2013
-
How WordPress Thrives with a 100% Remote Workforce
April 26 | Scott Berkun, Author, Making Things Happen | Comments (1)WordPress.com is the 15th most trafficked website in the world. It is run by Automattic Inc, a company that is 100% distributed. That means everyone works from home, or more precisely, from wherever in the world they wish.
-
Sheryl Sandberg: The HBR Interview
April 26 | HBR IDEACAST | Comments (0)An interview with Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook COO and author of Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead. For more, see the April issue of HBR.
-
Breakthroughs in Inclusive Succession Planning
April 15 | Rebekah Steele, Senior Fellow, Human Capital, The Conference Board | Comments (0)Questions that reshape perspectives can fix talent management systems in ways that naturally enable broader diversity in leadership.
-
Company Wellness Programs Don't Really Save Money
April 08 | Al Lewis, President, Disease Management Purchasing Consortium International | Comments (0)If you run a large organization or its human resources department, you are probably starting to wonder if your financial commitment to wellness programs makes sense. Your consultants and vendors assure you that they save lots of money.
-
I'm Afraid Bankers Really Do Earn Their Bonuses
April 05 | Dr. Anthony Hesketh, Senior Lecturer, Lancaster University's Management School | Comments (0)The debate over the pay of top bankers is highly charged. One person's reward for generating significant revenues is another's blank check for doing little else than gambling with a client's life savings.
-
Inside Facebook's Internal Innovation Culture
April 05 | Reena Jana, Freelance Journalist | Comments (0)Business news headlines featuring social-networking giant Facebook change almost as often and as dramatically as a teenager updates her Facebook status online.
-
How General Mills Uses Food Technology to Make an Impact in Africa
April 05 | Kendall Powell, Chairman and CEO, General Mills | Comments (0)If you knew how to help feed the hungry — would you? Most of us would, but often we just don't know how. So, it was difficult at first to see how General Mills, half a world away in North America, could play a meaningful role in addressing hunger in Africa.
-
CMOs, Build a Relationship with Your CFOs
April 05 | Kimberly A. Whitler, Professor, Indiana University | Gene Morphis, Investor, Consumer-Oriented Technology Businesses | Comments (0)CMOs and CFOs don't always see eye-to-eye. However, in the best run companies, the relationship between CMOs and CFOs has changed radically and for the better.
-
From BP to Boeing, Supplier Safety Is the CEO's Problem
April 04 | Ben Heineman, Jr., Senior Fellow, Harvard's Law and Kennedy Schools | Comments (0)Business leaders must establish robust processes not just for qualifying third party vendors, but for making sure that there is integration of those suppliers in a strong safety culture with close company oversight of safety management and processes. This fundamental lesson may be lost on business leaders amidst the high profile excavation of past supplier controversies currently besetting BP and Boeing.