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- 03 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Is the Future of MBA Education?
services and consulting firms are increasingly substituting non-MBAs for MBAs. The numbers are small but growing. Before the crisis, a managing director at one large investment bank noted that his firm still hired 300 to 400 MBAs per year... View Details
- 04 Feb 2010
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Way to Make Careful Decisions?
for failure in similarly uncontrollable circumstances. We hire "stars," only to watch them burn out in a new and different managerial environment. We look for "best practice" (à la Jim Collins in Good to Great and... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 24 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
Developing Your Next CEO for the Family Business
A good book on CEO succession is The CEO Within by my Harvard Business School colleague Joe Bower. Bower studied how companies perform after hiring a new CEO, noting whether the successor had been recruited from inside or outside the... View Details
- 12 Mar 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Managing the Family Business: Firing the CEO
something has gone very wrong and the organization could be in trouble. It implies that the person was a bad choice to begin with, which impugns the judgment of those who hired the CEO. And there's also the personal confrontation that... View Details
- 04 Nov 2015
- What Do You Think?
Why Does Gender Diversity Improve Financial Performance?
comment from “The Real Deal” echoes this belief: “If you want real diversity, surround yourself with people from different backgrounds who do not think like you. You could hire 50% women, and if they are clones of your existing leaders,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 04 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Founders Recruit Friends and Family as Investors
grow: What types of hiring challenges will I face? Which investors should I try to target at my company's various stages of growth—and what challenges will they introduce? Will I be replaced as CEO at some point, and, if so, will I... View Details
Keywords: by Noam Wasserman
- 13 Apr 2021
- Book
How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations
managers about the gender biases that influence hiring decisions. Companies should also anonymize resumes, diversify interview panels, and evaluate candidates as a group against a set of defined criteria. Integration. Create opportunities... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 20 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
Incubators: The New Venture Capitalists?
you're hiring for your startup." But with the good incubators already having their hands full, said Corey, entrepreneurs are also going to make the case for themselves. "You obviously want to spend a lot of time interviewing... View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
- 16 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Luxury Isn’t What It Used to Be
is at the heart of the shopping experience. Tranthi adds that she approves the hire of every sales associate at each of Thomas Pink's ten U.S. stores. "It is the most critical position in the company," she says. "They... View Details
- 27 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
Want a Happy Customer? Coordinate Sales and Marketing
limit the opportunities to develop people who are "dual-faceted" and good at both the sales functions and the marketing functions. But, some companies successfully try to hire people who have good "cross-over" skills... View Details
Keywords: by Benson Shapiro
- 22 Jul 2019
- Book
How to Be a Digital Platform Leader
exposure by hiring professional photographers to take photos similar to what a person would see for hotel listings. This decision was not only a differentiating factor from Craigslist-type postings or newspaper advertisements; it also... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 13 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 13, 2010
the draft. To be able to select him in the eighth spot seemed like a steal for the Rockets and their newly hired assistant general manager, Daryl Morey. Moments later, the assembled crowd's jubilation turned to horror as television... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Hunting for a Hot Job in High Tech? Try 'Digitization Economist'
Under chief economist Pat Bajari, Amazon has hired more than 150 PhD economists in five years. He’s also cornered the market on what might be called “rookie economists” just out of school. That crowns Amazon the largest employer of tech... View Details
- 04 Feb 2015
- What Do You Think?
Is There a Stanford-Google-Silicon Valley School of Management?
the company cited in 2007 as one of three prime example firms demonstrating "the future of management" by thought leader Gary Hamel. Schmidt and Rosenberg describe a philosophy that is centered around hiring "smart... View Details
- 17 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017
Employees, the Head Office or the Unit Manager? Consequences of Centralizing Hiring at a Retail Chain By: Deller, Carolyn, and Tatiana Sandino Abstract—We examine whether centralized hiring (in this study,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
Investors Have More Than Money to Offer Entrepreneurs
informal Twitter pollI recently conducted, 56 percent of entrepreneurs who responded said their most common ask of their investors is for hiring help. Second to that (31 percent) are asks for introductions to potential partners or... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 03 Feb 2020
- What Do You Think?
Can an Organization Have Too Much 'Rebel Talent'?
organizations are, at once, on many right tracks and wrong tracks. “The right question is therefore not the amount of ‘rebel talent’ but how to focus it on the right causes.” David Wittenberg concurred. As he put it, “organizations should View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Jan 2018
- Op-Ed
'Dear Working Knowledge'--Our Favorite Reader Comments of the Year
the corporate world to suck people's home and leisure time away from them. Most people are only fooling themselves when they think ordering take out (an unhealthy option, when done too much) or hiring a housecleaner will give them that... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Women at Work
"There's no way they're going to hire a temp secretary to fill a financial analyst position," everybody told her. But Cook was determined. She campaigned for the job tirelessly, and got it. "I wanted to do such a great job... View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild
- 14 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Rewriting the Rules of Service Competition
well. As a result, these organizations staff very carefully, hiring for attitude and then training for skills, whether the business is fast food or cutting-edge medical organizations such as the Mayo Clinic. These are not good places to... View Details