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Investing in Talent: Commodity vs. Annuity

Author: Dr. Pete Hammett, Visiting Professor Over the course of my career, I have had the great honor and privilege of working with professionals from a multitude of industries and levels across the country. On many occasions when working with groups of high-level...



Building on Our Vision: A Year of Innovative Growth

When Dr. Michael Gunderson started serving as the director for the Purdue University Center for Food and Agricultural Business in May of 2018, he entered his position at a time of immense change for both the Center and industry as a whole. Today, producers have...



Connecting Talent from First-Level to C-Suite

Eighty-three percent of executives report that they do not have the right talent and capabilities to build upon their strategy. This staggering number is based on a Korn Ferry global survey of approximately 7,500 senior executives across 107 countries. Dr. Keith...



Finance, Talent Management Go Hand in Hand

What does an organization’s talent management strategy have to do with its financial performance? After all, human resources and accounting rarely spend much time together. But talent management extends well beyond human resources. And besides, a company...



Talented people and strong brands

Article Vomberg, A., Homburg, C. and Bornemann, T. (2015), Talented people and strong brands: The contribution of human capital and brand equity to firm value. Strat. Mgmt. J., 36: 2122–2131. doi: 10.1002/smj.2328 Reviewer Dr. Michael Gunderson, Director and Professor...



Gray: Structure the Key to Effective Performance Management

Ditching those cumbersome annual performance reviews seems to be all the rage in the business world these days. A slew of recent articles, including two recently published in the Harvard Business Review, have covered the topic in-depth and several well-known...