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  • 2020
  • Working Paper

Should Firms Move Talent from the Geographic Periphery to Hubs? A Strategic Human Capital Perspective

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Victoria Sevcenko and Tarun Khanna
A longstanding literature holds that firms should hire and move talent from the geographic periphery to hubs as a means to create value from human capital. They do so, however, at the risk of losing the worker to rivals located in the same geographic hub,... View Details
Keywords: Geographic Location; Selection and Staffing; Employment; Residency; Technology Industry; India
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  • 03 Jun 2014
  • News

HourlyNerd Inks Deal to Expand Client Base in Middle East, Africa

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 01 Feb 2017
  • News

New Regional Offices Broaden HBS’s Intellectual Reach

Development. These regional offices—including the one previously established in Mexico City—are staffed by a local researcher and are aligned with one of HBS’s global research centers, which range in size from 3 to 12 people. Many of the... View Details
  • 31 May 2016
  • Working Paper Summaries

Who Gets Hired? The Importance of Finding an Open Slot

Keywords: by Edward P. Lazear, Kathryn L. Shaw, and Christopher Stanton
  • 2004
  • Article

Do Firms Change Capabilities by Hiring New People? A Study of the Adoption of Science-based Drug Discovery

By: Rebecca M. Henderson, Nicola Lacetera and Iain Cockburn
Keywords: Selection and Staffing; Change; Science; Health; Information
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  • Web

How to Communicate your Organizations’ People-Centered Values - Recruiting

inclusion report to the CEO? Do they have the staffing and budget capacity required to make an impact not only in recruiting but also in creating organizational culture change?” It's also important for companies to understand individual... View Details
  • July 2020
  • Case

PeopleAnswers (A): People Analytics

By: Daniel P. Gross and Christian Godwin
In the fall of 2009, founder and CEO Gab Goncalves has turned PeopleAnswers, Inc. from a fledgling startup to a steadily growing company of nearly 50 employees and $10 million recurring revenue. PeopleAnswers provides people analytics software which its clients use to... View Details
Keywords: People Analytics; Entrepreneurship; Strategy; Growth and Development; Human Resources; Selection and Staffing
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  • 2021
  • Working Paper

Whose Job Is It Anyway? Co-Ethnic Hiring in New U.S. Ventures

By: Sari Pekkala Kerr and William R. Kerr
We explore co-ethnic hiring among new ventures using U.S. administrative data. Co-ethnic hiring is ubiquitous among immigrant groups, averaging about 22.5% and ranging from <2% to >40%. Co-ethnic hiring grows with the size of the local ethnic workforce, greater... View Details
Keywords: Hiring; Job Creation; E-Verify; Immigration; Selection and Staffing; Ethnicity; Entrepreneurship
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  • June 2013
  • Supplement

Walker Insurance: Paul Thomson (Video Supplement)

By: Jim Sharpe
This is the Video Supplement for Walker Insurance: Paul Thomson (HBS Case 813057). View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurial Organizations; Entrepreneurs; Entrepreneurship; Search; Search Funds; Sales Force Management; Sales; Sales Channels; Insurance And Reinsurance; Insurance Companies; Acquisitions; Hiring; Service Management; Service; Insurance; Salesforce Management; Selection and Staffing; Insurance Industry; United States
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  • 2015
  • Working Paper

Making a Difference: Leader Evaluation, Selection, and Impact

By: Gautam Mukunda
The relationship between leader selection and impact is important to both researchers and practitioners. This paper introduces Leader Filtration Theory (LFT)—a theory from political science—to managerial audiences, applies it to organizations, and uses it to improve... View Details
Keywords: Leaders; Leader Selection; Individual Impact; Leadership; Selection and Staffing
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  • 24 Jan 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Entrepreneurial Hospital Pioneers New Model

In Bangalore, a state-of-the-art hospital staffed by Western-trained physicians treats anyone suffering from a heart ailment. It accepts patients regardless of caste, class, religion, and perhaps most surprisingly, their ability to pay... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health
  • 16 May 2018
  • Research & Ideas

How Companies Managed Risk (and Even Benefitted) in World War Internment Camps

international business history story that hasn’t previously been told in great detail, but should be explored, says Giacomin, particularly since internment has long-lasting effects. During their incarceration, the Germans struggled with racial tensions and the... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Manufacturing
  • 09 Jun 2023
  • Blog Post

How to Communicate your Organizations’ People-Centered Values

institutional authority. Do the individuals charged with diversity and inclusion report to the CEO? Do they have the staffing and budget capacity required to make an impact not only in recruiting but also in creating organizational... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 01 Dec 1999
  • News

Pearson Hunt

During my time as editor of the Bulletin, the Alumni Office was staffed by one secretary whose principal job was to obtain news of alumni and prepare the notes for the next issue. The Bulletin was published quarterly with a 6-by-9 1/2... View Details
Keywords: Pearson Hunt
  • 01 Dec 2003
  • News

HBS Releases 2003 Financial Report

expenses to a level of $11 million less than originally planned. Major savings came in maintaining lower staffing levels, trimming costs in Executive Education and HBS Publishing, and deferring a number of discretionary maintenance... View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 06 Dec 2012
  • News

New Thinking on Healthcare Reform

written of his personal experience with the healthcare system. Cue MinuteClinic, located in 640 CVS stores across 25 states. Staffed with nurse practitioners and physician assistants, it provides on-the-spot care for routine ailments such... View Details
Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance
  • January 2018
  • Article

Who Gets Hired? The Importance of Competition Among Applicants

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; Competency and Skills
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  • Forthcoming
  • Article

On the Limits of Anonymization for Promoting Diversity in Organizations

By: Linda W. Chang and Edward H. Chang
Anonymization of job applicant resumes is a recommended strategy to increase diversity in organizations, but large-scale tests have shown mixed results. We consider decision-makers’ social dominance orientation (SDO), a measure of anti-egalitarianism/endorsement of... View Details
Keywords: Diversity; Selection and Staffing; Rank and Position
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  • 02 Oct 2013
  • What Do You Think?

Is Leadership an Increasingly Difficult Balancing Act?

management of tensions caused by the simultaneous need for such things as short-term and long-term performance, the exploitation of existing ideas and the search for new ones, and the staffing and motivation of leadership teams with... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 20 Apr 2017
  • Blog Post

Why I Love My Job: Ching Ching Chen On Her Passion For the Music Industry

labels and streaming services. What is your most memorable moment on the job? The highlight of my summer internship, was getting staffed on projects with some of my music industry heroes including Jeff Bhasker (Grammy Winner for Producer... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment / Media / Sports