employee recruitment - Publications - Faculty & Research

22 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

Social Capital Markets: Creating Value in the Nonprofit World

invests substantially in a small portfolio of local nonprofits, each a market-based enterprise such a Juma Ventures, which recruits high-risk urban youth to work in Ben & Jerry's shops. They closely monitor employees' progress and... View Details

Keywords: by Anne Kavanagh

13 Apr 2016
Research Event

What Does 'Diversity' Really Mean?

to talk the talk before you walk the walk. But talk is often infuriatingly cheap.” Holmes said it’s irritating that some business leaders seem to equate hiring a couple minority employees with making sweeping changes to corporate hiring... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 Oct 2000
News

Books

of an American icon. Part corporate biography and part memoir of a rare CEO/consultant partnership, this book chronicles Harley-Davidson's transition from a command-and-control culture to an open organization in which employees take... View Details

01 Jun 2020
News

Unleashed

As this existential crisis unfolded, a customer called FedEx in tears because her wedding dress hadn’t arrived yet, with less than twenty-four hours until the ceremony. A frontline service employee named Diane jumped into action, tracked... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

05 Nov 2020
Blog Post

12 Weeks of VC Summer: Remote Edition

I’d recommend to other companies looking to bring new employees into the fold. For example, we had a Maverick-wide poker tournament (nothing like losing money that bonds you), and organized a wine tasting experience across the country... View Details

June 2024
Teaching Note

Skills-First Hiring at IBM

By: Boris Groysberg and Sarah Mehta

Teaching note for “Skills-First Hiring at IBM,” case no. 422-013. View Details

Keywords: Competency and Skills; Experience and Expertise; Talent and Talent Management; Human Resources; Human Capital; Employees; Recruitment; Retention; Selection and Staffing; Jobs and Positions; Job Design and Levels; Job Interviews; Society; Societal Protocols; Technology Industry; United States; New York (state, US)

Citation

01 Jun 2011
News

Mr. Start-Up

start-up, from raising money and recruiting employees to closing business development deals. Do you have any advice for would-be entrepreneurs? We live in a time and place where there are amazing... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

Web

Clarence Kennedy and the Art of Photography | Baker Library

continued during her years at Polaroid, contributing to the advancement of instant photography and the ongoing recruitment of Smith art history majors by the company. In 1949, Kennedy introduced a course at Smith on photographing works of... View Details

01 Jan 2002
News

Orin C. Smith (MBA '67)

close connections between economies and governments around the world. "It isn't sufficient that I try to maximize the company's bottom line," Smith says. "Other constituencies affect our success in the long run." Starbucks employees... View Details

03 Apr 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 3, 2018

attracted considerable attention among donors and the media. Now, GiveDirectly is looking to grow, and it is contemplating how best to recruit talented employees and keep them motivated. In addition to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

What It Takes: Minorities in the Executive Suite

others. Finally, these mentors often became powerful sponsors later in the minority executives' career, recruiting them again and again to new positions." Beyond all this, for minorities to succeed in the upper reaches of Corporate... View Details

Keywords: by Judith A. Ross

15 Sep 2020
News

How To Make Diversity a Reality

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes “We have been very successful at finding people of color to be operating partners, to be employees at ICV. We've been doing this for two decades. We've had no problem finding... View Details

12 Jun 2019
Research & Ideas

Investors Have More Than Money to Offer Entrepreneurs

Invitations to recruiting events Beyond the basics: Seek examples of job descriptions (JDs) and critiques of those you’ve written. Most investors were operators once and have a good sense of how to write a good JD. Investors may also have... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

02 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

Secrets to a Successful Social Media Strategy

unacceptable behavior in the offline world might be perfectly acceptable in the online world. For example, corporate norms and fear that the boss might find out prevent many employees from openly advertising themselves on the job market.... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

06 Sep 2024
Blog Post

Harvard Business School Announces 2024 Goldsmith Fellows

innovative ideas and best practices, enhancing my approach to addressing complex social issues in the Global South.” Emilie Umuhire. Emilie brings six years of experience in multiple roles at One Acre Fund. She helped the organization meet their diversity commitments... View Details

01 Mar 2015
News

Case Study: The Speed of Light

California. How is the California market being served today? Does your model (people) allow for significant differentiation? Does the California marketplace have an abundance (compared to other markets) of the skilled employees you will... View Details

Keywords: Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

01 Oct 2002
News

Banishing Balkan Ghosts

as a Nonprofit Management Fellow at a UN economic institute in Belgrade in 1990. “And with so many international students at the School, one truly becomes a world citizen through one's HBS friends.” Meanwhile, at the Kennedy School, Djelic met economist Jeffrey Sachs,... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

15 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

High Ambition Leadership

Martha Lagace: What is missing in leadership models today? Michael Beer: Most formal leadership models do not incorporate institution-building in their definition of leadership. Leadership is thought of as a means for activating change, View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

02 Sep 2014
First Look

First Look: September 2

Publications September 2014 Organization Science Social Comparisons and Deception Across Workplace Hierarchies: Field and Experimental Evidence By: Edelman, Benjamin, and Ian Larkin Abstract—We examine how unfavorable social comparisons differentially spur View Details