Selection - Publications - Faculty & Research

12 May 2022
News

Onboarding

terms of time. But you know, the recruitment and selection process has changed quite a bit. Back in the early 90s, late 80s, it was generally just a question of the chairman and CEO and the other board members looking at their... View Details

16 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018

future promotion. The findings indicate that adverse selection concerns on the extensive margin of retaining workers drive the empirical regularity that firms rarely reduce compensation. Download working paper:... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

13 Feb 2017
Research & Ideas

Paid Search Ads Pay Off for Lesser-Known Restaurants

advertisers) wanted to know, which is: What would happen to their business if restaurants bought an advertising package? Luca proposed a large-scale experiment in which Yelp would give away several months of advertising spots for free to randomly View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage

08 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

Who Is the Chief Sustainability Officer?

shows. Innovation: A select number of companies shift to a more advanced innovative stage by integrating sustainability into the core of the business in ways that transform the company. Strategies tend to be driven by the market with an... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Manufacturing

12 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 12

GlaxoSmithKline: Sourcing Complex Professional Services Pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) uses an innovative new approach to procuring outside legal counsel: it replaces relationship-based selection and law firms' traditional... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

Planning for Surprises

to become strongly mobilized to oppose any change. They can often do this successfully until the wall begins to collapse and a crisis allows leaders to overcome their resistance. Far too often, a select group is successful in lobbying the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Preface - Coin and Conscience – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

Kress Library of Business and Economics, written by Ruth Rogers, then curator of the Kress Library at Baker Library. The images selected by Ms. Rogers for inclusion in the catalog represent the major thematic divisions of the Bleichroeder... View Details

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Creating Inclusive Recruiting Events in a Time of Innovation - Recruiting

inclusive events is choosing who will represent your company and being cognizant of sharing diverse voices across race, gender, ethnicity, disability, and other social and cultural identifiers. Often organizations will select which... View Details

01 Mar 2014
News

Faculty and Alumni Books for March 2014

selected professional managers to run them, and given them more financial autonomy, which has reduced many agency problems commonly faced by SOEs, but not the temptation for governments to intervene in the operation of large strategic... View Details

07 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 7, 2008

Lawrence Summers had presided over the final interviews of world-renowned architects being considered for the science complex planned for Harvard's expanded campus in Allston. The selection process had absorbed nine months in 2005 and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

14 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 14

will disagree about the optimal choice from a randomly selected available set. We provide an algorithmic method to compute these metrics in the case where the probability of a given feasible set is a function only of its cardinality. The... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

February 2019 (Revised May 2019)
Case

Hot Chicken Takeover

By: William R. Kerr, Manjari Raman and Olivia Hull

By December 2018, entrepreneur Joe DeLoss’s fried chicken company, Hot Chicken Takeover, has opened three restaurants in Columbus, Ohio, using an unconventional employment model that helps people with criminal records get back on their feet. DeLoss is proud of the... View Details

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16 Dec 2013
HBS Case

D’O: Making a Michelin-Starred Restaurant Affordable

For restaurateurs, receiving a Michelin star can be a mixed blessing. Certainly it's a rare and celebrated honor—the French company bestows its one-, two-, and three-star ratings only to a select few restaurants worldwide. However, a star... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel & Joanie Tobin; Food & Beverage

30 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers

scored much higher. "The finding there is not so much that family ownership per se is associated with lower scores, but rather family ownership when the selection of the CEO is not meritocratic," Sadun says. "Especially in... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

24 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

The Trick of Balancing Business and Government

Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University chose business and government ethics and a good infrastructure for attracting business; while a third panelist selected civil society. Discussion and debate ensued among the five... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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For Guests - Commencement 2025

single-use to-go items; and select menu items with lower greenhouse gas emissions in mind. In addition to our sustainable event practices, HBS has made significant reductions in GHG emissions along with other sustainability achievements .... View Details

01 Dec 2022
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Contributing to a Better Future

addressing key challenges, beginning with climate change and building a more inclusive economy. How did you select these two issues? To be sure, the world doesn’t lack for great challenges. But climate change and inclusive prosperity both... View Details

Keywords: April White

30 Oct 2017
News

Giving Minorities a Playbook for Career Success

selectivity indices 75 percent of the professionals in MLT’s mid-career advancement program received promotions within one year of completing the program “I think that what success will look like in the next 10 years is a critical mass of... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

01 Dec 2009
News

Seven Honored with Alumni Achievement Award

On October 19, the School conferred its highest honor, the Alumni Achievement Award, on seven distinguished individuals. Since 1968, the School has selected outstanding men and women for the award, recognizing their accomplishments in the... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; awards; fishing; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance; Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; General Merchandise Stores; Retail Trade

04 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 4, 2007

aeronautic plant, I demonstrate how an implicitly negotiated leniency between management and workers around the use of company materials and tools, on company time, to produce artifacts for personal use, enhances workers' identities. This leniency applies to a View Details