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- 08 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Return of the Salesman
recruits for Fuller Brush in the early 20th century, for instance, would leave after a day or two. But aside from these characterizations, it's useful to think of two prototypical types of salespeople: the transactional salesperson and... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Class Notes Extra
Bulletin hadn't heard from Mark Smith for several years, but when his section secretary finally tracked him down, the news was all good. Those who know the New Jersey native may remember he joined IBM in Denver after graduation and eventually was View Details
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
Bradley’s personal involvement in its digital strategy and the recruitment of key positions is clear. But that success has been like the man himself—dramatic yet understated. The turnaround deployed two key tactics central to any... View Details
- 18 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
New Hires Lose Psychological Safety After Year One. How to Fix It.
Boosting psychological safety could be a game-changer, improving health care workers’ emotional wellbeing and reducing burnout, which could boost an organization’s retention rates and lower recruitment costs, Edmondson says. Edmondson and... View Details
- 15 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 15
Talent Recruitment at frog design Shanghai (B) Supplements 411-040. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/414024-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 714-404 New York City: Bloomberg's Strategy for Economic Development Traces the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Sep 2021
- News
Alumni Connections Drive Career Opportunities for Students
network. HBS’s 87,000-plus alumni serve as change makers and an important resource for students. Early in the pandemic, the CPD team made an appeal to alumni and recruiting partners that resulted in nearly 1,000 new full-time and... View Details
Keywords: Becca Carnahan
- 25 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]
people and lots of money. The opportunity seemed right for Bronner, who had founded Digitas, a marketing-services firm that created customer-loyalty programs for clients such as American Express and AT&T. It also seemed a good fit for Jeffrey J. Bussgang, MBA '95,... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 09 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Benefits of “Not Invented Here”
Put differently, there appear to be fewer economies of scale in R&D than there used to be. The way companies define, measure, and reward excellent research has to change.—Henry Chesbrough So what specific things are small companies doing to exploit open innovation?... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2003
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Winner Targets India Dropouts
intended to fund our first few years of operations. Finally, we intend to recruit a permanent executive director and members of our board. We will have our hands full over the next couple of months! View Details
- 12 Oct 2017
- Blog Post
Why I Spent this Summer Coding
would it cost to build/change/scale this? - is a frequent question in startup land (elsewhere too) where recruitment targets are typically behind schedule. In my case, I saw two main options to building a MVP (minimum viable product):... View Details
- June 2024
- Teaching Note
Skills-First Hiring at IBM
By: Boris Groysberg and Sarah Mehta
Teaching note for “Skills-First Hiring at IBM,” case no. 422-013. View Details
Keywords: Competency and Skills; Experience and Expertise; Talent and Talent Management; Human Resources; Human Capital; Employees; Recruitment; Retention; Selection and Staffing; Jobs and Positions; Job Design and Levels; Job Interviews; Society; Societal Protocols; Technology Industry; United States; New York (state, US)
- 07 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
How an African History Scholar Became a Modern Righter of Wrongs
so she recruited a team of Harvard doctoral students and undergrads to help her. “If I had gone through them systematically by myself, I would have been looking at another three to four years of work,” she says. “We had less than a year.”... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Choose the Best Deal
proposals. It's important to know when to declare a winner, especially when relationships are involved. New MBAs sometimes learn this lesson to their regret when recruiters rescind job offers in the face of demands for special perks. In... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
- 19 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
The First Five Years: '30 Under 30' Edition
recruiting for private equity jobs out of HBS is that it all happens during a ‘recruiting cycle’ that takes place early in the fall for second-year students. But those cycles don’t necessarily line up with the times when private equity... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 15 Sep 2020
- News
How To Make Diversity a Reality
start exposing people at a much earlier age about asset management and private equity and why it's a good industry so that you can attract more people to the industry. Chitra: But even when you think about senior levels within private equity, especially a lot of... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Entrepreneurial Venture
role is in recruiting that team: Great venture capitalists can identify and convince great managers to sign on. What do you find to be the most challenging aspect of your work? How do you deal with this challenge? Owades: People. In every... View Details
- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
March–April 2017 Harvard Business Review Hiring an Entrepreneurial Leader: What to Look For By: Butler, Timothy Abstract—Aspiring to be innovative and agile, companies of all shapes and sizes want to recruit entrepreneurial managers. But... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 9, 2018
Another option was to deepen penetration within Seattle by recruiting caregivers with less experience and by broadening the range of services caregivers could provide, e.g., driving children to appointments. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is Group Loyalty a Force for Good or Evil?
by pairing them with members of a group for which they already felt loyalty? “The reason we kept going with more and more studies was that Max and I really, really didn’t want to be proven wrong,” laughs Gino. Liberty, fraternity, loyalty For the next series of... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 02 Nov 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #11: Mary Jo Veverka (HBS 1978): Fostering Actionable Climate Literacy
effective environmental education programs. Despite all the energy and enthusiasm, all – yes all – of the key players in MJ’s in-school and partner organizations in Montgomery County turned over this summer. “All of them were recruited to... View Details