Talent And Talent Management - Publications - Faculty & Research

August 2011 (Revised October 2011)
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Lady Gaga (B)

By: Anita Elberse and Michael Christensen

In March 2011, Troy Carter, manager of pop star Lady Gaga, reflects on decisions made regarding his artist's concert tour and faces a new set of challenges regarding the launch of Lady Gaga's new album, Born This Way. Is a huge, expensive launch akin to that of a... View Details

Keywords: Music Entertainment; Product Launch; Product Development; Talent and Talent Management; Music Industry

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08 Sep 2014
Research & Ideas

The Strategic Way To Hire a Sales Team

with engineering on custom applications, and up-selling or cross-selling additional services. Allocation of sales talent should change. Focus on behaviors in selection. In many firms, this means upgrading... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Access Resumes

Hire Talent Access Resumes Hire Talent Access Resumes The HBS Resume Books are a no-cost dynamic resource for finding candidates on the HBS recruiting platform 12twenty . Resume Books allow employers to... View Details

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Leadership - Faculty & Research

scaling to secure its position in the competitive fintech landscape. Keywords: Banks and Banking ; Leadership ; Venture Capital ; Talent and View Details

05 May 2022
HBS Case

College Degrees: The Job Requirement Companies Seek, but Don't Really Need

hiring credentials and softening their degree requirements, Groysberg says. “How to find and hire talented workers needs to be rethought by corporate leaders,” says Groysberg,... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

01 Dec 2023
News

The Imposter Among Us

better when I am getting enough sleep and allowing myself to explore and find excitement and mastery outside the workplace. —Samantha Trotman Burman (MBA 1993) Bitte? When the... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

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Post a Job

Hire Talent Post a Job Hire Talent Post a Job Promote job opportunities to our extensive network of students and alumni at no cost on the HBS recruiting platform 12twenty . To... View Details

02 Feb 2016
First Look

February 2, 2016

negotiators interact to influence cooperative behavior of low-power negotiators. Managers from four different cultural groups (Germany, Hong Kong, Israel, and the United States) negotiated face-to-face in a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 Sep 2019
Book

6 Steps to Building a Better Workplace for Black Employees

that prevents African Americans from ascending to leadership roles. The data is indeed bleak. While an increasing number of African Americans are earning bachelor’s and graduate degrees, the number of black people in View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

11 Jan 2011
First Look

First Look: Jan. 11

supervisor, peers, and customers. You're constantly fighting fires. You're mired in office politics. You end each day exhausted and discouraged, wondering what, if anything, you've accomplished. You're not... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 May 2024
HBS Case

Banned or Not, TikTok Is a Force Companies Can’t Afford to Ignore

Businesses that dismiss TikTok as merely a platform for teenagers looking to create and consume cat and dance videos do so at their own peril. That’s the message of a Harvard Business School case study... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology

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Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship - Health Care

offers Harvard Business School (HBS) alumni and Harvard-affiliated postdoctoral researchers the opportunity to advance new ventures around promising life science technologies and develop their leadership... View Details

21 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

Faculty Research Looks to Latin America

markets." The War For Talent Professor Ashish Nanda teaches Professional Services as well as Leadership, Values and Decision Making. His research focuses on managing... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

May 2019
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Developing Yourself as a Leader: A Framework for Millennial High Potentials & Emerging Leaders: How to PACE Your Self-Development

By: Ethan Bernstein and Kirstin Lynde

Millennials are redefining what it means to develop future leaders. In business organizations, leadership development—defined as “the expansion of a person's capacity to be effective in leadership roles and processes“—has traditionally been the work of corporate... View Details

Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Human Resources; Leadership Development; Leadership Style; Leadership; Goals and Objectives; Management Skills; Management Style

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11 Feb 2002
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The Quiet Leader—and How to Be One

years ago. There were two things that prompted me to do so. One is that I had written a book called Defining Moments: When Managers Must Choose Between Right and Right (HBS Press, 1997) which is about big... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

15 Feb 2022
Book

When Working Harder Doesn’t Work, Time to Reinvent Your Career

Decades ago, a talented young musician pursued his childhood dream of becoming the world’s greatest French horn player, studying with great teachers, attending music festivals, and always earning first... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

01 Dec 2018
News

In My Humble Opinion: Growth Investor

that people from all over the country were moving to Memphis to help build this company.” But Bobo’s excitement had no real outlet. “We scour the planet to find athletic talent at an early age,” he says, “but we wait too long to cultivate... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

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Asia Pacific - Global

Hua Dai and Independent Researcher Mary C. Sauer (2022 Senior Fellow, Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative). Prof. Kim led a discussion about how leaders/entrepreneurs can apply the disciplines of entrepreneurship, View Details

December 2021
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Burning Glass Technologies: From Data to Product

By: Suraj Srinivasan and Amy Klopfenstein

In May 2021, Matt Sigelman, CEO of Burning Glass Technologies, a company that provided labor market analytics for a variety of markets, navigates his company’s transition from data company to product company. Burning Glass originated as a service that used artificial... View Details

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October 2020
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Michael Phelps: 'It's Okay to Not Be Okay'

By: Boris Groysberg, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Michael Norris

In 2020, Michael Phelps, the most decorated Olympian of all time, with 28 medals in various swimming events, was now retired. As he looked back on his 20+ year athletic career, he considered what had gone into making him the greatest of all time—the highs and lows,... View Details