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Human Capital Briefs
2013
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Bill Ackman Is Just Doing God's Work
September 09 | Justin Fox, Editorial Director , Harvard Business Review Group | Comments (0)Everybody has been piling on to hedge fund manager Bill Ackman lately. I'm not joining in. He's doing God's work. Or at least the market's.
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Can Jeff Bezos and John Henry Teach Old Media New Tricks?
August 30 | Michael Schrage, Research Fellow, MIT School’s Center for Digital Business | Comments (0)Transformationally speaking, technological innovation is easy. Culture change is not. Jeff Bezos knows this. If he wants to kindle his newly-acquired Washington Post into Amazon Prime, he's free to do so.
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The Women Who Become Board Members
August 19 | HBR IDEACAST | Comments (0)An interview with Boris Groysberg and Deborah Bell, authors of the article Dysfunction in the Boardroom.
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Leading in a VUCA Environment: U is for Uncertainty
August 19 | Colonel Eric G. Kail, Active Duty Army Officer | Comments (0)Uncertainty becomes increasingly dangerous when we rush to understand it with an over-reliance on what we've witnessed before. The attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11 are a tragic example of this.
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Leading in a VUCA Environment: V Is for Volatility
August 19 | Colonel Eric G. Kail, Active Duty Army Officer | Comments (0)Do challenges and opportunities that once took days or weeks to fully emerge now smack you in the face before lunch and without much discernible warning? If so, you're not alone.
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Narcissistic CEOs Take Bold Action When There's an Appreciative Audience
August 12 | HBR The Daily Stat | Comments (0)Highly narcissistic CEOs were nearly 3 times more likely than very un-narcissistic leaders to take bold steps to embrace potentially disruptive technologies when media interest in the disruption was high. But when interest was low, the narcissistic CEOs showed no such heightened propensity to act.
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Joining Boards: It's Not Just Who You Know That Matters
August 12 | Boris Groysberg, Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School | Deborah Bell, Researcher of Organizational Behavior | Comments (0)For many, a corporate directorship is a career capstone. But attaining one is far from easy. No one can say for sure how to get on a corporate board, but many people point to two routes: the first is to break into the "right" network and the second is to seek a progression of board seats.
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Who New CEOs Fire First
July 29 | Sarah Green Carmichael, Senior Associate Editor, Harvard Business Review | Comments (0)New research by RHR international shows which executives incoming CEOs are likely to replace, and highlights some differences between first-time CEOs and more seasoned chief executives. I interviewed Dr. David Astorino, Global Practice Leader for Senior Team Effectiveness, about the findings.
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HR Management in the Boardroom and “C” Suite and the Corporate Governance of Large Asian Banks
July 25 | Christopher Bennett, Senior Fellow, Human Capital, The Conference Board | Comments (0)I’ve been waiting for the results from a study that Professor Mak Yuen Teen, Associate Professor at NUS Business School, and I have been undertaking. We thought it would produce some interesting insights to share with the HR profession – and it did!