Hiring - Publications - Faculty & Research

26 May 2022
HBS Case

Apple vs. Feds: Is iPhone Privacy a Basic Human Right?

increasingly expect companies to take a position. “It’s very hard not to get involved and take a stand. There is a growing expectation that companies will do something,” Hsieh says. The researchers suggest companies develop “ethical capacity” by View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

09 Nov 2021
Research & Ideas

The Simple Secret of Effective Mentoring Programs

Old-fashioned mentoring may be one of the most effective ways to improve job performance, but many mentorship programs don’t reach new hires who need guidance most, new research suggests. Newly hired... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

08 Dec 2020
Research & Ideas

Why Companies Hunt for Talent on Digital Platforms, Not in Resume Piles

colleagues also find that companies are becoming more sophisticated about identifying talent. By analyzing the skills that US firms want from prospective human resource workers, the researchers discovered that companies are increasingly View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Employment

23 May 2012
Research & Ideas

Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative

crowdsourcing comes in-defining a challenge and offering an incentive, whether in status or money, can get people to self-select as resources to you. You may even want to hire some of them. So this strategy can play into talent... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons, Julia Hanna & Roger Thompson

29 Apr 2014
First Look

First Look: April 29

Publications August 2013 Journal of Financial Economics X-CAPM: An Extrapolative Capital Asset Pricing Model By: Barberis, Nicholas, Robin Greenwood, Lawrence Jin, and Andrei Shleifer Abstract—Survey evidence suggests that many investors form beliefs about future... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Oct 2010
First Look

First Look: October 19, 2010

PublicationsFeeling Good about Giving: The Benefits (and Costs) of Self-interested Charitable Behavior Authors:L. Anik, L. B. Aknin, M. I. Norton, and E. W. Dunn Publication:In The Science of Giving: Experimental Approaches to the Study of Charity Abstract While lay... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

2022
Conference Presentation

Organizational Competition: A Catalyst for Workplace Diversity and Desires for Uniqueness

By: Samantha N. Smith, Edward H. Chang, Erika L. Kirgios and Katherine L. Milkman

Competition is prevalent in organizations. For example, people often compete against their colleagues for status and recognition in the workplace or for opportunities for advancement. Workers also compete against others to get hired into organizations in the first... View Details

Keywords: Status and Position; Organizational Culture; Motivation and Incentives; Behavior

Citation

28 Feb 2023
Research & Ideas

Can Apprenticeships Work in the US? Employers Seeking New Talent Pipelines Take Note

the hiring market continues to prove challenging, and employers across the spectrum commit to diverse hiring practices, apprenticeships could create a pipeline for homegrown talent. “It raises a lot of... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

07 Nov 2012
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Sir Alex Ferguson--Managing Manchester United

the world of soccer nowadays looks nothing like the one he started in as a coach at United 26 years ago. Sir Alex has embraced new technologies and new approaches, hiring sports scientists on his staff, and adopting new ways of measuring... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Sports; Entertainment & Recreation

10 Jan 2023
Op-Ed

Time to Move On? Career Advice for Entrepreneurs Preparing for the Next Stage

often very transferable for the next gig. What are you more aware of about yourself that you may not have known at the start of this journey? For example, you may have thought you were not technical, but after having to build your company’s first app because you... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

27 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

How Remote Work Changes What We Think About Onboarding

practice of onboarding new employees. Although hiring is already a forgotten luxury for many firms, at least for the time being, others are still bringing aboard new people, such as those who made hiring... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg

03 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

The Truck Driver Who Reinvented Shipping

additional trucks and hired a team of drivers, a move that enabled him to get off the road and look for new customers. For the next two years, his business thrived, but when poor economic conditions forced many of his newly won customers... View Details

Keywords: by Anthony J. Mayo & Nitin Nohria; Manufacturing; Transportation; Aerospace

16 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

The Most Successful Startups Have Hands-On Founders

leadership approach. The majority of these founders made at least one substantial business change after the retreat. “Founders talked at length about implementing particular action items,” the paper says. “For example, founders discussed View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

06 Oct 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters

crises and events. To learn more, read It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization Boris Groysberg, Richard P. Chapman Professor of Business Administration. Tip: New employees need rapid connections to key people The hiring... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

28 Jun 2021
Research & Ideas

Keep or Cut Workers? How Companies Reacted to the COVID-19 Crisis

increase during the pandemic. During the pandemic, Amazon hired as many new workers as all other Standard and Poor’s 500 companies combined. Online retailer Wayfair also prospered. Where the axe fell On the other hand, shopping malls and... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

19 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

Birth of the American Salesman

economic system. But what made the U.S. unique was the scale of American firms that were founded in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These massive manufacturing concerns, which produced tremendous numbers of business machines, appliances, and cars,... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Linard

18 Oct 2022
Research & Ideas

When Bias Creeps into AI, Managers Can Stop It by Asking the Right Questions

Most companies rely on artificial intelligence-based algorithms to make a wide variety of business decisions—from pinpointing the products customers prefer to determining which resumes should go to hiring managers. The problem for... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

09 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

Six Keys to Building New Markets by Unleashing Disruptive Innovation

and disruptive opportunities; the "schools of experience" theory informs hiring decisions. 4. Don't try to change your customers—help them. Faulty market segmentation schemes help to explain the stunningly high rate of failure... View Details

Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen, Michael E. Raynor & Scott D. Anthony

18 Sep 2012
First Look

First Look: September 18

PublicationsSidetracked: Why Our Decisions Get Derailed and How We Can Stick to the Plan Authors:Francesca Gino Publication:Harvard Business Review Press, forthcoming Abstract You may not realize it but simple, irrelevant factors can have profound consequences on... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

February 2013 (Revised March 2013)
Case

Agero: Enhancing Capabilities for Customers

By: Robert Simons and Natalie Kindred

This case illustrates the importance of choosing a primary customer as the basis for organization design. Cross Country Group managers adjusted resource allocation, organization design and performance measures over time to transform Cross Country Group from an... View Details