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08 Dec 2020
Research & Ideas

Why Companies Hunt for Talent on Digital Platforms, Not in Resume Piles

When it comes to the job hunt, many of us have a traditional view of what it takes to find a new position: A worker searches for available openings, sends in a resume, and waits for an interview. Much of... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Employment

22 Apr 2002
Research & Ideas

Does Spirituality Drive Success?

financially fulfilling (for a while), but Schwartz found he was dissatisfied with his own success. He set out to discover the "primary values" in his life, which he said include humility, service, health, and authenticity. He's since written two books: What... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace, Sean Silverthorne & Wendy Guild

18 Jun 2013
First Look

First Look: June 18

grown its real GDP at about 6% annually. This came after a huge debt crisis in 2001-02, wherein Turkey had to borrow $16 billion more from the IMF and comport with its difficult conditionality. Today, Turkey is a middle-income country in View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

06 Oct 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters

inappropriate ads promoting the brand’s “finger licking good” behavior, many brands quickly turned off existing creative and searched for new brand stories to tell that better reflected the new cultural environment. Consumers largely... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

08 Oct 2018
Research & Ideas

Knowing What Your Boss Earns Can Make You Work Harder

francescoch Learning that a co-worker earns more than you can decrease your job performance while increasing the likelihood of you searching for a new job, according to a new research study. On the other... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

14 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

The Business Case for Becoming a Jack-of-All-Trades

codes each paper with one of 51 different research categories—including aerospace, imaging, and robotics. For each scientist, Nagle and Teodoridis were able to classify their degree of specialization by determining how many different fields they’d published in. Next,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

13 May 2022
Research & Ideas

Company Reviews on Glassdoor: Petty Complaints or Signs of Potential Misconduct?

malfeasance but can cause problems nonetheless. “They are not even designed to detect misconduct, which is part of what makes this work—employees feel much more comfortable talking than they might in a narrower platform,” says Campbell. View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology

17 Sep 2018
Research & Ideas

Welcome to Retirement. Who Am I Now?

their work, so they’re searching for something to replace that work identity.” Over four years, the researchers conducted interviews and surveys of 120 professionals at three quite different companies located in different parts of the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Entertainment & Recreation

06 Dec 2017
What Do You Think?

Is It Time To Break Up Amazon, Apple, Facebook, or Google?

a company for doing the best job they can and succeed?” Others argued that market definition is changing in ways that render United States anti-trust policy outdated in an increasingly global economy. As Craig Parietti & Partners put... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology; Web Services

August 2023
Case

Beamery: Using Skills and AI to Modernize HR

By: Boris Groysberg, Alexis Lefort, Susan Pinckney and Carolina Bartunek

Unicorn human relationships startup Beamery evaluates it's growth versus depth strategy as its strategic partners and customers could become future competitors in a quickly changing AI based human resources and talent management industry View Details

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13 Jun 2011
HBS Case

Mobile Banking for the Unbanked

Per the South African government, only licensed banks were allowed to take deposits. The cost of a license was the equivalent of $34 million—a hefty fee for a startup—and the South African Reserve Bank was wary of issuing new permits. Hence, the WIZZIT execs began... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking; Communications; Telecommunications

08 Feb 2010
HBS Case

Looking Behind Google’s Stand in China

Google, the "do no evil" company, gained entry into the Chinese search engine market last decade by agreeing to ban search results on topics deemed sensitive by the Chinese government. To Google's... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology

July 2008 (Revised June 2009)
Teaching Note

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By: Peter A. Coles and Benjamin Edelman

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Keywords: Job Search; Web; Employment Industry

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03 Jan 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

5 Career-Related New Year’s Resolutions (and 5 Tips for Keeping Them)

Gerdeman's story The Manager in Red Sneakers. 2. Resolution: Work harder to meet the demands of a job where you’ve been failing to shine. Tip: Ask yourself whether the problem is actually the job, not you. Today’s View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

12 Nov 2024
HBS Case

Inside One Startup's Journey to Break Down Hiring (and Funding) Barriers

Blakeman says. A pitch to the right person at the right time at a bar led to a $100,000 angel investment. Diversifying his business, Blakeman started to work with prisons to put his search tools into the hands of inmates before their... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman; Employment

15 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

Remembering Alfred Chandler

strong foundation of facts and a very comprehensive search for the facts. At the same time, he was an incredibly systematic thinker and researcher, a social scientist in the truest sense of the word. If you looked at his desk at 1010... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

22 Jul 2019
Book

How to Be a Digital Platform Leader

organization that operate under a corporate umbrella. For example, Google Search is a classic transaction platform that connects end users to advertisers, and the Android operating system is a classic innovation platform that enables... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

Article

Preference Signaling in Matching Markets

Many labor markets share three stylized facts: employers cannot give full attention to all candidates, candidates are ready to provide information about their preferences for particular employers, and employers value and are prepared to act on this information. In this... View Details

Keywords: Signaling; Matching; Cheap Talk; Congestion; Market Design; Marketplace Matching; Communication; Job Search

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July 2024
Article

Whether to Apply

By: Katherine B. Coffman, Manuela Collis and Leena Kulkarni

Labor market outcomes depend, in part, upon an individual’s willingness to put herself forward for different opportunities. We use a series of experiments to explore gender differences in willingness to apply for higher return, more challenging work. We find that, in... View Details

Keywords: Beliefs; Recruitment; Job Search; Gender; Attitudes

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August 2023
Article

Formal Employment and Organized Crime: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Colombia

By: Gaurav Khanna, Carlos Medina, Anant Nyshadham, Jorge Tamayo and Nicolas Torres

Safety net programs, common in settings with high informality like Latin America, often use a means test to establish eligibility. We ask: in settings in which organised crime provides lucrative opportunities in the informal market, will discouraging formal employment... View Details

Keywords: Gangs; Informality; Crime and Corruption; Job Search; Recruitment; Colombia