Human Resource Cases

In this wide-ranging interview, one of the leading business shrinks in the worlds describes the value of becoming a ‘first-class Noticer’. Doing thus, he argues, enables one to avoid the dangers of ‘intentional blindness’, ‘driven blindness’ and ‘bounded awareness’ -all of which are pervasive in modern organizations, he says. He also defines ‘leadership-driven seeing’, why […]

The business had just embarked on a major initiative to recognize employees’ concerns and the results were not great. Workers across all grades, including senior leadership, were unclear about their compensation. The workers were not the sole ones who were perplexed; even the recruitment team at TML had no clear basis for comparing and determining […]

The manger of a dairy farm in Tennessee has begun renting goats for landscape betterment (see Goats: The Green Alternative (A)). The company proved successful so he contemplated enlarging the operation (see Goats: The Green Alternative (B)). Now, he consults with a statistician to understand just how to incorporate uncertainty into the decision about expanding. […]

The Detroit Geographic Expedition was first mounted by the Society for Human Exploration. The goal was to join academic geographers with “folk geographers” and members of the African American community to use geography to create “oughtness maps” – maps of how things are and maps of how things ought to be. The Expedition’s main concern […]

Adobo was the first dish they both cooked together as a young couple studying at Harvard Business School. It was the dish they shared with classmates to showcase one of the best aspects of Pinoy culture. Now, husband and wife—and business partners—Jerome Uy and Meredith Ngo are bringing back to the United States not just […]