Hiring and recruitment

Brewer says inclusion and equity are about making employees feel seen and heard.

Who counts, and who doesn't.

(I wrote this post with Diamond CTO Chris Curran) Are you taking no more than a squirt gun to the talent wars? Most people find jobs through social connections. In 1974, Harvard sociologist Mark Granovetter published his landmark study that showed four out of five people find jobs through personal connections. Yet, in our recent […]

According to Wickham Skinner (“What Matters to Manufacturing,” HBR January–February 1988), too many managers now approach production difficulties with “a menu of textbook techniques”—CIM, for example—when they should be thinking through the same old questions: What is my business? Where is the market? What machines and flexibilities do I really need? With Skinner’s strictures in […]

Companies pay a premium for prestigious degrees. Should they?

by Paul Michelman

Professor Michael W. Klein contends that countries affording women greater economic opportunities are more successful in women's international sports.

Hiram Phillips couldn't have been in better spirits. The CFO and chief administrative officer of Rainbarrel Products, a diversified consumer-durables...

Why employers should embrace fair-chance hiring practices.

“Open hiring” can lead to more diversity, less turnover, and fairer systems.

Never miss another great hire.

For high performance, autonomy is key.

If you want to diversify your AI team, here's where to look.

Entrepreneurs have always needed imagination and daring. What’s different today, says one of the architects of the new economy, is that they have to move a lot faster than ever before, with a lot less room for error.

When you work for an organization that proudly touts its pay-for-performance ethos, you can be sure you'll get a fair shake, right? Not necessarily. In...

Three ways to make sure employee reviews are fair in chaotic times.

A bad hire costs over $12,000, but a good one is worth only $5,000.

Norman Windom, the chairman of Tiverton Media, may not know much about the world of popular music, but he does fancy himself a careful planner and a superb...

We often hear from job seekers: “If I have the necessary skills and experience, why am I not hearing back from more companies?” It’s a fair question, especially for the more than five million workers who’ve been unemployed for six months or longer (more than 40 percent of all unemployed job seekers). Struggling to get […]

It's who they let you hire next.