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- September 2023 (Revised July 2024)
- Case
Honest Jobs: A Path to Redemption
By: Paul A. Gompers and Jeffrey Barkas
Founded by a formerly incarcerated job seeker, Honest Jobs' mission is to be the hub where people with criminal records come to build careers and employers come to find great talent. Honest Jobs faced early challenges as a two-sided platform for justice-involved job... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Venture Capital; Recruitment; Entrepreneurial Finance; Selection and Staffing; Digital Platforms; Job Search; Mission and Purpose; Expansion; Employment Industry; United States; Colorado; Ohio; Texas
Gompers, Paul A., and Jeffrey Barkas. "Honest Jobs: A Path to Redemption." Harvard Business School Case 224-010, September 2023. (Revised July 2024.)
- 11 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
The High Risks of Short-Term Management
line of inquiry is to gain an understanding of what the root causes of short-termism are. My hypothesis is that short-termism can be traced to some extent to individual traits of capital market agents. Identifying those traits can help business educators and View Details
- 10 Nov 2022
- Research & Ideas
Too Nice to Lead? Unpacking the Gender Stereotype That Holds Women Back
they should behave. First, they recruited about 800 participants to play a series of classic economics games. For instance, in one game, one player decides how to divide money between themselves and a partner. Then, participants were... View Details
Keywords: by Shalene Gupta
- April 1998
- Case
Advent Israel Venture Capital Program, The
By: Paul A. Gompers and Jeffrey M. Anapolsky
Explores the decision by Advent, an international venture capital firm, to start a fund focused on Israel. Advent must decide who to hire to run the fund and how much money to raise. View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Global Strategy; Recruitment; Expansion; Business Strategy; Financial Services Industry; Israel
Gompers, Paul A., and Jeffrey M. Anapolsky. "Advent Israel Venture Capital Program, The ." Harvard Business School Case 298-072, April 1998.
- December 2007
- Article
China + India: The Power of Two
By: Tarun Khanna
China and India are burying the hatchet after four-plus decades of hostility. A few companies from both nations have been quick to gain competitive advantages by viewing the two as symbiotic. If Western corporations fail to do the same, they will lose their competitive... View Details
Keywords: Competency and Skills; Economic Growth; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Multinational Firms and Management; Business History; Competitive Strategy; Cooperation; China; India
Khanna, Tarun. "China + India: The Power of Two." Harvard Business Review 85, no. 12 (December 2007).
- May 2004
- Article
The Risky Business of Hiring Stars
With the battle for the best and brightest people heating up again, you're most likely out there looking for first-rate talent in the ranks of your competitors. Chances are, you're sold on the idea of recruiting from outside your organization, since developing people... View Details
Keywords: Staffing; Employee Retention; Selection and Staffing; Employees; Retention; Competitive Advantage; Human Resources; Performance
Groysberg, Boris, Ashish Nanda, and Nitin Nohria. "The Risky Business of Hiring Stars." Harvard Business Review 82, no. 5 (May 2004): 92–100.
- July 2022
- Article
The Developmental Origins and Behavioral Consequences of Attributions for Inequality
By: Antonya Marie Gonzalez, Lucia Macchia and Ashley V. Whillans
Attributions, or lay explanations for inequality, have been linked to inequality-relevant behavior. In adults and children, attributing inequality to an individual rather than contextual or structural causes is linked to greater support for economic inequality and less... View Details
Gonzalez, Antonya Marie, Lucia Macchia, and Ashley V. Whillans. "The Developmental Origins and Behavioral Consequences of Attributions for Inequality." Art. 104329. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 101 (July 2022).
- 05 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
How Hormones Foretell Whether People Will Cheat
acute and chronic stress). Both hormones are found in men and women. Men naturally have more testosterone than women do, but the researchers were measuring the levels relative to gender norms. The normal level of cortisol is the same for both men and women. For their... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 23 Jun 2022
- Research & Ideas
All Those Zoom Meetings May Boost Connection and Curb Loneliness
shows. As part of the study, the researchers recruited about 250 participants to view a video on outer space. Unbeknownst to participants, however, there were actually two versions of the presentation. One was a prerecorded video in which... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 18 Jun 2024
- Research & Ideas
What Your Non-Binary Employees Need to Do Their Best Work
says. In fact, many traditional surveys often don’t reach enough respondents who identify as non-binary to create a meaningful sample. The research team used the platform Prolific, which specifically allowed them to recruit participants... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 19 Sep 2023
- Research & Ideas
What Chandrayaan-3 Says About India's Entrepreneurial Approach to Space
rather than me coming in with one set of skills but also cognitive biases. I have managed over the years to recruit like-minded faculty from all corners of the University. We collaborate to encourage our students to apply this mélange to... View Details
- 06 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Right Way to Manage Customer Churn for Maximum Profit
unhappy with customer service, or your prices went up, or a competitor offered a better deal. But if a company lets too many customers show themselves the door, then they’ll waste too much of their time recruiting new customers. “If 30... View Details
- 12 Sep 2023
- What Do You Think?
Who Gets the Loudest Voice in DEI Decisions?
of ESG, there are similar controversies around DEI. For example, marketing to or recruiting from a particular group—for example, members and allies of the LGBTQ community—might offend other people or cause others to feel threatened. "The... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 08 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Strategic Way To Hire a Sales Team
Cespedes explains a strategic process for hiring and managing an effective salesforce: book excerpt Build your Team: Recruitment And Selection From Aligning Strategy and Sales By Frank Cespedes Putting the right team on the field is... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 18 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Looking in the Mirror: Questions Every Leader Must Ask
management of the facilities, recruiting talent, or coaching young people. I asked how that could be possible, given that she had built a firm of more than a thousand people and had achieved a record of consistent success. She explained... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 30 Sep 2019
- Book
6 Steps to Building a Better Workplace for Black Employees
in an attempt to recruit and retain more minorities, but the initiatives often fall short, the authors say. The problem: These programs tend to focus on helping black employees fit into the status-quo culture, rather than eliminating... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 22
PublicationsThe Burden of Guilt: Heavy Backpacks, Light Snacks, and Enhanced Morality Authors:Gino, F., M. Kouchaki, and A. Jami Publication:Journal of Experimental Psychology: General Abstract Drawing on the embodied simulation account of emotional information... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Nov 2022
- Research & Ideas
Recruiters: Highlight Your Company’s Diversity, Not Just Perks and Pay
disclosures with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). While many companies have been trying to build more inclusive workplaces, only half of S&P 500 companies had gone as far as naming a chief diversity officer as of 2021, according to the View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Men Want Powerful Jobs More Than Women Do
listed, however, men reported a higher percentage of goals related to professional power. Next, the team investigated whether women desired professional advancement less than men, due to having to juggle more goals. They recruited 635 men... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 13 Jun 2022
- Research & Ideas
Extroverts, Your Colleagues Wish You Would Just Shut Up and Listen
The researchers asked 655 participants recruited from an online participant pool to think about a “familiar stranger”—someone they had seen a few times in the last couple of months but never interacted with, like a fellow passenger on a... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds