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- 12 Nov 2024
- News
Harvard Hires Eight New Climate Faculty – With More on the Horizon
- 13 Jul 2021
- News
Owner of QVC and HSN Hires David Rawlinson as Its Next CEO
- Article
Can They Take It with Them? The Portability of Star Knowledge Workers' Performance: Myth or Reality
By: Boris Groysberg, Linda-Eling Lee and Ashish Nanda
This paper examines the portability of star security analysts' performance. Star analysts who switched employers experienced an immediate decline in performance that persisted for at least five years. This decline was most pronounced among star analysts who moved to... View Details
Keywords: Firm Performance; Hiring; Employee Selection; Employee Retention; Knowledge; Employees; Selection and Staffing; Retention; Performance; Competitive Advantage; Financial Services Industry
Groysberg, Boris, Linda-Eling Lee, and Ashish Nanda. "Can They Take It with Them? The Portability of Star Knowledge Workers' Performance: Myth or Reality." Management Science 54, no. 7 (July 2008): 1213–1230.
- 11 Mar 2022
- News
Remote Work Has Opened the Door to a New Approach to Hiring
- April 1999 (Revised March 2000)
- Background Note
Discovering What Has Already Been Discovered: Why Did Your Customers Hire Your Product?
By: Clayton M. Christensen
Describes a methodology for identifying markets for new technologies and for defining the highest value attributes of new products or services. It helps innovators escape the trap of incremental improvements to established product concepts by asking a straightforward... View Details
Christensen, Clayton M. "Discovering What Has Already Been Discovered: Why Did Your Customers Hire Your Product?" Harvard Business School Background Note 699-029, April 1999. (Revised March 2000.)
- January 2013
- Supplement
EverTrue: Mobile Technology Development (B)
By: William R. Kerr and Alexis Brownell
Brent Grinna has one customer signed up for his alumni-networking mobile app, and is now trying to choose among three possibilities for a CTO. He decided to contract with a friend's company, Dashfire, to create a prototype of the app, and has signed up Brown University... View Details
Keywords: Start-up; Mobile App; CTO; Hiring; Scaling; Business Startups; Decisions; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development; Mobile Technology; Technology Industry; Massachusetts; Boston
Kerr, William R., and Alexis Brownell. "EverTrue: Mobile Technology Development (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 813-123, January 2013.
- 21 Feb 2024
- Blog Post
Hiring at HBS: How Summer Interns Make an Impact at Bridges Fund Management
For Harvard Business School students eager to make a positive impact on the world, one exciting path forward is investing in mission-centered businesses. Areas like healthcare, education, energy, and the environment attract innovative and entrepreneurial minds, and... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity
- 27 Jul 2017
- News
Want to Be Happy? Buy More Takeout and Hire a Maid, Study Says
- 02 Feb 2022
- News
AI Could Cut Hiring Biases as Companies Make Push to Find Workers, Proponents Say
Photo via Pymetrics Photo via Pymetrics A recent piece in the Wall Street Journal highlights the efforts of Frida Polli (MBA 2012), a neuroscientist and CEO of Pymetrics, an AI-powered recruiting and job matching platform, to employ systems that better combat View Details
- 15 Feb 2018
- Cold Call Podcast
Black Business Leaders Series: John Rogers and the Importance of Hiring Minority-Owned Services Firms
Keywords: Financial Services
- April/May 2006
- Article
The Hidden Flaws of Top Executives: How to Find Them Before You Hire Them
By: James Waldroop and Timothy Butler
- November 2020
- Case
Truebird—An AlleyCorp Venture
By: Shikhar Ghosh and Shweta Bagai
In December 2018, Kevin Ryan and Wendy Tsu faced an important decision – to finalize the CEO candidate for Truebird, an innovative, automated coffee café concept. Like many of AlleyCorp and Ryan’s companies, Truebird started with the observation of an unmet need – an... View Details
Keywords: Startup; Hiring; Staffing; Recruiting; Business Startups; Finance; Leadership; Management Skills; Management Teams; Jobs and Positions; Job Interviews; Human Resources; Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Technology Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; United States
Ghosh, Shikhar, and Shweta Bagai. "Truebird—An AlleyCorp Venture." Harvard Business School Case 821-030, November 2020.