Talent And Talent Management - Publications - Faculty & Research

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

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology

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

Keywords: by Nitin Nohria, Linda Hill, Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Gautam Mukunda

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

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Technology; Education

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

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Andrew N. McLean & Nitin Nohria; Employment

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

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services; Banking

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

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Employment

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

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Consulting; Service

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