| Task Force for Talent Innovation (formerly Hidden Brain Drain Task Force)
Founded in 2004 the "Task Force for Talent Innovation" (formerly "Hidden Brain Drain") – a private sector Task Force – focuses on identifying, developing and promoting a second generation of corporate policies and practices that support the ambition, work and life needs of highly qualified talent across the divides of gender, generation and culture. The Task Force comprises 71 global corporations and organizations representing over 4 million employees, operating in 190 countries around the world and is led by co-chairs from an impressive roster of companies – American Express, Bloomberg LP, Booz Allen Hamilton, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Cisco, Deloitte, Ernst & Young, GE, Goldman Sachs, Intel, Johnson & Johnson, NBCUniversal, Time Warner, and Unilever.
The Task Force has both driven a transformational research agenda and published a series of breakthrough studies that have reshaped the way businesses think about and manage their human capital. The Harvard Business Review has published eight Task Force studies including “Leadership in Your Midst,” “Extreme Jobs: The Dangerous Allure of the 70-Hour Workweek, “How Gen Y & Boomers Will Reshape Your Agenda,” "The Battle for Female Talent in Emerging Markets" and "The Sponsor Effect: Breaking Through the Last Glass Ceiling." Task Force research has seeded more than 100 new best practices. Some of these best practices have been highlighted in Sylvia Hewlett’s books Off-Ramps and On-Ramps: Keeping Talented Women on the Road to Success (Harvard Business School Press, 2007) and Top Talent: Keeping Performance Up When Business Is Down (Harvard Business Press, 2009). This research has struck a nerve: media coverage includes articles in the Financial Times, New York Times, International Herald Tribune, Business Week, and Time magazine and appearances on The Today Show, ABC World News and the BBC.
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