What it takes to make 'star' hires pay off

MIT Sloan Management Review

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 57-61

  Groysberg, Boris ^a   Lee, Linda Eling ^b   Abrahams, Robin ^a  

^a HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United States)

^b RiskMetrics Group   (United States)

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1. Some of the results reported in this paper relied in part on a data set developed jointly with Ashish Nanda. In addition, data from Institutional Brokers Estimate System, Greenwich Associates, Institutional Investor, Nelson's Investment Research Database and First Call were used. This research was funded by the Division of Research at Harvard Business School.
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