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- 10 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Learning Curve: Making the Most of Outsourcing
radiologist having experience with that customer. If you're an outsourcing firm, that has implications for how you think about staffing a new client versus one with whom the firm has a longer history." Huckman's future research will look...
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- April 2009
- Teaching Note
Apple's Core (TN)
By: Noam T. Wasserman and Lisa Brem
Teaching Note for [809063].
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- March 1993 (Revised September 1993)
- Case
Praxair: Creating a Board (A)
By: Jay W. Lorsch
Discusses the process a CEO/chairman goes through in creating a new board. Specifically, follows a CEO's decision-making process in selecting board members. Also includes decisions about the selection process for board members and the structure and process of board...
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Keywords:
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Decision Making;
Corporate Governance;
Conferences;
Business or Company Management;
Selection and Staffing
Lorsch, Jay W. "Praxair: Creating a Board (A)." Harvard Business School Case 493-038, March 1993. (Revised September 1993.)
- January 2008 (Revised March 2008)
- Case
Uría Menéndez (A)
By: Robert G. Eccles
Uria Menendez, the pre-eminent law firm in Iberia, is at a critical point in its long and distinguished history. Its newly appointed second generation co-managing Partners are facing some critical strategic decisions concerning how the firm should position itself in...
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Keywords:
Global Strategy;
Networks;
Selection and Staffing;
Work-Life Balance;
Compensation and Benefits;
Decision Making;
Expansion;
Legal Services Industry;
Iberian Peninsula
Eccles, Robert G. "Uría Menéndez (A)." Harvard Business School Case 408-088, January 2008. (Revised March 2008.)
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
A Force for Good
Photo courtesy of Ananth Kasturiraman Photo courtesy of Ananth Kasturiraman There is no shortage of evidence demonstrating that the hiring process is one of the ways in which economic inequalities are perpetuated. Take, for example, the finding that job candidates who...
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- 2024
- Working Paper
Private Equity and Digital Transformation
By: Brian K. Baik, Wilbur Chen and Suraj Srinivasan
We study the role which private equity (PE) plays in digital transformation. We find that PE investment is associated with greater investments into portfolio firm’s digital technologies, as measured by IT expenditures and the hiring demand for AI skills. This...
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Keywords:
Digital Transformation;
Private Equity;
Selection and Staffing;
Investment Portfolio;
Value Creation
Baik, Brian K., Wilbur Chen, and Suraj Srinivasan. "Private Equity and Digital Transformation." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 24-070, May 2024.
- 2019
- Working Paper
Who Should Select New Employees, Headquarters or the Unit Manager? Consequences of Centralizing Hiring at a Retail Chain
By: Carolyn Deller and Tatiana Sandino
We examine how changing the allocation of hiring decision rights in a multiunit organization affects employee-firm match quality, contingent on a unit’s circumstances. Our research site, a US retail chain, switched from a decentralized hiring model (hiring by business...
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Keywords:
Control;
Selection;
Decentralization;
Company Values;
Retail Chains;
Decision Making;
Economics;
Geography;
Employees;
Selection and Staffing;
Organizational Design;
Situation or Environment;
Retail Industry
Deller, Carolyn, and Tatiana Sandino. "Who Should Select New Employees, Headquarters or the Unit Manager? Consequences of Centralizing Hiring at a Retail Chain." Harvard Business School Series in Accounting and Control, No. 16-088, January 2016. (Revised August 2019. Forthcoming in The Accounting Review.)
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Eight Join HBS Faculty
Art by Brian Taylor As an HBS doctoral student and recipient of the Wyss Award for Excellence in Doctoral Research, George Serafeim (DBA ’10) coauthored the paper “The Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility on Investment Recommendations,” which was selected as “best...
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- October 2019 (Revised February 2020)
- Case
Thermax—Changing of the Guard
By: Christina R. Wing and Inakshi Sobti
Thermax is an engineering company in India that provides integrated solutions in energy, environment, and chemicals. The Aga family along with family trusts owns 62% of the company. Post a restructuring exercise in 2000, Thermax transforms itself from a small family...
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Keywords:
Family Business;
Transformation;
Business Conglomerates;
Strategy;
Management Succession;
Selection and Staffing;
Organizational Culture
Wing, Christina R., and Inakshi Sobti. "Thermax—Changing of the Guard." Harvard Business School Case 620-043, October 2019. (Revised February 2020.)
- 2010
- Chapter
Crime Distribution and Victim Behavior during a Crime Wave
By: Rafael Di Tella, Sebastian Galiani and Ernesto Schargrodsky
The study of how crime affects different income groups faces the difficulty that crime-avoiding activities vary across these groups. Thus, a lower victimization rate in one group may not reflect a lower burden of crime, but rather a higher investment in crime...
