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- 17 Apr 2025
- Video
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- October 1971 (Revised September 1983)
- Case
Sturdivant Electric Corp.
By: Richard L. Nolan
A unit manager on a field computer installation job is faced with recurring conflict between a programmer and his immediate supervisor. View Details
Keywords: Planning; Rank and Position; Problems and Challenges; Conflict and Resolution; Attitudes; Jobs and Positions; Management Teams; Managerial Roles; Public Relations Industry; Computer Industry
Nolan, Richard L. "Sturdivant Electric Corp." Harvard Business School Case 172-123, October 1971. (Revised September 1983.)
- 30 Jun 2015
- News
Special Presentation: Karen Gordon Mills
- 02 Oct 2013
- HBS Seminar
Laura Gee, Tufts University
- 10 Apr 2013
- News
The Happiest People Pursue the Most Difficult Problems
- 09 Apr 2020
- News
3 Major Coronavirus Challenges for Pay TV
- February 11, 2022
- Article
Skills-Based Hiring Is on the Rise
By: Joseph B. Fuller, Christina Langer and Matthew Sigelman
Two decades ago, companies began adding degree requirements to job descriptions, even though the jobs themselves hadn’t changed. After the Great Recession, many organizations began trying to back away from those requirements. To learn how the effort is going, the... View Details
Keywords: Human Resource Management; Hiring; Recruiting; Selection and Staffing; Recruitment; Competency and Skills; Human Resources
Fuller, Joseph B., Christina Langer, and Matthew Sigelman. "Skills-Based Hiring Is on the Rise." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (February 11, 2022).
- 11 Feb 2022
- News
Skills-Based Hiring Is on the Rise
- 17 Feb 2016
- Video
An MBA student helps young people figure out their 'why'
- 18 May 2021
- News
Launching a Career in the COVID Economy? Here Are 5 Tips.
- 04 Apr 2016
- Blog Post
Meet the Middle East & North Africa Club
every new member to be part of the leadership team, hence contributing to the MENA community. How are alumni involved with the MENA Club after graduation? After graduation, alums get involved with the club in many ways. They can still participate in the weekly... View Details
- 2015
- Working Paper
Discretion in Hiring
By: Mitchell Hoffman, Lisa B. Kahn and Danielle Li
Who should make hiring decisions? We propose an empirical test for assessing whether firms should rely on hard metrics such as job test scores or grant managers discretion in making hiring decisions. We implement our test in the context of the introduction of a... View Details
Hoffman, Mitchell, Lisa B. Kahn, and Danielle Li. "Discretion in Hiring." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-055, October 2015.
- 03 May 2012
- News
Panel: U.S. must find way to get ’mojo‘ rising again
- 03 Feb 2010
- News
Leadership's Lost Decade
- 2022
- Working Paper
Flight to Safety: How Economic Downturns Affect Talent Flows to Startups
By: Shai Bernstein, Richard Townsend and Ting Xu
Using proprietary data from AngelList Talent, we study how individuals’ job search and application behavior changed during the COVID-19 downturn. We find that job seekers shifted their searches toward more established firms and away from early-stage startups, even... View Details
Keywords: Startup Labor Market; Flight To Safety; COVID-19; Recession; Business Startups; Human Capital; Business Cycles; Health Pandemics
Bernstein, Shai, Richard Townsend, and Ting Xu. "Flight to Safety: How Economic Downturns Affect Talent Flows to Startups." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-045, September 2020. (Revised March 2022.)
- January 2018
- Article
Who Gets Hired? The Importance of Competition Among Applicants
By: Edward P. Lazear, Kathryn L. Shaw and Christopher Stanton
Despite seeming to be an important requirement for hiring, the concept of a slot is absent from virtually all of economics. Macroeconomic studies of vacancies and search come closest, but the implications of slot-based hiring for individual worker outcomes has not been... View Details
Lazear, Edward P., Kathryn L. Shaw, and Christopher Stanton. "Who Gets Hired? The Importance of Competition Among Applicants." Journal of Labor Economics 36, no. S1 (January 2018): S133–S181.
- 25 May 2011
- HBS Case
QuikTrip’s Investment in Retail Employees Pays Off
Zeynep Ton goes behind the scenes to discover how the Tulsa, Oklahoma—based chain of convenience stores manages to outperform its competitors while maintaining a loyal workforce of over 10,000 employees. These workers enjoy above-average wages, View Details
- 11 May 2012
- News