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The Make-Versus-Buy Decision: Deciding Whether to Hire Internally or From the Outside
Cappelli, PeterBook Chapter HBS-7578BC-ELeadership and People ManagementIn terms of hiring, employers have a choice, but it is a mistake to think that the choice is "make versus buy" - either developing your talent internally or hiring it from the outside. Instead, they should do some of both. Choosing the mix is crucial to meeting talent management challenges, especially the fundamental tasks of managing uncertainty. This chapter is excerpted from "Talent on Demand: Managing Talent in an Age of Uncertainty."Starting at €8.20
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The Rise of Talent Management
Cappelli, PeterBook Chapter HBS-7579BC-ELeadership and People ManagementTo get a clear sense of contemporary talent management challenges and ways to handle them, it helps to take a long-term view. Most current practices were well established by the 1950s, a time period that has little in common with the present business environment. This chapter traces the early evolution of talent management from the 1880s to the 1950s, using the case of GE as an example. This chapter is excerpted from "Talent on Demand: Managing ...Starting at €8.20
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Promises and Challenges of the Talent on Demand Model: Creating a New Paradigm
Cappelli, PeterBook Chapter HBS-7573BC-ELeadership and People ManagementThe old paradigm of talent management has no place in the contemporary business environment, and so we must find a new one. We can start by recognizing that even the best forecasts are inaccurate over the long term. Other steps involve assessing outside hiring possibilities and dangers, changing how we think about developing talent internally, and finding new approaches to matching candidates with jobs. This chapter is excerpted from "Talent on ...Starting at €8.20
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The Return on Talent Management Investments: How to Maximize the Value of Internal Development
Cappelli, PeterBook Chapter HBS-7575BC-ELeadership and People ManagementIf you can find different and better ways to recoup your investments in development, you can dramatically improve your talent management options as well as expand your investments in employees. There are several ways to lower the cost of development: using opportunities outside the organization, getting employees to share the cost, and training before hiring, among others. This chapter is excerpted from "Talent on Demand: Managing Talent in an A...Starting at €8.20
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The Problem of Uncertainty in Talent Demand: Focusing on Internal Development
Cappelli, PeterBook Chapter HBS-7576BC-ELeadership and People ManagementWhen you recognize that talent management is a business problem, it makes sense to apply what you know about structuring challenges in ways that are most cost effective. This chapter explains how to structure internal development to reduce uncertainty and lower costs by using techniques from operations research. These techniques include shortening the forecasting cycle, relying on the principle of portfolios to reduce variability, and reorganizin...Starting at €8.20
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Time to Rethink Capitalism (Spanish version)
Yaziji, MichaelArticle HBS-F0811BLeadership and People ManagementThe shareholders, who provide capital, have the most at stake in a company and the biggest incentive to ensure its success - so they should call the shots and reap the biggest returns, right? Wrong, says a professor at IMD. He argues that in today's firms, labor bears the most risk and provides the competitive advantage. Labor, therefore, should make the decisions and get the residuals.Starting at €8.20
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Time to Rethink Capitalism
Yaziji, MichaelArticle HBS-F0811B-ELeadership and People ManagementThe shareholders, who provide capital, have the most at stake in a company and the biggest incentive to ensure its success - so they should call the shots and reap the biggest returns, right? Wrong, says a professor at IMD. He argues that in today's firms, labor bears the most risk and provides the competitive advantage. Labor, therefore, should make the decisions and get the residuals.Starting at €8.20
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A Hard Look at the Options Ahead: The Reality of the Changing Workplace-What's in Store for Generation X
Erickson, TamaraBook Chapter HBS-5675BC-EThe nature and availability of work is changing in important ways, ways that will significantly affect the opportunities open to Generation X over the next several decades. And most of the news is good. Despite near-term job shortages, the longer-term outlook for work is promising. The trend is toward tighter labor markets, providing you greater leverage to find the work you want. Better still, the nature of work, spurred by continuous changes in...Starting at €8.20
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BYD Company, Ltd., Teaching Note
Huckman, Robert S.Teaching Note HBS-610073-EService and Operations ManagementTeaching Note for [606139].Starting at €0.00
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Varieties of Capitalism, Module Note for Instructors
Trumbull, GunnarTeaching Note HBS-711096-EEconomicsThis module, part of the second year HBS course MITI, introduces a political economy approach to analyzing national economic strategies, with a primary focus on German economic policy.Starting at €0.00