Jobs - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Jun 2017
News

U.S. has record 6 million job openings, even as 6.8 million Americans are looking for jobs

03 Aug 2017
Working Paper Summaries

The Accounting Rookie Job Market: A Practitioner’s Guide

Keywords: by Ethan Rouen; Accounting

05 Oct 2010
News

Why the New Small Business Jobs Bill May Not Create Jobs

28 Jan 2016
News

Want A Job You Love? Stop Looking And Job Craft It

09 Sep 2015
News

America has 5.8 million job openings

20 Nov 2013
News

When a job offer is non-negotiable

01 Mar 2009
News

How Many Jobs Are ‘Offshorable’?

In an exercise overseen by seventeen HBS faculty members, nearly 900 members of the MBA Class of 2009 looked at more than 800 occupations in the United States. They found that it’s not just low-skill jobs that can be readily performed for... View Details

18 Feb 2016
News

Higher Education and U.S. Jobs Prospects

October 2000 (Revised December 2008)
Case

Doyle's Dealmaking Dilemma (A): Negotiating the Job Search

By: James K. Sebenius

MBA student Doyle Williams searches for his ideal job in a private equity group and uses his negotiation skills to try to attain the best possible compensation package. A rewritten version of an earlier case. View Details

Keywords: Compensation and Benefits; Job Search; Negotiation Process; Personal Development and Career

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07 May 2014
News

Three ways to reignite U.S. job creation

19 Mar 2014
News

15 Rules for Negotiating a Job Offer

06 Oct 2011
News

Harvard Business School Faculty Remember Steve Jobs

Article

The Chairman's Job Description

By: Jay W. Lorsch and A. Zelleke

Keywords: Management; Jobs and Positions

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2012
Working Paper

Prominent Job Advertisements, Group Learning and Wage Dispersion

By: Julio J. Rotemberg

A model is presented in which people base their labor search strategy on the average wage and the average unemployment duration of people who belong to their peer group. It is shown that, if the distribution of wage offers is not stationary so lower wage offers tend to... View Details

Keywords: Wages; Job Offer; Job Search; Advertising

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Transitioning Beyond Your First or Second Post-HBS Job

Are you thinking of making a job change? Unlike other career moves, the moves early in your career may be different than those later in life. Conducting honest self-assessment and redefining your career vision are often essential to determining next steps in an early... View Details

October 2008
Article

Gender in Job Negotiations: A Two-Level Game

By: Hannah Riley Bowles and Kathleen McGinn

We propose taking a two-level-game perspective on gender in job negotiations. At Level One, candidates negotiate with employers. At Level Two, candidates negotiate with household members. In order to illuminate the interplay between these two levels, we review research... View Details

Keywords: Perspective; Negotiation; Research; Organizational Culture; Body of Literature; Jobs and Positions; Gender; Labor

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10 Apr 2013
News

How to Deal With Your Dead-End Job

September 1987 (Revised October 1987)
Background Note

The Job of the General Manager

By: James L. Heskett

Describes elements of the job of the general manager that are addressed in the Management Policy and Practice course at the Harvard Business School. These include: 1) establishing strategic direction, 2) setting goals and managing standards of performance, 3)... View Details