Hiring - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 May 2025
Blog Post

How to Work with Search Firms

firm? Explore the Coach Directory to filter coaches by industry and function expertise. Search Firms Work for the Organization The most important thing to remember when engaging with an executive search firm is that they do not work for you — they work for the client.... View Details

03 May 2022
Research & Ideas

Desperate for Talent? Consider Advancing Your Own Employees First

Job openings in the United States continue to hover at record high levels, exacerbated by the Great Resignation and a sputtering emergence from the pandemic. Competition remains fierce among companies struggling to find qualified workers. Yet many employers,... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

04 Oct 2018
Research & Ideas

Diversity Boosts Profits in Venture Capital Firms

percent more likely to hire women as partners for VC funds—the equivalent of a random distribution of gender diversity. “We could then identify the component of gender diversity caused exclusively by having a daughter uncorrelated to... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Banking; Financial Services

20 Jul 2021
Research & Ideas

Bankruptcy Spells Death for Too Many Businesses

says. Managers push for liquidation One reason for the trend? Senior creditors typically hire external managers to guide a company through Chapter 11. But instead of reorganizing, the manager often persuades the judge to approve a speedy... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

26 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

The Office of Strategy Management

HR, marketing, and so on? A: A typical OSM in a large and complex company seems to require about six to eight full-time people. Typically, these people are not new hires and consist of the scorecard team and elements of the strategic... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

27 Sep 2021
Research & Ideas

Managers, Your Employees Don’t Want to Be Facebook ‘Friends’

and beliefs online with the wrong colleague may expose employees to career consequences, such as not being hired or promoted and being discriminated against.” Workers are wary of friending bosses Across four studies, the authors examined... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Kim Raczka

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Joiner - Entrepreneurship

about HBS Resources by attending E-ship Day and reading Rock/i-lab Newsletters Build relevant skills and experience: Startup Bootcamp team HBS Clubs’ workshops Rock and i-lab workshops Apply for a Student i-lab Membership Meet with potential startups who might be View Details

01 Jan 2002
News

Egon P.S. Zehnder (MBA '56)

that distinguish top performance." What matters to Egon Zehnder? Sure, the founder of one of the world's largest executive search firms believes that new hires must possess piercing intellectual skills and résumés that ring with... View Details

01 Sep 2003
News

Larry Murphy

It was reading a Life magazine article (Ann Moore, take note) about Eastern colleges that helped propel Lawrence P. Murphy from a small town in Missouri to Williams College, followed by HBS. In 1985, after positions at Citibank, Bain, and Marriott, Murphy was View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Accommodation; Hospitality

18 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

How New Managers Become Great Managers

made a series of upward and lateral moves that entailed a number of tough assignments across many functional areas. Beginning as the director of regional operations in New England, this manager had profit and loss responsibility for fifty underperforming stores. View Details

Keywords: by Linda Hill

05 Sep 2014
News

Keeping Education in Check

help of a PR company hired by Berman. Their campaign worked. Other charities popped up as a result of Chess for Change. Moves for Life now coaches more than 12,000 students a week in South Africa. ChessKIDS Academy is also coaching 12,000... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

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Industry Information - Alumni

and managers of growing private companies, Inc.com publishes Inc. 500 and 5000. Its content covers small business ideas, information, and inspiration as well as practical advice. Rocket Ship List HBS Professor and alumnus Jeff Bussgang provides a comprehensive list of... View Details

18 Feb 2019
Book

What’s Really Disrupting Business? It’s Not Technology

example, homeowners traditionally hire housekeepers, gardeners, and others to help with common household chores. TaskRabbit, the digital equivalent, lets you hire people, but do so over the web. Likewise,... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Beauty & Cosmetics; Insurance; Service; Retail

01 Jun 2015
Research & Ideas

The Surprising Benefits of Oversharing

prone to missing opportunities to form friendships or hire people by unfairly inferring [that] they are untrustworthy," she says. "There may be completely innocuous reasons someone may wish to keep personal information... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

10 Sep 2001
What Do You Think?

Do MBAs Need More Street Smarts?

outstanding service organizations, we have found that they invariably hire for attitude and train for skills. Are street smarts attitudes or skills? If street smarts are attitudes, should MBA program admissions offices look for them in... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

03 Oct 2007
Research & Ideas

Dealing with the ‘Irrational’ Negotiator

the time the employee was fired, the company's accounts were a mess; records had been kept poorly. Since then, the firm had hired a new accountant and updated all of the records. These records now clearly revealed that the employee's... View Details

Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra & Max H. Bazerman

16 Aug 2022
Op-Ed

Now Is the Time for Entrepreneurs to Play Offense

companies. As one of my CEOs put to me, wryly: “In my January board meeting, I wasn’t hiring and scaling fast enough and told to ‘go, go’, go’. In my April board meeting, I was burning too fast and was told to ‘stop, stop, stop’.” Her... View Details

Keywords: by Jeffrey Bussgang

30 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Are You Supporting Your B Players?

it's an uphill battle. Once someone is perceived as a star, I'm telling you, the load is lighter," he said. Hiring and socializing people so that they stay is something that takes practice. Organizations such as Southwest Airlines,... View Details