manufacturing,” HBR January–February 1988), too many managers now approach production difficulties with “a menu of textbook techniques”—CIM, for example—when they should be thinking through the same old questions: What is my business? Where is the market? What machines and flexibilities do I really need? With Skinner’s strictures in […] -
Case of the Part-Time Partner
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleThe promotions committee at Meeker, Needham & Ames, a long-established law firm, met to discuss the candidacy of three associates up for partner. The... -
Do Something--He's About to Snap (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleLynne Tabor, an IT manager at manufacturing giant MMI, has a great team. Everyone works hard and gets along, except Max Dyer, a talented programmer who... -
Was That Harassment? (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleAfter a salesman jokingly asks a female colleague if her appearance is the reason for her inclusion in a leadership program, his friend, the only other... -
How Great Managers Manage People
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Promoting the Non-Obvious Candidate
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleThe best person for the job might not be in your department. -
How to Hire Someone You've Never Met in Person
Organizational Development Digital ArticleHint: There's more to it than video calls. -
Best of Intentions (Commentary for HBR Case Study)
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleCynthia Mitchell has finally gotten a plum management opportunity at AgFunds, a Houston-based company that provides financial services to farmers and... -
We Built a Diverse Academic Department in 5 Years. Here's How.
Organizational Development Digital ArticleLessons from Washington University in St. Louis. -
We Can Now Automate Hiring. Is that Good?
Organizational Development Digital ArticleThe costs and benefits of outsourcing people decisions to robots. -
Speed, Simplicity, Self-Confidence: An Interview with Jack Welch
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleThis is an enhanced edition of HBR article 98301, originally published in May/June 1998. John F. Welch, Jr. believes that GE must operate with the flexibility... -
LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky: Skills, Not Degrees, Matter Most in Hiring
Business and society Digital ArticleEven if you don’t plan to change jobs, your job is going to change on you. -
Should Your Voice Determine Whether You Get Hired?
Organizational Development Digital ArticleVoice profiling is a promising, but tricky, new technology. -
8 Questions Employers Should Ask About Reopening
Organizational Development Digital ArticleTiming is everything. -
Behave Yourself: A Conversation with Executive Coach Marshall Goldsmith
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleExecutive consultant Marshall Goldsmith tells his CEO clients that he's not the real coach; the people around them are. To change your behavior, he says,... -
Stop Offering Career Ladders. Start Offering Career Portfolios.
Developing employees Digital ArticleCompanies need a more holistic approach to developing talent.
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BoldFlash: Cross-Functional Challenges in the Mobile Division
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details Roger Cahill has spent less than a year as head of the Mobile Division of BoldFlash, a flash memory component maker. On the corporate level, BoldFlash... -
Becton Dickinson: Opportunities and Challenges on the Road to the "Envisioned Future"
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details The case depicts a mission and values driven firm, how it was turned around, and its unique strategy of enabling others to succeed. -
Vistron Inc.: The Z Glass Project
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Vermeer Technologies (E): New Beginning
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details The Vermeer team is pleasantly surprised by the benefits and hospitality that their new surroundings offer. Their happiness is tempered, however, by discomfort... -
Tale of the Lynx (A and B)
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details The founders of Lynx Solutions have survived major challenges within their board of directors, the firing of Lynx's founder-CEO and departure of its successor... -
MULTIMODE, INC. - Confidential Instructions for T. Boyd
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details Two-party intra-organization negotiation between a company's financial and human resources officers regarding the amount of a budget increase. T. Boyd,... -
People Express Airlines: Rise and Decline
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details Describes the innovative approach to organizing and managing employees by People Express and describes the company's eventual demise. This material can... -
The Future of Patent Examination at the USPTO
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is the federal government agency responsible for evaluating and granting patent and trademark applications.... -
Coloplast A/S - Organizational Challenges in Offshoring
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details Coloplast's future global manufacturing strategy was based on relocation of volume production of mature product lines to low cost countries like Hungary... -
