In my course at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, students frequently ask case guests: What is the most important thing you do as a leader? The response is always the same: hiring and ...

Whether you are signing up a huge supplier, hiring an employee or thinking of making an investment, reference calls are absolutely crucial. Before I learned how to do them properly, they were purely ...

The right reference can help you land the job, but only if you ask the right person in the right way. Here’s how. My first piece of advice is to have more than one person in mind. Like a lot of things ...