Recruitment - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Sep 2019
Video

Mo Ibrahim

Mo Ibrahim, the founder of the African telecommunications company Celtel and later a major corporate philanthropist, describes how he recruited and trained talent in Celtel.

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03 Jun 2024
Blog Post

Five Ways to Rethink Your Job Description

job description to make it stand out from the crowd. When you are ready to post your job to HBS candidates, log in to the HBS recruiting platform 12twenty" to do so. Make the job title count Be specific and use searchable keywords that... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

22 Jun 2021
News

The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients

December 2012 (Revised August 2020)
Case

Rodan + Fields Dermatologists

By: Das Narayandas, Michael Roberts and Liz Kind

The case focuses on issues involved in managing the direct multilevel marketing sales consultants who sell R+F skin care products. The company is trying to better manage the inconsistent and highly variable recruitment behavior of the sales force i.e., the degree to... View Details

Keywords: Marketing; Salesforce Management; Recruitment; Compensation and Benefits; Consumer Products Industry; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; California

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Jamie Woodard

Jamie wants to help students navigate the career switch process for those interested in venture capital. Having pivoted from a non-investing background into two VC internships, Jamie can provide insight on how to break into venture capital, including how the industries... View Details

16 Apr 2015
News

Old-fashioned virtues

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Shruti Rao

Shruti wants to help students explore the opportunities available to HBS students in the banking, private equity and venture capital industries. Having worked in these industries, Shruti can provide insights into how these industries recruit, what the job experience... View Details

David E. Bell

David E. Bell is a Baker Foundation Professor at HBS. He has taught marketing many times in the MBA program including as course head.

During his career at HBS, David has taught a variety of other courses to both MBAs and executives, including risk... View Details

Keywords: agribusiness; agriculture; apparel; e-commerce industry; fashion; food; food processing; grocery; insurance industry; marketing industry; retailing

13 May 2013
Blog Post

Alumni: Where are they now? Featuring Aaron…

HBS alum, Aaron Mitchell, MBA 2011, provides an update on his career post-HBS. Current Position: Lateral Recruitment Lead – Asia Pacific ResourcingCurrent Location: Singapore Tell us what you’re up to these days. When not home sharing in... View Details

22 Jan 2019
Blog Post

Balancing the Ideal with the Real: Conveying Corporate Culture to Candidates

The recruiting process among companies and candidates can resemble a two-way talent competition in which all parties serve simultaneously as contestants and judges: just as candidates strive to present themselves in the best possible... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail

26 Feb 2019
Blog Post

Forget Cash. Here Are Better Ways to Motivate Employees

With unemployment at near historic lows in the United States, employers report that their single greatest challenge is recruiting and retaining talent. The answer for many companies is to throw money at the problem: Bonuses, incentive... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

11 Oct 2023
Blog Post

HBS Career Journeys | Mariah Cushman

HBS Career & Professional Development sat down with students to talk about their career journeys. Mariah Cushman (MS/MBA 2023) shares her experience building a partnership with her career coach, and how she leveraged HBS’s recruiting... View Details

27 Oct 2016
Blog Post

Meet the Management Consulting Club

Mission Statement The Management Consulting Club is one of the most popular student clubs on campus with an annual membership of over 250 students. We aim to serve as a bridge between the industry and Harvard Business School students, making the View Details

Keywords: Consulting

February 2020 (Revised March 2020)
Case

Prime Coalition: Catalytic Capital for Climate Innovation

By: Ramana Nanda, Benjamin N. Roth and Olivia Hull

With long development timelines and high risk, new energy technologies were often left to languish in the “valley of death,” unable to raise enough funds to bring a product to market. In 2014, Sarah Kearney founded the nonprofit Prime Coalition to solve this problem.... View Details

Keywords: Energy Conservation; Renewable Energy; Social Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Investment; Innovation and Invention; Technological Innovation; Mission and Purpose; Science-Based Business; Nonprofit Organizations; Social Enterprise; Energy Industry; Technology Industry; Green Technology Industry; United States

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24 Sep 2021
News

AI Use in Hiring Means Women with Employment Gaps Get Overlooked

30 Oct 2019
Video

Kutayba Alghanim

Kutayba Alghanim, Chairman of Kuwait-based Alghanim Industries, a highly diversified business group, discusses the strategies of his son Omar (the group’s current CEO) to recruit more Kuwaitis and more women... View Details

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FinTech Club

Keywords: Technology

18 Apr 2017
Blog Post

Why We Recruit: CRC Companies LLC

Why We Recruit is a series of interviews with our recruiting partners covering a variety of topics ranging from their experience working with HBS to what they want students to know. New interviews will be... View Details

Keywords: Real Estate

29 Jul 2020
News

Financial Times Article: Business schools are reckoning with their poor record on race

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Lisa Li

Lisa is excited to help students who are navigating the consulting recruiting process as well as current consultants who may be looking for career transitions into investing or operating roles. She is most experienced in the biotech and... View Details

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