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- 01 Jan 2020
- What Do You Think?
Why Not Open America's Doors to All the World’s Talent?
talent is diverse talent, and unique skills help grow the economy.” David Wittenberg put it this way: “If any H-1B visa holders have gone on to start large, profitable companies in the US, that is a great... View Details
- 06 Dec 2013
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Remember Nelson Mandela
leading from behind is hard work and involves some crucial responsibilities and judgment calls: deciding who's in (and, just as important, who's not in) the group; articulating the values that will inform... View Details
- 08 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
How to Hire a Millennial
young talent. For starters, companies would be smart to revisit how they structure work, especially when it comes to jobs in areas where competition for talent is especially fierce, such as coding, analytics, View Details
Keywords: by Joseph Fuller
- 08 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
Who Rises to Power in American Business?
the '60s and '70s are coming into positions of power. Women now represent 40 percent of MBA degree recipients, which should impact the composition of the most senior business leadership positions. A diverse perspective at the top may be a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Apr 2004
- What Do You Think?
Should We Brace Ourselves for Another Era of M&A Value Destruction?
mergers and acquisitions fail to achieve their objectives, suggesting possible remedies to this "flawed process." Kathryn Yates, for example, cited three primary reasons for M&A failure: "1) Forgetting to plan for the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 29 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Hunting for a Hot Job in High Tech? Try 'Digitization Economist'
companies have teams of economists, and lots of the smaller companies are starting to hire handfuls of them.” The list includes Google, Microsoft, Airbnb, Uber, Facebook, and numerous smaller companies. Tech... View Details
- 24 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
SuperCorp: Values as Guidance System
everywhere." Talent magnets and motivation machines. Talented people with many options are increasingly attracted to companies and stay... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 29 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
Why CEOs Are Not Plug-and-Play
"Is talent management portable?" That's the question asked and answered in a recent Harvard Business Review article discussing issues surrounding how top View Details
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Waking Up a Sleeping Company
effective competitor. Often growth organizations fail to take a tough-minded approach in assessing their management talent. They limit their future growth by failing to have the depth and breadth of View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 04 Nov 2002
- What Do You Think?
What’s Best for the Corporate Brain?
orderly introduction of new talent into an organization, perhaps by periodically identifying and letting the lowest performers go, was applauded. One of the comments reflects this view: "What is really... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 09 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 9
different ownership structure and managers with different risk aversion and talent match endogenously through incentive contracts. The model... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Breaking the Smartphone Addiction
on the intensity of the work and did not want it to be different. Even those who wanted more time for their personal lives presumed they had no alternative but to leave the firm to achieve it, and many did,... View Details
Keywords: by Leslie A. Perlow
- 21 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
It Matters That Your CEO Doesn't Know Much About Sales
force must be hired and trained every four years or so,” says Cespedes. “Any talk about talent management that ignores this aspect of the business is probably just talk.” The... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 18 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
Enterprising Women—a History
the exhibit and its themes. Taking a biographical approach, the exhibit profiles women entrepreneurs beginning with Eliza Lucas Pinckney, manager of a successful indigo enterprise in the mid-eighteenth... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
- 08 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Immigrants Who Built America’s Financial System
else struck you as you were writing this book? A: I was surprised that Gallatin was involved so deeply in managing the governments of Presidents Jefferson and Madison, and by... View Details
- 14 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Growing CEOs from the Inside
having a chief talent officer to drive a many-faceted program that finds and builds great leaders. It means recruiting and training so that leaders can grow, but also View Details
- 02 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2006
In the six-year history of Harvard Business School's Working Knowledge, some types of articles have always been popular with our readers. Want to generate a lot of reader buzz? Then write about negotiation strategy, managing IT,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Apr 2019
- Research Event
Women Pay a Higher Career Price in Today's Always-On Work Culture
educated and valuable talent in a competitive labor market. The loss of women managers—and potential future leaders—has been particularly vexing for executives. Many of them cling to the belief that women’s... View Details
- 24 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Building an IT Governance Committee
emeritus professor of business at Harvard Business School and a professor of management and organization at the University of Washington Business School in Seattle. McFarlan is... View Details
Keywords: by Richard Nolan & Warren McFarlan
- October 2024
- Supplement
Skills-First Hiring at IBM
By: Boris Groysberg and Sarah Mehta
A video supplement to accompany "Skills-First Hiring at IBM" (case no. 422-013) View Details
Keywords: Competency and Skills; Experience and Expertise; Talent and Talent Management; Human Resources; Employees; Recruitment; Retention; Selection and Staffing; Jobs and Positions; Job Design and Levels; Job Interviews; Society; Social Issues; Technology Industry; United States; New York (state, US)
Groysberg, Boris, and Sarah Mehta. "Skills-First Hiring at IBM." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 425-707, October 2024.