Insights & Advice
Hire an MBA: The Benefits and Misconceptions for Startups
Molly DeCastro
Startups are exciting to HBS MBA students for many reasons, including the opportunity for impact, exposure to multiple functions, and practicing skills they are learning at HBS. But, why should a startup hire an HBS MBA? [...]
Creating an Inclusive Recruiting Process for Candidates with Diverse Abilities
Becca Carnahan
We asked four HBS alumni with diverse abilities—physical and mental, visible and invisible—to share their perspective on recruiting, both as candidates and as hiring managers, recruiters, and interviewers to inform recruiting partners on how to create inclusive recruiting practices. [...]
How to Create a Psychologically Safe Workplace
Becca Carnahan
Candidates consider many factors when seeking new job opportunities – location, role, benefits, and compensation to name just a few. Yet there is another element that may be more difficult to explain on paper but is just as critical – organizational culture. [...]
Actively Addressing Unconscious Bias in Recruiting
Becca Carnahan & Christopher Moore
The importance of naming and addressing institutional racism has many people focusing on what can be done—as individuals and as employers—to improve diversity, inclusion, and understanding in an organization. Below are several resources and recommendations from experts at the Harvard Business School, along with actions you can take now to make a lasting difference. [...]
Actions Organizations Can Take to Communicate Their Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging
Becca Carnahan
For organizations seeking to understand the actions needed to achieve their diversity and inclusion recruiting goals and to communicate their commitment to diversity and inclusion in the recruiting process, there are a lot of questions on how to do this work well. [...]
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