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How Private Equity Firms Hire CEOs
Harvard Business ReviewArticle HBS-F1606A-EAlthough a typical public company director might help hire a CEO a few times in a career, PE executives hire multiple CEOs each year. To tap this expertise, Jeffrey Cohn, of the executive search firm DHR International, and J.P. Flaum, of the consulting firm Green Peak Partners, surveyed and interviewed the managing partners of 32 private equity firms about their CEO search process. They drew five conclusions: (1) Experience is overrated; someone ...Starting at €8.20
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How to Keep Complaints from Spreading
Harvard Business ReviewArticle HBS-F2003A-EMarketingPosts containing intense emotions were more likely than others to spread. Strong ties between a post's author and the community drove contagion, as did linguistic similarities. Companies should respond to negative posts, and fast; the worst thing a firm can do is ignore an unhappy customer. Apologies and requests to switch to a private channel lowered virality, as long as they were communicated right away. But offering compensation early on had ...Starting at €8.20
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When Scandal Engulfs a Celebrity Endorser
Harvard Business ReviewArticle HBS-F1903A-EMarketingResearch has shown that firms tend to suffer financially when a celebrity endorser becomes mired in a scandal, but the literature to date has offered little practical guidance. A new study, involving 128 incidents that generated negative publicity, finds that firms taking no action after an event--the path most follow--generally do poorly. Its authors also discovered a surprise: Companies that engage with a situation and handle it well don't just...Starting at €8.20
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Why Soliciting Donations at the Cash Register Can Backfire
Harvard Business ReviewArticle HBS-F2002A-EMarketingPhilanthropic organizations rely heavily on point-of-sale solicitations--but a new series of studies shows that consumers often react negatively, perceiving the request as a violation of their social contract with the retailer. This can lead to diminished satisfaction and a decreased likelihood of revisiting and recommending the store. The researchers outline several strategies for inspiring customers to donate while minimizing the risk of a back...Starting at €8.20
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Recruiting
Cappelli, Peter; Harvard Business Review; Holmes, Dane E.Article HBS-R1903B-ELeadership and People ManagementBusinesses have never done as much hiring as they do today and never done a worse job of it, says Peter Cappelli of Wharton in "Your Approach to Hiring Is All Wrong." Much of the process is outsourced to companies such as Randstad, Manpower, and Adecco, which in turn use subcontractors to scour LinkedIn and social media for potential candidates. When applications come--always electronically--software sifts through them for keywords that hiring ma...Starting at €8.20
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A Novel Way to Boost Client Satisfaction
Harvard Business ReviewArticle HBS-F1902A-EService and Operations ManagementResearchers have learned to mine a unique set of data that serves as a slow-motion replay of how an organization and its people function: the company's e-mail. Although e-mail analysis has largely focused on internal communications, a new study uses it to examine how employees interact with clients. Researchers studied the e-mail behaviors of teams working with key client accounts at a global professional services firm. Each month during the stud...Starting at €8.20
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A Manager's Guide to Augmented Reality
Porter, Michael E.; Heppelmann, James; Harvard Business Review; Jouret, Guido; Morse, GardinerArticle HBS-R1706B-EInformation TechnologiesWhile the physical world is 3-D, most data is trapped on 2-D pages and screens. This gulf between the real and digital worlds limits our ability to exploit the volumes of information available to us. Augmented reality, a set of technologies that superimposes digital data and images on physical objects, is closing this gap. By putting information directly into the context in which we'll apply it, AR increases our ability to absorb and act on it. A...Starting at €8.20
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Why You Should Rotate Office Seating Assignments
Harvard Business ReviewArticle HBS-F1802A-EDesign firms have long claimed that workspace reorganizations promote collaboration and creativity, and research studies back up those claims. But the financial return has been hard to prove--until now. Research at a South Korean e-commerce firm finds that relocating "merchandisers"--employees who source product deals--near employees they hadn't previously had much contact with boosted creativity among those with high deal-sourcing ability and si...Starting at €8.20
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When Platforms Attack
Harvard Business ReviewArticle HBS-F1510A-EStrategyAmazon began life as an online bookseller, of course, but now there are few products you can't buy on the site. New research led by HBS's Feng Zhu investigates a common worry of Amazon's third-party sellers: What happens when, instead of just matching buyers and sellers, the platform decides to offer competing products itself? Zhu's team examined 164,000 products sold exclusively by third parties and found that 10 months later, Amazon had begun d...Starting at €8.20
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Finding the Right CEO
Harvard Business ReviewArticle HBS-F2201A-EKnowledge and CommunicationThe most promising candidates in your company may not be where you expect.Starting at €8.20