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- 29 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
Four Elements for Finding the Right Career Path
When people contemplate a career change, astute thinking alone won’t necessarily take them in the right direction. Instead, when career changes and other huge life-changing experiences are at stake, people should tap into their “full self” to help them make the... View Details
- 25 May 2021
- Blog Post
The Surprising Power of Nostalgia at Work
Many people assume that nostalgia is purely entertainment, a feeling individuals enjoy because it takes them back to the more carefree days of their youth. Some view it as maladaptive fixation on the past, perhaps indicating a fear of change. I’ve heard business... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 11 May 2021
- Blog Post
IPO or M&A? How Venture Capital Shapes a Startup's Future
Entrepreneurs rarely consider who will ultimately own their startups—and what that means for founders—when they court venture capitalists. New research suggests they should. A startup funded by VCs who tend to work with the same group of partners are more likely to... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity
- 11 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness
"Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind." —Henry James As a professor of business administration in the Organizational Behavior Unit at the Harvard Business School, I teach courses in... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 02 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
WE RISE
When Hayley Barna (MBA 2010) launched the beauty startup Birchbox in 2010, she expected fundraising would be a challenge. Every entrepreneur knows the long odds: By some estimates, less than 1 percent of new companies receive that coveted venture capital check. What... View Details
- 18 Apr 2019
- Blog Post
Evolution in Entertainment: A Recap of the 2019 Entertainment & Media Conference
On Sunday March 31, approximately 300 people gathered at the Harvard Business School campus to attend the Entertainment & Media Conference. This year’s theme, “Evolution in Entertainment”, drew a wide range of attendees from top entertainment professionals to... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment / Media / Sports
- 11 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
John Bracaglia, MBA 2020: “I Want to Find the Machine Learning Strategy That Avoids the Pitfalls While Fulfilling the Promise.”
For John Bracaglia, his academic and professional careers have been driven by two themes: “machine learning and behavioral economics,” he says. “The two work together. Machine learning is about how computers understand information, while behavioral economics is about... View Details
- 02 May 2018
- Blog Post
Should Companies Disclose Employee Compensation?
How Should Organizations Draw the Line on Pay Transparency? There is general support for the widespread practice of disclosing pay data in "bands" associated with jobs. Fewer people would go beyond this to disclose what individual employees make in their... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 27 Mar 2017
- Blog Post
How to Partner With a Club: Host a Club Trek
Hosting an HBS Club Trek provides organizations with the opportunity to bring students on site to their offices and present career opportunities, company culture, and a day-in-life at the organization. This is a great way for organizations to engage with students and... View Details
Keywords: Technology
- 20 Oct 2016
- Blog Post
An Interview with Associate Director, Phillip Andrews
What did you do before you came to CPD? Before I joined the Career & Professional Development (CPD) team, I spent two years as a case researcher working with faculty to develop and write business case studies for use in the HBS classroom and in business programs... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 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.)
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 13 Nov 2019
- Working Paper Summaries
The Gender Gap in Self-Promotion
- 2023
- White Paper
Hidden Workers: Part-Time Potential
By: Joseph B. Fuller, Manjari Raman and Francis Hintermann
As employers continue to encounter major skills shortages, many qualified and willing workers remain unemployed or underemployed. These “hidden workers,” ignored by employers for a variety of reasons, represent a potential source of much-needed labor. In our initial... View Details
Fuller, Joseph B., Manjari Raman, and Francis Hintermann. "Hidden Workers: Part-Time Potential." White Paper, Harvard Business School Project on Managing the Future of Work, March 2023.
- July 2011
- Teaching Note
Accenture's War for Talent in India (TN)
By: Robert G. Eccles and Erin McFee
Teaching Note for 408095. View Details