Human Capital Briefs
2014
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The Scaling Lesson from Facebook’s Miraculous 10-Year Rise
March 26 | Robert Sutton, Professor, Stanford Engineering School | Comments (0)Today is Facebook’s 10th anniversary. On February 4th, 2004, Harvard undergraduate Mark Zuckerberg launched “Thefacebook.” A story in the Harvard Crimson a few days later was headlined “Hundreds Register for the New Facebook Website.”
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CMOs and CIOs Need to Get Along to Make Big Data Work
March 25 | Matt Ariker, Chief Operating Officer, McKinsey's Consumer Marketing Analytics Center | Jesko Perrey, Director, McKinsey & Company | Comments (0)A global telecoms company recently decided to do what many companies are doing: figure out how to turn big data into big profits. They put together a preliminary budget and an RFP that asked vendors to take the data the company had and identify opportunities.
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CEOs Should Imagine They’re at Davos Every Day
March 25 | Justin Blake, Leader, Global Executive Positioning Team, Edelman | Tim Weber, Senior Vice President, Edelman London | Comments (0)Trust in companies — which collapsed during the financial crisis — has improved in most countries, but according to our Edelman Trust Barometer, this recovery of confidence has stalled. CEOs are trusted by a mere 43% of the survey’s respondents; only government officials fared worse (36%).
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Jamie Dimon’s Pay Raise Sends Mixed Signals on Culture and Accountability
March 25 | Ben Heineman, Jr., Senior Fellow, Harvard's Law and Kennedy Schools | Comments (0)The JP Morgan Chase board of directors has vexed the world with its terse announcement in a recent 8-K filing that CEO Jamie Dimon would receive a big pay raise — $20 million in total pay for 2013, up from $11.5 million for 2012, a 74 percent increase.
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The Social Disparity Behind America’s Growing Obesity Gap
March 20 | Kaisa Snellman, Assistant Professor, INSEAD | Comments (0)America is bursting at the seams. Two-thirds of adults and more than one third of kids and teenagers are overweight or obese. For children, obesity has more than doubled in the past thirty years, making it one of the biggest public health concerns in the United States.
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Why I Hired an Executive with a Mental Illness
March 18 | Rob Lachenauer, CEO and a Co-Founder, Banyan Family Business Advisors | Comments (0)A few years ago, I was interviewing a candidate for a substantial position in our firm. Although the candidate and I had exchanged a number of emails, this was our first meeting. Something unexpected happened: She looked me in the eye and said that she struggled with “mental illness.”
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The Great Leap Generation F Needs to Make
March 17 | Umair Haque, Director, Havas Media Labs | Comments (0)Imagine a towering, sheer cliff. Imagine a deep canyon below, full of ruined cities. Now imagine, on the canyon’s other side, a bountiful plain, rippling in the breeze, stretching into the sunset. Welcome to the economy of the twenty-first century.
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Lessons in Power from the Chris Christie Kerfuffle
March 12 | Jeffrey Pfeffer, Thomas D. Dee II Professor of Organizational Behavior, Stanford University | Comments (0)There are numerous lessons from the Chris Christie “bridgegate” scandal for people in high-profile leadership roles. Here are a few. First, power comes with a) visibility and b) envy. If you are working at a minimum wage job, few people are going to want to trade places with you.
