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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
organization. As you built up Veeva, what has been your approach to full-time versus part-time versus contract? And how does that staffing strategy link into the remote capabilities?Wallach: So in terms of strategy, our overall goal was...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
about the leadership skill set that’s part of SkillUp. Both maybe describe where it is, where it’s trying to go to. How have you worked in the staffing on the leadership side? Lee: I think you have to hire the right people around you. I...
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- September 2014 (Revised February 2017)
- Case
Belk: Towards Exceptional Scheduling
By: Ethan Bernstein, Saravanan Kesavan, Bradley Staats and Luke Hassall
With 24,000 staff and over 300 stores, Belk Inc. sought to replace its entirely manual labor scheduling system with an automated software solution from Reflexis. Belk hoped the upgrade would simplify scheduling, reduce time employees spent in non-customer-facing roles,...
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Keywords:
Retail;
Scheduling;
Local Autonomy;
Automation;
Metrics;
Organizational Change;
Human Resource Management;
Process Improvement;
Performance Measurement;
Transparency;
Southern United States;
Retailing;
Department Stores;
System Outsourced Services;
Employee Relationship Management;
Selection and Staffing;
Change Management;
Governance Controls;
Resource Allocation;
Service Operations;
Organizational Culture;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Performance Evaluation;
Performance Improvement;
Applications and Software;
Family Business;
Retail Industry;
Technology Industry;
United States
Bernstein, Ethan, Saravanan Kesavan, Bradley Staats, and Luke Hassall. "Belk: Towards Exceptional Scheduling." Harvard Business School Case 415-023, September 2014. (Revised February 2017.)
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
Managing the Future of Work How Catalant helps align workforce and work Large firms aiming to innovate or achieve a degree of agility increasingly look for outside help. Catalant has placed itself at the crux of this dynamic by offering a project management software...
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- August 2021
- Case
Zoom Video Communications: Building a Culture of Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion During COVID-19
By: Karen G. Mills, Scott Duke Kominers, Christopher Stanton, Andy Wu, George Gonzalez and Gabriella Elanbeck
Keywords:
Diversity Management;
Diversity Training;
Cultural Change;
Cultural Diversity;
Inclusion;
Inclusive Growth;
Inclusive Hiring;
Hiring;
Hiring Of Employees;
Recruiting;
Performance Management;
Change Leadership;
Race And Ethnicity;
Racial Bias;
Racial Disparity;
Racial Injustice;
Racial Tensions;
Racism;
Organization;
Organization Process;
Organization Structure;
Structural/institutional Racism;
Leadership And Change Management;
Leadership And Managing People;
Leading;
Gender Bias;
Discrimination;
Inequalities;
Inequality;
Social Change;
Employee Attitude Development And Empowerment;
Employee Bonding;
Employee Empowerment;
Employee Engagement;
Employee Fairness;
Employee Morale;
Employee Performance Management;
Employee Relations;
Company Culture;
Company Values;
Values;
COVID-19 Pandemic;
Demographics;
Diversity;
Age;
Ethnicity;
Gender;
Business Processes;
Change Management;
Change;
Race;
Human Capital;
Human Resources;
Compensation and Benefits;
Employees;
Employee Relationship Management;
Recruitment;
Retention;
Selection and Staffing;
Jobs and Positions;
Job Interviews;
Leadership;
Leading Change;
Management;
Management Teams;
Business or Company Management;
Crisis Management;
Goals and Objectives;
Growth and Development;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Growth Management;
Management Style;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Organizational Culture;
Organizational Design;
Organizational Structure;
Organizations;
Mission and Purpose;
Culture;
Happiness;
Prejudice and Bias;
Satisfaction;
Equity;
Identity;
Leadership Style;
Values and Beliefs;
Technology Industry;
United States
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
children’s mental health ser-vices. In 2004, Youth Villages sought Bridgespan’s help in developing a strategic growth plan that charted expansion into six states, called for building a business development unit, and introduced new approaches to local View Details
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
ecosystem related to AI in HR. And it’s really a big issue now in the sense, where the EEOC, prior to technology, prior to artificial intelligence, really knows its world very well. So we at the EEOC have jurisdiction over employers, unions, and View Details
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
workers. Moreover, multinational companies pursued faster market growth abroad, often staffing these growth markets with their best and brightest. These trends were the real dark clouds on the horizon, with the immigration system being a...
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by Staff
- October 2016
- Supplement
24 Hour Fitness (B): Ownership Changes, 2005–2016
By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
In 2016, 24 Hour Fitness was the number-two fitness chain in the United States, generating revenues of $1.4 billion from 441 clubs serving 3.8 million members. Based in San Ramon, California, 24 Hour Fitness operated clubs in 13 states. Having grown rapidly to become...
