Talent and Talent Management - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 Jul 2021
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Building a Powerful Network of Talent at American Tower

Linder explained. “Our CEO and the head of Human Resources said that we need to think about talent in a different way to infuse bright capable people who can come in, roll up their sleeves, View Details

Keywords: Technology; Telecommunications

2003
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Incentives versus Synergies in Markets for Talent

By: Bharat N. Anand, Alexander Galetovic and Alvaro Stein

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October 2005
Article

Growing Talent As If Your Business Depended on It

By: Jeff Cohn, Rakesh Khurana and Laura Reeves

Keywords: Growth and Development; Business Ventures

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01 Nov 2018
News

Want to Leverage Global Talent for Your Business? Read This

October 2014 (Revised September 2015)
Case

Sanford C. Bernstein Goes to Asia

By: Linda A. Hill, Dana M. Teppert and Allison J. Wigen

Sanford C. Bernstein, a premier sell-side research firm, is expanding globally. Three years after launching Bernstein's Asian business, senior management has appointed Ghislain de Charentenay, a six-year sales veteran of the firm, as director of Asian research in Hong... View Details

Keywords: Collaboration; Talent Management; Leadership; Talent and Talent Management; Organizational Design; Emerging Markets; Globalization; Hong Kong

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17 Nov 2020
News

High skills freelance economy surges as digital talent platforms help build new on-demand workforce.

2016
Working Paper

Innovating in Science and Engineering or 'Cashing In' on Wall Street? Evidence on Elite STEM Talent

By: Pian Shu

Using data on MIT bachelor's graduates from 1994 to 2012, this paper empirically examines the extent to which the inflow of elite talent into the financial industry affects the supply of innovators in science and engineering (S&E). I first show that finance does not... View Details

Keywords: Higher Education; Engineering; Personal Development and Career; Science; Finance

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January 18, 2024
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America's Top Talent Incubators Are Organizations Where People Want to Stay

By: Sarah Abbott and Boris Groysberg

Organizations like GE, IBM, and Procter & Gamble (P&G) have long been touted as the classic "academy companies." Academy companies produce first-rate executives who populate their own senior ranks and also go on to lead other companies. We wondered if academy companies... View Details

Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Personal Development and Career; Organizational Culture

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26 Jun 2018
News

Hard-Pressed by Soft Skills, CIOs Face Talent Challenge

05 Oct 2018
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Why the Global Race for Talent Is in High Gear

06 Nov 2024
Podcast

Guest Episode: Joseph Fuller on The Gartner Talent Angle

Managing the Future of Work co-chair Joseph Fuller delves into what’s driving and limiting the practice of skills-based hiring. The discussion ranges from degree inflation and HR automation to workforce demographics, skills-based promotion and employee retention. Also,... View Details

23 Apr 2025
Podcast

ManpowerGroup’s Jonas Prising on the new global talent equation

The staffing giant’s chairman and CEO lays out the opportunities and risks in the fast-changing and fragmented labor market. Riding the genAI wave, addressing workers’ career development needs, RTO and flex-work, international talent flows, and the up-skilling... View Details

May 5, 2020
Article

Why the Crisis Is Putting Companies at Risk of Losing Female Talent

By: Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg

There has been a massive shift in how work gets done inside many companies and the global pivot to working remotely will likely change how many think about face time and rigid work schedules. Might these changes benefit women? The authors argue that will depend on how... View Details

Keywords: Coronavirus Pandemic; Remote Work; Flexible Work Arrangements; Health Pandemics; Employees; Working Conditions; Gender

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January 2023 (Revised August 2023)
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Nick Saban: Embracing 'The Process' of Sustaining Success

By: Ranjay Gulati and Eppa Rixey

Nick Saban, head coach of the University of Alabama football team from 2007-2022, fielded teams that won 183 of 208 games (88%), including a record-tying six national championships. Saban’s approach to coaching, known to many as “The Process,” and the consistent... View Details

Keywords: Purpose; Leadership And Managing People; Football; Recruiting; Talent Acquisition; Talent And Talent Management; Talent Development And Retention; Organization Change And Adaptation; Organizational Behavior; Sports; Leadership; Leadership Development; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Sports Industry; United States

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2022
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Talent Flows and the Geography of Knowledge Production: Causal Evidence from Multinational Firms

By: Dany Bahar, Prithwiraj Choudhury, Sara Signorelli and James M. Sappenfield

Leveraging a unique dataset merging patent data with all work-related migration reforms that took place in 15 countries over 26 years, we show that reforms discouraging inventor mobility decrease the patenting of MNE subsidiaries within a country, while reforms... View Details

Keywords: Migration; Technology; Policy Evaluation; Patents; Information Technology; Immigration; Policy; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Globalization

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