MIT Sloan Management Review

Inspiration for managers can come from unlikely places -- including members of a meal-delivery collective in Mumbai, India known as dabbawalas.Â

The departure of talented employees can actually benefit a company, depending on where those individuals are hired. Therefore organizations must learn how to lose certain battles in order to win the war.

Repricing underwater stock options won't help you hold onto top executives, but it can reduce turnover among lower-level employees. So report Mary Ellen Carter and Luann J. Lynch, who have spent five years studying the controversial practice.