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Keywords:
Safety;
Wealth and Poverty;
Selection and Staffing;
Crime and Corruption;
Income;
Leading Change;
Information Management;
Argentina
Di Tella, Rafael, Sebastian Galiani, and Ernesto Schargrodsky. "Crime Distribution and Victim Behavior during a Crime Wave." Chap. 5 in The Economics of Crime: Lessons for and from Latin America, edited by Rafael Di Tella, Sebastian Edwards, and Ernesto Schargrodsky, 175–204. National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report. University of Chicago Press, 2010.
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
A Primer on Patents
they found legally uninteresting. The supposed solution was the creation of a new, centralized appellate court to hear all patent cases — the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC). But it didn’t solve anything in terms of fairness. View Details
- September 2008 (Revised October 2008)
- Case
Marc Abrahams: Annals of an Improbable Entrepreneur
By: Boris Groysberg and Michael Slind
Marc Abrahams was a media entrepreneur who specialized in science humor. In 2008, he sought to boost the scale and monetization potential of his business. That business, called Improbable Research, encompassed a magazine (Annals of Improbable Research), a high-profile...
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Keywords:
Entrepreneurship;
Selection and Staffing;
Human Capital;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Brands and Branding;
Personal Development and Career
Groysberg, Boris, and Michael Slind. "Marc Abrahams: Annals of an Improbable Entrepreneur." Harvard Business School Case 409-013, September 2008. (Revised October 2008.)
- April 2001 (Revised April 2002)
- Case
Liz Claiborne China
By: Joseph L. Bower, Sonja Ellingson Hout and Fred Young
A new country manager builds the Shanghai office of Liz Claiborne into a powerful sourcing organization using local talent. She explains the nuts and bolts of transforming the office.
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Keywords:
Business Subsidiaries;
Transformation;
Selection and Staffing;
Leadership;
Managerial Roles;
Market Entry and Exit;
Fashion Industry;
China
Bower, Joseph L., Sonja Ellingson Hout, and Fred Young. "Liz Claiborne China." Harvard Business School Case 301-098, April 2001. (Revised April 2002.)
- October 1997 (Revised November 1997)
- Case
NAACP, The
By: James E. Austin, Paul Barese, Stephanie L. Woerner and Elaine V. Backman
In February 1995, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the largest civil rights organization in the United States, was in the midst of a crisis. The executive director had been fired due to financial improprieties amid charges of...
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Keywords:
Crime and Corruption;
Capital;
Governance Controls;
Resignation and Termination;
Selection and Staffing;
Rights;
Leadership;
Management;
United States
Austin, James E., Paul Barese, Stephanie L. Woerner, and Elaine V. Backman. "NAACP, The ." Harvard Business School Case 398-039, October 1997. (Revised November 1997.)
- 11 Mar 2020
- News
Making It Rain
weather services. “This market is not very innovative, and it’s one of the last industries where governments still lead the technology,” Elkabetz says. Most of the industry relies on data from three public sources: staffed weather...
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Keywords:
Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Case Study: Tip the Scale
be maintained. —Don Cottle (MBA 1961) Try establishing several serial assembly lines with small buffers in between. The buffer is an indicator of where more staff is needed. This optimization could be done according to Kanban principles. It allows for a more flexible...
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- March 2020
- Supplement
People Analytics at Teach For America (B)
By: Jeffrey T. Polzer and Julia Kelley
This is a supplement to the People Analytics at Teach For America (A) case. In this supplement, situated one year after the A case, Managing Director Michael Metzger must decide how to apply his team's predictive models generated from the previous year’s data.
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Keywords:
Analytics;
Human Resource Management;
Data;
Workforce;
Hiring;
Talent Management;
Forecasting;
Predictive Analytics;
Organizational Behavior;
Recruiting;
Analytics and Data Science;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Recruitment;
Selection and Staffing;
Talent and Talent Management
Polzer, Jeffrey T., and Julia Kelley. "People Analytics at Teach For America (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 420-086, March 2020.
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
An Advocate for Women's Equality
Even with Nixon's backing, pressure against her came from inside the administration. When Barbara Hackman Franklin (HRPBA 1963, MBA 1964) was appointed to recruit women for leadership positions in the Nixon administration, there was a problem right from the start: her...
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- March 2006 (Revised March 2014)
- Teaching Note
Founder-CEO Succession at Wily Technology (TN)
By: Noam Wasserman
Teaching Note to 805150.
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- September 2019 (Revised May 2021)
- Case
pymetrics: International Expansion
By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
In August 2018, pymetrics, a solution offering neuroscience-based recruiting tests, closed a $40 million funding round that valued the business at $160 million. Over 60 companies around the globe were using pymetrics tests in their recruiting process, including...
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Keywords:
BrainTech;
Psychodynamics;
Psychology;
Hiring Of Employees;
Hiring;
Strategic Evolution;
Strategy And Execution;
Startup;
Start-up;
Startups;
Start-ups;
Entrepreneur;
Bias;
Rapid Growth Stage;
Recruitment;
Selection and Staffing;
Strategy;
Business Startups;
Employment;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Global Strategy
Wells, John R., and Benjamin Weinstock. "pymetrics: International Expansion." Harvard Business School Case 720-376, September 2019. (Revised May 2021.)