The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

In total, 989 workplaces were included in both the 2004 and 2011 surveys, allowing the researchers to compare employment relations in these firms alongside their ability to weather what was the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression.

Short-term 116

Short-term Long-term Survey Leadership Styles 116

Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

In 2004, the Harvard Business Review published an article titled, The Risky Business of Hiring Rock Stars. For all the hype that surrounds stars, human resources experts have rarely studied their performance over time. Hiring BaBs isn’t what it’s cracked up to be, anyway. It’s worth reading.

Short-term 57

Short-term Long-term Wiseman System 57

Marshall Goldsmith

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

1 For a study on the effectiveness of this process with internal coaches in GE Financial Services, see “Leveraging HR: How to Develop Leaders in ‘Real Time’, in Human Resources in the 21st Century, M. Goldsmith in strategy+business, Fall 2004. References. Gandossy and M. Goldsmith, eds., Wiley, 2003. Morgan and M.

Learning-by-Doing 123

Learning-by-Doing Long-term CEO Follow-up 123

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

The idea was simple: Combine the best of both companies into the new Yahoo China, which was projected to generate more than $25 million in revenue in 2004. We were optimistic about Yahoo’s future in China as the deal closed in January 2004. Only legal, finance, and human resources still reported back to headquarters.

Chief Financial Officer 14

Chief Financial Officer Learning-by-Doing Operations IPO 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

On February 4th, 2004, Harvard undergraduate Mark Zuckerberg launched “Thefacebook.” Facebook’s focus on spreading the right mindset became clear to us when, in late 2007 and early 2008, researcher and consultant Beth Benjamin and I had a series of conversations with Chris Cox, then Facebook’s 25 year-old head of Human Resources.

Engineering 15

Engineering Class Software Mentor 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Here are four examples: The Bay Area Workforce Funding Collaborative , founded in 2004, unites local governments, community colleges, and businesses in the San Francisco area. The evidence points to the potential for improving disadvantaged workers' career prospects more than traditional offerings from the U.S.

Skills 9

Skills Company Health Care Cooper 9

In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 18, 2015

By 2004, sales and profits were in double digit declines. Thanks to Coke’s global reach, brand power, bottling network, and single-minded focus, I’m betting on Coca-Cola sustaining this competitive advantage. Complexity had brought LEGO to its knees. Something had to be done.

Apparel 100

Apparel Brand Franchising Competitive Advantage 100

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

2 (2004): 349–399. Joel Podolny, former head of Apple’s human resources, calls this tendency of our networks to evolve more slowly than our jobs “ network lag.” Burt, Structural Holes: The Social Structure of Competition (Cam­bridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995); Ronald S.

How To 8

How To Diversity Letter Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

One result is that they keep their cards close to their chests about what they are looking for (at first), while expecting you to reveal everything – your finances, pricing, ownership, human resources, production processes, quality assurance, customer service procedures, KPIs, and existing customers.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Collins Golden Handcuff Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2018

In many ways, the current state of court decisions begins in a familiar place: human resources departments. Later, Brent Nakamura and I coded and analyzed a follow-up representative sample of 164 court decisions at five-year intervals after 1999: 2004, 2009, and 2014. The Birth of Discrimination and Sexual Harassment Policies.

Policies 8

Policies Human Resources Compliance Guidelines 8