Harvard Business

MAY 23, 2017

Upon graduation, he was proudly commissioned an Army officer and selected as a Rhodes Scholar to study at Oxford, where he pursued a master’s degree in international relations. We learned that we would need to change the way we used analytics and data and the way we managed our personnel processes. Attracting Talent.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 6, 2017

Only a small minority indicated that they consistently create all-star teams , comprised of their very best talent, to tackle their company’s highest-priority issues. Here’s what our research shows: The best talent is significantly more productive than the rest. But with star talent, this relationship is more extreme.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

For example, talented people are often excluded from leadership positions if they belong to the group that faces discrimination. corporations (including Amazon , Nike , and MasterCard ) that increasing discrimination will leave them unable to recruit, retain, and develop talent.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 29, 2016

When you’re managing managers, your responsibilities are two-fold: you need to make sure they’re producing good work (as with any employee) and that they’re effectively supporting their teams. Here’s how you can fill in the gap and help your direct reports be great managers. What the Experts Say.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 11, 2024

For instance, a study by the American Psychological Association found that companies with high levels of employee well-being experience higher customer loyalty, profitability, productivity, and staff retention. According to a Gallup study , companies with high employee engagement see a 23% increase in profitability.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 31, 2018

A recent study of VC firms found that more-diverse teams had higher financial returns than their homogenous counterparts. How did (or didn’t) managers play a role? To look into this question, I conducted a case study as part of my dissertation research involving 23 women of color at a Fortune 500 company.

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Harvard Business

JULY 4, 2018

The recruitment, interviewing, hiring, and on-boarding of even one new employee is a time-intensive process every manager takes seriously. Becoming a Manager. 5 Things New Managers Should Focus on First. New Managers Need a Philosophy About How They’ll Lead. New Managers Don’t Have to Have All the Answers.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

A new study analyzed turnover data for over 11,000 managers to explore the relationship between promotions, resignations, and employee loyalty.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 29, 2016

Most large organizations today are looking for leaders who can easily and effectively move between countries and cultures, taking on expat assignments, understanding disparate markets, and managing diverse teams. Where can they find such talent? Managing Across Cultures. You and Your Team Series. Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic.

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Harvard Business

JULY 14, 2023

If you want to compete for talent, and create truly appealing environments in your team and organization, where people thrive and excel, you must help them rediscover the human (and humane) qualities that make work more than just work. Simply put: bosses play a key role impacting the well-being and success of teams.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 27, 2016

A study published in 2011 examined CEOs in the top-100 best hospitals in USNWR in three key medical specialties: cancer, digestive disorders, and cardiovascular care. A simple question was asked: are hospitals ranked more highly when they are led by medically trained doctors or non-MD professional managers?

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

As a VP of sales and marketing for Becker-Birnbaum International, a global consumer products company, Aliyah knew she needed a talented marketing director to support her division’s portfolio of 34 products. I don’t want to give the impression that we’re 100% confident.” ” Christine looked annoyed.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Many people believe that being a good manager only requires common sense, and that it is therefore easy to be one. If this were true, good managers would be commonplace at all levels of more organizations, and as a result, employee engagement and retention would be high. In turn, they become lazy managers. Whitney Johnson.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 28, 2018

We conducted a study specifically focusing on whether the cultural values that CEOs inherit from their parents and grandparents affect their decision-making and their firms’ performance. We sought to fill this gap. Our sample consisted of 610 U.S. bank CEOs who were born in the U.S., those whose grandparents were immigrants to the U.S.,

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Harvard Business

APRIL 8, 2019

Two studies reveal two reasons.

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Epicflow

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Being a successful project manager is not just about creating good plans and schedules and telling the team members what they should work on. What else should a project manager know to succeed in their duties and guide projects to their successful completion? The first one is the PMI Talent Triangle. See the coherent picture.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Women are underrepresented in the C-suite , receive lower salaries , and are less likely to receive a critical first promotion to manager than men. We found that the amount of direct interaction with management was identical between genders and that women were just as central as men in the workplace’s social network.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 9, 2024

A study of 146 companies that conducted layoffs showed that it often takes years — not months — for engagement, morale, and loyalty to rebound.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

A 2023 case study of the airline’s talent strategy.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 10, 2017

“The thing I always keep in mind,” she told me with obvious pride, explaining her approach to management as we walked through a bustling open office, “is that these people are the best talent in the business. They could be working elsewhere, if they so chose. And I am sure that many will, eventually.”

