Human Resources
In the corporate world, the term “wartime CEO” is often used to describe a leader who can make the cold, calculated decisions necessary to save a company during a crisis. While we often think of these shifts in leadership as a matter of skill or experience, a new groundbreaking study says otherwise.
“By making personal transportation jobs accessible to workers with limited geographical knowledge, navigation technology broadens labor supply and, put simply, creates jobs.”
In U.S. states with anti-union labor environments, employees are up to 53% more likely to try working for themselves, a study in Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal has found.
When companies go public with salary information, the average productivity of their employees does not decline. But small shifts in work output are highly individualized, and they may reflect workers’ responses to how closely they feel their efforts align with the pay.
Men continue to dominate the technology industry, with female entrepreneurs in the field continuing to pace far behind. But how are women entrepreneurs faring with other necessary resources for their firms?
Military service has a lasting impact on individuals’ values and beliefs, significantly shaping how they view conditions like accountability…As it turns out, those ingrained values may be exactly what makes military directors ideal board members — particularly when it comes to holding executives accountable for poor firm performance.
Studies have explored the importance of ties in the labor market and how connections between people affect the chances of getting hired. But what effect does hiring a connection have on the firm itself?
The book Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies, by Reid Hoffman and Chris Yeh, has caught the attention of many entrepreneurs — likely inspiring them to scale…
Employee turnover is a multimillion-dollar problem for organizations. According to Gallup, replacing exiting workers can cost one-half to two times the employee’s annual salary. Yet when it comes to your…
Scholars and policymakers have highlighted the positive impact of human capital on entrepreneurial activity. Vast attention has also been directed to the beneficial role of pro-market institutions for entrepreneurship. A…