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Do You Know When To Delegate?: From the executive summary: ‘Returning monkeys to their rightful owners seems even more difficult today than it was in the late 20th century. For one thing, managers have come under increasing pressure to generate measurable results faster than ever. Some managers’ fear being viewed during tough economic times if they...; Tags: Harvard Knowledgebase, performance; White papers 2004-09-06
Retooling 360s For Better Performance: From the executive summary: ‘The 360-degree feedback tool combines input from supervisors, peers, and direct reports to provide a broad perspective on an employee's strengths and developmental needs. It has insinuated itself into the performance appraisal processes at an increasing number of companies. But as some firms are discovering, the...; Tags: Performance management, Team management, PRODUCTIVITY, Harvard Knowledgebase, Performance Appraisal, 360-degree, performance review, performance, supervisor, tool; White papers 2004-02-23
Creative Recombination: Use What You Have: From the executive summary: ‘Every time a firm pursues an existing or new strategy by reusing, redeploying, or recombining aspects of its people, networks, culture, structures, or processes, rather than destroying them and recreating them from scratch. Thus, instead of downsizing, it is essential to redeploy the people's talents. Rather...; Tags: Workforce management, NETWORKING, Harvard Knowledgebase, downsizing, knowledge, computer network, social networking, talent, network, strategy, computer; White papers 2004-01-26
Your New Core Strategy: Employee Retention: The emerging trend of switching jobs has become widely prevalent in corporate world. It has been observed that employees are changing jobs like dumping old clothes and wearing new ones. The process has put the position of many companies in jeopardy. Most organizations are finding difficulty in finding an appropriate...; Tags: Professional development, Recruitment & Selection, Harvard Knowledgebase, career development, job, career, strategy; White papers 2003-11-26
Successful Managers: One suspect that the mistakes happen when firms choose managers at any level from CEO to business unit head to project manager based on what we call "right stuff" thinking. Many search committees and hiring executives classify candidates by right-stuff attributes. Managers who have successfully worked their way up the...; Tags: Harvard Knowledgebase, hiring; White papers 2003-10-13

The Lessons of New-Market Disruption: This article is a case study about two companies. It was seen that Teradyne was successful. Hewlett-Packard was not. The paper writes about how two companies had such different results with disruptive innovation. In the early 1990s, both Teradyne and Hewlett-Packard identified new technologies that had enormous potential to cause...; Tags: Leadership, Performance management, Harvard Knowledgebase, Teradyne Inc., innovation, Hewlett-Packard Co., performance; Case studies 2003-09-15
The New ROI: Return on Individuals: The article affirms that there are ways to measure ROI on the investments one makes in people. Sure and doing so provides one with insights on how to spend your limited resources more effectively. The ultimate objective is to be able to evaluate a firm's entire portfolio of human capital...; Tags: ROI/TCO, Benefits, Harvard Knowledgebase, ROI, compensation, training, benefit; White papers 2003-09-01
Sharpen Your Job Interview Skills: Most people misconstrue the task that lies before them in the job interview. Some think the interview is a kind of test, and to pass it they must answer all the questions correctly. Others imagine that it's all about finding out the interviewer's secret passion for fly-fishing and spending the...; Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Harvard Knowledgebase, job interview, job; White papers 2003-05-05
Thy Neighbor’s Portfolio : Word-Of-Mouth Effects In The Holdings And Trades Of Money Managers: This paper explores the hypothesis that investors spread information and ideas about stocks to one another directly, through word-of-mouth communication. This hypothesis comes up frequently in informal accounts of the behavior of the stock market. The stockholdings of any given fund manager respond more sensitively to the holdings of other...; Tags: Investment, Harvard Knowledgebase, fund manager, hypothesis, stock, mutual fund, investor, stock market; White papers 2003-05-01
Thy Neighbor’s Portfolio: Word-of-Mouth Effects in the Holdings And Trades of Money Managers: A mutual-fund manager is more likely to hold a particular stock in any quarter if other managers in the same city are holding that same stock. This pattern shows up even when controlling for the distance between the fund manager and the stock in question, so it is distinct from...; Tags: Investment, Harvard Knowledgebase, hypothesis, stock, investor, mutual fund, stock market; White papers 2003-05-01
