HRPI Co-Director Connie Hadley article featured in Harvard Business Review with co-authors Hooria Jazaieri, and Hillary Anger Elfenbein on ways managers can support employees with Bipolar disorder. “Whether leaders know it or not, chances are their workforce contains people with bipolar disorder. This article discusses three measures that organizations can take to bring out the […]
The spring 2024 HRPI Member Meeting was filled with top tier insights on the future of work: • Debbie Lovich, Managing Director & Senior Partner at Boston Consulting Group, shared innovative research on the benefits of cultivating joy in the workplace across generations and job structures. • Tracy Keogh facilitated our member roundtable of hot HR topics. • Connie […]
Starbucks Investors Approve Pay Package That Drops DEI Reference, Bloomberg (Bloomberg) — Starbucks Corp. shareholders approved a plan to drop a bonus tied to DEI goals for its executives and replace it with a more general workforce target while also shifting more compensation to financial performance. “Starbucks’s switch to “talent” avoids the term DEI, which […]
Earlier this month, colleagues, family and friends gathered to celebrate the legacy of HRPI founder and longtime director Fred Foulkes. With over 43 years of service at Boston University, Fred’s impact is felt throughout Questrom and the HR community at large. We are grateful for all the hard work, dedication, and mentorship Fred has given […]
We are pleased to announce that The Case Centre recently published a new HRPI case study developed by Fred Foulkes and Ted Childs , in cooperation with Microsoft’s Chief Diversity Officer Lindsay-Rae McIntyre entitled, Empowering Every Person and Every Organization on the Planet to Achieve More: Microsoft’s Diversity & Inclusion Strategy. Visit The Case Centre […]
HRPI Director Fred Foulkes was a featured speaker at today’s Innovation to Action Speaker Series event, hosted by Amanda Bailey and the BU Human Resources Team as well as Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences at Boston University. Thanks to Johnny C. Taylor, Jr., SHRM-SCP for a thought provoking keynote and to Azer Bestavros, Wendy Colby and Krista Sande-Kerback for an insightful panel discussion.
Pandemic closures worldwide forced companies to conduct interviews virtually during the spring interview season and the successful candidates are now participating in virtual internships. While companies had increasingly been conducting video interviews to cut hiring costs before the pandemic, the practice has now expanded to include game-based assessments, chatbots and collaboration platforms that help new […]
As multi-disciplinary task forces at companies and universities deal with the complicated challenges of developing effective plans for employees or students to return to work or campus, where they will be safe and have healthy working conditions, it is clear that return decisions will be easier if all initiatives are consistent with the following two […]
In March 2020, the company moved quickly to ensure essential medications would not be stockpiled by patients with coronavirus. Hydroxychloroquine, which is also used to treat lupus and rheumatoid arthritis, was in short supply when the malaria drug had some success against the novel coronavirus. The company instituted quantity limits of 10-14 days for customers […]
From gender equality to hiring employees with a criminal record, grants fund promising early-stage research.