Jobs - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 Oct 2010
News

Why the New Small Business Jobs Bill May Not Create Jobs

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

2017
Working Paper

The Accounting Rookie Job Market: A Practitioner's Guide

By: Ethan Rouen

This paper offers guidance and shares collective wisdom for accounting Ph.D. students who will be entering the academic job market. It is divided into two sections. The first offers subjective advice on the dissertation process—from choosing a topic to surviving the... View Details

Keywords: Accounting; Jobs and Positions; Job Search

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29 Sep 2014
Blog Post

Don’t leave this out of your job posting…

Creating a compelling job posting can be tricky. Within a short amount of space you have to strike a balance between being informative and engaging. With first-year job postings going live on 10/10, it feels... View Details

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

19 Mar 2014
News

15 Rules for Negotiating a Job Offer

06 Oct 2011
News

Harvard Business School Faculty Remember Steve Jobs

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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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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28 Jan 2016
News

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

December 1, 2009
Article

Innovation Can Unlock Job Growth

By: William W. George

Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Jobs and Positions; Growth and Development

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10 Apr 2013
News

How to Deal With Your Dead-End Job

02 Nov 2016
What Do You Think?

Are Employees Becoming Job 'Renters' Instead of 'Owners'?

Summing Up: Is Job Ownership Nature or Nurture? Employees increasingly are becoming “job renters.” For some, it is a disturbing trend. It doesn’t have to happen. And the phenomenon isn’t universal. These observations by respondents to... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

09 Sep 2015
News

America has 5.8 million job openings

12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 24 Sep 2015
Webinars: Career

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

September 2016 (Revised May 2018)
Case

Zurich Insurance: Global Job Structure and Data Analysis

By: Boris Groysberg and Katherine Connolly

Zurich Insurance was undergoing organizational change after implementing five new people practices focused on manager development, diversity and inclusion, job model and data analytics, recruitment, and talent pipeline. The case “Zurich Insurance: Fostering Key People... View Details