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- 31 May 2016
- Working Paper Summaries
Who Gets Hired? The Importance of Finding an Open Slot
- January 2013 (Revised January 2013)
- Course Overview Note
Running Small and Medium Size Enterprises (RSME) Winter Term 2013: Course Overview and Syllabus
Course Overview and Syllabus for RSME
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Keywords:
Entrepreneurial Management;
Entrepreneurial Organizations;
Entrepreneurs;
Small & Medium-sized Enterprises;
Small And Medium-sized Enterprises;
Small Business;
Small And Medium Enterprises;
Small Company Management;
Small Companies;
Operations Management;
Growth Management;
Growth Strategy;
Growth Planning And Management;
Pricing;
Hiring;
Firm Growth;
Firm Organization;
Leadership And Managing People;
Entrepreneurship;
Operations;
Management;
Leadership
Sharpe, Jim. "Running Small and Medium Size Enterprises (RSME) Winter Term 2013: Course Overview and Syllabus." Harvard Business School Course Overview Note 813-128, January 2013. (Revised January 2013.)
- February 2015 (Revised April 2016)
- Supplement
Quincy Apparel (B)
By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Lisa C. Mazzanti
The (B) case provides post-mortem analysis from Quincy's cofounders on why their startup failed and what they could have done differently. Explanations for failure focus on Quincy's ambitious value proposition and resulting operational challenges; cofounder conflict;...
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Keywords:
Retail;
Online Retail;
Women's Apparel;
Internet and the Web;
Entrepreneurship;
Failure;
Business Startups;
E-commerce;
Apparel and Accessories Industry;
Retail Industry
Eisenmann, Thomas R., and Lisa C. Mazzanti. "Quincy Apparel (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 815-095, February 2015. (Revised April 2016.)
- 02 Jun 2017
- News
Venture capital’s gender gap is costly for firms and the economy
- August 2005 (Revised December 2005)
- Case
Coach Knight: The Will to Win
By: Scott A. Snook, Leslie A. Perlow and Brian DeLacey
Successful college basketball coach Bob Knight was fired from his long-time role as basketball coach at Indiana University and hired in the same role at Texas Tech. Considers these events in the context of his long career and provides a context for discussing various...
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Keywords:
Resignation and Termination;
Selection and Staffing;
Leadership Style;
Situation or Environment;
Power and Influence;
Sports;
Indiana;
Texas
Snook, Scott A., Leslie A. Perlow, and Brian DeLacey. "Coach Knight: The Will to Win." Harvard Business School Case 406-043, August 2005. (Revised December 2005.)
- January 2009
- Supplement
Yieldex (B)
Yieldex CEO Tom Shields was hired by the company's technical founder, Doug Cosman, in October 2007. One of Shields' top priorities is finding a vice president of engineering to manage the company's software development efforts. Shields and Costman disagree about the...
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Keywords:
Selection and Staffing;
Applications and Software;
Engineering;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Product Development;
Information Technology Industry
Stuart, Toby E., and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld. "Yieldex (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 809-091, January 2009.
- 25 Jun 2021
- News
HBS Partners with OneTen Initiative
- 02 Jun 2017
- News
Venture Capital Firms With More Teenage Daughters Perform Better
- 07 Oct 2019
- HBS Seminar
Tristan Botelho, Yale University
- December 2010 (Revised November 2013)
- Case
Talent Recruitment at frog design Shanghai
By: Robert G. Eccles, Amy C. Edmondson and Yi Kwan Chu
This case illustrates the complexity and importance of hiring decisions in the Chinese operation of a global design and innovation firm.
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Keywords:
Selection and Staffing;
Recruitment;
Talent and Talent Management;
Decision Making;
Complexity;
Innovation and Invention;
Shanghai
Eccles, Robert G., Amy C. Edmondson, and Yi Kwan Chu. "Talent Recruitment at frog design Shanghai." Harvard Business School Case 411-040, December 2010. (Revised November 2013.)
- May 2002 (Revised January 2006)
- Case
SG Cowen: New Recruits
By: Thomas J. DeLong and Vineeta Vijayaraghavan
Chip Rae, director of recruiting at SG Cowen, must decide which recruits to keep after the final interview process for new outside associate hires. Along with team captains assigned to each school, he reviews the criteria used to make hiring decisions. Their new...
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Keywords:
Recruitment;
Selection and Staffing;
Decision Making;
Management Practices and Processes;
Service Industry
DeLong, Thomas J., and Vineeta Vijayaraghavan. "SG Cowen: New Recruits." Harvard Business School Case 402-028, May 2002. (Revised January 2006.)
- June 2013 (Revised August 2017)
- Case
Coupa
By: Michael Roberts and William Sahlman
The case describes the growth of Coupa, a software as a service platform for procurement / expense management. The issues in the case are around how fast to grow and how to finance that growth. The case includes a detailed financial model that will help students...
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- September 2013 (Revised February 2016)
- Case
GlaxoSmithKline: Sourcing Complex Professional Services
By: Heidi K. Gardner and Silvia Hodges Silverstein
Pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) uses an innovative new approach to procuring outside legal counsel: it replaces relationship-based selection and law firms' traditional time-based billing with data-driven decision making and an online reverse auction. In...
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Keywords:
Legal Industry;
Procurement;
Professional Service Firms;
Pricing;
Competition;
Change Management;
Supply Chain Management;
Legal Liability;
Business Processes;
Legal Services Industry;
Pharmaceutical Industry
Gardner, Heidi K., and Silvia Hodges Silverstein. "GlaxoSmithKline: Sourcing Complex Professional Services." Harvard Business School Case 414-003, September 2013. (Revised February 2016.)
- 22 Sep 2021
- News
Workers Say Employers Have Been Guilty of Ghosting Them for Years
- Profile
Phil Strazzulla
has been my biggest joy thus far. When I was in 6th grade, I opened my first brokerage account and started wading into the world of investing. Over the last few years I taught myself to code. Now I'm learning how to hire and manage. ...
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Keywords:
Technology
- 06 Oct 2021
- News
Robots Are Hiding 27 Million Workers from Employers Who Need Them
- 30 Aug 2021
- News
How The Pandemic Could Give Workers More Leverage
- 22 Jan 2014
- News
High-Tech Immigrant Workers Don’t Cost US Jobs
- August 2019 (Revised March 2020)
- Background Note
Note on Structured Interviewing
By: Ethan Bernstein and Amy Ross
Making good hiring decisions is a critical management activity, yet many leaders just “wing it” when interviewing candidates to fill openings by having an organic conversation to assess the candidate’s fit, unknowingly subjecting the process to unconscious bias....
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Bernstein, Ethan, and Amy Ross. "Note on Structured Interviewing." Harvard Business School Background Note 420-032, August 2019. (Revised March 2020.)