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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
- 01 Sep 2006
- What Do You Think?
Are We Ready for Self-Management?
raises some questions. Are sufficient numbers of entry-level employees ready for self-management, especially if it requires the application of new technologies to help them perform jobs such as interviewing and hiring new team members or... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 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
- 13 Jan 2021
- Research & Ideas
How 'Small C' Change Can Beat Large-Scale Rebuilding
perhaps more so than in any other industry, as the right answer to improve performance. Owners look to their team managers (coaches) to be game changers and bring back success to the organization, especially when the manager is hired in a... 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
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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
- 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
- 16 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Luxury Isn’t What It Used to Be
is at the heart of the shopping experience. Tranthi adds that she approves the hire of every sales associate at each of Thomas Pink's ten U.S. stores. "It is the most critical position in the company," she says. "They... View Details
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What Black Executives Really Want
money to hire and bring diverse talent into the organization. If we don't create an environment where they're going to thrive, then what's going to happen? They will walk out the door. Everyone wants to do a better job of supporting... View Details
- 04 Feb 2010
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Way to Make Careful Decisions?
for failure in similarly uncontrollable circumstances. We hire "stars," only to watch them burn out in a new and different managerial environment. We look for "best practice" (à la Jim Collins in Good to Great and... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 22 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
Launching the Women in Tech Initiative at HBS
partnerships with companies looking to hire and companies working on initiatives to increase diversity and inclusion; Run workshops and panels of relevant topics to women in tech; Help build community for the group through small group... 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
schools seeking to hire new professors. In the stories that follow, the Bulletin presents four members of the next generation of business education leaders, a group as diverse in their backgrounds and interests as they are committed to... View Details
- 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 Oct 1997
- News
High Fives
attend HBS, returning to the bank upon graduation. His tenure at State Street has included the positions of executive vice president, vice chairman, CFO,and treasurer. A 205-year-old institution that has generally hired its leaders from... View Details