Au Bon Pain: The French Bakery Cafe, the Partner/Manager Program
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details 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... -
Vermeer Technologies (F): FrontPage 97
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details Vermeer engineers work at the breakneck pace of "Internet time" to develop the next version of their software product, winning accolades from Microsoft... -
GE's Talent Machine: The Making of a CEO
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details GE believes its ability to develop management talent is a core competency that represents a source of sustainable competitive advantage. This case traces... -
Arck Systems (B)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details The Arck Systems series of cases describes the dilemmas faced by a senior sales manager in determining a sales compensation plan at an enterprise software... -
Novartis Pharma: The Business Unit Model
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details In June 2000, Novartis reorganized its pharmaceutical business to form global business units in oncology, transplantation, ophthalmology, and mature products.... -
Renewing GE: The Africa Project (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details This case profiles the evolution of General Electric's African American Form (AAF), an employee affinity group, and its efforts to increase the company's... -
Note on Organizational Effectiveness
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details Discusses what is meant by organizational effectiveness. First, the concept of organizations as social systems is introduced. Second, a model of organization... -
C&S Wholesale Grocers: Self-Managed Teams
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details Rick Cohen, president and CEO of C&S Wholesale Grocers, is trying to decide whether and how to implement the self-managed teams concept in his warehouse.... -
Navistar: Managing Change
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details Describes 15 years of change at Navistar. Highlights changes in strategy, name, products, services, size, human resources policies, and programs. Underscores... -
Subtle Biases and Covert Prejudice in the Workplace
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Subtle biases and covert prejudice affect interactions in the workplace. Subtle biases are automatically activated associations or stereotypes that relate... -
Sustaining Customer Centricity at Chateauform'
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details The Châteauform' case describes how Jacques Horovitz founded a unique concept in the saturated hotel and seminar market that existing hotel chains find...
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BoldFlash: Cross-Functional Challenges in the Mobile Division
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details Roger Cahill has spent less than a year as head of the Mobile Division of BoldFlash, a flash memory component maker. On the corporate level, BoldFlash... -
3 Myths About Hiring People with Criminal Records
Global Business Digital ArticleWhy employers should embrace fair-chance hiring practices. -
The Big Reason to Hire Superstar Employees Isn't the Work They Do
Organizational Development Digital ArticleIt's who they let you hire next. -
Learn How to Spot Portable Talent
Organizational Development Digital ArticleBecause most executives don't transition to new roles as well as you'd think. -
Becton Dickinson: Opportunities and Challenges on the Road to the "Envisioned Future"
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details The case depicts a mission and values driven firm, how it was turned around, and its unique strategy of enabling others to succeed. -
The Online Talent War
Hiring and recruitment Digital Article(I wrote this post with Diamond CTO Chris Curran) Are you taking no more than a squirt gun to the talent wars? Most people find jobs through social connections. In 1974, Harvard sociologist Mark Granovetter published his landmark study that showed four out of five people find jobs through personal connections. Yet, in our recent […] -
Vistron Inc.: The Z Glass Project
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details -
Vermeer Technologies (E): New Beginning
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details The Vermeer team is pleasantly surprised by the benefits and hospitality that their new surroundings offer. Their happiness is tempered, however, by discomfort... -
A CEO’s Common Sense of CIM: An Interview with J. Tracy O’Rourke
Hiring and recruitment Magazine ArticleAccording to Wickham Skinner (“What Matters to Manufacturing,” HBR January–February 1988), too many managers now approach production difficulties with “a menu of textbook techniques”—CIM, for example—when they should be thinking through the same old questions: What is my business? Where is the market? What machines and flexibilities do I really need? With Skinner’s strictures in […] -
Case of the Part-Time Partner
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleThe promotions committee at Meeker, Needham & Ames, a long-established law firm, met to discuss the candidacy of three associates up for partner. The...