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Uber Is Finally Realizing HR Isn’t Just for Recruiting

Harvard Business

It suggests that Kalanick initially saw the HR function as a means of recruiting staff to support fast growth. All of this indicates that Uber leaders prioritized immediately useful services like recruitment over, for example, legal compliance systems, audits, and leadership development.

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How Geography Affects Where Elite Consulting Firms Recruit

Harvard Business

Research has shown that attending an elite university can make or break a student’s chances of being recruited by the best firms ( whether or not that strategy makes sense for firms ). Since firms tend to recruit where they can find the most candidates, students in regions with many top schools may have a harder time being found.

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Why Private Equity Needs to Invest More in Talent Development

Harvard Business

A conversation with AlixPartners’ Ted Bililies on shifting strategy in a tough market.

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Oliver Wyman interview preparation: the inside story

Management Consulted

When seeking new talent, Oliver Wyman’s consulting team says they are looking for employees who are driven, risky, and innovative. And, of course, their claim to fame, Financial Services , is broken down into even more practices including: Finance and Risk. Corporate and Finance and Advisory. Retail and Business Banking.

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HR Leaders Need Stronger Data Skills

Harvard Business

.” In today’s tightening labor market, HR leaders must work relentlessly to develop and recruit people who advance digital transformation across their organizations. This neglect has hindered their ability to leverage data into talent strategies that can help transform their businesses. Implement leadership planning models.

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This Pharma Company Stays Innovative by Doing Two Things

Harvard Business

After extensive assessment, they settled on two initiatives: realigning incentives for employees and systematically introducing outside talent and practices. From its inception, the company consciously recruiting scientists who rebelled against big pharma bureaucracy and were open to new ways of working.

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Can We Keep Our Biases from Creeping into AI?

Harvard Business

But that will only happen if we expand AI talent pools and explicitly test AI-driven technologies for bias. The quickest way to flip this public perception on its head is to render AI genderless, something I advocate for tirelessly and practice with Sage’s personal finance assistant, Pegg. Eliminating Biases in AI: The People.