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- Opening Access to the Fast Track for Career Equitypor Haig R. Nalbantian. <p>Haig R. Nalbantian is coleader and cofounder of the Workforce Sciences Institute and a former senior partner at Mercer.</p> el junio 8, 2023 a las 11:00 am
Davide Bonazzi/theispot.com The Research The author conducted the research underlying this article while coleading Mercer’s Workforce Sciences Institute.i The author analyzed results of his research team’s statistical analyses of three to five years of employee data for 20 large and midsize, mostly global, employers representing manufacturing and services companies in a range of industries, including
- Empower Your Team, Empower Yourselfpor Russell Clayton, Andrew Artis, and Dejun Tony Kong. <p>Russell Clayton is an assistant professor of instruction, teaching MBA courses in the Muma College of Business at the University of South Florida. Andrew Artis is an associate professor teaching sales and strategy courses, also in the Muma College of Business. Dejun Tony Kong is an associate professor of organizational leadership at the University of Colorado Boulder’s Leeds School of Business.</p> el junio 7, 2023 a las 11:00 am
In today’s rapidly evolving work environment, professional development is no longer a nice-to-have perk, it’s an imperative. With budgets tightening and workforce disruptions such as layoffs affecting many sectors, now is not the time for organizations to eliminate employee professional development and training. Likewise, individuals should continue to upskill regardless of whether organizational resources are
- Do You Have a Corporate Philanthropy Strategy?por Ane Casajús-Burutaran, Tina C. Ambos, and Gilbert Probst. <p>Ane Casajús-Burutaran is a research assistant and doctoral candidate at the University of Geneva. Tina C. Ambos is a full professor of international management at the University of Geneva. Gilbert Probst is an honorary professor at the University of Geneva and chairman of the Swiss Board Institute.</p> el junio 6, 2023 a las 5:00 pm
Corporate philanthropy spending reached new heights in 2021, exceeding $21 billion in the U.S. alone and marking a 24% increase over the previous year.1 These contributions, which traditionally focused on supporting galleries, museums, and shiny new buildings, have gained a higher profile in corporate decision-making. While management scholars have long pointed out the importance of
- Making Investments in AI: Samsung’s Hina Dixitpor Sam Ransbotham and Shervin Khodabandeh. <p>Sam Ransbotham (<a href="https://twitter.com/ransbotham">@ransbotham</a>) is a professor in the information systems department at the Carroll School of Management at Boston College, as well as guest editor for <cite>MIT Sloan Management Review</cite>’s Artificial Intelligence and Business Strategy Big Ideas initiative. Shervin Khodabandeh is a senior partner and managing director at BCG and the coleader of BCG GAMMA (BCG’s AI practice) in North America. He can be contacted at <a href="mailto:shervin@bcg.com">shervin@bcg.com</a>.</p> <p class="mt20"><cite>Me, Myself, and AI</cite> is a collaborative podcast from <cite>MIT Sloan Management Review</cite> and Boston Consulting Group and is hosted by Sam Ransbotham and Shervin Khodabandeh. Our engineer is David Lishansky, and the coordinating producers are Allison Ryder and Sophie Rüdinger.</p> el junio 6, 2023 a las 11:00 am
Hina Dixit’s interest in supporting people and solving problems has its roots in her family’s call office business, where she helped people place telephone calls when she was growing up in India. Later, after earning her bachelor’s degree in computer science, she was quickly recruited into the tech space, where her problem-solving and customer service
- Cashing Out Excellencepor Robert D. Austin, Robert H. Hayes, and Richard L. Nolan. <p>Robert D. Austin is a professor of information systems at Ivey Business School and an affiliated faculty member at Harvard Medical School. Robert H. Hayes is the Philip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, at Harvard Business School. Richard L. Nolan is a professor emeritus at Harvard Business School and the University of Washington.</p> el junio 5, 2023 a las 11:00 am
Daniel Hertzberg/theispot.com When Southwest Airlines suffered a post-holiday meltdown in December 2022, the trigger was a bout of adverse weather. But the storm hit Southwest harder than it did most airlines. The company’s outdated computer systems collapsed, and years of underinvestment in technology, particularly staff scheduling systems, led to more than 16,700 flight cancellations over