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- 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
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Web
US Business Immigration Overview - Alumni
Department of Labor within a few months of your employer filling on your behalf. Transitioning from a temporary worker to a permanent hire (green card) generally requires a foreign worker to go through labor certification. PERM (Program... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
You Only Thought You Were Republican
Guide You’ll Ever Need (among other books), range from placing tort-reform initiatives on the California ballot to following the Parliament cigarette plane and its ad banner (“Parliament: the perfect recess”) over Long Island beaches with a View Details
- 08 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Hunt for Talent on Digital Platforms, Not in Resume Piles
colleagues also find that companies are becoming more sophisticated about identifying talent. By analyzing the skills that US firms want from prospective human resource workers, the researchers discovered that companies are increasingly View Details
- 26 Jan 2024
- Blog Post
Career Advice from the Guests of the HBS Climate Rising Podcast
it is when you collaborate between scientists, government, the corporate sector, and with communities, that's where the good stuff happens. That's where the answer lies at that intersection.” Many of the guests expressed their desire to View Details
- 23 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative
crowdsourcing comes in-defining a challenge and offering an incentive, whether in status or money, can get people to self-select as resources to you. You may even want to hire some of them. So this strategy can play into talent... View Details
- 02 Aug 2020
- What Do You Think?
Is the 'Experimentation Organization' Becoming the Competitive Gold Standard?
people who will be hired into other organizations based on their skills, successes, and advocacy of experimentation. How will their attitudes play in organizations where intuition is still honored and the poets can still speak louder than... View Details
- 09 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Most Accountants Aren’t Crooks—Why Good Audits Go Bad
Loewenstein, and Moore Attachment. Auditors have strong business reasons to remain in clients' good graces and are thus highly motivated to approve their clients' accounts. Under the current system, auditors are hired and fired by the... View Details
- 07 Nov 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Sir Alex Ferguson--Managing Manchester United
the world of soccer nowadays looks nothing like the one he started in as a coach at United 26 years ago. Sir Alex has embraced new technologies and new approaches, hiring sports scientists on his staff, and adopting new ways of measuring... View Details
- 03 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Is the Future of MBA Education?
services and consulting firms are increasingly substituting non-MBAs for MBAs. The numbers are small but growing. Before the crisis, a managing director at one large investment bank noted that his firm still hired 300 to 400 MBAs per year... View Details
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Involvement in Faculty & Student Ventures | About
himself or herself from the recruiting process and the hiring decision. Note that these restrictions do not apply to the practice of hiring students for non-graded academic duties such as being a teaching... View Details
- 24 May 2017
- News
Ilene H. Lang, MBA 1973
valued not just because of how they are alike but of how they are different.” During her 10 years leading Catalyst, Lang pushed the organization to expand globally, fortified its endowment, invested in information technology infrastructure, and View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 24 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
Developing Your Next CEO for the Family Business
A good book on CEO succession is The CEO Within by my Harvard Business School colleague Joe Bower. Bower studied how companies perform after hiring a new CEO, noting whether the successor had been recruited from inside or outside the... View Details
- 04 Nov 2015
- What Do You Think?
Why Does Gender Diversity Improve Financial Performance?
comment from “The Real Deal” echoes this belief: “If you want real diversity, surround yourself with people from different backgrounds who do not think like you. You could hire 50% women, and if they are clones of your existing leaders,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Web
Organizational Behavior Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Sociological Association Section on Organization, Occupations and Work for his book From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession... View Details
- 12 Mar 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Managing the Family Business: Firing the CEO
something has gone very wrong and the organization could be in trouble. It implies that the person was a bad choice to begin with, which impugns the judgment of those who hired the CEO. And there's also the personal confrontation that... View Details
- 13 Apr 2021
- Book
How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations
managers about the gender biases that influence hiring decisions. Companies should also anonymize resumes, diversify interview panels, and evaluate candidates as a group against a set of defined criteria. Integration. Create opportunities... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 20 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
Incubators: The New Venture Capitalists?
you're hiring for your startup." But with the good incubators already having their hands full, said Corey, entrepreneurs are also going to make the case for themselves. "You obviously want to spend a lot of time interviewing... View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
- 04 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Founders Recruit Friends and Family as Investors
grow: What types of hiring challenges will I face? Which investors should I try to target at my company's various stages of growth—and what challenges will they introduce? Will I be replaced as CEO at some point, and, if so, will I... View Details
Keywords: by Noam Wasserman
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
and connector. When James Harmon, chairman of the Egyptian-American Enterprise Fund, hired her as the organization’s first employee, the US Congress had not yet delivered on the entirety of its $300 million funding promise. Negotiating... View Details