Recruiting - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2000
News

Going Public: Margaret M. Crotty

and motivating others. She recruited her brothers to tutor students, her Princeton alumni club to paint classrooms, her investment banker friends to help write a budget, and members of the community to organize fundraisers. At the same... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

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

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking

12:30 PM – 1:30 PM EST, 20 Nov 2023
Webinars: Career

Tech in the Job Search: LinkedIn for Job Searching

Data can reveal what matters most in today's job market, and this interactive webinar from CPD and Jeremy Schifeling, LinkedIn's former head of student and alumni education, will share behind-the-scenes insights that can help you optimize LinkedIn for both job hunting... View Details

31 Jan 2023
Research & Ideas

It’s Not All About Pay: College Grads Want Jobs That ‘Change the World’

Businesses seeking highly educated talent would do well to appeal to college graduates’ desire to “change the world.” And in doing so, they might change the world a little, too—by offering jobs that come with the unintended effect of reducing income inequality. Many... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

methodology, recruiting and managing the team and overseeing more than 400 project across many industries. Phil has given more than 150 keynote speeches at events like the Harvard Business School Distinguished Speaker Series, National... View Details

14 Aug 2006
HBS Case

On Managing with Bobby Knight and “Coach K”

Military Academy at West Point, where he recruited a young player named Mike Krzyzewski. "Coach K was a young, scrappy kid. He wasn't the best athlete on the team, but he had a lot of leadership potential," Snook says. After... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Sports

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

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Computer

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

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Aerospace

09 Jun 2022
HBS Case

From Truck Driver to Manager: US Foods’ Novel Approach to Staff Shortages

in March 2020, the pandemic only exacerbated a longstanding issue. The shortage of drivers to deliver food supplies to the roughly 300,000 restaurants, hotels, hospitals, schools, and universities serviced by US Foods was not its only staffing problem. The company also... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

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Frequently Asked Questions - Health Care

field-based learning . Complete an independent study with faculty sponsorship Find summer internships with leading recruiting partners in biotechnology, pharmaceutical, health services, venture capital, and consulting organizations... View Details

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Women at HBS - Alumni

to work after a hiatus and for employers recruiting from this talent pool. They also manage a comprehensive database of corporate return to work programs around the world. Landit , cofounded by HBS alumnae Lisa Skeete Tatum (MBA 1998) and... View Details

21 Nov 2023
Cold Call Podcast

Cold Call: Building a More Equitable Culture at Delta Air Lines

Keywords: Re: Linda A. Hill; Air Transportation

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After the Opium War: Treaty Ports and Compradors - A Chronicle of the China Trade

Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership Networked Business Research Associates Social... View Details

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For Organizations - Business & Environment

students who want to learn about your company and hear from senior leaders. Organizations are invited to design targeted events in collaboration with clubs. Organizations can also request resume books from any official student club via the HBS online 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

22 Apr 2022
Research & Ideas

Companies Can Expand Their Talent Pool by Giving Ex-Convicts a Second Chance

Employers looking to fill critical job vacancies may want to turn to a largely untapped pool of willing workers: people with criminal records. Employers are often wary of hiring workers with past convictions, leading to double-digit unemployment rates for formerly... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

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

January–February 2023
Article

Rethink Your Employee Value Proposition: Offer Your People More Than Just Flexibility

By: Mark Mortensen and Amy C. Edmondson

A lot of leaders believe that the formula for attracting and keeping talent is simple: Just ask people what they want and give it to them. The problem is, that approach tends to address only the material aspects of jobs that are top of employees’ minds at the moment,... View Details

Keywords: Compensation and Benefits; Retention; Recruitment; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Culture; Satisfaction

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14 Mar 2018
Research & Ideas

Feeling Stressed? Try Sniffing Your Romantic Partner's Shirt

professor at UBC. The research team recruited 96 heterosexual couples to participate in the study. The men were instructed to wear a plain white t-shirt for 24 hours, and to refrain from using deodorant, smoking, or eating foods like... View Details