Sharpen your company’s competitive edge by outsourcing more intelligently, protecting your intellectual property, and winning the talent war. New Ways to Build Competitiveness Source: Harvard Business School Outsourcing may lower costs, but unless a company’s...
Learning-curve research has found that rates of learning can vary across similar settings, such that cumulative experience is a necessary but insufficient predictor of learning-curve slope. One explanation for this finding is that how the learning process is managed affects rates of learning. At any point in time, organizations can...
Technologies for reproducing and redistributing digital goods have made it more difficult to earn profits from their sale, leading to concerns that socially valuable digital products with non-convex production technologies may not be brought to market. However, digital goods are often jointly supplied with non-digital products, and changes in distribution...
This paper develops a performance evaluation approach in which a fund manager's skill is judged by the extent to which the manager's investment decisions resemble the decisions of managers with distinguished performance records. The proposed performance measures use historical returns and holdings of many funds to evaluate the performance of...
The higher you rise in the corporate ranks, the more you're expected to speak on public occasions, and the shorter the preparation time often is. The temptation is to wing it or, if you do prepare something, not to rehearse but to rely on your native ability and good luck...
This paper summarizes a multi-year research effort to understand the role of process performance in the overall efficiency of banks. By focusing on the process as the unit of analysis, the paper considers how technology, human resources, and most importantly, the interaction between these factors of production contribute to overall...
The Workforce Scorecard: Managing Human Capital to Execute Strategy. 2005. Mark A. Huselid, Brian E. Becker, and Richard W. Beatty. Boston: Harvard Business School Press. 278 pages. The Workforce Scorecard presents the authors unabashed view of the role of human resource HR professionals in a business organization. Placing them as...
Mark A. Huselid, Brian E. Becker, and Richard W. Beatty. The Workforce Scorecard: Managing Human Capital to Execute Strategy. Boston: Harvard Business School Press. 2006. 256 pages. $29.95 hardcover. Although it might not be Lord of the Rings, this book is, in many ways, the third book of a trilogy....
Harvard Business School Press 60 Harvard Way, Boston, MA 02163 www.hbspress.org Knowledge workers are innovators and often driving forces of a company's product line and services: they are IT specialists and planners and you rely on them in your business: but are they delivering...
In January, the Defense Acquisition University partnered with Harvard Business School Publishing to procure the Harvard Business School ManageMentor modules. These 37 HBS modules will strengthen the softskills for the AT & L workforce, select members of the private sector who have attended DAU courses, and for students who receive...
Byline: Jim Pawlak "The Workforce Scorecard: Managing Human Capital to Execute Strategy" by Mark Huselid and Brian Becker, Harvard Business School Press, $29.95. Management usually considers employees among its most-costly cost centers. With that perspective, staff-related decisions are made on the...
Having a healthy workforce is good for business. Apart from reducing absenteeism, there is increasing evidence to suggest a link between good performance and employees who are in good condition. The Harvard Medical School recently found that the most healthy quartile of a workforce is seven hours more productive a...
In January, the Defense Acquisition University partnered with Harvard Business School Publishing to procure the Harvard Business School ManageMentor modules. These 37 HBS modules will strengthen the softskills for the AT & L workforce, for select members of the private sector who have attended DAU courses, and for students who...
The Workforce Scorecard By Mark A. Huselid, Brian E. Becker and Richard W. Beatty Harvard Business School Press, 2005 278 pages, List price: $29.95 ISBN: 1-59139-245-4 Although many companies have demonstrated how they used metrics to show the HR function's...
The Workforce Scorecard: Managing Human Capital to Execute Strategy Mark A. Huselid, Brian E. Becker, Richard W. Beatty Harvard Business School Press McGraw-Hill Ryerson www.books.mcgraw-hill.com ISBN: 1-59139-245-4 $41.95 Cdn; 278 pages; hardcover As our experts in this issue of the Canadian Manager advise us to manage our talents by...
The Workforce Scorecard Richard W. Beatty Harvard Business School Press 60 Harvard Way , Boston, MA 02163 www.HBSPress.org 1591392454 $29.95 1-800-668-6780 Two Professors of Human Resource Management at Rutgers University and the Chairman of the Department of Organization...
WASHINGTON, June 16 /U.S. Newswire/ -- U.S. Secretary of LaborElaine L. Chao this week welcomed the fourth class of MBA Fellows tothe Department of Labor's DOL workforce. The 16 business schoolgraduates now embark on an intensive two-year training anddevelopment program designed to provide them with competencies neededfor future leadership...
Kronos What: KronosR Incorporated (Nasdaq: KRON) is scheduled to co-facilitate a discussion forum on the topic of "The Challenge of Achieving Strategic Alignment" with Harvard ...
WASHINGTON, June 25 /U.S. Newswire/ - U.S. Deputy Secretary ofLabor Steven Law this week welcomed the third class of MBA Fellows tothe Department of Labors DOLs workforce. This third class of 15business school graduates embarks on an intensive two-year trainingand development program designed to provide them with thecompetencies needed...
Change Without Pain By Eric Abrahamson Harvard Business School Press, 2004, 218 pages List price: $26.95, ISBN: 1-57851-827-X Too many business books push for major, destructive changes that upend everything a business' employees know, writes Eric Abrahamson in Change Without Pain. One result is a workforce...
