Talent Development And Retention - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ‘Collective Genius’

have developed an integrated framework for understanding, describing, and pre¬scribing how leaders build organizations capable of consistent innovation by focusing on these essential abilities. Leaders... View Details

Keywords: by Linda Hill; Entertainment & Recreation

09 Jul 2014
Research & Ideas

How Business Leaders Can Strengthen American Schools

the GE Foundation sponsors Developing Futures, a program that partners with seven school districts where GE has major operations to upgrade management talent and processes at... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education

18 Nov 2002
Research & Ideas

Enterprising Women—a History

including Hope in a Jar: The Making of America's Beauty Culture (1998). A'lelia Bundles, director of talent development for ABC News, and author of On Her Own Ground: The Life... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Linard

01 Oct 2000
News

Q & A: Bain & Company's Thomas J. Tierney

Recruiting and retaining highly talented executives is a demanding task. Doing this effectively requires that we respect and channel two opposing forces that continually act on... View Details

Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services

01 Mar 2022
What Do You Think?

Is It Time for More Reverse Mentoring?

critical moments in the development of all new technologies or skills. It becomes more desirable as even the most basic appliances, such as our mobile phones and watches, become loaded with capabilities of... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

27 Sep 2017
Blog Post

Meet the Latino Student Association

reception where students’ portraits are featured for all to view. We encourage students to engage with the portraits in hopes that we all learn from one another and build community. Mission We promote an environment for LASO members to... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

November 21, 2022
Article

Now You See Me, Now I'm Gone

By: Boris Groysberg, Derek Haas and Eric Lin

As undervalued performers become more visible, they also gain more options to leave their employers. View Details

Keywords: Retention; Technology Adoption; Human Capital; Employees; Personal Development and Career

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10 Mar 2008
Research & Ideas

Encouraging Entrepreneurs: Lessons for Government Policy

were virtually unaffected.) These numbers should be of interest to policymakers in developed countries, Nanda says. "This goes against the conventional wisdom held in government policy circles and... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

31 Mar 2020
Blog Post

Know Your Audience – Recruiting HBS Students for Investment Management

Director and Career Coach Katja Frey – Recruiting Relations Manager Together, Jonathan and Katja make up the Career & Professional Development (CPD) team that manages... View Details

Keywords: Investment Management / Hedge Fund

21 Mar 2014
Blog Post

East Asia MBA Market Update

equity because firms typically grow talent internally and few actively recruit from MBA programs. In North America a common MBA career path for private equity is to spend two years in banking after college,... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Consumer Products / Retail

05 Feb 2009
What Do You Think?

Why Can’t We Figure Out How to Select Leaders?

Summing Up How do we close the gap between theory and results in selecting leaders? In discussing why our achievements in selecting leaders are less than stellar, contributors offered a rich set of ideas. Given their number, I've tried to... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

29 Apr 2014
First Look

First Look: April 29

on the circumstances and prospects of a company. In fact, companies often turn to outsiders because they have failed to recruit, train, and develop the sort of View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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

13 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

The Inner Life of Leaders

apply their talents to the work at hand. This independence frees the leader to expand on his or her talents and thereby become an object to allow subordinates to identify with... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

08 Aug 2023
Research & Ideas

The Rise of Employee Analytics: Productivity Dream or Micromanagement Nightmare?

of people analytics involve talent and performance—determining the qualities that distinguish a company’s best managers and strongest teams and... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand

08 Jan 2020
Blog Post

Know Your Audience - Recruiting HBS Students for Private Equity

Director and Career Coach Katja Frey – Recruiting Relations Manager Together, Jonathan and Katja make up the Career & Professional Development team that manages... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity

13 Oct 2003
Research & Ideas

How to Pick Managers for Disruptive Growth

little experience competing for resources and bucking inappropriate processes within a stable, efficiency-oriented operating culture. In order to be confident that managers have developed the skills required... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Raynor

22 Apr 2002
Lessons from the Classroom

Entrepreneurship: It Can Be Taught

critical things we do in developing courses is to introduce people who aren't larger than life, with whom students can identify. Very early, we built cases around women and entrepreneurs of all types View Details

Keywords: by Staff

01 Jun 2005
News

Marked Managers

biotech industry. At HBS, Higgins currently teaches Self-Assessment and Career Development in the MBA curriculum and Strategic Human Resource Management in the Executive... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Career Imprints; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises

12 Aug 2008
First Look

First Look: August 12, 2008

accurately reflect the demographic diversity of the U.S. population. Yet, most research on diversity in organizations has focused on the outcomes associated with workforce diversity and not on the processes that can enhance diversity in... View Details