Pay-for-Performance Doesn’t Always Pay Off: The idea of offering more money for hitting specific company targets seems to be perfect. In practice, however, the process of connecting pay to performance may be far trickier that it at first appears. The article explains the case of HP, which set up thirteen separate units of the company—at...; Tags: Benefits, Harvard Knowledgebase, pay-for-performance, performance; White papers 2003-04-14
Entrepreneurship: The employees may come from nations all around the world. The challenge is to ensure that their contributions aren’t buried under language and cultural differences and communication problems don't keep these sources of business benefit from being tapped effectively. Here are seven tips for improving communication. Read the article and...; Tags: Harvard Knowledgebase, entrepreneurship; White papers 2003-02-03
Seven Tips For Communicating In Today's Diverse Workplace: It has been observed that most organizations consist of people from all walks of life. The people from diverse cultural backgrounds might find difficulty in adjusting to the norms of the organization. The cultural and language differences also hamper the smooth flow of communication within the organization. The paper elucidates...; Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Harvard Knowledgebase, workplace; White papers 2003-02-03
The Right Way to Replace a Fired CEO: Boards of Directors often botch up the job of finding a replacement CEO. They understand that selecting a CEO is a major responsibility; they help the CEO set realistic performance expectations; and they develop a deep understanding of the company’s strategic position. Firing a CEO rarely pays off in terms...; Tags: Corporate governance, Performance management, Harvard Knowledgebase, CEO, firing, director, board, performance, job; White papers 2003-01-06
Implementing The Balanced Scorecard In State Government: For effective management of a work process, it is imperative to measure it. Measurement provides an insight into the dynamics of the process and, therefore, facilitates the management of the same. The Balanced Scorecard BS is a comprehensive framework that translates the organizational vision and strategy into a coherent set...; Tags: Harvard Knowledgebase, Balanced Scorecard, performance, vision, strategy; White papers 2003-01-01
Women Entrepreneurs Usher in the Next Generation: American society throws women entrepreneurs plenty of roadblocks. But at the recent Women, Money, and Power conference, a new generation of businesswomen offered advice and ideas for change. Much of what women need to know to become successful entrepreneurs and even businesswomen within large organizations can be learned only by...; Tags: Gender and diversity, Entrepreneurship, Harvard Knowledgebase, women, entrepreneur; White papers 2002-11-11
Five Missteps To Avoid When Times Are Turbulent: There is plenty of uncertainty in the current environment that can cloud strategic judgment. However, there is much more clarity by experts on one subject: what companies should not do now. Companies that focus on more than just the next quarter are the ones that will succeed. In uncertain times,...; Tags: Harvard Knowledgebase, leader, health care, environment; White papers 2002-10-21
You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It: A decade of organizational restructuring has produced employees who are more exhausted than empowered, more cynical than self-renewing. CEOs must rethink how they use their people. And yet, a decade of organizational delayering, destaffing, restructuring, and reengineering has produced employees who are more exhausted than empowered, more cynical than self-renewing....; Tags: Harvard Knowledgebase, re-engineering, human capital, motivation, theory; White papers 2002-04-01
The Return of Reengineering for Recessionary Times: "Reengineering the Corporation" is the fundamental rethinking and radical redesigning of business processes to achieve dramatic improvements in critical contemporary measures of performance, such as cost, quality, service, and speed." Whether one is focusing on the production line, the sales organization, or performance-review systems, the reengineering mantra is not constrained...; Tags: Organizational structure, Harvard Knowledgebase, re-engineering, business process, performance, sales; White papers 2002-01-21
Women Entrepreneurs Use Springboard for Funding: The author of this article states that by virtue of being women and entrepreneurs the health food- manufacturer, infectious-disease specialist and a content-management expert share one disheartening statistic. According to the most recent research, women CEOs typically receive just 6 percent of the $69 billion available in venture capital in...; Tags: Gender and diversity, Harvard Knowledgebase, entrepreneur, women, venture capital, entrepreneurship, environment, U.S., health care; White papers 2001-11-26