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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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The Proxy Fight at ADP
Greenwood, Robin; Mayfield, E. ScottCase HBS-219052-EFinanceIn July 2017, shares of Automatic Data Processing, Inc. (ADP) surged 12% following a report that the activist investor Bill Ackman had acquired a sizable stake in the company and planned to nominate his own slate of directors at the company's annual meeting in November. Over the months that followed, Ackman and ADP engaged in an increasingly acrimonious battle of words about the future of ADP. Ackman argued that the company was materially underpe...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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MyTime
Begenau, Juliane; Greenwood, RobinCase HBS-217026-EFinanceEthan Anderson, the CEO of San Francisco-based e-commerce company MyTime, must decide on the company's growth strategy. MyTime's first product was a website and mobile app that offered consumers a convenient way to book appointments with local merchants throughout the United States. Student must assess the company's growth strategy and develop a model to value a prospective customer to the company's website.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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Enlightened Farming
Harvard Business ReviewArticle HBS-F1510Z-ELeadership and People ManagementAgricultural inventions from 18th-century noble estates in France, including a wheat thresher, a tree transporter, and an incubation shed for chicken eggs. Due to the highly graphical nature of the Vision Statement, we offer this reprint in color, PDF format only. We recommend printing it out in color to maximize its effectiveness.Starting at €8.20
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Market Indicators
Harvard Business ReviewArticle HBS-F1507Z-EHand signals from a 16th-century mathematics textbook and exchange-rate "currents" from 18th-century Italian ports were just two of the innovations that lubricated the gears of preindustrial European commerce. Due to the highly graphical nature of the Vision Statement, we offer this reprint in color, PDF format only. We recommend printing it out in color to maximize its effectiveness.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