HR Digest

OCTOBER 5, 2020

The current crisis has left many wondering whether to swallow their pride and accept the news, or negotiate for their worth. Even with the tight labor market in mind, you’ll still likely be caught off guard when your boss offers you a promotion without raise. So how can you be prepared for such a scenario?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

s largest online job site), has found that the country is experiencing the symptoms of a multi-speed labor market. It's notable that in the wake of the mortgage crisis, the American workforce isn't as mobile. On our careers site, we're seeing wages rise for specialized technology positions.

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Skills Incentives Training Positioning 15

You're Not the Boss of Me

AUGUST 29, 2010

I also believe there is a place for all of these in the workplace, that leadership is as much about these things as it is about building market share, managing the bottom line or developing strategic alliances. It’s also the part that no big incentive program can hope to convey. I believe in empathy, in kindness… and in love.

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Leadership Blog Video Bottom-up 41

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2015

Brownout, a term also used to describe part of the life cycle of a star, is different from burnout because knowledge workers afflicted by it are not in obvious crisis. The company retained its experienced executives and their deep institutional and market knowledge. More money won’t cut it.

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CIO CFO Crisis Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Then again, that’s sort of what Bogle’s been doing since 1974, when he took a crisis that was all about him — he’d been fired by his business partners — and somewhat inadvertently turned it into something that was about defending the interests of retail investors everywhere. In finance, that’s a pretty hard case to make.

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Finance Crisis Motivation CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

Digital markets produce much lower profit per item,” Pakman lectures us. They have little incentive to build a more equitable community.” Management moved him around the company to the point where, according to a former colleague, "He still has a job — but he doesn''t have a career."

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Industry Venture Capitalist Supply Chain Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2011

As Glenn Reynolds , a faculty member at the University of Tennessee law school, points out, higher education shares some salient features with the pre-collapse housing market. Incentives encourage faculty to conform to this behavior as administrators naturally prefer more tuition revenue to less.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Case in point is Wal-Mart CEO, Lee Scott, who is so concerned with diversity mandates that Wal-Mart officers are held financially accountable by tying officer incentive bonuses to achieving diversity goals.

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 30, 2023

The common conception of a working life is one of a fairly linear career progression, with earnings rising alongside our seniority and experience. The evolution of wages A recent study from Bocconi University explores the various factors that may contribute to changes in income throughout our careers.

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Career Training Rate of Return Education 115

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

inhabitant of what is now looking to be the next epicenter of the Euro crisis (Italy), argued that we can never get anywhere because we keep getting halfway there. Europe's leaders keep taking steps that get them halfway (or maybe a third of the way, or a tenth of the way) to resolving the region's ongoing crisis.

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Crisis Finance Politics Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

I am now convinced, though, that the entrepreneurial driver behind talent churn in African labor markets actually yields significant net benefits for African economies. We had explained the talent churn away as a consequence of small, sub-optimal, unscalable businesses that failed to give talented managers a vision of personal career growth.

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Entrepreneur Banking Supply Chain Globalization 15

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

_After all, culture is defined by the behaviors that are incented and repeated inside your company. However, Cultural marketing simply makes sense. Look anywhere and marketing is found: taxis, bathrooms, buses, subways, and, of course, all the typical places. _I wrote a post on my experience on this topic a couple months back.

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Blog Strategy Brand Bottom-up 366

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

The way the California energy crisis was handled speaks to Enron’s disdain for media openness. In their marketing, accounting and auditing firms claim to be full-service business advisors, in order to get business. Incentive and ‘random acts of kindness’ programs were deleted. The News Media. About the Author.

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Strategic Planning Committee Golden Handcuff Media 57

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Hispanic community is eager to lead, innovate, and help America reclaim its foundational values, but it needs a platform where their voices can safely and objectively express the things they are thinking about healthcare, jobs, immigration reform, the economy, and career advancement. trillion by 2015, according to a recent Nielsen report.

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Policies Short-term Education Diversity 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Hispanic community is eager to lead, innovate, and help America reclaim its foundational values, but it needs a platform where their voices can safely and objectively express the things they are thinking about healthcare, jobs, immigration reform, the economy, and career advancement. trillion by 2015, according to a recent Nielsen report.

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Policies Short-term Education Diversity 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

Such plans frequently include giving managers financial incentives to do what they should have done before — concentrating on the most promising lines, selling off dud businesses, and "leaning down" operations, often including headcount.

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Due Diligence Incentives Hedge Collins 12