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    From Higher Aims to Hired Hands

    Is management a profession? Should it be? Can it be? This major work of social and intellectual history reveals how such questions have driven business education and shaped American management and society for more than a century. The book is also a call for reform.... View Details
    • February 2023 (Revised March 2025)
    • Module Note

    LCA Module Overview: Employees

    By: Nien-hê Hsieh
    This note provides an overview of key questions, themes, and concepts to be covered in the module and provides a brief description of each case and how it relates to these questions, themes, and concepts. View Details
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    Hsieh, Nien-hê. "LCA Module Overview: Employees." Harvard Business School Module Note 323-072, February 2023. (Revised March 2025.)
    • 29 Mar 2017
    • News

    Effie Epstein Hired As COO of Ashton Kutcher’s Sound Ventures

    • January 1981 (Revised June 1993)
    • Background Note

    Note on Why Employees Join Unions

    By: Michael Beer
    Provides some answers to the question of why employees join unions. Summarizes recent data on workers' perceptions of unions: their power and instrumentality. Also explores the special situation of white collar workers. View Details
    Keywords: Labor Unions; Employees; Social Psychology
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    Beer, Michael. "Note on Why Employees Join Unions." Harvard Business School Background Note 481-121, January 1981. (Revised June 1993.)
    • 04 Nov 2024
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    What to Know About Using “Employers of Record” to Hire Globally

    • September 2019
    • Supplement

    pymetrics (B)

    By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
    In March 2013, pymetrics CEO Frida Polli visited Harvard Business School to listen to a section of MBA students from the class of 2013 discuss her business plan and provide feedback on the tests they had taken to identify career opportunities. Polli had developed a... View Details
    Keywords: BrainTech; Hiring; Hiring Of Employees; Recruiting; Personality; Personality Traits; Startup; Start-up; Startups; Start-ups; Employment; Strategic Evolution; Psychodynamics; Psychology; Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Business Startups; Strategy; Personal Characteristics
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    Wells, John R., and Benjamin Weinstock. "pymetrics (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 720-375, September 2019.
    • 16 Apr 2015
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    Improving employee productivity: On your toes

    • January 2021
    • Article

    Sales Hiring Is Hard to Do (Don't Make It Harder)

    By: Frank V. Cespedes
    In the aggregate, hiring in sales is more expensive than many companies’ cap-ex decisions. But it rarely gets the same attention and companies fail to deal with challenges inherent in sales hiring. Unlike many other business functions, there is no easily identified... View Details
    Keywords: Salesforce Management; Selection and Staffing; Human Resources
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    Cespedes, Frank V. "Sales Hiring Is Hard to Do (Don't Make It Harder)." Top Sales Magazine (January 2021), 38–39.
    • 2009
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    The Effects of a Central Clearinghouse on Job Placement, Wages, and Hiring Practices

    By: Muriel Niederle and Alvin E. Roth
    New gastroenterologists participated in a labor market clearinghouse (a "match") from 1986 through the late 1990s, after which the match was abandoned. This provides an opportunity to study the effects of a match by observing the differences in the outcomes and... View Details
    Keywords: Labor; Market Timing; Marketplace Matching; Failure
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    Niederle, Muriel, and Alvin E. Roth. "The Effects of a Central Clearinghouse on Job Placement, Wages, and Hiring Practices." In Studies of Labor Market Intermediation, edited by David H. Autor, 273–306. University of Chicago Press, 2009.
    • 03 Jan 2018
    • What Do You Think?

    In the Wake of #MeToo, Should Corporate Boards Hire Compliance Officers?

    "Corporate boards should hire more women." Would more women in leadership help mitigate #MeToo concerns? What do you think? ORIGINAL COLUMN One of the most important global management stories in... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • 2018
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    Managing Through Organizational Change: Employee Alignment in the Presence of Unexpected Career Concerns

    By: Ohchan Kwon and Jee-Eun Shin
    This study examines performance consequences due to unexpected career concerns – layoff risks due to institutional reasons. Exploiting a company-wide announcement of a merger decision by management as a trigger event for unexpected career concerns, we examine employee... View Details
    Keywords: Career Changes; Performance Measures; Incentives; M&A; Employees; Personal Development and Career; Mergers and Acquisitions; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance; Motivation and Incentives
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    Kwon, Ohchan, and Jee-Eun Shin. "Managing Through Organizational Change: Employee Alignment in the Presence of Unexpected Career Concerns." Working Paper, July 2018.
    • 02 Feb 2016
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    Hiring Star Salespeople Isn’t the Best Way to Grow

    • 14 Aug 2018
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    Employers Open To Ditching Degree Requirements When Hiring

    • 19 Jan 2023
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    What Makes Employees Trust (vs. Second-Guess) AI?

    When an algorithm recommends ways to improve business outcomes, do employees trust it? Conventional wisdom suggests that understanding the inner workings of artificial intelligence (AI) can raise confidence... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne
    • April 2018
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    Compromised Ethics in Hiring Processes? How Referrers' Power Affects Employees' Reactions to Referral Practices

    By: Rellie Derfler-Rozin, Bradford Baker and F. Gino
    In this paper, we explore referral-based hiring practices and show how a referrer’s power (relative to the hiring manager) influences other organizational members’ support (or lack thereof) for who is hired through perceptions of the hiring manager’s motives and... View Details
    Keywords: Selection and Staffing; Ethics; Perception
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    Derfler-Rozin, Rellie, Bradford Baker, and F. Gino. "Compromised Ethics in Hiring Processes? How Referrers' Power Affects Employees' Reactions to Referral Practices." Academy of Management Journal 61, no. 2 (April 2018): 615–636.
    • 23 Jun 2022
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    When Hiring CEOs, Focus on Character

    • 2011
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    The Impact of Forward-Looking Metrics on Employee Decision Making

    By: Pablo Casas-Arce, Francisco de Asis Martinez-Jerez and V.G. Narayanan
    Keywords: Decision Making; Employees; Measurement and Metrics
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    Casas-Arce, Pablo, Francisco de Asis Martinez-Jerez, and V.G. Narayanan. "The Impact of Forward-Looking Metrics on Employee Decision Making." January 2011.
    • 03 Feb 2016
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    How Do You Hire an 'Impostor'?

    employees. And several identified personally with the phenomenon. Desirable qualities of imposters were described in different ways. Julie Cohen said, “The balance of competency and occasional self-doubt... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • 10 Dec 2021
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    New NYC Law Restricts Hiring Based on Artificial Intelligence

    • 2014
    • Working Paper

    Cleaning House: The Impact of Information Technology on Employee Corruption and Performance

    By: Lamar Pierce, Daniel Snow and Andrew McAfee
    This paper examines how firm investments in technology-based employee monitoring impact both misconduct and productivity. We use unique and detailed theft and sales data from 392 restaurant locations from five firms that adopt a theft monitoring information technology... View Details
    Keywords: Management Practices and Processes; Information Technology; Ethics; Performance Productivity; Employees
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    Pierce, Lamar, Daniel Snow, and Andrew McAfee. "Cleaning House: The Impact of Information Technology on Employee Corruption and Performance." MIT Sloan Research Paper, No. 5029-13, October 2014.
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