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Keywords:
Advertising;
Advertising Campaigns;
Buildings and Facilities;
Acquisition;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Business Model;
Business Organization;
For-Profit Firms;
Customers;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Customer Satisfaction;
Age;
Training;
Private Equity;
Financing and Loans;
Price;
Profit;
Revenue;
Geographic Location;
Geographic Scope;
Health;
Nutrition;
Business History;
Human Resources;
Employees;
Employee Relationship Management;
Recruitment;
Selection and Staffing;
Journals and Magazines;
Human Capital;
Business or Company Management;
Goals and Objectives;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Management Teams;
Marketing;
Brands and Branding;
Marketing Channels;
Marketing Communications;
Marketing Strategy;
Social Marketing;
Demand and Consumers;
Market Entry and Exit;
Media;
Organizational Design;
Private Ownership;
Problems and Challenges;
Groups and Teams;
Sales;
Salesforce Management;
Situation or Environment;
Welfare or Wellbeing;
Sports;
Strategy;
Business Strategy;
Competition;
Competitive Strategy;
Competitive Advantage;
Corporate Strategy;
Expansion;
Segmentation;
Information Technology;
Internet;
Mobile Technology;
Online Technology;
Software;
Web Sites;
Value;
Valuation;
Health Industry;
Media and Broadcasting Industry;
United States;
California;
San Francisco
Wells, John R., and Gabriel Ellsworth. "24 Hour Fitness (B): Ownership Changes, 2005–2016." Harvard Business School Supplement 717-423, October 2016.
- January 2018
- Case
Kids & Company: Entering the U.S.
By: Boris Groysberg, Matthew G. Preble and Katherine Connolly Baden
In April 2017, Victoria Sopik and Jennifer Nashmi, CEO and CFO (respectively) of Kids & Company, a Canadian childcare provider that they had co-founded in the early 2000s and developed into a nearly 100-unit enterprise, are discussing how the company should proceed...
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Keywords:
Child Care;
Childcare;
Day Care;
Daycare;
Early Childhood Education;
Strategy;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Growth Management;
Business Strategy;
Competitive Strategy;
Competitive Advantage;
Expansion;
Leadership;
Marketing;
Product Marketing;
Brands and Branding;
Service Delivery;
Service Operations;
Product Design;
Product Development;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Selection and Staffing;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Entrepreneurship;
Service Industry;
Education Industry;
United States;
Canada
Groysberg, Boris, Matthew G. Preble, and Katherine Connolly Baden. "Kids & Company: Entering the U.S." Harvard Business School Case 418-011, January 2018.
- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
consulting, technology, and outsourcing company. This case describes the human resources and related activities necessary to deliver services to its clients. It allows students to explore how Accenture predicts its staffing needs,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
shifting workforce demographics, and changing reimbursement models—threaten to disrupt NWH's organizational model. Similar to other U.S. community hospitals, NWH has historically been staffed primarily with private practitioners; however,...
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Martha Lagace
- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
To highlight the impact of regulatory policy on business strategy, the case then describes a set of choices facing the firm, including staffing a marketing and sales group, carrying out additional clinical testing to expand the approved...
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Martha Lagace
- November 2017
- Teaching Note
Reinventing Best Buy
By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
Teaching Note for HBS No. 716-455.
On March 1, 2017, Best Buy Company, Inc., North America’s largest retailer of consumer electronics and appliances, announced a third year of comparable-store sales increases and a 20.8% increase in domestic comparable online sales....
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Keywords:
Best Buy;
Hubert Joly;
Renew Blue;
Showrooming;
Webrooming;
E-commerce;
E-Commerce Strategy;
Online Retail;
Multichannel Retailing;
Omnichannel;
Marketplaces;
Turnaround;
Consumer Electronics;
Consumer Electronics Accessories;
Appliances;
Stores-within-stores;
Store Experience;
Store Size;
Store Pickup;
Store Management;
Delivery;
Delivery Models;
Amazon;
Amazon.com;
Pricing Strategy;
Business Subsidiaries;
Business Units;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Business Model;
For-Profit Firms;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Customer Satisfaction;
Entertainment;
Film Entertainment;
Games, Gaming, and Gambling;
Music Entertainment;
Television Entertainment;
Theater Entertainment;
Price;
Profit;
Revenue;
Geographic Scope;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Business History;
Cost;
Selection and Staffing;
Reports;
Technological Innovation;
Job Cuts and Outsourcing;
Human Capital;
Leading Change;
Business or Company Management;
Goals and Objectives;
Growth and Development;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Management Teams;
Brands and Branding;
Product Marketing;
Consumer Behavior;
Demand and Consumers;
Media;
Distribution;
Order Taking and Fulfillment;
Distribution Channels;
Infrastructure;
Product;
Service Delivery;
Service Operations;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Public Ownership;
Problems and Challenges;
Programs;
Groups and Teams;
Sales;
Salesforce Management;
Strategy;
Adaptation;
Business Strategy;
Competition;
Competitive Advantage;
Competitive Strategy;
Corporate Strategy;
Expansion;
Technology;
Hardware;
Information Technology;
Internet;
Mobile Technology;
Online Technology;
Search Technology;
Software;
Web;
Web Sites;
Wireless Technology;
Resource Allocation;
Computer Industry;
Electronics Industry;
Entertainment and Recreation Industry;
Information Technology Industry;
Retail Industry;
Service Industry;
Technology Industry;
Telecommunications Industry;
Video Game Industry;
United States;
Minnesota;
Minneapolis;
Saint Paul;
St. Paul