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How to Keep Working When You're Just Not Feeling It
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleMotivating yourself is one of the main things that sets high achievers apart, and it's hard. How do you keep pushing onward when your heart isn't into... -
9 Trends That Will Shape Work in 2023 and Beyond
Business management Digital ArticleAmid a looming economic downturn, employers can expect another tumultuous year. -
Compensation Packages That Actually Drive Performance
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleBy aligning executives' financial incentives with company strategy, a firm can inspire its management to deliver superior results. But it can be hard... -
How a “Pay-to-Quit” Strategy Can Reveal Your Most Motivated Employees
Employee incentives Digital ArticleEverybody wins with this program. -
How to Return to Work After Taking Parental Leave
Leadership & Managing People Best PracticeMake your first day back a Wednesday. -
Rethink Your Employee Value Proposition
Talent management SpotlightOffer your people more than just flexibility. -
Research: The Flexibility Options Your On-Site Employees Want
Flex time Digital ArticleGallup surveyed more than 5,700 fully on-site workers in the U.S. to find out which flexibility options are available to them — and which would entice them to switch jobs. -
When You Find Out a Coworker Makes More Money than You Do
Organizational Development Digital ArticleGet more information before you react. -
Ending the War Between Sales and Marketing
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticleSales departments tend to believe that marketers are out of touch with what's really going on in the marketplace. Marketing people, in turn, believe the... -
How to Respond When Your Employee Asks for a Raise
Managing people Digital ArticleBuy time and ask questions. -
Why Incentive Plans Cannot Work
Employee incentives Magazine ArticleWhen reward systems fail, don’t blame the program—look at the premise behind it. -
Ten Ways to Create Shareholder Value
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticleExecutives have developed tunnel vision in their pursuit of shareholder value, focusing on short-term performance at the expense of investing in long-term... -
Automation Doesn’t Just Create or Destroy Jobs — It Transforms Them
Automation Digital ArticleThree questions firms should ask themselves when deciding whether to automate. -
How to Do Hybrid Right
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleSince the pandemic, companies have adopted the technologies of virtual work remarkably quickly--and employees are seeing the advantages of more flexibility... -
The High Cost of Neglecting Low-Wage Workers
Finance & Accounting SpotlightMany companies blame outside factors for the trouble they've been having in finding and retaining frontline workers: the pandemic, the government's stimulus... -
A Guide to Implementing the 4-Day Workweek
Organizational Development Big IdeaAs organizations continue to explore a variety of flexible work options, one promising avenue is the four-day workweek: The standard 40 hours per week... -
CEO Incentives—It’s Not How Much You Pay, But How
Executive compensation Magazine ArticleThe arrival of spring means yet another round in the national debate over executive compensation. Soon the business press will trumpet answers to the questions it asks every year: Who were the highest paid CEOs? How many executives made more than a million dollars? Who received the biggest raises? Political figures, union leaders, and consumer […] -
How to Pay Your Sales Force
Motivating people Magazine ArticleUsing the results of a survey of 380 companies in 34 industries, this author examines three basic types of compensation plans: salary, commission, and combination (salary plus commission). Most companies in the study favored a combination plan, but such plans have some disadvantages to offset their obvious attractiveness. The author sets out the possible reasons […] -
Research: Why Employees Accept Lower Pay at Mission-Oriented Companies
Organizational Development Digital ArticleA closer look at the social pressures that dissuade job candidates from negotiating for more money. -
Compensation and Benefits for Startup Companies
Compensation and benefits Magazine ArticleYou’ve decided to start a company. Your business plan is based on sound strategy and thorough market research. Your background and training have prepared you for the challenge. Now you must assemble the quality management team that venture investors demand. So you begin the search for a topflight engineer to head product development and a […]
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Westchester Distributing, Inc. (B), Spanish Version
Finance & Accounting Case Study5.00View Details Describes the actions taken by the owner/president to resolve the dilemma. -
Vyaderm Pharmaceuticals: The EVA Decision, Spanish Version
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details In 2016, the new CEO of Vyaderm Pharmaceuticals introduces an Economic Value Added (EVA) program to focus the company on long-term shareholder value.... -
Sealed Air Corps Leveraged Recapitalization (A), Chinese Version
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Less than a year after Sealed Air embarked on a program to improve manufacturing efficiency and product quality, the company borrowed almost 90% of the... -
MW Petroleum Corp. (A), Spanish Version
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Amoco Corp. is negotiating to sell a wholly-owned subsidiary, MW Petroleum, to Apache Corp. MW owns large reserves of oil and gas comprising many properties... -
Maverick Capital
Finance & Accounting Case Study6.95View Details Maverick Capital, a $7 billion hedge fund, faced a number of long-term strategic questions, particularly the issue of growth. With all of its assets invested... -
Kjell and Company: Motivating Salespeople with Incentive Compensation (D)
Sales & Marketing Case Study5.00View Details Kjell & Company was a Swedish retail electronics chain. The company's products consisted of home electronics and accessories. The company was noted for... -
UpDown: Confidential Instructions for GEORG
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details Michael Reich is having severe doubts about how he split the equity with his co-founders two months ago, when they completed a one-page "November Agreement."... -
Heidrick & Struggles International, Inc.
