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From Ladder to Lattice: The New Workforce Imperative
Benko, Cathleen; Weisberg, AnneBook Chapter HBS-3881BC-ELeadership and People ManagementScaling the corporate ladder has been the enduring gold standard for personal success since organizational hierarchy was invented at the beginning of the industrial age. However, a confluence of market and demographic forces in the past twenty years has compressed hierarchies, shortened the ladder, and reduced the qualified pool of high-potential employees available to climb it. Another set of business and societal influences has reshaped the Ame...Starting at €8.20
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The Nontraditional Is the New Traditional: Six Trends that have Created a New Workforce Imperative
Benko, Cathleen; Weisberg, AnneBook Chapter HBS-3882BC-ELeadership and People ManagementWhy is here and now the time to acknowledge and respond to the notion that corporate structures are morphing from a ladder to a lattice construct? One reason is that six key trends are converging in ways that create an unprecedented workforce challenge for business executives. This convergence is creating sweeping changes in workforce composition, attitudes, and capabilities. This chapter dissects the six trends and illustrates how each is exacer...Starting at €8.20
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Lattice Ways to Participate: Creating a Company Culture of Collaboration and Transparency
Benko, Cathleen; Anderson, MollyBook Chapter HBS-7012BC-EThe traditional corporate ladder is giving way to a new kind of organizational structure-the corporate lattice-in which success is no longer defined as a linear climb to the top, and rigid definitions of what work is, how it should be accomplished, and who gets to participate are being transformed. In this chapter, the authors examine how companies can enable broad-based, nonhierarchical forms of participation through the interrelated forces of c...Starting at €8.20
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Lattice Ways to Build Careers: An Operational Approach to Career Customization
Benko, Cathleen; Anderson, MollyBook Chapter HBS-7018BC-EThe changing world of work is dismantling the corporate ladder step by step. Tom Peters, the best-selling author of "In Search of Excellence," sums it up this way: "It's over. No more vertical. No more ladder. A career is now a checkerboard. Or even a maze." In this chapter, the authors explore how companies can redesign their talent practices through career enhancement and customization. They introduce the mass career customization (MCC) tool, w...Starting at €8.20
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The Individual's Guide to the Shifting Landscape: Charting Your Career Path Within the Corporate Lattice Structure
Benko, Cathleen; Anderson, MollyBook Chapter HBS-7019BC-EThe traditional corporate ladder is giving way to a new kind of organizational structure-the corporate lattice-in which success is no longer defined as a linear climb to the top, and rigid definitions of what work is, how it should be accomplished, and who gets to participate are being transformed. In this chapter, the authors explore the changing role each individual plays in directing his or her own lattice journey. Individuals need to treat th...Starting at €8.20
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Barack Obama and the Bush Tax Cuts (B), Teaching Note
Weinzierl, Matthew C.; Kuipers, JacobTeaching Note HBS-712013-EEconomicsTeaching Note for 712-012.Starting at €0.00
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Hungary: Economic Crisis and a Shift to the Right, Teaching Note
Weinzierl, Matthew C.Teaching Note HBS-712019-EEconomicsTeaching Note for 711051.Starting at €0.00
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Reform in the Chicago Public Schools
Weinzierl, Matthew C.; Flanagan, KatrinaCase HBS-714027-EEconomicsIn 2012, the Chicago Teachers' Union went on strike over proposed reforms by the city's mayor, Rahm Emanuel. At the heart of the reforms, and the strike, was frustration over many decades of underperformance in the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) and a surge of controversial, largely market-based, experimentation in public education in many U.S. cities.Starting at €8.20
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Reform in the Chicago Public Schools, Teaching Note
Weinzierl, Matthew C.Teaching Note HBS-715025-EEconomicsTeaching note for case 714027.Starting at €0.00
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Immigration Policy in Germany (A)
Weinzierl, Matthew C.; Flanagan, Katrina; Su, AlastairCase HBS-715029-EEconomicsGermany's Chancellor Angela Merkel faced economic and moral pressure to encourage greater immigration from struggling European, and especially Eurozone, countries after the economic downturn that began in 2008. In fact, it was possible that both the Euro currency union and the European political union depended on increasing migration across member countries, including into Germany. But German domestic politics made Merkel's decision a difficult o...Starting at €8.20