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Morning Advantage: A Blast From The (Recruiting) Past
harvardbusiness.org 1 week agoBack in the day, when IBM first needed to hire programmers, there weren't that many of them. So, instead of looking for resumes that included specific programming skills, the company creatively decided to consider the general attributes its programmers would need , some familiarity with a kind of foreign language, creativity, the ability to sit at a keyboard for long periods of time. When framed that way, the kind of talent IBM needed was obvious , music majors. In similar fashion, says executive recruiter
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Chesapeake Up Against Low-key Activist Mason Hawkins
yahoo.com 2 weeks, 6 days agoNEW YORK (Reuters) - O. Mason Hawkins, whose $34 billion mutual fund firm is Chesapeake Energy Corp's largest shareholder, is best known as a Warren Buffett-style value investor who takes big stakes in companies and holds them, often for years. But occasionally Hawkins turns activist and agitates for corporate change. His firm, Southeastern Asset Management, owns 13.6 percent of the embattled natural gas company, whose shares are down 41 percent since Southeastern began building its stake six years ago. ...










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