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  • January 2008
  • Article

Nonemployment Stigma as Rational Herding: A Field Experiment

By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee
Long spells of unemployment are known to reduce the likelihood of re-employment, but it is difficult to discern the reasons for this observation. Using an experimental method that controls for search intensity and possible discouragement of job applicants, I document... View Details
Keywords: Job Search; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Employment; Cognition and Thinking; Perception; Creativity; Human Needs; Job Interviews; Selection and Staffing; Recruitment; Managerial Roles; Judgments; Employment Industry
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  • 25 Jul 2011
  • Research & Ideas

How Disruptive Innovation is Remaking the University

departments and in the relationships among faculty and administrators. It is written into course catalogs, into standards for admitting students and promoting professors, and into strategies for raising funds and recruiting athletes. It... View Details
Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen & Henry J. Eyring; Education
  • 10 Mar 2011
  • What Do You Think?

To What Degree Does the Job Make the Person?

what extent does the job make the person rather than vice-versa? Can it be predicted? If so, what does this mean for management recruiting and development in the future? What do you think? References: Joshua M. Ackerman, Christopher C.... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 06 Sep 2006
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Mixing Students and Scientists in the Classroom

unexpected ways. One of the students self-assembled a team in the very early stages of the course. He assessed classmates' strengths and interests during the first couple of sessions and recruited the ones he wanted to work with. The... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Education
  • 17 Jun 2002
  • Research & Ideas

A Litmus Test for Entrepreneurs

philosophy— "going for scale," as the dot-commers put it. This approach makes sense in certain contexts, especially for businesses like on-line recruitment sites, because their competitive advantage lies in the size of their... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
  • 12 May 2009
  • First Look

First Look: May 12, 2009

U.S. areas where the two industries are not co-located. All three of Marshall's theories of agglomeration are supported, with input-output linkages particularly important. The Definitive Guide to Recruiting in Good Times and Bad... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 11 Mar 2008
  • First Look

First Look: March 11, 2008

broadly in one the world's richest nations. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=608065 Peabody Simpson at the Crossroads Harvard Business School Case 503-112 Three managing directors at Peabody Simpson had just returned... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 11 Dec 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Economic Jitters Push Pandemic Job Seekers to Big Companies, Not Startups

The coronavirus pandemic is spurring job applicants to seek positions at big companies and avoid startups in what new research calls an economic “flight to safety.” Job applicants using AngelList Talent, the largest online recruitment... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 26 Jan 2004
  • Research & Ideas

How Women Can Get More Venture Capital

provide a track for professionally trained VCs; the Kauffman Fellows program brought top flight MBAs, both men and women, together with sponsoring VC firms. Its primary goal was to provide a new avenue for recruiting and training young... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
  • 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
Keywords: Fair Chance Employment; Fair Chance Hiring; Open Hiring; Inclusive Hiring; Criminal Record; Homelessness; Therapeutic Employment; Corporate Culture; Managing The Future Of Work; Food; Entrepreneurship; Social Entrepreneurship; Values and Beliefs; Fairness; Human Resources; Compensation and Benefits; Recruitment; Employees; Retention; Selection and Staffing; Innovation Strategy; Job Offer; Job Interviews; Human Capital; Leadership; Growth Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Social Enterprise; Social Issues; Poverty; Welfare; Food and Beverage Industry; Ohio; United States
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  • 29 Oct 2000
  • Research & Ideas

The Entrepreneurial Venture: A Conversation

is in recruiting that team: Great venture capitalists can identify and convince great managers to sign on. What do you find to be the most challenging aspect of your work? How do you deal with this challenge? Owades: People. In every... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
  • 15 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 15

recruit and retain motivated and capable CHWs. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/910030-PDF-ENG Brazil: Leading the BRICs? Arthur A. Daemmrich and Aldo MusacchioHarvard Business School Case 711-024 Brazil's new... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Jun 2009
  • Research & Ideas

The Return of the Salesman

recruits for Fuller Brush in the early 20th century, for instance, would leave after a day or two. But aside from these characterizations, it's useful to think of two prototypical types of salespeople: the transactional salesperson and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail
  • Teaching Interest

Overview

By: Ethan S. Bernstein
Professor Bernstein currently teaches a second-year MBA course in Managing Human Capital (MHC). He is also the faculty chair for the Harvard Business School Online Developing Yourself as a Leader course and teaches in a variety of executive education... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Leadership Development; Leadership Style; Innovation Leadership; Management Practices and Processes; Management Succession; Management Style; Management Systems; Management Teams; Managerial Roles; Organizations; Organizational Culture; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance; Information Technology; Strategy; Human Resources; Compensation and Benefits; Employees; Recruitment; Resignation and Termination; Retention; Selection and Staffing
  • 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 and View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 15 Nov 2016
  • First Look

November 15, 2016

takes a closer look at the implementation of a global job model and how it has enabled the use of data analytics in the human resources function. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/417038-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 417-039 Zurich... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Sep 2013
  • First Look

First Look: September 3

flexible arrangements. 4. Recruit and promote from diverse pools of candidates. 5. Provide leadership education. 6. Sponsor employee resource groups and mentoring programs. 7. Offer quality role models. 8. Make the chief diversity officer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • October 2024
  • Supplement

Hakluyt: from Corporate Intelligence to Trusted Advisors (B)

By: Joseph B. Fuller and Lena Duchene
This case is a continuation of an earlier study chronicling Hakluyt & Company (Hakluyt)’s transformation from an obscure boutique to a global corporate advisory firm with an outsized reputation. In August 2024, the firm faced a pivotal moment as managing partner Varun... View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Talent and Talent Management; Capital Structure; Cash Flow; Corporate Finance; Equity; Stock Shares; Corporate Governance; Business History; Compensation and Benefits; Recruitment; Leadership Style; Growth Management; Management Succession; Management Teams; Organizational Culture; Performance Evaluation; Networks; Partners and Partnerships; Business Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Consulting Industry; Europe; United Kingdom; England; London
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  • 16 May 2018
  • Research & Ideas

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

to their employers. Internment not only robbed companies of these key employees, it also made it more difficult for companies to recruit and retain workers for their European businesses. “Only [a] few of the old India experts have found... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Manufacturing
  • 07 Aug 2017
  • Research & Ideas

'Be Yourself (Within Reason)' and Other Job Search Survival Tips

what job offers we get, or even when we get news about our applications. Staying physically healthy while I was having a minor emotional meltdown helped feed that need for control. Going for a run or a yoga class also forced me to take a break from staring at my cell... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Accounting; Education

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