Harvard Business

MAY 26, 2017

as many applications as “Sandra Bauer” to receive the same number of callbacks for interviews. The first stage of the hiring process, when personnel managers select candidates for job interviews on the basis of written applications, allows a particularly clean-cut test of labor market opportunities. In the U.S.,

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 11, 2017

We focused on experiments performed since 1990, when field studies became more numerous and their methodologically improved. By examining the rates of callbacks, or invitations to job interviews, for white and nonwhite applicants with equivalent qualifications, these studies provide high-quality measures of rates of discrimination in hiring.

Trends 136

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 4, 2018

Please refer to the first article in this series for the first five findings and more details on the data sources and methodology behind the analysis. Finding #6 – Invite-Only Events Are Highly Indicative of Interview Invite Odds. Chart 6 – Relationship between Invitation to Invite-Only Event and Interview Invitation Rate. .

Recruiting 68

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 27, 2017

The methodology: An analysis of email communication and meeting schedule data for hundreds of employees in one office over four months. The methodology: Observations of closed-room, face-to-face discussions of final funding decisions among Swedish government VCs. The question: Why do fewer women end up in senior positions than men?

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 16, 2016

” And yet the lean startup methodology, born in Silicon Valley as a way for startups to tune in to customer needs with limited resources, has been gaining major momentum inside big companies like General Electric, Alaska Airlines, Telefonica, 3M, and W.L. “Anticipate resistance and welcome it,” one survey respondent advised.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 5, 2024

To develop this understanding, product managers actively engage with customers through surveys, interviews, and user testing. Traditional waterfall development methodologies are being replaced by agile practices that emphasize flexibility, collaboration, and responsiveness to ongoing customer feedback.

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Harvard Business

MAY 15, 2018

A great deal of research — using methodologies such as resume studies and other models — has found that employer discrimination and prejudice plays a large role in creating this gap. I used data from the General Social Survey , which has been tracking trends in attitudes, behaviors, and attributes in the U.S. since 1972.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Yet in a one-on-one interview he confided that he saw no future for his ambitions at that firm. After all, one of their most valued employees is an indigenous Peruvian, a man who is respected, well-paid, and included in the leadership team’s decision-making discussions.

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Talent Case Interview Research Energy 70

Harvard Business

APRIL 4, 2016

This is confirmed by my follow-up interviews with these leaders, which revealed that these internal transitions can be every bit as tough as onboarding, involving combinations of promotions and moves to new units or new geographies, as well as dealing with different cultures and political networks.

Turnaround 70

Turnaround Chemicals Study Company 70

Harvard Business

MARCH 8, 2017

Since 2004, the global tax, auditing, and advisory firm Grant Thornton has surveyed people around the globe — this year it interviewed more than 5,000 people from 36 countries — to track the progress women are (or are not) making into senior leadership roles in their companies. Methodology.

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