Hiring - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2006
What Do You Think?

How Important Is Quality of Labor? And How Is It Achieved?

out why a handful of organizations are able to achieve true excellence. One of several things they all do is hire for attitude and train for skills. By "attitude," they typically mean the ability to identify with and... View Details

Keywords: by by Jim Heskett

12 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

Using the Law to Strategic Advantage

counselor at law, not a hired gun. Third, the organization must encourage the free flow of legal and business information to and from managers and lawyers so the lawyers understand the context in which a decision is being made and the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Legal Services

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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

introducing a number of innovative concepts to the dry cleaning industry, including 24-hour-a-day accessibility and dry cleaning on line. Recently, Todd hired a new C.E.O. at Zoots and became chairman of the company. He then started... View Details

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For Recruiters - Health Care

For Recruiters For Recruiters Companies benefit from hiring HBS graduates who are prepared to be leaders at any level, yet are comfortable in the team-based learning environment that mirrors the current business world. Our students are... View Details

03 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

How to Succeed With Your New Boss

good defense, not making mistakes that damage the business. Help in finding ways to take the business to a new level. Living By The Golden Rule Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. You will almost certainly hire new people... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Watkins

21 Jun 2022
HBS Case

Free Isn’t Always Better: How Slack Holds Its Own Against Microsoft Teams

providing a basic service for free and paid subscriptions to an advanced version. By 2019, Slack had 88,000 paying customers and 10 million daily users. The company hired its first sales teams to recruit large corporations. Microsoft... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Information Technology; Technology

07 Apr 2022
Blog Post

Product Management at HBS: Roll Up Your Sleeves and Learn by Doing

interviews and resume reviews with some of the amazing product leaders in Professor Perri’s network built a new kind of confidence in myself and the upcoming hiring process. And finally, my semester-culminating project, where I dissected... View Details

12 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

Why Investors Often Lose When They Sue Their Financial Adviser

customers can access public information about brokers through Finra, they generally lack the time, resources, and expertise to harness the data. And even though most claimants hire lawyers to represent them in arbitration, brokerages... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services

02 Jul 2018
Research & Ideas

Corporate Tax Cuts Don't Increase Middle Class Incomes

patents and valuable intangible assets to low-tax jurisdictions. Nobody benefits except capital owners because the companies are using it as a tax strategy, not as a springboard for building plants and hiring droves of workers. Rouen... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

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Information Technology - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

(such as comorbidities) Incorporates structured data sets (rather than free text) and use of natural language processing to decrease need for manual data abstraction and hiring of staff specific for data abstraction [50] Builds outcome... View Details

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Global Opportunity Fellowship GO: AFRICA - Alumni

compensation they received for the previous 12 months; Your employment start date; Confirmation from the hiring organization acknowledging receipt of your offer acceptance. A dated letter on the organization’s official letterhead or a... View Details

23 Sep 2022
Research & Ideas

8 Strategies to Sustain Business Innovation

marketed. As McDonald says, “People buy a product or service to solve a problem. They hire it to do a job.” He says the online service TurboTax is successful at this: The name says what the job is. It’s more important for a leader to... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

09 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

Industry Self-Regulation: What’s Working (and What’s Not)?

"Self-regulation" increasingly rings like a mantra in business. Just think of topics in the news over the past couple of months, such as the Italian fashion industry's move toward self-regulation to discourage the hiring of dangerously... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

07 Mar 2022
Research & Ideas

Effective Leaders Share the Spotlight with Their Teams

colleagues and lower-level employees.” Encourage impromptu meetups, not just scheduled meetings. “Have more informal lunches and conversation,” she says. The more opportunity there is to share and exchange opinions, the more included employees are likely to feel. View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

18 Nov 2022
HBS Case

What Does It Take to Safeguard a Legacy in Asset Management?

Last year, the pioneering Black-owned global asset management firm Brown Capital Management found itself at a crossroads. The secret to its success had been a deliberately diverse hiring strategy, but with the looming retirement of its... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services

02 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

Salary Negotiations: A Catch-22 for Women

affect negotiation outcomes. Putting guardrails on negotiations Some companies, such as Reddit, have eliminated salary negotiations from the hiring process in an effort to quash gender bias and pay gaps, but doing so also eliminates... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

11 Jul 2016
HBS Case

Neurodiversity: The Benefits of Recruiting Employees with Cognitive Disabilities

the thinking on this idea of neurodiversity; that we do better when we mix people who think differently or are wired a bit differently.” Social difficulties are one of the hallmarks of ASD, making it hard for those with ASD to make it through a traditional View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Technology

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Research Design - Impact Investments

research is archival and constructs a timeline of how our sampled companies evolved, including key events such as executive hires and departures, mergers and acquisitions, set-backs and successes, as well as exits. Next, we conduct... View Details

14 Oct 2021
In Practice

Reunited and It Feels (Not) So Good: Tips for Managing a Rocky Return

a work-from-home regime to WFA. Beyond improved productivity (under some conditions), WFA might enable companies to hire beyond their local labor markets and reduce real estate and utilities costs. As companies grapple with workers... View Details