People analytics – the fast-growing practice which companies use to analyze large amounts of data to quantify employee performance – has the potential to revolutionize
Category: Lifelong Learning
Boards with More Women Pay Less for Acquisitions
Companies that have more women on their boards of directors make fewer bids for mergers and acquisitions — and pay less for acquired companies. That’s
The Seven Imperatives to Keeping Meetings on Track
There’s nothing more annoying than a meeting that goes on and on and on. As a manager, it’s your job to make sure people don’t
What Change Agents Value at Work
When it comes to change management, half the battle is making sure you have the right leaders in place. And that means looking carefully at
Algorithms Won’t Replace Managers, But Will Change Everything About What They Do
The labor market is about to be transformed by machine intelligence, the combination of ubiquitous data and the algorithms that make sense of them. That’s
Strategic Humor: Cartoons from the January–February 2014 Issue
Enjoy these cartoons from the January–February issue of HBR, and test your management wit in the HBR Cartoon Caption Contest at the bottom of this
Marvin E. Smith 