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December 2021
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Burning Glass Technologies: From Data to Product

By: Suraj Srinivasan and Amy Klopfenstein

In May 2021, Matt Sigelman, CEO of Burning Glass Technologies, a company that provided labor market analytics for a variety of markets, navigates his company’s transition from data company to product company. Burning Glass originated as a service that used artificial... View Details

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The Idea of Instant Photography - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Competitiveness Recruit Alumni Recruiting MBA Recruiting Recruiting Resources Alumni Bulletin Baker Library | Bloomberg Center Business History... View Details

28 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Racism and Digital Design: How Online Platforms Can Thwart Discrimination

through algorithms. Algorithms can be debiased by altering their inputs, but doing so requires managers to think about their goals around diversity and fairness. For example, LinkedIn redesigned its recruitment search tool to ensure that... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Travel; Entertainment & Recreation; Service

01 Mar 2024
News

Vital Signs

greatest benefit is the tool’s ability to give clinicians confidence over a wider range of expertise, Gresser says. Health systems in the UK and elsewhere have been responding to the staffing shortages by recruiting more nurse... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

15 Oct 2020
Research & Ideas

IT Job Wages Are No Longer 'Exceptional'

How many openings are there?’” The findings also have implications for economic policies. “Our results also suggest that a range of regional growth policies to recruit IT producers, which have been commonly pursued over the last few... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Information Technology

15 Aug 2022
Book

University of the Future: Finding the Next World Leaders in Higher Ed

is a place, like the contemporary United States, of real income inequality across its schools, even as its students are recruited from every sector of American life. Like the United States, it has enviable resources, and it manages to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education

03 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

Top Ten Legal Mistakes Made by Entrepreneurs

secrets they had are stale. It also helps to know whether potential recruits are subject to covenants not to compete. States vary in terms of how enforceable they are, but one shouldn't assume they are not. One should also check to see... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

17 Jun 2011
HBS Case

KFC’s Explosive Growth in China

"You're recruited for that position. You're very carefully developed to be able to do all these different jobs in the restaurant. And it's perceived as something that you would do your entire life." Along with training and... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Food & Beverage

21 Jun 2022
HBS Case

Free Isn’t Always Better: How Slack Holds Its Own Against Microsoft Teams

providing a basic service for free and paid subscriptions to an advanced version. By 2019, Slack had 88,000 paying customers and 10 million daily users. The company hired its first sales teams to recruit large corporations. Microsoft... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Information Technology; Technology

16 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

The Most Successful Startups Have Hands-On Founders

performance, the researchers say. Founders are usually very busy people—they recruit key employees, raise funds, find a board, develop partnerships, set strategy, and design the organization, to name a few responsibilities. What often... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 Jan 2011
News

Seth Klarman, MBA 1982

situations," says Klarman. Also at HBS, Klarman met Professor William Poorvu, who recruited him to manage a pool of capital in the newly formed Baupost Group. While the job initially didn't pay particularly well, it gave him a platform on... View Details

01 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation

Science Quarterly, a research team finds that shifting the focus to an employee's personal identity leads to an increase in both employee retention and customer satisfaction. "Organizations will talk about recruiting from outside the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Web Services; Service; Telecommunications

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Globalization - Faculty & Research

Legislation ; Recruitment ; Innovation and Invention ; Disruptive Innovation ; Knowledge ; Resource Allocation ; Industry Clusters ; Infrastructure ; Family Ownership ; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving ; Business and Community Relations... View Details

03 May 2023
Blog Post

Five Ways to Build Community at HBS

Early on, it’s so important to make time for your section, both through larger section-wide events and small group activities. 5. Don’t Stop There You can meet so many incredible people outside your section. Through student-run organizations, View Details

28 Nov 2005
Research & Ideas

Unilever: Transformation and Tradition

products, but they became worldwide brands because of the capabilities of Unilever. Their success rested on the choices made on strategy and organization, on the recruitment and development of managers, on the allocation of spending... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products

02 May 2025
Blog Post

How to Work with Search Firms

likely the search firm will be to advocate for you. How Executive Recruiters Build Candidate Pools Recruiters build a pool of candidates for their clients. The size and nature of the pool can vary based on... View Details

27 May 2022
Blog Post

Q&A with the HBS Armed Forces Alumni Association, MBA Class of 2023

part about transitioning from the military to a full-time MBA program? There is some loss of identity in leaving the military and not much time to process that change in an intensely busy environment like HBS. Anyone leaving the military will be able to handle the... View Details

16 Dec 2022
Research & Ideas

Why Technology Alone Can't Solve AI's Bias Problem

human toll to letting algorithms do the work. “Maybe there is a bias from people who have been traditionally hiring men.” Searches on popular recruiting sites might seem like a neutral way to find prospective candidates, but their... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology

17 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

Why Business Should Support Employees Who Are Caregivers

compromised productivity, and absenteeism. View VideoJoseph Fuller on measuring the costs of caregiving. (Courtesy Managing the Future of Work project.) If you consider that senior executives who make more than $100,000—arguably the most expensive to View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Health

17 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Blue Skies, Distractions Arise: How Weather Affects Productivity

study gives you the reality of the phenomenon. A lab study answers the question, why is this happening?" The team recruited 136 college students through the study pool at the Harvard Decision Science Laboratory in Cambridge,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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