HR Digest

MAY 4, 2024

This shift highlights the critical role of Human Resource (HR) strategies in managing gig workers effectively, considering their increasing prevalence across industries. Performance-Based Incentives : Develop clear metrics that align gig workers’ tasks with organizational goals, rewarding them based on their performance.

Strategy 52

Strategy Compliance Management Policies 52

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2018

HCCI outsourced back-office operations — human resources, accounting, finance, medical transcription, radiology — to low-cost but high-skilled employees in India. Doctors were full-time employees on fixed salary with no perverse incentives to perform unnecessary tests or procedures.

Health Care 16

Health Care System Innovation Price 16

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

After extensive assessment, they settled on two initiatives: realigning incentives for employees and systematically introducing outside talent and practices. Roivant’s first response was to address misaligned incentives.

Innovation 14

Innovation Company Incentives Industry 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2016

While the production system requires more worker skill and effort, employers have incentives to retain these valuable workers through improved working conditions. We think that the key to these performance improvements is the new role that workers play in lean manufacturing.

Lean Manufacturing 13

Lean Manufacturing Supply Chain Apparel Compliance 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2018

To start, innovation must be recognized as a permanent function of a successful company, just like other business functions such as accounting, operations, sales, and finance. Companies need to institutionalize innovation rather than expect it to simply flow forth from intrapreneurs operating within existing structures.

Incubator 12

Incubator Innovation Strategic Planning Bottom-up 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

My team would have people with deep functional knowledge and skills (strategy, sales, marketing, finance, and information technology) to align surrounding processes.

Six Sigma 15

Six Sigma Skills Team Compliance 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

The CEO’s principal aim therefore is not necessarily to judiciously allocate financial capital but to allocate precious scientific and human resources to the most promising projects and to pull back and redeploy those resources in a timely manner when the prospects of specific projects dim.

Report 11

Report GAAP Net Present Value CFO 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2016

Business school faculty often bemoan how their students place too much importance on economics and finance courses and not enough on more humanistic ones, such as human-resource management. The introductory course on human-resource management was the ideal quasi-experimental setting to test the efficacy of small rewards.

Motivation 8

Motivation Human Resources Education Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

The CMO also worked with the finance office and product managers to link pricing and benchmark data into the RFP process, which improved quality and response times. To affect changes in culture, some CMOs are partnering more closely with human resources. So the HR director has to be my best friend.”.

P&L 14

P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2017

Scholars from a number of fields have offered explanations for this transition, including globalization, technological change, declining unionization, heightened product market competition, and the rise of finance. What if we changed some of those incentives? Presently, many U.S.

Marketing 8

Marketing Short-term Incentives Long-term 8

Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

Finally, after tough negotiations with Republican leaders, the President announced a comprehensive tax package that not only addressed income, capital gains and estate tax rates, but also the AMT, unemployment insurance and many expiring individual and business tax credits and incentives. What’s in the Tax Bill?

Press Release 178

Press Release Discount Insurance PR 178

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2017

The genetic testing in question would be financed as an administrative cost, rather than as a regular medical claim, and would be for the benefit of the employer, not to inform the confidential doctor-patient relationship. The chair of the Health Project , an industry-financed group that evaluates wellness programs and annually bestows the C.

Insurance 13

Insurance Committee Power Cost 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

DuPont sent Donaldson Brown, a promising engineer-turned-finance staffer, to Detroit to sort things out, and sort them out he did. And in terms of its effects on managerial decision-making, the new system should create feedback and incentives that nudge managers toward innovating for tomorrow's world, not optimizing for today's.

ROE 15

ROE Debt to Equity Ratio Innovation Incentives 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

Successfully implementing such a capability could dramatically affect headcount in human resources functions, but also in other functions, such as sales. Examples of this phenomenon have emerged already: The world’s largest hedge fund is developing a capability for an algorithm to make hiring and firing decisions.

Skills 8

Skills Engineering Telecommunications Incentives 8