Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Beyond wages, other forms of investment in human capital include education and training, improved healthcare, and other, less obvious investments, such as the time and space to explore new ideas and professional development opportunities. billion in its associates through higher wages, better benefits and enhanced training.

Human Capital 15

Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

Having taught at five business schools over several decades and served as Dean of two, I have come to a conclusion: The educational institutions where our future business leaders are being trained must be recalibrated and transformed dramatically. We need to merge business experience and academia far more than now.

Education 17

Education Drucker Globalization Trends 17

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2017

From the start, Southwest cofounder Herb Kelleher saw his competition not as other airlines but as alternative forms of transportation, whether cars, buses, or trains. When Continental shuttered Lite, then CEO Gordon Bethune said, “It wasn’t implemented in an orchestrated way.” All of these efforts failed.

Airlines 14

Airlines Strategy Business Model Metrics 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

Leaders participate in mindfulness and compassion trainings and are coached to learn emotional intelligence. The immune system certainly receives a boost from stress-reduction, and even just the sounds of nature trigger a relaxation response in the brain. After all, research shows that a happier workplace is more productive.

Gordon 8

Gordon Stress Team Environment 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2011

The hot new perk, for people who have barely spent a day working inside the company they have been recruited to join, is training and advice and lessons on how to leave that company and start one of their own. There's a difference between attracting brilliant stars, Gladwell argued and building a brilliant systems for the long term.

Gordon 16

Gordon Entrepreneur Long-term Engineering 16

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

Having taught at five business schools and served as Dean of two, I have come to hold one opinion very strongly: The educational institutions where our future business leaders are being trained must be transformed, and transformed dramatically. We need to merge business experience and academia far more than now.

Education 10

Education Drucker Gordon Scientific Management 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

All the brilliant discoveries of STEM will not solve the grand challenges of today’s world — ignorance, poverty, intolerance, and political conflict – without the practical wisdom of humanities-trained leaders. Let me illustrate my point.

Skills 8

Skills Drucker Gordon Ethics 8

Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

I got deeper into his teachings and his way of thinking and realized the 14 principles were a perfect fit into my theory, and so the full system of profound knowledge. Stephen Gordon CEO Opus Bank. Luciana Paulise is a business consultant and founder of Biztorming Training & Consulting. Steve Schulze, CEO Nekter Juice bar.

Deming 28

Deming Library Entrepreneur Conference 28

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2011

Michael Milanese had been the chief architect of a new performance-review system that Ekdahl was about to implement across all six of Circale's global locations. So the CEO had given the HR department a green light to create a new system that would force managers to be brutally honest. Is there a bug in the system?"

Case Study 12

Case Study P&L Performance Review Review 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

It’s hard to overstate the significance — and complexity — of the H-1B visa system in the U.S. H-1B visas are granted through an employer-driven system, meaning employers petition the government for visas tied to specific roles. “The top occupation of H-1B workers is computer systems analyst.

Outsourcing 9

Outsourcing Engineering Skills Information Technology 9