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Research: The Risks of Founding a Startup Near Big Companies

Harvard Business

Yet these areas are dense with talent for a reason: It’s often due to the presence of large firms with whom these fledgling companies must compete. In a new study, researchers found that when large firms increase their hiring, startups in the same location are forced to offer 10% higher salaries, while reducing their expected growth by 36%.

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How to Retain Your Best Sales Talent

Harvard Business

A recent study found that 56% of sales professionals are actively job hunting.

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Talent Matters Even More than People Think

Harvard Business

Leaving aside luck, which equates to confessing that we don’t really know, there are really just two explanations: talent and effort. Talent concerns the abilities, skills, and expertise that determine what a person can do. Effort concerns the degree to which the person deploys their talents. Is talent overrated?

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How Companies Can Tap Into Talent Clusters

Harvard Business

Bill Kerr, a professor at Harvard Business School, studies the increasing importance of talent clusters in our age of rapid technological advances. He argues that while talent and industries have always had a tendency to cluster, today’s trend towards San Francisco, Boston, London and a handful of other cities is different.

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Research: Why Inclusive Hiring Must Include Refugees

Harvard Business

The authors cite their findings from two of their studies: first, that managers who have never recruited from this group tend to not only undervalue the benefits of this talent pool, but also hold various misconceptions and biases around recruiting and hiring refugees; and second, that traditional recruitment processes prevent managers from tapping (..)

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The Barriers to Recruiting and Employing Digital Talent

Harvard Business

Finding digital talent is one of the biggest challenges facing companies today. These are the three biggest challenges we’ve seen: Integrating digital talent into the core business. However, one serious challenge that often arises with accelerators is how to integrate new talent into the core business.

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Deloitte’s Pixel: A Case Study on How to Innovate from Within

Harvard Business

If you’re an intrapreneur — or aspire to be one — this episode is for you.