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Strategic Human Resources Briefs
2014
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Mary Barra Brings Teaming to General Motors
March 04 | Amy Edmondson, Professor of Leadership and Management, Harvard Business School | Comments (0)When you find yourself thinking about old-fashioned, out-of-touch, hierarchical, siloed organizations, General Motors quickly comes to mind. Criticism was levied at GM’s cars — described as “cookie-cutter” or worse.
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The Management Style of Robert Gates
February 28 | HBR IDEACAST | Comments (0)The former Secretary of Defense talks with HBR editor-in-chief Adi Ignatius about his new book, Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War.
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Root Out Dysfunction in the Boardroom
February 27 | Ram Charan, D.B.A., Business Author and Advisor | Dennis Carey, Vice Chairman, Korn/Ferry International | Michael Useem, William and Jacalyn Egan Professor of Management, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Comments (0)Not all directors perform equally well once inside. Sometimes a prince in other realms can even turn into a petty gabber, the very opposite of what English novelist George Eliot had championed: “Blessed is the man who having nothing to say abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.”
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Research: We Should Speak Up About Ethical Violations More Often
February 25 | Joseph Grenny, Cofounder, VitalSmarts | Comments (0)Whistle-blowing reveals not just acute misdeeds, but chronic and longstanding patterns of misconduct. For example, Edward Snowden’s bombshell release of more than 200,000 documents revealed questionable government surveillance programs that existed for years.
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Does Taking Paternity Leave Give Men a Longer Life?
February 25 | HBR The Daily Stat | Comments (0)Men who take time off from work to care for their children live longer than other men, sociologist Scott Coltrane writes in The Atlantic. According to a study in Sweden, fathers who took paternity leave in 1978 and 1979 had a 16% decreased death risk by 2001.
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Dennis Kozlowski Was Not a Thief
February 24 | Catherine S. Neal, Associate Professor, Northern Kentucky University | Comments (0)On January 17, Dennis Kozlowski will be released on parole by the State of New York after serving an 8 1/3 year sentence in the state’s tough prison system. Kozlowski is the former CEO of Tyco International.
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Zappos’ CEO on Using Corporate Relocation to Preserve Customer-Led Culture
February 19 | Tony Hsieh, CEO, Zappos.com, Inc. | Comments (0)In the years since Zappos was founded, we’ve had to make some big decisions. One of the most significant came in early 2004 when we decided to relocate from San Francisco to Las Vegas. Our biggest problem then was customer service—specifically, finding the right employees to staff our call center.
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The Three Most Innovative Companies of 2013
February 14 | Scott Anthony, Managing Director, Innosight Asia-Pacific, Innosight | Comments (0)One can naturally debate any system that seeks to crown the world’s most innovative companies. Boston Consulting Group’s list, which relies heavily on surveys asking senior executives to name the companies they perceive to be innovative, risks succumbing to the halo effect.