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  • 06 Oct 2022
  • News

On the Road to Recovery

Alejandro Moreno (MBA 1988) didn’t know much about travel nursing when he met a fellow entrepreneur by chance at a child’s birthday party in 2003. The man was considering starting a new business providing staffing assistance to hospitals... View Details
Keywords: Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance; Nursing and Residential Care Facilities; Health, Social Assistance
  • 01 Sep 2007
  • News

Back from the Brink

MILLS: Sometimes when the bottom falls out of the bottom line, the only place to go is up. Harold Mills (MBA ’98) is CEO of ZeroChaos, an IT staffing and human- resources outsourcing firm based in Orlando, Florida. With some $365 million... View Details
Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • Career Coach

Ron Peracchio

Development. Ron was also the Senior Director of Career Development at MIT's Sloan School of Management. In addition to his academic experience, Ron has held several corporate positions including Staffing manager for Lucent Software... View Details
Keywords: Consulting; Education; Manufacturing; Clean Technology; Energy
  • 01 Dec 1997
  • News

Short Takes

employers and employees. "The growth of staffing agencies suggests that we may be witnessing a slow recasting of the economy's institutional matrix where people are emerging as bundles of skills, organizations as constellations of... View Details
Keywords: Judith Ross
  • 9 AM – 10 AM EDT, 20 Mar 2019
  • HBS Online

HBS Online Business Analytics

Develop a data mindset and the analytical skills to interpret and communicate data. This course will demystify data analysis and equip you with concrete skills to apply in your work or further studies. Program Dates: March 20, 2019 - May 15, 2019 View Details
  • 01 Dec 2018
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018

step-by-step, room-by-room guidance on how to create a welcoming and functioning space that expresses your unique individuality. Breaking Through: Leadership Disciplines from Top Performing Staffing Firms by Mike Cleland and Barry Asin... View Details
  • 9 AM – 9 AM EDT, 09 Oct 2018

HBX Business Analytics

Develop a data mindset and the analytical skills to interpret and communicate data. This course will demystify data analysis and equip you with concrete skills to apply in your work or further studies. Program Dates: October 9, 2018 - December 6, 2018 View Details
  • 9 AM – 10 AM EDT, 16 Oct 2019
  • HBS Online

HBS Online Business Analytics

Develop a data mindset and the analytical skills to interpret and communicate data. This course will demystify data analysis and equip you with concrete skills to apply in your work or further studies. Program Dates: October 16, 2019 - December 11, 2019 View Details
  • 9 AM – 10 AM EDT, 07 Aug 2019
  • HBS Online

HBS Online Business Analytics

Develop a data mindset and the analytical skills to interpret and communicate data. This course will demystify data analysis and equip you with concrete skills to apply in your work or further studies. Program Dates: August 7, 2019 - October 2, 2019 View Details
  • 9 AM – 10 AM EST, 09 Jan 2019
  • HBS Online

HBS Online Business Analytics

Develop a data mindset and the analytical skills to interpret and communicate data. This course will demystify data analysis and equip you with concrete skills to apply in your work or further studies. Program Dates: January 9, 2019 - March 6, 2019 View Details
  • 01 Dec 2017
  • News

Case Study: The Doctor Deficit

seeking temporary staffing. Finding talent is an enormous source of expense and inefficiency in the industry, adds Nazem, who estimates that “nearly 100 percent” of health care institutions will need temporary staff this year. The idea isn’t new. Temporary medical... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • Article

What It Takes to Make 'Star' Hires Pay Off

By: Boris Groysberg, Linda Eling-Lee and Robin Abrahams
Keywords: Selection and Staffing
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  • 24 Apr 2014
  • News

Necessity became the mother of invention for staffing-firm founder

When she became a new mom, Allison O’Kelly (MBA 1999) wanted to have more flexibility in her life, and realized that other parents did as well. As founder and CEO of Mom Corps, O’Kelly turned a personal challenge into a profession. As a mom of three boys, she leads a... View Details
  • April/May 2006
  • Article

The Hidden Flaws of Top Executives: How to Find Them Before You Hire Them

By: James Waldroop and Timothy Butler
Keywords: Management; Selection and Staffing
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  • August 2021
  • Article

Improving Sales Hiring

By: Frank V. Cespedes
Sales hiring presents inherent challenges not found to the same extent in talent management in other functional areas. Moreover, common hiring practices make a tough job needlessly harder. This article suggests practical ways to improve sales hiring: Hire for the Task,... View Details
Keywords: Sales; Selection and Staffing
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  • 01 Dec 2012
  • News

Tidy Minds

In a wide-ranging Q&A in the "Global Manager" column of the New York Times (September 2, 2012), Sir Martin Sorrell (MBA 1968), chief executive of the WPP Group, the world's largest advertising and marketing firm, had some thoughts on personnel and the hiring process.... View Details
Keywords: Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Professional Services
  • 2016
  • Working Paper

Who Gets Hired?: The Importance of Finding an Open Slot

By: Edward P. Lazear, Kathryn L. Shaw and Christopher Stanton
Despite seeming to be an important requirement for hiring, the concept of a slot is absent from virtually all of economics. Macroeconomic studies of vacancies and search come closest, but the implications of slot-based hiring for individual worker outcomes has not been... View Details
Keywords: Hiring; Selection and Staffing; Employment
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  • July – August 2009
  • Article

Hiring Stars and Their Colleagues: Exploration and Exploitation in Professional Service Firms

By: Boris Groysberg and Linda-Eling Lee
Keywords: Selection and Staffing; Business Ventures
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  • 24 Jun 2015
  • HBS Case

Upgrading School with a Startup Mentality

school systems typically devote up to 85 percent of their budgets to personnel. This creates heavy managerial burdens and difficulties in aligning staffing to meet the needs of students and parents. AltSchool's microschool strategy... View Details
Keywords: Re: John Jong-Hyun Kim; Education
  • 23 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 23

Business Assessment at Dillard's, Inc.: Managing Staffing Levels to Improve Conversion Zeynep TonHarvard Business School Case 610-051 This case illustrates the challenges associated with matching staffing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace