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Harvard Business School Can Online Tools Help Employees Build Resilience?Harvard Business Review - Allison Williams and Acacia Parks and Ashley WhillansApril 24, 2019 Resilience, the ability to adapt and recover from personal and professional setbacks, is increasingly recognized as a key driver of job performance. For those who lack resilience, a bad
Business How to Show You’re Passionate in a Job InterviewHarvard Business Review - Sabina NawazDemonstrating passion is not the only predictor of a great job candidate, however hiring managers repeatedly reference this trait in their interview feedback — so you need to figure out how to convey matters
Business Ending Harassment at Work Requires an Intersectional ApproachHarvard Business Review - Pooja Jain-Link and Trudy Bourgeois and Julia Taylor KennedyIf your company approaches the problem of sexual misconduct with one-size-fits-all solutions, chances are high you aren’t protecting some of the most vulnerable members of your workforce. The experiences
Business What Managers Get Wrong About FeedbackHarvard Business ReviewMarcus Buckingham, head of people and performance research at the ADP Research Institute, and Ashley Goodall, senior vice president of leadership and team intelligence at Cisco Systems, say that managers
Business Avoiding Disruption Requires Rapid Decision MakingHarvard Business Review - George Stalk, Jr. and Sam StewartTo thwart possible disruption, pundits give legacy companies such advice as “disrupt yourself before you get disrupted” or “put frontline employees in charge of strategy and execution.” This counsel is
Business What Process Mining Is, and Why Companies Should Do ItHarvard Business Review - Thomas H. Davenport and Andrew SpanyiThere have long been a few fundamental challenges associated with business process management. But a relatively new and innovative technology, process mining, has the capability to revitalize process in
Business Step into the SpotlightHarvard Business ReviewFrom the Women at Work podcast: Listen and subscribe to this podcast via Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | RSS There are lots of ways to get visibility at work: give a presentation, speak up in a meeting,
Africa The Rapid Growth of Digital Business in AfricaHarvard Business Review - Acha Leke and Tawanda SibandaJumia’s successful NYSE listing is a timely reminder of Africa’s rapid digitization — a trend that has been hidden from the view of many global investors and executives. Africa already has 122 million
Business How Third-Party Information Can Enhance Data Analytics - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM DELOITTEHarvard Business ReviewIf companies want to avoid flying blind, they have to master data analytics, and increasingly, this requires tapping into data from outside an organization’s four walls. Growing numbers of companies are
Business Does Crowdsourcing Need a Cash Prize to Work?Harvard Business Review - Oguz A. Acar and Dirk DeichmannThe results of an experiment suggest that when crowdsourcing ideas, if you are looking for a larger selection of ideas to choose from, put up a big prize. On the other hand, if you don’t mind a smaller
Business Want Fewer Employees to Quit? Listen to ThemHarvard Business Review - Achyuta Adhvaryu and Teresa Molina and Anant NyshadhamMost of us, at some time in our lives, have had jobs in which we felt unfulfilled, mistreated, or without purpose. But what, if anything, can firms do to address workers’ dissatisfaction and prevent turnover?
Business 5 Myths About StrategyHarvard Business Review - Stephen BungayIn common with many professions and disciplines, strategy has its myths – half truths and half understood assumptions that eventually lead to mistakes and even disasters. In this article, strategy expert
Business Using AI to Make Knowledge Workers More EffectiveHarvard Business Review - Paul R. Daugherty and H. James WilsonNew AI capabilities that can recognize context, concepts, and meaning are opening up surprising new pathways for collaboration between knowledge workers and machines. As knowledge workers embark on the
Sustainability How Board Members Really Feel About ESG, from Deniers to True BelieversHarvard Business Review - N. Craig Smith and Ron Soonieus“Get the board of directors on board” is increasingly recognized as key to driving sustainable business practices in companies. But there is a substantial gap between aspirations and the capacity of their
Business Should You Accept Your Boss's Counteroffer To Stay At The Organization?Harvard Business ReviewShould you accept your boss’s counteroffer to stay at the organization? In this episode of HBR’s advice podcast, Dear HBR:, cohosts Alison Beard and Dan McGinn answer your questions with the help of Leigh
Podcasting Exponential ViewHarvard Business ReviewOn the Exponential View podcast, host Azeem Azhar looks at the biggest technology issues facing society today — and in the future. In this episode he speaks to an expert who argues that we need stronger
Business Raising Wages Is the Right Thing to Do, and Doesn’t Have to Be Bad for Your Bottom LineHarvard Business Review - Zeynep TonThe “working poor” are a growing problem in America — one that is increasingly embarrassing to the corporate elite. Business leaders who are morally inclined to do the right thing should and can play stronger
Business Is HR the Most Analytics-Driven Function?Harvard Business Review - Thomas H. DavenportHuman resources has always had plenty of analytics potential, but new data suggests it has evolved into an analytics leader — even ahead of analytics-heavy disciplines like finance. 51% of HR respondents
Business 4 Questions Retailers Need to Ask About Augmented RealityHarvard Business Review - Darrell K. Rigby and Mikey Vu and Asit GoelWhether they are shopping for spectacles or a sofa, consumers have no shortage of augmented reality apps to assist them these days. Following the viral success of Pokémon Go in 2016, hordes of retailers
Self-improvement What Makes People Upgrade Products? Thinking About Self-ImprovementHarvard Business Review - Sokiente W. Dagogo-Jack and Mark R. ForehandFrom upgrading mobile phones to trading in cars, consumers often face the decision of whether to buy new versions of products they already own. As marketers know, product improvement is a key driver of
Business One Way to Reduce Gender Bias in Performance ReviewsHarvard Business Review - Lauren Rivera and András TilcsikLove them or hate them, performance evaluations are staples of the modern workplace. But research shows that quantitative performance ratings are far from objective; while they may make the task of comparing
WeWork How Coworking Spaces Affect Employees’ Professional IdentitiesHarvard Business Review - Peter Bacevice and Gretchen Spreitzer and Hilary Hendricks and Daniel DavisCompanies invest valuable resources nurturing connectivity among employees and developing work cultures. But, in a coworking space that houses multiple organizations, there are several messages, norms,
Airbnb Research: When Airbnb Listings in a City Increase, So Do Rent PricesHarvard Business Review - Kyle Barron and Edward Kung and Davide ProserpioApril 17, 2019 Airbnb has listings for millions of properties around the world, but what does its popularity mean for the cities it operates in? According to a new study, it leads to an increase in rents.
Pixar How Ed Catmull Spent His Last Day as Head of PixarHarvard Business Review - Hal GregersenEarlier this spring I had the chance to witness two of the “farewell talks” that Ed Catmull gave to the people of Pixar. Catmull, the company’s cofounder and long-time leader (and also president of Disney
Business Big Tech vs. the EU, and Why Is College So Expensive?Harvard Business ReviewListen and subscribe to this podcast via Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | RSS Youngme Moon, Felix Oberholzer-Gee, and Mihir Desai debate the effectiveness of the European Union’s attempts to regulate
Business Creating the Data EconomyHarvard Business ReviewListen and subscribe to this podcast via Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | RSS Our society has become increasingly reliant on data, but its value is not accessible to all. Of the 16 billion terabytes
Business Great Leaders Are Thoughtful and Deliberate, Not Impulsive and ReactiveHarvard Business Review - Tony Schwartz and Emily PinesYou set aside the first hour of your day to work on a strategy document that you’ve been putting off for a week. You haven’t been disciplined about getting to it, but you’ve had one crisis after another
