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- 25 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Why Unqualified Candidates Get Hired Anyway
new research paper demonstrates that the fundamental attribution error is so deeply rooted in our decision making that not even highly trained people-evaluators, such as hiring managers and school admissions officers, can defeat its... View Details
- October 2001 (Revised February 2007)
- Background Note
Accounting for Employee Stock Options
Employees who have been granted stock options have the right to purchase shares of their company's stock at a specified price within a specified time period. The accounting for such employee stock options has been a controversial and complex topic for decades. The... View Details
Bradshaw, Mark T. "Accounting for Employee Stock Options." Harvard Business School Background Note 102-039, October 2001. (Revised February 2007.)
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Better Hiring Through Brain Science
off-boarding,” says Polli. “If somebody is looking to let go of an employee, we will give them career matching and help them connect to other opportunities. It is important to have a solution that will basically work from start to... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 14 Aug 2009
- News
Creating a Sense of Urgency Among Employees
- 23 Jan 2024
- News
How to Keep Employees Productive: Support Caregivers
- September 22, 2008
- Article
How to Minimize the Risks of Hiring Outside Stars
By: Boris Groysberg, Lex Sant and Robin Abrahams
Groysberg, Boris, Lex Sant, and Robin Abrahams. "How to Minimize the Risks of Hiring Outside Stars." Wall Street Journal (September 22, 2008), R4.
- 22 Sep 2008
- News
How to Minimize the Risks of Hiring Outside Stars
- Article
Employee Selection as a Control System
By: Dennis Campbell
Theories from the economics, management control, and organizational behavior literatures predict that when it is difficult to align incentives by contracting on output, aligning preferences via employee selection may provide a useful alternative. This study... View Details
Keywords: Management Systems; Governance Controls; Employees; Selection and Staffing; Motivation and Incentives; Decision Making; Business Model
Campbell, Dennis. "Employee Selection as a Control System." Journal of Accounting Research 50, no. 4 (September 2012): 931–966.
- 13 Aug 2021
- News
Managers, Here’s How to Bond with New Hires Remotely
- January 16, 2023
- Article
40 Ideas to Shake Up Your Hiring Process
By: Joseph Fuller, Nithya Vaduganathan, Allison Bailey and Manjari Raman
Many companies today are struggling to hire and retain talent, but more often than not the problem is self-inflicted: They’re simply not using a broad enough array of tools, sometimes because they don’t even know the tools exist. In this article, the authors list 40... View Details
Fuller, Joseph, Nithya Vaduganathan, Allison Bailey, and Manjari Raman. "40 Ideas to Shake Up Your Hiring Process." Harvard Business Review (website) (January 16, 2023).
- January 2018
- Supplement
Peak Games: Hiring Priorities in Times of Rapid Growth (B)
By: William R. Kerr and Gamze Yucaoglu
On November 7, 2017, Sidar Şahin, founder and CEO of Peak Games, a Turkey-based global mobile gaming company, had just closed the sale of Peak Games’ card games studio. This sale included three of the company’s top grossing games and half of its team. Sahin was happy... View Details
Keywords: Games; Gaming; Acquisitions; Exits; Private Sector; Decision; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Emerging Markets; Acquisition; Entrepreneurship; For-Profit Firms; Business Model; Business Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Growth and Development Strategy; Decision Making; Value Creation; Leading Change; Management Teams; Technology Industry; Turkey
Kerr, William R., and Gamze Yucaoglu. "Peak Games: Hiring Priorities in Times of Rapid Growth (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 818-084, January 2018.
- 29 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Do Employees Work Harder for Higher Pay?
Harvard Business School Professor Deepak Malhotra set out to answer a basic question: "Do employees work harder when they are paid more?" As Malhotra, the Eli Goldston Professor of Business Administration,... View Details
Keywords: by Chuck Leddy & Harvard Gazette
- 22 Aug 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Key Drivers of Successful Implementation of an Employee Suggestion-Driven Improvement Program
- 08 Apr 2016
- News
How to Hire a Millennial
- 03 Oct 2016
- News
How to Manage a Toxic Employee
- 14 Oct 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
Reversing the Queue: Performance, Legitimacy, and Minority Hiring
- 2020
- Working Paper
Cutting the Gordian Knot of Employee Health Care Benefits and Costs: A Corporate Model Built on Employee Choice
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Barak D. Richman
The U.S. employer-based health insurance tax exclusion created a system of employer-sponsored insurance (ESI) with limited insurance choices and transparency that may lock employed households into health plans that are costlier or different from those they prefer to... View Details
Keywords: After-tax Income; Consumer-driven Health Care; Health Care Costs; Health Insurance; Income Inequality; Tax Policy; Health Care and Treatment; Cost; Insurance; Employees; Income; Taxation; Policy; United States
Herzlinger, Regina E., and Barak D. Richman. "Cutting the Gordian Knot of Employee Health Care Benefits and Costs: A Corporate Model Built on Employee Choice." Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series, No. 2020-4, December 2019. (Revised January 2021.)
- 04 Mar 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
The Dirty Laundry of Employee Award Programs: Evidence from the Field
Cutting the Gordian Knot of Employee Health Care
President Joe Biden’s promise to give every American access to affordable health insurance is well-intentioned, but his plan’s policy elements—a public option, a permanent expanded tax credit—require congressional approval and would expend significant political and... View Details