Job Interviews - Publications - Faculty & Research

26 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

What Perceived Power Brings to Negotiations

research had not, it's not our idea, it is Emerson's original idea. Q: I thought that the methodology that you used was interesting. We wondered why you chose a job interview negotiation to test the... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

10 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

Homers: Secrets on the Factory Floor

consequences of homer making seem cut and dried. But not so fast, says Harvard Business School assistant professor Michel Anteby. In interviews with retirees of the French Pierreville aeronautics plant, Anteby found, perhaps not... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing

09 Jul 2013
Research & Ideas

Catching Up With Boards--Jay Lorsch

performance and succession, corporate strategy, and executive compensation. In a recent interview at Harvard Business School, governance expert Jay Lorsch, the School's Louis Kirstein Professor of Human Relations, offered his insights.... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

11 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ’The Future of Boards’

role is appropriate for the board? And how can the directors understand enough about the company to meet their responsibilities effectively? In this excerpt Lorsch looks at how directors are rethinking their roles. (For more about the book, see our View Details

Keywords: by Jay Lorsch

17 May 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

You Probably Have a Bias for Making Bad Decisions. Here's Why.

Get More Interviews African American and Asian job applicants who mask their race on resumes seem to have better success getting job interviews. The Case Against Racial... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

09 Feb 2009
Research & Ideas

Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times

with them we were able to create a very different organization—less top down, more participative, one that offered more challenging jobs and informed people about results of the business on a regular basis. That began my intellectual... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

23 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

Oil Price Fallout: What Happens Next?

The last six years have proved just how fluid the international oil market is. And if recent support of the Keystone Pipeline by the U.S. House of Representatives and the Nebraska Supreme Court (which approved the pipeline's path through that state) are any indication,... View Details

Keywords: Re: Richard H.K. Vietor; Energy; Utilities

February 2019 (Revised May 2019)
Case

Hot Chicken Takeover

By: William R. Kerr, Manjari Raman and Olivia Hull

By December 2018, entrepreneur Joe DeLoss’s fried chicken company, Hot Chicken Takeover, has opened three restaurants in Columbus, Ohio, using an unconventional employment model that helps people with criminal records get back on their feet. DeLoss is proud of the... View Details

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04 Nov 2002
Research & Ideas

From Lone Star to Team Player

When does a star performer become a corporate nightmare? And what can you do about it? HBS Working Knowledge's Mallory Stark conducted this e-mail interview with Morten Hansen.Stark: Can you describe what you mean by "lone... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

14 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

Thriving in the Turbulence of Emerging Markets

build successful businesses. The desire to capture the scale of this change is the ambitious goal of Harvard Business School's Creating Emerging Markets project, whose new website was profiled in HBS Working Knowledge last year. The Business History Initiative has... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Manufacturing; Auto

05 Dec 2017
Research & Ideas

What We've Learned from 101 Entrepreneurs in Emerging Markets

interviews that are conducted in an academically rigorous way (open-ended exploration, deep systematic probing, etc.). Salvaj: I would like to see more interviews of women business leaders in Latin America.... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

08 Dec 2008
Research & Ideas

Thinking Twice About Supply-Chain Layoffs

high levels of turnover and absenteeism, store managers never really know exactly how much labor they'll have." Ton has more on her mind than operational excellence. She has interviewed dozens of retail workers and store managers and... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail

20 Jun 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Fame, Faith, and Social Activism: Business Lessons from Bono

escalating, high-profile campaign against Third World debt, poverty, war and disease. “Any CEO who thinks his or her job is about maximizing shareholder value is living in the past.” Koehn, a Harvard Business School historian who has... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Entertainment & Recreation

14 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

Difficulties for Women Bridging Racial, Generational, and Global Divides

which she interviewed women at several law firms, noting both positive and negative interactions among peers and supervisors. In terms of positivity versus negativity, the consistent mediating factor was whether the women considered their... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

21 Nov 2005
Research & Ideas

Making Credibility Your Strongest Asset

fierce business competition, your bargaining endowment can spell the difference between closing the deal and being shut out. A healthy bargaining endowment explains how Darren Rovell won a job on national television while other journalism... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Wheeler

09 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation

Nonconsumption can also be unearthed by finding out what important jobs customers are seeking to get done that they can't adequately address with current solutions. Closely observing customers and conducting View Details

Keywords: by Scott D. Anthony, Mark W. Johnson & Matt Eyring

14 Jun 2016
First Look

June 14, 2016

the High Intensity Workplace: An 'Always Available' Culture Breeds a Variety of Dysfunctional Behaviors By: Reid, Erin and Lakshmi Ramarajan Abstract—People today are under intense pressure to be “ideal workers”—totally committed to their View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 Dec 2013
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2013

presentation or job interview? Holding one's body in "high-power" poses for short time periods can summon an extra surge of power and sense of well-being when it's needed, according to Amy J.C. Cuddy. Why Unqualified Candidates... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

22 Feb 2010
Research & Ideas

Manager Visibility No Guarantee of Fixing Problems

and provided feedback to frontline workers on 24.5 percent. The researchers reviewed surveys taken before and after process improvement activities, supplementing them with in-person interviews with frontline staff, department managers,... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health

01 Mar 2011
First Look

First Look: March 1

in the future? By examining hundreds of job profiles developed by executive-search firm Heidrick & Struggles and interviewing numerous senior managers, the authors have identified some clear trends. One... View Details