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- Faculty Publications (430)
- 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 of Engineering & Applied Sciences. Designed to train future leaders of... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 17 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
Man vs. Machine: Which Makes Better Hires?
degrees in education generally perform no better in their roles than those who do not. “So it’s likely recruiting managers are simply placing too much weight on things that look good on paper, but don’t turn out to matter much in... View Details
- 02 Dec 2022
- Blog Post
Why Does Your Company Exist?
When was the last time you thought about your company's mission statement? Maybe it appears on a slide deck that employees see in their onboarding process, or spotlighted in the annual report. Or perhaps your company's website features some aspirational statements or... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 28 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
We recently asked 600 CEOs: What is keeping you awake at night during this global pandemic? A major and multifaceted concern that emerged is how to keep employees motivated when their world is crashing around them. The circumstances of work have become more difficult.... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 03 May 2017
- Blog Post
How to Partner With a Club: Attend a Club Conference
Student Club Conferences are events focusing on a particular topic, typically an industry, location or affinity group, that are run by student clubs. Organizations that participate in Club Conferences benefit by increasing awareness of the ways they’re making an impact... View Details
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- 12 Sep 2016
- Blog Post
An Interview with Corporate Relations Director, Jonathan Shepherd
What did you do before coming to HBS? I was lucky enough to have literally stumbled upon my HBS job after spending the prior part of my career working exclusively in finance roles. Before HBS, I worked in investment banking, asset management and had been the CFO of a... View Details
- February 2023
- Article
Increasing the Demand for Workers with a Criminal Record
By: Zoë Cullen, Will Dobbie and Mitchell Hoffman
State and local policies increasingly restrict employers’ access to criminal records, but without
addressing the underlying reasons that employers may conduct criminal background checks.
Employers may thus still want to ask about a job applicant’s criminal record... View Details
Cullen, Zoë, Will Dobbie, and Mitchell Hoffman. "Increasing the Demand for Workers with a Criminal Record." Quarterly Journal of Economics 138, no. 1 (February 2023): 103–150.
- March 2008 (Revised May 2011)
- Case
Accenture's War for Talent in India
By: Robert G. Eccles, David Lane, Namrata Arora and Prabakar 'PK' Kothandaraman
Eccles, Robert G., David Lane, Namrata Arora, and Prabakar 'PK' Kothandaraman. "Accenture's War for Talent in India." Harvard Business School Case 408-095, March 2008. (Revised May 2011.)
- 04 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Worried About the Great Resignation? Be a Good Company to Come From
These employers are missing the underlying point. Instead of resorting to perks that are at best a band-aid, companies should follow the lead of Recruit Holdings, a $20 billion Japanese advertising and tech company that focuses on being a... View Details
Keywords: by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta
- 08 Feb 2018
- Blog Post
WesTrek: A Recap of the Largest Professional Trek at Harvard Business School
Two days after fall finals, 150 HBS students descended on the Bay Area for WesTrek 2017, the largest professional trek at Harvard Business School. Organized by the Tech Club, WesTrek has been an ongoing tradition at the school for the past two decades. This year, the... View Details
Keywords: Technology
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Competitiveness Recruit Alumni Recruiting MBA Recruiting Recruiting Resources Alumni Bulletin Baker Library | Bloomberg Center Business History... View Details
- Career Coach
Alyssa Wilson
Alyssa wants to help students decide if a career in investing is a good fit for their interests and skillset as well as work through practical recruiting advice and tactics. Alyssa can provide insight on how different firms View Details
- 01 Feb 2017
- Blog Post
How to Partner With a Student Club: Join a Club Panel
Club panel events provide a myriad of benefits to employers coming to campus. Company representatives can build brand awareness and speak to their company and its mission in front of a targeted group of talent that could be potential team members. With a panel format,... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- Career Coach
Sandra Charipper
Sandra spent her career prior to HBS working in a variety of Recruiting and HR roles before pivoting into Strategy & Operations. During her time at a HealthTech venture capital studio, she worked with a variety of seed stage to Series... View Details
- 2023
- Working Paper
The Market for CEOs: Evidence from Private Equity
By: Paul A. Gompers, Steven N. Kaplan and Vladimir Mukharlyamov
Most research on the CEO labor market studies public company CEOs while largely ignoring CEOs in private equity (PE) funded companies. We fill this gap by studying the market for CEOs among U.S. companies purchased by PE firms in large leveraged buyout transactions.... View Details
Gompers, Paul A., Steven N. Kaplan, and Vladimir Mukharlyamov. "The Market for CEOs: Evidence from Private Equity." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 30899, April 2022. (Revised January 2023.)
- 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.
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2.3 Attendance | MBA
absences, students are required to select the reason that is most consistent with why they will not be present in class on that particular day. For example, if a student will miss a class because they are traveling on the same day as an event or obligation (e.g.,... View Details
- Career Coach
Kristen Fitzpatrick
Kristen (HBS '03) is Managing Director, HBS Career and Professional Development. In this role, she coaches alumni and MBA students. Through her interactions with recruiters over the past decade, Kristen is familiar with many industries... View Details
- 21 Dec 2016
- Blog Post
Why We Recruit: CPP Investment Board
Why We Recruit is a series of interviews with our recruiting partners covering a variety of topics ranging from their experience working with HBS to what they want students to know. New interviews will be... View Details
- Career Coach
Zoe Sun
Zoe wants to help students, particularly international students who require visa sponsorship, understand opportunities available in the private equity industry and in finance industry more broadly. Having worked in Asia-focused private equity fund and having View Details