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18 Jun 2024
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Valuable Tips for Improving Sales Hiring

11 Feb 2022
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Skills-Based Hiring Is on the Rise

26 Mar 2012
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Hire veterans and get teamwork, leadership

10 Mar 2021
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Dream Job: Higher Ed’s New Hire

The daughter of teenage parents, Kim Lew (MBA 1992) grew up in public housing in Harlem and the Bronx. Her father, a Chinese immigrant, worked in the mailroom of AT&T, where the CEO was a graduate of Penn’s Wharton School of Business. Lew senior urged his daughter to... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; investing; leadership; diversity; career experience; higher education; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

March–April 2017
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Hiring an Entrepreneurial Leader: What to Look For

By: Timothy Butler

Aspiring to be innovative and agile, companies of all shapes and sizes want to recruit entrepreneurial managers. But most firms lack a scientific way to separate the true entrepreneurs from other candidates. To address that problem, Butler compared the psychological... View Details

Keywords: Selection and Staffing; Leadership Style; Attitudes

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October 24, 2011
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In Hiring and Promoting, Look Beyond Results

By: Francesca Gino

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22 May 2021
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Why It’s Hard to Hire Right Now

08 Sep 2014
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The Strategic Way To Hire a Sales Team

management," says Cespedes, a senior lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management unit at Harvard Business School. "But far fewer confront a basic fact: Companies typically spend much more money and hire many more people,... View Details

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06 Sep 2021
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Automated Hiring Software Rejects Millions of Qualified Job Candidates by Mistake

22 Apr 2012
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The Pros and Cons of Hiring Outsiders

13 May 2024
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What Companies Get Wrong About Skills-Based Hiring

23 Sep 2021
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AI Use in Hiring Means Women with Employment Gaps Get Overlooked

May–June 2024
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Should Your Brand Hire a Virtual Influencer?

By: Serim Hwang, Shunyuan Zhang, Xiao Liu and Kannan Srinivasan

Followers respond more favorably to sponsored posts by virtual influencers versus those by humans, costs are lower, and creating an influencer from scratch allows marketers to introduce more diversity. View Details

Keywords: Social Media; AI and Machine Learning; Brands and Branding; Power and Influence

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24 Oct 2011
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In Hiring and Promoting, Look Beyond Results

06 Sep 2021
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Automated Hiring Software Is Mistakenly Rejecting Millions of Viable Job Candidates

12 Nov 2024
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Inside One Startup's Journey to Break Down Hiring (and Funding) Barriers

2012
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Hiring Cheerleaders: Board Appointments of 'Independent' Directors

By: Lauren Cohen, Andrea Frazzini and Christopher Malloy

We provide evidence that firms appoint independent directors who are overly sympathetic to management, while still technically independent according to regulatory definitions. We explore a subset of independent directors for whom we have detailed, micro-level data on... View Details

Keywords: Recruitment; Management; Corporate Governance; Performance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Executive Compensation; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Prejudice and Bias

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Hiring Cheerleaders: Board Appointments of 'Independent' Directors

By: Lauren Cohen, Andrea Frazzini and Christopher J. Malloy

We test the hypothesis that firms appoint independent directors who are overly sympathetic to management, while still technically independent according to regulatory definitions. We explore a subset of independent directors for whom we have detailed, micro-level data... View Details

Keywords: Competency and Skills; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Governing and Advisory Boards; Managerial Roles; Prejudice and Bias

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