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- 24 Oct 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Startup or Established Company? Which Is Best for You?
wanted to build the team. So, on day one I hired a head of recruiting to get things off to a strong start. I also knew market adoption would be critical to fundraising so (we) focused on growth very early on—before we even had a product!”... View Details
Keywords: by Julia B. Austin
- 10 Nov 2022
- Research & Ideas
Too Nice to Lead? Unpacking the Gender Stereotype That Holds Women Back
they should behave. First, they recruited about 800 participants to play a series of classic economics games. For instance, in one game, one player decides how to divide money between themselves and a partner. Then, participants were... View Details
Keywords: by Shalene Gupta
- 03 Apr 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Bridge Building in Venture Capital-Backed Acquisitions
Keywords: by Paul A. Gompers & Yuhai Xuan
- 19 Sep 2023
- Research & Ideas
What Chandrayaan-3 Says About India's Entrepreneurial Approach to Space
rather than me coming in with one set of skills but also cognitive biases. I have managed over the years to recruit like-minded faculty from all corners of the University. We collaborate to encourage our students to apply this mélange to... View Details
- 28 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
What's a Boss Worth?
chain of command—not just upper managers or C-level executives—can have on worker performance. “If you recognize that,” says Stanton, “it should inform how you recruit people, promote people, and structure trial periods.” Especially in... View Details
- 08 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Hunt for Talent on Digital Platforms, Not in Resume Piles
Strategy Unit. “They’re not sending resumes in. They’re being recruited, often through online platforms like LinkedIn.” Indeed, the rise of digital platforms now enables firms and recruiters to source potential candidates anywhere in the... View Details
- 29 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Do Employees Work Harder for Higher Pay?
do a one-time, four-hour data entry task via the Internet labor market oDesk.com, which allows for online recruitment of freelancers from around the world. "Keep in mind," Malhotra said, that "all of these people previously made less than... View Details
Keywords: by Chuck Leddy & Harvard Gazette
- 18 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
The Cost of Leaning In
the University of Pittsburgh. One key takeaway: “Women appear to positively select into negotiations and know when to ask,” they write. The negotiation experiment Exley and her research team recruited 292 undergraduate students, both men... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 08 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Strategic Way To Hire a Sales Team
Cespedes explains a strategic process for hiring and managing an effective salesforce: book excerpt Build your Team: Recruitment And Selection From Aligning Strategy and Sales By Frank Cespedes Putting the right team on the field is... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 16 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Messy Link Between Slave Owners and Modern Management
of capitalism. Slave owners were able to collect data on their workforce in ways that other business owners couldn't because they had complete control over their workers. They didn't have to worry about turnover or recruiting new workers,... View Details
Keywords: by Katie Johnston
- 22 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 22
PublicationsThe Burden of Guilt: Heavy Backpacks, Light Snacks, and Enhanced Morality Authors:Gino, F., M. Kouchaki, and A. Jami Publication:Journal of Experimental Psychology: General Abstract Drawing on the embodied simulation account of emotional information... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 May 2021
- Research & Ideas
Who Has Potential? For Many White Men, It’s Often Other White Men
people—other white men. Meanwhile, white women and people of color who were recruited from the same competitive MBA pool received more mundane work, including tasks they had already mastered. This disparity in development had long-term... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
Donors Are Turned Off by Overhead Costs. Here’s What Charities Can Do
detailed in the article Avoiding overhead aversion in charity, published in the October 2014 issue of Science magazine.) Donors are more reluctant to contribute if they think their money is paying for administrative overhead. ©iStock/Koinseb In their first experiment,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 13 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Good Incentives Lead to Bad Decisions
have a large impact." The researchers then recruited 209 experienced loan officers from several leading private—and public-sector Indian commercial banks to participate in up to 15 loan assessment sessions. Participants were asked to... View Details
- 12 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Experts Play It Too Safe: Innovation Lessons from a NASA Experiment
of whether managers should aim to deliberately increase the diversity of their evaluator pools,” the researchers write. Experts prefer feasible robot designs To test how open experts are to unique ideas, the researchers worked with NASA and Freelancer.com to View Details
- 20 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
The 5 Strategy Rules of Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs
they were not good at, and they were able to fill those gaps by recruiting individuals and forming teams to do the things they couldn't do or wouldn't do or shouldn't do." That kind of self-aware recognition of weakness is not... View Details
- 13 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
How to Spot a Liar
researchers recruited 104 participants to play the ultimatum game, a popular tool among experimental economists. In the traditional version of the game, one player (the allocator) receives a sum of money and proposes how to divvy it up... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 23 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Men Want Powerful Jobs More Than Women Do
listed, however, men reported a higher percentage of goals related to professional power. Next, the team investigated whether women desired professional advancement less than men, due to having to juggle more goals. They recruited 635 men... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 15 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
Looking For a Job? Some LinkedIn Connections Matter More Than Others
floor interacting with people every single day,” says Bojinov. “You really need to focus on getting yourself exposed to novel information.” Lessons for job seekers and recruiters The study demonstrates the usefulness of cultivating a... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Six Steps for Making Your Threat Credible
through on the threat to someone with greater power. This dynamic often plays out in corporate hiring decisions. In many companies, new recruits must negotiate their compensation with the human resources (HR) department rather than with... View Details
Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra