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- 16 May 2008
- News
Harvard Business School CIO's hiring process
- 11 Aug 2021
- News
How to Make Hiring More Equitable
- February 2022
- Technical Note
Widening the Talent Pipeline: Skills-First Hiring
By: Boris Groysberg, Sarah Mehta, Annelena Lobb and Kerry Herman
Groysberg, Boris, Sarah Mehta, Annelena Lobb, and Kerry Herman. "Widening the Talent Pipeline: Skills-First Hiring." Harvard Business School Technical Note 422-043, February 2022.
- February 1997 (Revised July 1997)
- Case
Vermeer Technologies (A1): Hiring the CEO
By: Ashish Nanda
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Nanda, Ashish, and Takia Mahmood. "Vermeer Technologies (A1): Hiring the CEO." Harvard Business School Case 397-079, February 1997. (Revised July 1997.)
- 16 Jul 2019
- Podcast
35. Why Do People Hire Religion?
And now for something completely different: What can we learn by looking at changes in religious affiliation through the lens of Jobs to Be Done? Why are rising generations “firing” organized religion in greater and greater numbers, and what are they “hiring” instead?... View Details
- June 2024
- Background Note
The Big Five, Performance, & Hiring
By: Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
Groysberg, Boris, and Robin Abrahams. "The Big Five, Performance, & Hiring." Harvard Business School Background Note 424-069, June 2024.
- September 4, 2012
- Article
When to Hire an Extreme Leader
By: Gautam Mukunda
Mukunda, Gautam. "When to Hire an Extreme Leader." Harvard Business Review Blogs (September 4, 2012).
- 31 May 2023
- Podcast
Assessing AI-boosted background checks; fair-chance hiring
Background checks are getting easier and faster to carry out, even as a continuous process. Is that a good thing? Checkr CEO & co-founder Daniel Yanisse on constructive, responsible screening and the case for second-chance employment. View Details
From Higher Aims to Hired Hands
Is management a profession? Should it be? Can it be? This major work of social and intellectual history reveals how such questions have driven business education and shaped American management and society for more than a century. The book is also a call for reform.... View Details
- 2016
- Working Paper
Who Gets Hired?: The Importance of Finding an Open Slot
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 Finding an Open Slot." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-128, May 2016.
- January 2021
- Article
Sales Hiring Is Hard to Do (Don't Make It Harder)
In the aggregate, hiring in sales is more expensive than many companies’ cap-ex decisions. But it rarely gets the same attention and companies fail to deal with challenges inherent in sales hiring. Unlike many other business functions, there is no easily identified... View Details
Cespedes, Frank V. "Sales Hiring Is Hard to Do (Don't Make It Harder)." Top Sales Magazine (January 2021), 38–39.
- 02 Feb 2016
- News
Hiring Star Salespeople Isn’t the Best Way to Grow
- 03 Feb 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Do You Hire an 'Impostor'?
In Hiring, Should We Give Self-Confidence a Greater Weight Than Humility? Summing Up A respondent to this month’s column, Joel, provided the question for this summary. As he asked, "should we be focusing on hiring people who exude... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- March–April 2017
- Article
Hiring an Entrepreneurial Leader: What to Look For
By: Timothy Butler
Aspiring to be innovative and agile, companies of all shapes and sizes want to recruit entrepreneurial managers. But most firms lack a scientific way to separate the true entrepreneurs from other candidates. To address that problem, Butler compared the psychological... View Details
Butler, Timothy. "Hiring an Entrepreneurial Leader: What to Look For." Harvard Business Review 95, no. 2 (March–April 2017): 85–93.
- Article
When Hiring CEOs, Focus on Character
By: Aiyesha Dey
The author, an associate professor at Harvard Business School, has studied the ways in which the lifestyle behaviors of CEOs—in particular, materialism and a propensity for rule breaking—may spell trouble for a company. Her research, which includes looking at... View Details
Dey, Aiyesha. "When Hiring CEOs, Focus on Character." Harvard Business Review 100, no. 4 (July–August 2022): 54–58.
- 11 Aug 2021
- Podcast
How to make hiring more equitable
Harvard sociologist David Pedulla unpacks the hiring process. How do race, gender, and work history influence the gatekeepers? What assumptions guide their decision-making and how can social science help level the playing field? View Details
- 18 Jun 2024
- News
Valuable Tips for Improving Sales Hiring
- 11 Feb 2022
- News
Skills-Based Hiring Is on the Rise
- 26 Mar 2012
- News
Hire veterans and get teamwork, leadership
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Dream Job: Higher Ed’s New Hire
The daughter of teenage parents, Kim Lew (MBA 1992) grew up in public housing in Harlem and the Bronx. Her father, a Chinese immigrant, worked in the mailroom of AT&T, where the CEO was a graduate of Penn’s Wharton School of Business. Lew senior urged his daughter to... View Details