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What You Can Do to Improve Ethics at Your Company

Harvard Business Review

We were surprised that 30 leaders in the study recalled a total of 87 “major” ethical dilemmas from their career histories. Perhaps people are promoted according to unwritten rules that will ensure compliance with the status quo. Build a strong and diverse personal network. How employees feel about the company.

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HR Must Make People Analytics More User-Friendly

Harvard Business Review

Recently, my colleague Wayne Cascio and I took up the question of why HR analytics progress has been so slow despite many decades of research and practical tool building, an exponential increase in available HR data, and consistent evidence that improved HR and talent management leads to stronger organizational performance.

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Joining Boards: It's Not Just Who You Know That Matters

Harvard Business Review

For many, a corporate directorship is a career capstone. Both paths are problematic — neither is particularly transparent or relies on objective measures and given that many boards are stubborn bastions of white masculinity, pursuing the "right" network can be fraught, especially for women and other diverse candidates.

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Research Shows Immigrants Help Businesses Grow. Here’s Why.

Harvard Business Review

Diversity and inclusion. Immigrants usually improve a company’s ethnic and linguistic diversity, and they also bring a plethora of unique experiences, backgrounds, and knowledge to the workplace. But hiring a more diverse workforce is only half the equation. This is where inclusivity comes in.

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HR Chiefs Who Propel Organizational Performance

Harvard Business Review

In organizations like IBM, Lowe's, and Harvard Vanguard where HR has accelerated change, it has emerged from its compliance and administrative focus to make bold changes in spite of regulations, bureaucratic entanglements, and other barriers. The HR leader must be seen as focusing first on serving others.

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Your Diversity Officer Should Be a Cruise Director

Harvard Business Review

I'm uneasy with the idea of affinity groups , the single-dimension networks that are all the rage in the corporate diversity world. Rather than forcing a corporation of clones, affinity groups help maintain some of the outward manifestations of diversity. But woefully insufficient to drive real value from diversity.

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Generation to Generation: How to Save the Family Business

Harvard Business Review

Our research on boards of directors and corporate governance has shed new light on many board practices and reveals the need for improvement in several areas including skills and selection , succession planning , and diversity. Strategic Challenges and Talent Management. Director Profiles. Skills and Assessment.

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