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  • September 2008
  • Teaching Note

Allston: Brand vs. Architecture (TN)

By: Christopher M. Gordon and Ben Creo
Teaching Note for [208079]. View Details
Keywords: Brands and Branding; Buildings and Facilities; Selection and Staffing; Massachusetts
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Gordon, Christopher M., and Ben Creo. "Allston: Brand vs. Architecture (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 209-040, September 2008.
  • Spring 2021
  • Article

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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Kerr, Sari Pekkala, and William R. Kerr. "Whose Job Is It Anyway? Co-Ethnic Hiring in New U.S. Ventures." Journal of Human Capital 15, no. 1 (Spring 2021): 86–127.
  • 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
  • 29 Apr 2014
  • News

"Pull People Through"

Keywords: mentoring; diversity; Credit Intermediation and Related Activities; Finance
  • 01 Dec 2014
  • News

Rethinking the Fashion Beat

fully staffed online magazine, BoF has emerged as one of fashion’s most respected and read sources, delivering reviews of runway collections, profiles of industry insiders, and news and analyses of markets both established and emerging to... View Details
Keywords: Alyssa Giacobbe; fashion; Retail Trade
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IT Strategy: Improving Service to Support Innovation | Information Technology

community satisfaction. To achieve this, the team continually takes in feedback to ensure our offerings are aligned to our customers’ evolving needs. Over the past several years, a few areas for improvement emerged for Technology Support Services (TSS) in particular,... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2001
  • News

Modupe Akinola: Outreach In Africa

included not only a street-based literacy program, but the building and staffing of several child-care facilities. A year later, with three nurseries up and running, one under construction, and the project sustainable with sound... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; UNICEF; Educational Services
  • June 2005 (Revised August 2006)
  • Case

The Perfect CEO

By: G. Felda Hardymon and Ann Leamon
A venture capitalist must decide among three highly qualified candidates to be CEO of a start-up software company. Each has unique strengths and weaknesses and will take the company in very different directions. Whom should he recommend to the board? View Details
Keywords: Selection and Staffing; Competency and Skills; Leadership Style
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Hardymon, G. Felda, and Ann Leamon. "The Perfect CEO." Harvard Business School Case 805-156, June 2005. (Revised August 2006.)
  • February 2018 (Revised December 2020)
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People Analytics at Teach For America (A)

By: Jeffrey T. Polzer and Julia Kelley
As of mid-2016, national nonprofit Teach For America (TFA) had struggled with three consecutive years of declining application totals, and senior management was re-examining the organization's strategy, including recruitment and selection. A few months earlier, former... View Details
Keywords: Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Analysis; Forecasting and Prediction
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Polzer, Jeffrey T., and Julia Kelley. "People Analytics at Teach For America (A)." Harvard Business School Case 418-013, February 2018. (Revised December 2020.)
  • 30 Aug 2022
  • News

Should You Tell a Prospective Employer About Your Caregiving Responsibilities?

  • 15 Dec 2013
  • News

The Right Stuff

Keywords: private sector space travel; hiring practices; Space Research and Technology; Government
  • 16 Dec 2013
  • HBS Case

D’O: Making a Michelin-Starred Restaurant Affordable

is bilingual, acted as interpreter.) Staffing For Peak Occupancy For many restaurants, some nights of the week attract more customers than others. A bistro packed with customers on the weekend might be half empty on a Tuesday. For... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel & Joanie Tobin; Food & Beverage
  • March–April 2017
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Hiring an Entrepreneurial Leader: What to Look For

By: Timothy Butler
Aspiring to be innovative and agile, companies of all shapes and sizes want to recruit entrepreneurial managers. But most firms lack a scientific way to separate the true entrepreneurs from other candidates. To address that problem, Butler compared the psychological... View Details
Keywords: Selection and Staffing; Leadership Style; Attitudes
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Butler, Timothy. "Hiring an Entrepreneurial Leader: What to Look For." Harvard Business Review 95, no. 2 (March–April 2017): 85–93.
  • 01 Oct 2000
  • News

Timothy G. Brier: The Price is Right

and Australia. And in June, Brier moved ("with Pat, my bride of 28 years") to London to a new position as chairman of Priceline.com Europe. "Rather than transfer the American template abroad," he observes, "we've created an organization led and View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
  • 01 Aug 2001
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William F. Connell (MBA '63)

but his achievements over the past fourteen years speak volumes about his skills and vision as a leader. From the vantage point of his sparsely staffed Boston headquarters, for example, he sets the overarching strategy for each firm,... View Details
Keywords: Alumni Achievement Award; William F. Connell (MBA 1963); James O.Dunn; Manufacturing
  • 01 Jun 2017
  • News

Streamlining the Supermarket

few healthy-eating options. 2–3.When your order is received, mobile robots retrieve storage containers of products from the shelves and deliver them to picking stations staffed by TakeOff employees. It’s a more efficient system than... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
  • 01 Dec 2002
  • News

Think Globally, Teach Locally

all of which found its way back into the HBS curriculum.” Staffing the program, however, was no easy task. “People were dragged kicking and screaming — I agreed to go because I was coming up for tenure,” he says with a smile. “Yet each of... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • 01 Feb 1998
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Innovative Course Brings Students and Alumni Together

implement change in an existing large organization," notes Garvin, "for the entrepreneur, staffing is everything. That insight surprised students and led to an interesting discussion." The thirty alumni who were able to come to campus for... View Details
Keywords: Meg Gardner; photo by Joshua Lavine
  • 01 Sep 2012
  • News

The School of Life

battled it out in an ever-increasing test of nerves, a kind of Darwinian gauntlet. Early NASA executives had decided this was how to identify who had been born with “the right stuff.” Many companies looking to make top staffing decisions... View Details
Keywords: Professor Clay Christensen; Educational Services; Management
  • 09 Jul 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Are Management Consulting Firms Failing to Manage Themselves?

before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, strategy firms initiated a growth-driven hiring spree. However, as economies slowed, these firms faced a significant imbalance between their staffing “supply” and the declining demand for their... View Details
Keywords: by David Fubini; Consulting
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