Leadership & Managing People Case Study6.95View Details As CEO of leading executive search firm Heidrick & Struggles for the past 18 months, Kevin Kelly was pleased with his accomplishments so far but concerned... -
Executive Compensation at General Electric (A), Spanish Version
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details Faced with falling share prices and the critical eye of the media focused on Jack Welch's retirement plan, newly appointed CEO Jeff Immelt had the challenge... -
Income Inequality and the CEO Pay Ratio at TJX Cos
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details TJX Companies reported a CEO pay ratio of 1,596-to-1 in 2019, leaving board chair Carol Meyrowitz with a host of questions about whether, and how, she... -
Westchester Distributing, Inc. (A)
Finance & Accounting Case Study6.95View Details Focuses on the three-way interaction among internal controls, employee behavior, and incentives. Salesmen are illegally providing kickbacks to customers... -
Shell: A Company of Opportunity?
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details The Opportunity Hub was a cloud-based platform that enabled managers to market projects they were working on and associated resourcing needs as 'Opportunity... -
The Loyalty Effect: The Hidden Force Behind Growth, Profits, and Lasting Value
24.95View Details Reichheld lays out a new "economics of loyalty" that provides a framework where the "soft" elements of business--loyalty and learning--can be effectively... -
Executive Compensation at Reckitt Benckiser plc
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Investors felt betrayed by the increasingly lucrative pay packages awarded to CEOs and other top executives at multinational companies. Yet, board members... -
Jan Carlzon: CEO at SAS (A), Chinese Version
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Describes Jan Carlzon's actions on assuming the CEO's responsibility at SAS in a time of financial and organizational difficulty. After tracing Carlzon's... -
Ockham Technologies: Living on the Razor's Edge, Video
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study150.00View Details Describes the issues facing a founder-CEO regarding building a board of directors, assembling an executive team, managing tension between co-founders,... -
The P&G Acquisition of Gillette
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details Raises issues about the role of boards of directors in compensating CEOs and, specifically, the rewards granted to CEOs for arranging a change-of-control... -
The Blackstone Group's IPO
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Steven Schwarzman, Chairman of the Blackstone Group, has just learned that an investment group associated with the government of China wants to buy the... -
Houston We Have A Problem: They Paid Themselves Bonuses!
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details It was June of 2006, and Amanda Walsh, interim CFO, was soundly criticizing herself for not seeing the bigger picture of what had gone on during the previous... -
Deepa Bachu (B): Insights and Experiments at Pensaar Design
Management Case Study5.00View Details In this case, set in June 2019 in Bangalore, Karnataka, India, Deepa Bachu of Pensaar Design and her team work with client ITC Ltd. to use design thinking...
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How to Keep Working When You're Just Not Feeling It
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleMotivating yourself is one of the main things that sets high achievers apart, and it's hard. How do you keep pushing onward when your heart isn't into... -
9 Trends That Will Shape Work in 2023 and Beyond
Business management Digital ArticleAmid a looming economic downturn, employers can expect another tumultuous year. -
Compensation Packages That Actually Drive Performance
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleBy aligning executives' financial incentives with company strategy, a firm can inspire its management to deliver superior results. But it can be hard... -
How a “Pay-to-Quit” Strategy Can Reveal Your Most Motivated Employees
Employee incentives Digital ArticleEverybody wins with this program. -
Ask an Expert: How Do I Ask for Time Off in a New Job?
Compensation and benefits AdviceThere is no such thing as “earning” a break. -
How to Return to Work After Taking Parental Leave
Leadership & Managing People Best PracticeMake your first day back a Wednesday. -
Rethink Your Employee Value Proposition
Talent management SpotlightOffer your people more than just flexibility. -
Research: The Flexibility Options Your On-Site Employees Want
Flex time Digital ArticleGallup surveyed more than 5,700 fully on-site workers in the U.S. to find out which flexibility options are available to them — and which would entice them to switch jobs. -
When You Find Out a Coworker Makes More Money than You Do
Organizational Development Digital ArticleGet more information before you react. -
Ending the War Between Sales and Marketing
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticleSales departments tend to believe that marketers are out of touch with what's really going on in the marketplace. Marketing people, in turn, believe the...