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Playing the Long Game: The Employee Retention Process in HR

HR Digest

The World Bank has projected a 9 million skilled and semi-skilled ICT workers shortage to affect Indonesia between 2015-2030. Amidst their country’s tech talent shortage, HP Indonesia is doing its best to focus on its employee retention instead of acquisition efforts, according to Human Resources Online.

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Private Equity’s New Phase

Harvard Business Review

From 1996 to 2015, the number of publicly traded companies in the United States alone dropped nearly 50%. The types of private equity firms and the approaches to managing these firms has evolved over the last 40 years through three general phases. a condo development, apartment building, or golf course).

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Saudi Arabia’s New Economic Reforms: A Concise Explainer

Harvard Business Review

The conservative Kingdom, at the heart of the Arab-Islamic world and one of the world’s key oil producers, is in the midst of a fundamental restructuring process that centers around the country’s large, but oil-dependent economy. Saudi Arabia’s government reshuffle in early May is more than a political watershed.

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What CEOs Get Wrong About Activist Investors

Harvard Business Review

We wrote about our adventure nearly a year ago in The Atlantic, but as we thought more about our interaction with Tejon Ranch’s managers, we realized there were valuable lessons that we wanted to share with the corporate leaders who are likely to confront the risk of an activist campaign. The team was polite and respectful.

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An Early Warning System for Your Team’s Stress Level

Harvard Business Review

But with intense media and regulatory focus on oil prices adding complexity to a current restructuring in the organization, Michel was now facing an internal crisis that he had not foreseen. Building on the effectiveness of this type of quick assessment, we developed the Stress-APGAR barometer. The tipping point of distress.

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Free Tech Tools for the Digital Economy

Strategy Driven

More applicably, using these technologies will develop one’s technological skills, methodological knowledge, and subject matter experience, which is an asset to one’s career. One challenge technical communicators face is communicating with developers and engineers about software or hardware updates or changes.

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Good News, Bad News: An HBR Management Puzzle on Innovation Execution

Harvard Business Review

The following highly condensed fictional case study draws on their paper “Anatomy of a Decision Trap in Complex New Product Development Projects” in Academy of Management Journal. Commentaries by project manager Roger Thomas and researcher Kim van Oorschot provide frameworks for understanding the team’s decisions.