Human Resources
Nothing is more important than hiring. Nothing.
Who you decide to hire impacts every part of your organization: from its values and vision to its ability to innovate, adapt and survive.
You can't hire great people if you're just filling positions on a piece of paper. People aren’t interchangeable...
Americans frequently debate why wages are growing for the college-educated but declining for those with less education. What is less well-known is that communities and local labor markets are also diverging economically at an accelerating rate.
A closer look at the 300-plus metropolitan areas of...
More than a dozen social scientists, business school professors, and other experts on compassion gathered at the "Compassion & Business" conference held at Stanford University on April 30. Olivia “Mandy” O’Neill, a 2005 PhD graduate of Stanford Graduate School of Business who has studied the...
One of the first female faculty members at Stanford Graduate School of Business, labor economist Myra Strober focused attention on gender issues in the workplace and the economics of child care — subjects that still confound families and spark impassioned debate. A professor of education as well...
Can a macho workplace shed its machismo? It happened on an oil rig, that most macho of work environments, say researchers who found that crew members on an offshore platform toned down their bluster and macho as they concentrated on a company program to improve workplace safety.
The scholars —...
Slavery is not a thing of the past –– and if you eat chocolate, have a cell phone, or wear cotton you may well be contributing to it, says Stanford MBA student Katrina Benjamin.
21,000,000
The estimated number of adults and children who are either forced to work without pay or in jobs they don't...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS — In the United States, 60 million adults are obese and 9 million children and teens ages 6 to 19 are overweight. Being too heavy increases the risk of health conditions and diseases such as breast and colon cancer, coronary heart disease, diabetes, and stroke...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS — When we think of a typical leader, most of us picture a person who’s sociable and upbeat. But new research puts a wrinkle in that stereotype, revealing an unexpected sign of leadership potential: the tendency to feel guilty. “Guilt-prone people tend to carry...