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

When a mistake has been made, consultants will often speak to their managers or other members of the team to identify where they may have made a mistake and ask for assistance on how to fix it. Thanduxolo Love Mtsweni is a Management Consultant Analyst at Accenture in South Africa. Even at partner level, consultants make mistakes.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 18, 2019

Sylvia Ann Hewlett, an economist and the founder of the Center for Talent Innovation, has studied the difference between mentoring and sponsorship and what leaders have to gain from the latter. She’s the author of the book “The Sponsor Effect: How to Be a Better Leader by Investing in Others.”

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Harvard Business

MARCH 5, 2018

In my role as a leadership coach, I consistently hear my clients say that they crave negative feedback from their managers in order to improve in their jobs, grow their careers, and achieve better business results. The same study also showed that managers were reluctant to give negative feedback. You and Your Team Series.

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Rick Conlow

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

Managing your time, leads to managing your life. Real time management is self-management. Talent, information, and desire are not enough to be successful in a career. For example, quickly count the f’s in this sentence: “Finished files are the result of years of scientific study of a few dedicated experts.”.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

companies can’t fill their open positions, according to a McKinsey Global Institute study that found that analytical, engineering, and management roles are the hardest to fill. But making the most of flexible talent-access platforms is not as simple as adding a solution into an existing organization.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 3, 2016

However, LinkedIn’s recent Talent Trends study, conducted between January and March of 2016 with more than 26,000 professionals, showed that 25% of professionals today have their eye on a promotion. Hiring managers don’t feel that internal candidates have the right skills. How talent management is changing.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Gallup has studied thousands of work teams and millions of leaders, managers, and employees for more than five decades. Gallup recently completed a large study of companies that have implemented strengths-based management practices. The study examined the effects those interventions had on workgroup performance.

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Harmonious Workplaces

JUNE 24, 2024

Some may recall that I play a little bit of harmonica as a hobby.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 31, 2016

A new study on Misunderstood Millennial Talent: The Other 91 Percent by the Center for Talent Innovation shatters the stereotype that all Millennials are entitled whiners just waiting to jump ship. ” challenged the global talent head of a multinational consultancy. In short, a human resources nightmare , right?

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Harvard Business

MARCH 12, 2019

Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, a psychologist and chief talent scientist at ManpowerGroup, says we’re not picking leaders in the right way. Studies show that, by many measures, women are actually better equipped to become strong, successful managers.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

” More than forty years later, myriad studies have substantiated the claim that American workers expect something deeper than a paycheck in return for their labors. We set out to answer these questions at BetterUp this past year, as a follow-up to our study on loneliness at work. André Spicer and Carl Cederström.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 17, 2018

We found that a large majority of managers and leaders buckle under pressure. He saw his role as supporting people and developing talent. Our study showed that teams work harder and more effectively if a boss doesn’t lose their temper with them. 45% are more upset and emotional than calm and in control.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 8, 2018

The study examined the management and development preferences of America’s young and rising corporate leaders. When the research showed the growing premium that companies place on high-speed development, we decided to follow up with some of the study’s participants to hear more. American Express.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 6, 2017

What Great Managers Do. Exceptional managers find and capitalize on their employees' unique strengths. Some were employees who moved into a new role but stayed at the same employer — for example, a junior accountant who switched into a job as accounting manager. Related Video. Factors That Drive Turnover. Pay Matters.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 9, 2024

The goal of the study was to measure the level of workplace belonging reported, the top belonging contributors and detractors, and to identify recommendations to increase it. Women of color continue to be underrepresented in the tech industry.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 12, 2024

Check out our selection of events for project/resource managers, business leaders, and industry professionals, which will provide you with valuable insights into recent trends and challenges, networking opportunities, and contribute to your professional development.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 15, 2018

In a tight talent market, it’s tempting for organizations to rely even more heavily on employee referrals to fill open positions, but a new study from PayScale shows that doing so could lead to pay inequities and a less-diverse workforce. Gather data on talent sourcing. Martin Harvey/Getty Images. More than a third of U.S.

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