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- June 2024
- Teaching Note
Skills-First Hiring at IBM
By: Boris Groysberg and Sarah Mehta
Teaching note for “Skills-First Hiring at IBM,” case no. 422-013. View Details
Keywords: Competency and Skills; Experience and Expertise; Talent and Talent Management; Human Resources; Human Capital; Employees; Recruitment; Retention; Selection and Staffing; Jobs and Positions; Job Design and Levels; Job Interviews; Society; Societal Protocols; Technology Industry; United States; New York (state, US)
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
ERM, but the studies are inconsistent and inconclusive, due, we believe, to an inadequate specification of how ERM is used in practice. Based on a 10-year field project, over 250 interviews with senior risk officers, and 3 detailed case... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
of racial inclusion on boards of directors among large public corporations, and we draw upon in-depth interviews with key participants to gain insights into the mechanisms that are likely to have generated the patterns we detect in our... View Details
- 10 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet
lover who played saxophone in high school, discussed what he learned from violinist Robertson in this interview with HBS Working Knowledge. Martha Lagace: What drew you to writing a business case that looks at the world of classical... View Details
- 08 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 8
http://www.people.hbs.edu/jsiegel/SiegelLichtSchwartz_EFDI_20120310.pdf Daily Horizons: Evidence of Narrow Bracketing in Judgments from 9,000 MBA Admission Interviews Authors:U. Simonsohn and F. Gino Publication:Psychological Science... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 30 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2013
today's diverse workplace, your actions and motives are constantly under scrutiny. Time to manage your own professional image before others do it for you. An interview with Laura Morgan Roberts. Most Popular Faculty Working Papers 2013 Do... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 10 Jan 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Operations Management
and involves all levels of the organization. How Can Operations Become A Competitive Advantage? Operations and the Competitive Edge Many managers expect operations organizations to fulfill only a support role. But an effective operations strategy can give you a... View Details
- 05 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 5, 2008
Fredberg, Michael Beer, Russell Eisenstat, Nathaniel Foote, and Flemming Norrgren Abstract We tend to assume that great leaders must make difficult choices between two or more conflicting outcomes. In an interview study with 26 CEOs of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Feb 2012
- Op-Ed
Occupy Wall Street Protestors Have a Point
the environmental challenges of climate change, scarce water, and depleted fishing stocks as well as by migration driven by both income inequality and the environment. Interestingly (given that we interviewed them in late 2007 and early... View Details
- 14 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Key to Managing Stars? Think Team
star players as well as their managers. Groysberg and Lee explained more in this interview with HBS Working Knowledge. Martha Lagace: Let's begin with the key question you ask in your paper: Who "owns" top performance:... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
guardians as holding opposing views of institutional change, we reveal how the complementarity and ongoing interactions between each set of actors served as a valuable resource for industry resilience and adaptation. Our primary data comprise 136 qualitative View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
rates of public sector employment, the crown jewel of the Jordanian regime’s patronage. Interviews with over 60 of the surveyed firm owners across four strategically paired districts illustrate that business owners covet forbearance and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Apr 2020
- Op-Ed
Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19
Prospects from small schools are being hurt even more. The first ever HBCU Combine was cancelled, many college pro days were cancelled, and with the NFL cancelling in-person interviews the hurdles faced by HBCU and other small school... View Details
- 13 Oct 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Building a Business in the Context of a Life
community, spirituality, and other interests. Students work in small groups on various exercises, including one called "What We Carry," in which one student interviews another about the influence their parents and other family members... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- Op-Ed
The Real Duty of the Board of Directors
interests of the corporation itself. As one of us responded in a recent interview with John Authers of the Financial Times, “The shareholders don’t actually own the corporation. They own shares in the corporation. The corporation owns... View Details
Keywords: by Robert G. Eccles & Tim Youmans
- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
creative or in love with risk, but they are deeply inquisitive, open to new experiences, and comfortable with the unpredictable. He also offers evidence-based, practical advice for interviews and résumé screening that hiring managers can... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
managing labor and delivery units in the United States and assess the associations between unit management and maternal outcomes. Methods: We developed and administered a management measurement instrument using structured telephone View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Aug 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Learning From Japan’s Remarkable Disaster Recovery
style has changed as well. "When we interviewed many Japanese CEOs, it was interesting to see how Japanese society doesn't reward people who stick out—worse, they criticize and hammer down the nail that sticks out," Mukae says.... View Details
- 25 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Country Effect: Does Location Matter?
ways." The researchers used professional research firms to conduct interviews with some 500 large firms in major Asian industrial cities. Deshpandé said the work has been criticized in some quarters. At one conference, Deshpandé was... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Europe Wrote the Rules of Global Finance
particularly the French, who authored the most important rules promoting the free movement of capital. The United States has been at the center of global finance, but in a very ad hoc way, Abdelal says. In this interview about his... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen