“People don’t leave jobs, they leave managers,” say Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman in their 1999 bestseller, First, Break All the Rules: What the World’s Greatest Managers Do Differently. 15 years later, nothing has changed: immediate managers are still the most influential deciding factor of staff wellbeing (or stress) and, by extension, of staff commitmentRead more…

Based on an interview with Selin Atalay, assistant professor of marketing at HEC Paris, research@HEC no 27, June-July 2012. Previous research has established that consumers are more likely to pick articles located in the center of supermarket shelves than those on the sides. Selin Atalay, Onur Bodur, and Dina Rasolofoarison explore the underlying mechanisms ofRead more…

In need of a summer reading list? The team at Business Digest has selected ten outstanding books for you. Have a great summer!     – Strategy – What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation by Gary Hamel (Jossey-Bass, February 2012). In the face ofRead more…

In a hypercompetitive world, where the flexibility and reactivity of teams is constantly being tested, mentoring is an indispensible tool for talent and knowledge management. Mentoring has advanced with the times, as new technologies make it more accommodating, effective, and efficient. Mentoring enables the quickest, most direct, and most sustainable transmission of experience. As formerRead more…

Unemployment continues to climb, rising globally to 202 million unemployed people this year, while 50% of CEOs around the world simultaneously say it is becoming harder to fill vacancies. With each unfilled opening resulting in company losses of thousands of dollars per month, how can we reconcile talent supply and demand more effectively? At theRead more…