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- 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
- 27 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
Want a Happy Customer? Coordinate Sales and Marketing
limit the opportunities to develop people who are "dual-faceted" and good at both the sales functions and the marketing functions. But, some companies successfully try to hire people who have good "cross-over" skills... View Details
Keywords: by Benson Shapiro
- 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
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
payments to support clients’ liquidity; helped salons apply to crisis relief funding such as unemployment support and rent postponement; hired consultants to create guidelines for safety measures in the salons, and shared them with each... View Details
- 22 Jul 2019
- Book
How to Be a Digital Platform Leader
exposure by hiring professional photographers to take photos similar to what a person would see for hotel listings. This decision was not only a differentiating factor from Craigslist-type postings or newspaper advertisements; it also... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Research Summary
The Value of Family Ownership, Control, and Management
In collaboration with Professor Raphael Amit of Wharton, Belén Villalonga is investigating how family ownership, control, and management affect firm value. Their forthcoming Journal of Financial... View Details
- 16 May 2014
- Blog Post
Leveraging Big Data to Improve Recruiting
purposes. Below is a high level breakdown of the various data that can be leveraged to review and improve your organization’s recruiting strategy Employ internal data: Think about the hires that did well within your organization. What... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Job Hunting in a Tight Market: Strength in Numbers
companies to get a decent offer quickly. A job hunter must have six to ten job possibilities in the works concurrently. Five of those possibilities will fall away through no fault of your own. For example, a company could decide to hire... View Details
- 28 Nov 2016
- Blog Post
Why We Recruit: Wayfair
one of America’s Most Promising Companies by Forbes Magazine and selected by the Boston Business Journal and Glassdoor.com as a Top Company to Work For and Top Company for Well Balanced Life. How long has your organization been recruiting at Harvard Business School and... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- 24 Apr 2020
- Op-Ed
Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19
organizational overhaul. Long-term coach Ron Rivera was fired and Matt Rhule was hired as the new head coach. Newton, having started only two games all last season, was in the last year on his contract. With his injury concerns, Carolina... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Alumni Books
building blocks of successful alliances: the right framework (to help achieve company goals and identify potential partners), the right organization (the right people constantly honing their skills), and the right relationships (trust among many key contacts). Who? The... View Details
- 04 Jan 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Sustain Organization Diversity?
wavebreakmedia Last month, the venerable organization Coca-Cola publicly announced that a project to hire more Black employees that stemmed from the settlement of a 2000 discrimination lawsuit had failed to achieve its objectives. Along... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
From a ‘blank slate’ to ‘Mr. China’
Against the advice of many, Jack Perkowski (MBA 1973) ditched his high-flying investment career and relocated to China in 1992 to build his own company. Through trial and error, Perkowski learned that the key to its success was in hiring... View Details
- 01 Aug 2005
- What Do You Think?
Is There an “Efficient Market” in CEO Compensation?
CEO for a company seems to run on a scale based on size. The ultimate problem with that is the large failure effect. . . ." Responding to the point that hiring from outside an organization is often a more expensive solution, Balaji... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Web
Fostering Candor in Teams and Organizations - Recruiting
widely recognized that diversity in teams has a positive impact on an organization’s output. Therefore, attracting and hiring employees from different backgrounds (including, but not limited to, race, gender, and ability) should be a... View Details
- 17 Jul 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: As America Recedes from Global Leadership, Its CEOs are Stepping Up
government technology. For these CEOs, hiring skilled workers, global trade, and H1B visas were also high on their agendas. Technology executives such as Apple’s Tim Cook and Salesforce’s Marc Benioff have voiced their concerns about the... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
Helen R. Reid
the United States. As head of the firm, Reid hired a number of female correspondents including some of the first women to report on active military engagements. View Details
Keywords: Publishing & Print Media
- 29 Sep 2014
- Blog Post
Don’t leave this out of your job posting…
visa sponsorship. Work authorization is issued by Harvard so hiring international students requires no more paperwork than when you hire U.S. workers. With more than 30% of the HBS student population from... View Details
- 27 Apr 2018
- News
Placing Nurses Where They Are Needed
the hospitals, it gives them the ability to have a temporary worker that can fill in for absenteeism, for someone who is out on maternity leave, for temporary census increases and it allows them to hire the person to do the job and not... View Details