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Item Entrepreneurial Teams' Human Capital: From Its Formation To Its Impact On The Performance Of Technological New Ventures(2015-06) Honore, FlorenceStartups' human capital, especially founding teams' pre-entry experience, has long been studied as a determinant of their performance. However, little is known on the complementarities between the different pre-entry experiences and on the influence of these pre-entry experiences on startups' performance and on startups' acquisition of new human capital. My dissertation fills this gap with two essays. In my first essay, I show that two types of pre-entry experiences, target industry experience and experience outside the target industry, are complementary when one is shared across the founding team members and the other is embodied within team members who worked in multiple firms. In my second essay, I show that pre-entry experience makes potential hires more attractive to startups. However, startups appear more attractive to these potential hires if they can signal productivity and growth potential rather than prior experiences. I also find that gender affects the selection of the potential hires and their earnings suggesting the existence of disparities in the startup environment. By using interactions between different experiences, in and outside the target industry, and between different levels of analysis, the team and the individuals, my dissertation enriches our understanding of startups' human capital and its effects on performance and acquisition of talent.Item Improving Organizational Innovation Capability Through Effective Hiring and Retention—A literature Review Based Research(2019-12) Siffring, CalebThis thesis addresses critical problems that managers face when seeking to improve the innovative capability: hiring and retention of innovative individuals. Through literature review, a gap between the importance of effectively attracting, assessing, and retaining innovative employees and the lack of study in the field was identified. Through literature review, methods and models are discussed to help companies to attract, evaluate, and retain innovative individuals. Evaluation methods were reviewed to build a framework that helps management in the selection process of prospect employees with the goal of improving the organizational innovation capability. Existing evaluation methods were reviewed and combined into a framework that selects innovative individuals who can be placed within the right job and team, to improve company innovation capability. The mechanism to achieve innovative company image building was also explored with the goal of developing a candidate pool. A retention model was also discussed and suggested.Item Racial Diversity in Hiring for the City of Saint Paul(HHH, 2015) Tack, Peter; Mishra, Sandeep; Bill, Robert; Agarwal, Puneet