Human Capital Strategy: Creating a Sustainable Competitive Advantage
Published: January 2024
Description
Experts characterize the current realities of the business landscape by its agility, global interconnectedness, and the rapid proliferation of job automation. Employees who want to retain their competitive advantage must gain new skills, adapt to changing circumstances, and take on different responsibilities. To support their employees, organizations need to implement talent management strategies that enhance and empower their human resources for sustained success.
This six-week program explores the nuances of talent acquisition, role alignment, and learning and development. You will learn how to develop a human capital strategy that maximizes the potential of your workforce. Upon completion, you’ll be ready to excel in your business ecosystem with a practical, real-world action plan.
Course Takeaways
- Build a human capital strategy that aligns with your business and strengthens your long-term competitive advantage.
- Gain insight into the benefits of diverse perspectives and the importance of DEI in your company culture.
- Build a practical action plan that helps your organization manage workforce changes and prepare for the future of work.
Meet the Instructors
Professor Baron’s research interests include human resources; organizational design and behavior; social stratification and inequality; work, labor markets, and careers; economic sociology; and entrepreneurial companies. Before coming to SOM in 2006, he taught at Stanford's Graduate School of Business from 1982-2006. At Stanford, he taught the MBA core course, Human Resource Management. He was co-director of the Stanford Project on Emerging Companies (SPEC), a large-scale longitudinal study of the organizational design, human resource management practices, and financial and non-financial performance measures of entrepreneurial firms in Silicon Valley. Papers based on the project appeared in leading disciplinary journals, and an overview of the project in California Management Review won the 2003 Accenture Award for making “the most important contribution to improving the practice of management.”
He is the author, with Stanford economist David M. Kreps, of a textbook, Strategic Human Resources: Frameworks for General Managers (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.). Baron is also a regular contributor to leading sociology and organization journals, such as the American Sociological Review and Administrative Science Quarterly. His research has also been published in influential journals in economics and social psychology.
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