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Human Resources

How to develop human capital? How to better control talent and skill management? How to coherently match the teams with the needs of the company?

Reinventing Employee Onboarding

Daniel M. Cable, Francesca Gino, Bradley R. Staats

How you can go through the delicate period of taking a new position with more peace of mind. 

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Hitting The Intergenerational Sweet Spot

Monique Valcour

An opinion piece that breaks down the clichés about generational differences and highlights the commonalities between generations. The writer argues for an approach centered on the real expectations and needs of employees, rather than on often excessive stereotypes.

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10 New Skills That Every Worker Needs

Devin Fidler, Marina Gorbis

Ten key skills to cope in a fast-changing environment.

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Preparing for a New Era of Work

Susan Lund, James Manyika, Sree Ramaswamy

A look at the concrete organizational impact of globalization, demographic trends and new work habits.

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Developing Global Leaders

Pankaj Ghemawat

Dispel some misconceptions about how best to develop international leaders.

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Gilt Groupe’s CEO on Building a Team of A Players

Kevin Ryan

CEOs are convinced of the importance of human capital, but do not always reflect this in their recruiting practices.

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Meet the New Boss: Big Data

Joseph Walker

Big Data can help HR managers identify sometimes improbable retention criteria and recruit the right profiles for standardized jobs.

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Good Intentions, Imperfect Execution?

Christine Silva, Nancy M. Carter, Anna Beninger

The mean weaknesses in gender equality programs.

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Shattering the Glass Ceiling

Susanne Dyrchs, Rainer Strack

What are the reasons for the persistent gender imbalance at the top of the hierarchy?

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Turning the Challenge of an Older Workforce into a Managed Opportunity

Rainer Strack, Jens Baier, Philipp Zimmermann

This report of thirty-odd pages, replete with data by region and industry, paints a convincingpanorama of the issues and questions that demographic trends pose to companies today.

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