Hiring - Publications - Faculty & Research

27 Mar 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research, March 27, 2018

and Hiring By: Stanton, Christopher T., and Catherine Thomas Abstract—New employers in a global online labor market are less likely to hire and, when they do, pay higher hourly wages than employers with... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Oct 2018
What Do You Think?

How Should Managers Deal with the Challenges of Building an Inclusive Workplace?

quotas Instead, I favor an individualized approach where the organization names diversity and inclusion as values and then individuals are evaluated based on their words and behavior rather than on numbers.” Frances Pratt suggested that, “ there needs to be a more... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Right from the Start: Common Traps for the New Leader

because they are incapable or outdated, or even wish to mislead. Falling Prey To Successor Syndrome At greatest risk is the new leader hired as second-in-command with the expectation that success will lead to promotion to the top... View Details

Keywords: by Dan Ciampa & Michael D. Watkins

14 Aug 2019
Sharpening Your Skills

The Manager's Guide to Leveraging Disruption

booksellers have survived. How Disruptive Innovation Changes EducationChristensen advocates for innovation to spur much-needed improvements in public education. Using Fintech to Disrupt Eastern Bank from Within When Eastern Bank decided to battle a threat from new... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

16 Feb 2016
First Look

February 16, 2016

impact of preferential incentive plans and the conditions under which these plans are more or less effective. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50575 Who Should Select New Employees, the Head Office or the Unit Manager? Consequences... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

11 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Non-competes Push Talent Away

for instance, a judge in California is not obligated to enforce the contract because it conflicts with California state law. "There's a saying out in California: You never stop hiring someone," says Marx (MBA '05, DBA '09), now an... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology

25 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Has Occupational Licensing Outlived Its Usefulness?

service provider has a license, their hiring decision is still more driven by price and online reviews than the quality assurance that comes with licensing. New research shows that tougher licensing requirements reduce the pool of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Service

25 Feb 2008
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Starting a Business

professor Constance Bagley discusses the most frequent legal flops made by entrepreneurs, everything from hiring the wrong lawyer to puffing up the business plan. Key concepts include: Entrepreneurs tend to delegate too much to the... View Details

13 Apr 2016
Research Event

What Does 'Diversity' Really Mean?

to talk the talk before you walk the walk. But talk is often infuriatingly cheap.” Holmes said it’s irritating that some business leaders seem to equate hiring a couple minority employees with making sweeping changes to corporate View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

21 Nov 2016
Research & Ideas

It Matters That Your CEO Doesn't Know Much About Sales

as a sales issue.” Planning and hiring To reap any of these benefits companies must develop links between the C-suite and the customer-facing side of the business. In his article, Cespedes offers two examples of how this can be done:... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

07 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders

cultures, all organizations cultivate career imprints. The strength of career imprinting depends upon both the people a firm hires as well as an organization's environment (factors having to do with people and place). Regarding place, for... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

30 Apr 2008
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Brand Management

Marketing executives value entertainment-related endorsements because of the difficulty of reaching a wide group of consumers using traditional advertising. Companies look to hire athletes whose image mirrors their own corporate brand.... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Sports; Publishing; Auto

06 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

Who Will Give You the Best Professional Guidance?

guidance is needed or to make introductions to customers, prospective partners, or job candidates. Advisers may also mentor junior members of a team when you lack the funds or time to hire in an experienced leader. Advisers are usually... View Details

Keywords: by Julia B. Austin

18 Jan 2021
Book

How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems

fraught example, about TraceTogether—a smartphone app to support community-driven contact tracing to slow the spread of COVID-19—that public entrepreneurs leave their office to ask people for feedback. Lagace: How do you hire talent for... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

14 May 2007
Research & Ideas

The Key to Managing Stars? Think Team

performance? A: For managers, it is imperative to understand that stars are not self-contained silos. Producing top-quality knowledge work requires collaboration and flows of information among a network of top performers. That means any one decision on View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

09 Jul 2008
Research & Ideas

Starbucks’ Lessons for Premium Brands

broaden its appeal. These new products undercut the integrity of the Starbucks brand for coffee purists. They also challenged the baristas who had to wrestle with an ever-more-complicated menu of drinks. With over half of customers customizing their drinks, baristas,... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Retail

01 Aug 2007
Op-Ed

Company Town: Fixing Corrupt Governments

job? An individual, a group of people, or some sort of board? Where would those people come from? New York? Nigeria? London? To my mind, it should be left up to the elected entity. If KPMG wanted to fly in a vice president from the Chicago office, it could do so, or it... View Details

Keywords: by Eric Werker

08 May 2006
Lessons from the Classroom

Writing the Case for Public School Reform

transforming a human resources department from a paper-pushing backwater to an entity that is strategically incorporated into the district's overall mission. "One observation that we made early in PELP is that school systems have essentially not changed their... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education

19 Jun 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54599 When Gender Discrimination Is Not About Gender By: Coffman, Katherine B., Christine L. Exley, and Muriel Niederle Abstract—We use an experiment to show that employers prefer to hire... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

20 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

Are Company Founders Underpaid?

issues. In short, it posits that when hired managers, or "agents," are faced with a conflict between their organization's best interests and their personal best interests, the agents will choose the latter. Therefore, the owners... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Financial Services; Technology

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