Hiring - Publications - Faculty & Research

09 Dec 2020
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How to Create a Psychologically Safe Workplace

and welcoming organizations. It is 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,... View Details

11 Jun 2020
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Know Your Audience - Recruiting HBS Students for Venture Capital

the Hiring Process For the Class of 2019, 20% of students who sought and accepted a job joined venture capital and private equity firms after graduation. This represents a large number of students, a large number of firms, and many more... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity

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Turning a Moment into a Movement: How the Anti-Racism Fund Co-Founders are Fighting Racism and Encouraging Other Companies to Do Their Part - Recruiting

that hiring is an important piece, but a focus should also be placed on inclusion. “Diverse hires are often junior hires and the people rising through the firm and reaching... View Details

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Who We Are | Research Associates

what our researchers have in common is access to exceptional academic and administrative resources. Research Staff Services (RSS) recruits and hires talented candidates and supports them throughout their employment. RSS managers coach and... View Details

06 Jul 2021
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The MS/MBA Technology Showcase: A Celebration of Our Startups

engineer. As a software engineer, I prioritized spending time on mentoring friends or peers in my network on how to break into tech. I even brought my learnings to the stage of major tech conferences like Grace Hopper Celebration and Women of Silicon Valley. But as I... View Details

04 Feb 2008
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After Twenty Years, Rankings Remain Controversial

and scholarly reputations of faculty, writes HBS professor Rakesh Khurana in his new book, From Higher Aims to Hired Hands. BusinessWeek had the audacity to base its rankings on the view of the schools’ two main “customers,” students and... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

24 Apr 2014
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Exploring how companies manage talent and career development

Harvard Business School Professor Boris Groysberg (DBA 2002) describes his research into how companies manage hiring and talent development. (Published April 2014) View Details

29 Sep 2014
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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
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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

Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

16 Feb 2016
First Look

February 16, 2016

impact of preferential incentive plans and the conditions under which these plans are more or less effective. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50575 Who Should Select New Employees, the Head Office or the Unit Manager? Consequences... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 Nov 2016
Research & Ideas

It Matters That Your CEO Doesn't Know Much About Sales

as a sales issue.” Planning and hiring To reap any of these benefits companies must develop links between the C-suite and the customer-facing side of the business. In his article, Cespedes offers two examples of how this can be done:... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

10 Jul 2024
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Next Level

businesses achieve diversity, as well as giving women more flexibility to work and be present for their families. A frequent remote worker herself, Joseph is able to serve as a classroom parent to her young daughter’s school. And at work she is able to View Details

Keywords: Catherine O’Neill Grace

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Four Ways to Make The Most of Your Company Events - Recruiting

can learn a lot about a company by looking at its website and social media accounts, so focus your content on questions that the students may have prepared in advance after doing their initial research. We encourage you to share details about your company and View Details

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

Sewell L. Avery

At Montgomery Ward, Avery hired top merchandising men from other fields and instituted numerous reforms. Montgomery Ward was very successful under Avery’s management, doing an annual mail order business of $700 million and boasting 575... View Details

Keywords: Retail

16 Jun 2015
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HBS in San Francisco: West Coast Recruiting Recap

meet unique needs of San Francisco based organizations. 3) Meet in person with recruiters who want to hire members of the HBS community. Our team split up and covered lots of ground. Some staff met with area organizations and led... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

01 Dec 2016
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Takeaways

Edited by April White Peter A. Gudmundsson photo by Susan Young Peter A. Gudmundsson photo by Susan Young “All organizations need great people. Veterans are great people, so all organizations need to hire veterans.” —Peter A. Gudmundsson... View Details

01 Jun 2020
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Lesson Plans

which will help erode the stigma that still exists around online education. In addition, the way that hiring managers perceive online education will change. We tend to be biased toward what we know, and a lot of View Details

Keywords: Jen Mele

01 Jun 2018
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Ask the Expert: Star Search

determine direction and how hiring can impact that direction. Working in an ultra-tight job market for a growing company—and with years at Bain Capital’s private equity group giving her insight on the importance of strong teams—Gulliver... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

25 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Has Occupational Licensing Outlived Its Usefulness?

service provider has a license, their hiring decision is still more driven by price and online reviews than the quality assurance that comes with licensing. New research shows that tougher licensing requirements reduce the pool of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Service

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