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- 21 Oct 2019
- Video
Fair Chance Hiring at Hot Chicken Takeover
- May 13, 2024
- Article
What Companies Get Wrong About Skills-Based Hiring
By: Joseph B. Fuller and Matthew Sigelman
In recent years companies have removed college-degree requirements from many of their job postings. They’ve done this for good reason: Talent is scarce, and requiring degrees eliminates almost two-thirds of workers from consideration, a disproportionate number of them... View Details
Fuller, Joseph B., and Matthew Sigelman. "What Companies Get Wrong About Skills-Based Hiring." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (May 13, 2024).
- 13 Oct 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
Employee Selection as a Control System
- 02 Dec 2010
- News
Smaller Firms Still Hesitant to Hire
- 02 Nov 2015
- News
The Best Ways to Hire Salespeople
- 3 Feb 2020
- Interview
Lou Shipley: [How to Build a Culture of Enablement]
By: Lou Shipley
This episode of Reveal brings Lou Shipley, investor, lecturer, and previous CEO of Black Duck Security. Lou details sales enablement's role in delivering sales excellence and an effective new hire onboarding experience. View Details
"Lou Shipley: [How to Build a Culture of Enablement]." Reveal: The Revenue Intelligence Podcast, Gong.io, February 3, 2020.
- 29 Mar 2021
- News
Continuing employee development in the face of budget cuts
- Web
Hiring Process | Employment
round interviews. You should expect it to take one to three weeks to hear back. If you are not selected for an interview, you will receive an e-mail letting you know the status of your candidacy. First Interview If selected for an in... View Details
- March 2023
- Article
Learning to Successfully Hire in Online Labor Markets
By: Marios Kokkodis and Sam Ransbotham
Hiring in online labor markets involves considerable uncertainty: which hiring choices are more likely to yield successful outcomes and how do employers adjust their hiring behaviors to make such choices? We argue that employers will initially explore the value of... View Details
Kokkodis, Marios, and Sam Ransbotham. "Learning to Successfully Hire in Online Labor Markets." Management Science 69, no. 3 (March 2023): 1597–1614.
- July 2010 (Revised September 2011)
- Background Note
Hiring Professionals in China: A Practitioner's Guide
By: Heidi K. Gardner
This note outlines how leading professional service firms operating in China revise their standard hiring practices to fit local challenges and customs. Based on interviews with professionals in a number of established accounting, strategy consulting, and executive... View Details
Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Globalized Firms and Management; Employees; Selection and Staffing; Service Industry; China
Gardner, Heidi K. "Hiring Professionals in China: A Practitioner's Guide." Harvard Business School Background Note 411-029, July 2010. (Revised September 2011.)
- 01 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Hiring a Career Switcher: The Value of the MS/MBA
In the fall of 2019, Kaelyn Griffin and Adam Palay entered HBS as two of 30 students in the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program, a joint degree offered with the Harvard John A. Paulson School View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 2011
- Working Paper
The Impact of Forward-Looking Metrics on Employee Decision Making
By: Pablo Casas-Arce, F. Asis Martinez-Jerez and V.G. Narayanan
This paper analyzes the effects of providing forward-looking metrics on employee decision making. We use data from a southern European bank that, in April 2002, started providing its branch managers with customer lifetime value (CLV) information about mortgage... View Details
Learning to Successfully Hire in Online Labor Markets
Hiring in online labor markets involves considerable uncertainty: which hiring choices are more likely to yield successful outcomes and how do employers adjust their hiring behaviors to make such choices? We argue that employers will initially explore the value... View Details
- November 2022
- Case
Hiring with the Community in Saint Paul
By: Mitchell B. Weiss and Sarah Mehta
This case reviews Saint Paul Mayor Melvin Carter’s decision to involve the community in the process of hiring his cabinet members. Rather than relying on an executive recruiting firm or choosing cabinet heads from his own network, Carter recruited 100 community members... View Details
Keywords: Community Engagement; Competency and Skills; Government and Politics; Human Resources; Government Administration; Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Decision Making; Public Administration Industry; United States; Minnesota; Saint Paul
Weiss, Mitchell B., and Sarah Mehta. "Hiring with the Community in Saint Paul." Harvard Business School Case 823-074, November 2022.
- 08 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
How to Demotivate Your Best Employees
productivity. More than 80 percent of companies dole out work-related awards like "employee of the month" or "top salesperson." Managers often view these awards as inexpensive ways to improve worker... View Details
- January 2025
- Technical Note
Skills-First Talent Management: Hiring
By: Boris Groysberg, Tom Quinn, Robin Abrahams and Katherine Connolly Baden
The first in a series of notes on how organizations manage skills-first talent-management chains, covering recruiting: the process of creating a job description, publicizing the job and attracting applicants, and assessing candidates. Other notes in this series include... View Details
Groysberg, Boris, Tom Quinn, Robin Abrahams, and Katherine Connolly Baden. "Skills-First Talent Management: Hiring." Harvard Business School Technical Note 425-019, January 2025.
- 28 Feb 2011
- News
The Importance of 'Don't' in Inducing Ethical Employee Behavior
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Hiring an Entrepreneurial Leader
- January 24, 2025
- Article
Behaviorally Designed Training Leads to More Diverse Hiring
By: Cansin Arslan, Edward H. Chang, Siri Chilazi, Iris Bohnet and Oliver P. Hauser
Many organizations have shown interest in increasing the diversity of their workforces for various reasons. Collectively, they have spent millions of dollars and countless employee hours on diversity training. Yet, there is little empirical evidence that such training... View Details
Keywords: Training; Diversity; Selection and Staffing; Behavior; Outcome or Result; Organizational Change and Adaptation
Arslan, Cansin, Edward H. Chang, Siri Chilazi, Iris Bohnet, and Oliver P. Hauser. "Behaviorally Designed Training Leads to More Diverse Hiring." Science 387, no. 6732 (January 24, 2025): 364–366.