Hiring - Publications - Faculty & Research

24 Oct 2017
News

Harvard study: Employers making it harder to hire

2012
Article

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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2008
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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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10 Apr 2024
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Should Your Brand Hire a Virtual Influencer?

28 Apr 2015
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Why–and How–to Hire Young People Without Diplomas

Keywords: youth employment; human resources; job training; employee recruitment

04 Dec 2013
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10 Tips for Hiring Your Next CEO

13 Aug 2021
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Managers, Here’s How to Bond with New Hires Remotely

April 2018
Article

Compromised Ethics in Hiring Processes? How Referrers' Power Affects Employees' Reactions to Referral Practices

By: Rellie Derfler-Rozin, Bradford Baker and F. Gino

In this paper, we explore referral-based hiring practices and show how a referrer’s power (relative to the hiring manager) influences other organizational members’ support (or lack thereof) for who is hired through perceptions of the hiring manager’s motives and... View Details

Keywords: Selection and Staffing; Ethics; Perception

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20 Jul 2022
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How Will DC's Revised Ban on Non-compete Clauses Impact Hiring and Innovation?

3 Feb 2020
Interview

Lou Shipley: [How to Build a Culture of Enablement]

By: Lou Shipley

This episode of Reveal brings Lou Shipley, investor, lecturer, and previous CEO of Black Duck Security. Lou details sales enablement's role in delivering sales excellence and an effective new hire onboarding experience. View Details

Keywords: Hiring; Company Culture; Sales; Selection and Staffing; Organizational Culture

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18 Jul 2024
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New Hires Lose Psychological Safety After Year One. How to Fix It.

09 Sep 2019
Podcast

38. Why Do People Hire (and Fire) Employers?

The best independent projects that BSSE students take on after completing the course have (at least) one thing in common: They are important—relevant to our students’ interests, as well as to the wider world. On this podcast, Maria Creixell (MBA 2019) and Ari Medoff... View Details

08 Sep 2014
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The Strategic Way To Hire a Sales Team

18 Nov 2008
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Atos Origin Board Fires Chief Germond, Hires Breton

26 Nov 2008
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Obama: Hire These Heroes from the Bush Era

23 Jun 2022
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This State Will Hire You—No College Degree Required

11 Feb 2021
News

How Companies Committed to Diverse Hiring Still Fail

Article

Isolating the Symbolic Implications of Employee Mobility: Price Increases after Hiring Winemakers from Prominent Wineries

By: Peter W. Roberts, Mukti Khaire and Christopher I. Rider

When a skilled employee moves from one organization to another, the effects on the hiring organization can be substantive (i.e., changes in actual outcomes) and symbolic (i.e., changes in expectations or valuations and therefore prices). We theorize that strong or even... View Details