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- 18 Aug 2022
- Op-Ed
Your Best Employees Are Burning Out: A Framework for Retaining Talent
bought and sold on Amazon. It does not come attached to a well-crafted email, nor does it come merely with a reactionary bonus, especially at a time when pay disparities, burnout, and employee retention are top of mind. Trust is earned...
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by Hise Gibson and MaShon Wilson
- Web
Topics - HBS Working Knowledge
(58) Research (101) Resignation and Termination (10) Resource Allocation (11) Restructuring (2) Retention (19) Retirement (5) Revenue (1) Rights (1) Risk Management (29) Risk and Uncertainty (34) SWOT Analysis (5) Safety (12) Salesforce...
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Healthy Outcomes - Managing the Future of Work
outcomes such as higher retention and better engagement. Read the Report Featured Videos Joseph Fuller Why Employers Should Care About the Care Economy Why Employers Should Care About the Care Economy Joseph Fuller Joseph Fuller Measuring...
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What Can You Do to Foster Gender Equity?
“masculine norm” of leadership. While organizations may start out hiring a good number of women, it's not hard to see why these experiences lead to retention problems—and a significant loss of talent for the organization. Finding and...
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The Caring Company
benefits for employees are more likely to see better outcomes such as higher retention and better engagement. Read the report Media Coverage The Care EconomyJoseph Fuller & Kayla Lebovits 26 Aug 2020 | Behind Bundle Podcast How companies...
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- 16 Oct 2023
- HBS Case
Advancing Black Talent: From the Flight Ramp to 'Family-Sustaining' Careers at Delta
on employee engagement data, Bastian could see that while talent retention was high at Delta, too many frontline employees felt stuck and unable to gain opportunities to advance professionally at Delta. Despite their best efforts to...
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- 10 May 2021
- Research & Ideas
Who Has Potential? For Many White Men, It’s Often Other White Men
opportunities to learn how the organization could do its core work better. Monitor and recalibrate their development efforts. Businesses track indicators of whether people are thriving—like promotion and retention rates and employees’...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Profit Power of Corporate Culture
which are the foundations for the successful implementation of whatever policies and practices are necessary to execute a given strategy; policies and practices that lead to a learning, innovative organization; measurement of the results in terms of things such as...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jun 2022
- Research & Ideas
In a Work-from-Anywhere World, How Remote Will Workers Go?
The American workforce has always migrated, moving wherever the jobs took them—traditionally, away from small towns and toward big cities. Now, as an increasing number of workplaces embrace remote work and allow people the flexibility to live where they choose, the...
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by Kara Baskin
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Pet Project
Spies says. The team has spent years optimizing the business for best-in-class DTC subscription metrics. The company enjoys retention rates of 95 percent or more, where competitors sit at the 50 to 60 percent mark. But in order to grow...
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HBR Classics - Alumni
or Competing Agendas, Stephen A. Miles, Michael D. Watkins Picking the Right Transition Strategy, Michael D. Watkins Seven Transformations of Personal Leadership, David Rooke, William R. Torbet Work Life Balance Embracing the Whole Individual Five Ways to Boost View Details
- 18 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Bias Creeps into AI, Managers Can Stop It by Asking the Right Questions
Startup Marketplace for Used Furniture The Twofold Effect of Customer Retention in Freemium Settings Beyond Pajamas: Sizing Up the Pandemic Shopper Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu. Image:...
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by Rachel Layne
- July 2002 (Revised October 2002)
- Case
Cirque du Soleil
By: Thomas J. DeLong and Vineeta Vijayaraghavan
Retaining talent is an issue for any company whose success relies on the creativity and excellence of its employees. This is especially true for Cirque du Soleil, the spectacularly successful "circus without animals," whose 2,100 employees include 500 artists--mimes,...
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Retention;
Employee Relationship Management;
Business Strategy;
Talent and Talent Management;
Organizational Culture;
Entertainment and Recreation Industry
DeLong, Thomas J., and Vineeta Vijayaraghavan. "Cirque du Soleil." Harvard Business School Case 403-006, July 2002. (Revised October 2002.)
- 28 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
Can Apprenticeships Work in the US? Employers Seeking New Talent Pipelines Take Note
likely to quit in the first year of the program. Black students were also more likely to drop out than white students. Some of the disparity may have to do with Black students being less likely to apply for apprenticeships in fields like Advanced Manufacturing and IT,...
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by Michael Blanding
- January–February 2023
- Article
Rethink Your Employee Value Proposition: Offer Your People More Than Just Flexibility
By: Mark Mortensen and Amy C. Edmondson
A lot of leaders believe that the formula for attracting and keeping talent is simple: Just ask people what they want and give it to them. The problem is, that approach tends to address only the material aspects of jobs that are top of employees’ minds at the moment,...
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Compensation and Benefits;
Retention;
Recruitment;
Mission and Purpose;
Organizational Culture;
Satisfaction
Mortensen, Mark, and Amy C. Edmondson. "Rethink Your Employee Value Proposition: Offer Your People More Than Just Flexibility." Harvard Business Review 101, no. 1 (January–February 2023): 45–49.
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The Disruptive Voice - Forum for Growth & Innovation
struck up through the HBS alumni network. In a business that is entirely dependent on human capital, lowering search costs and improving employee retention are critical differentiators. For all of you seeking to improve your performance...
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- June 2012 (Revised May 2013)
- Case
A.P. Møller - Maersk Group: Evaluating Strategic Talent Management Initiatives
By: Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
In 2012, Bill Allen and Maria Pejter, of Maersk Group's Human Resources Department, sat down to consider some key aspects of Maersk's talent management strategy. Headquartered in Copenhagen, Maersk was a global conglomerate with large shipping and oil & gas businesses....
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Organizational Development;
Human Resource Management;
Talent Management;
Organizational Change And Transformation;
Corporate Culture;
Hiring;
Employee Training;
Strategy;
Selection and Staffing;
Talent and Talent Management;
Training;
Retention;
Diversity;
Denmark
Groysberg, Boris, and Sarah Abbott. "A.P. Møller - Maersk Group: Evaluating Strategic Talent Management Initiatives." Harvard Business School Case 412-147, June 2012. (Revised May 2013.)
- 25 May 2011
- HBS Case
QuikTrip’s Investment in Retail Employees Pays Off
It's a much believed assumption in the retail world: If you're going to compete on the basis of low cost, then you can't afford to invest in your employees. Extensive training—who has the time to give? Regularly scheduled hours?—way too inflexible. Benefits?—forget it!...
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- 17 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
Why Business Should Support Employees Who Are Caregivers
Companies face a growing yet largely undetected threat to their worker productivity, employee retention and, ultimately, competitive advantage: the needs of employees who are caregivers. The aging population, an increasingly female...
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Creating Wealth at Work: Why Broad-Based Employee Ownership is Getting Attention - Blog - Business in Global Society
system. “It is not only good for society - it is also good for business,” Rouen told The BiGS Fix. “The reason is that when you have more engaged workforces, you see lower turnover, higher retention rates, greater productivity and lower...
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