The board of directors of Label Insight, a venture-backed company providing product transparency through data science, retained Lantern Partners to recruit an experienced, growth-stage Chief Financial Officer (CFO). We are pleased to announce David Aniol as the new CFO of Label Insight, where he will bring proven leadership to all facets of the finance function…
When looking for the right senior executive hire, the interview process should be a whole lot more than just an hour-long meeting that’s limited to a vague, standardized list of interview questions. The interview, when done right, is actually a meticulously refined set of steps, and it’s a process that we at Lantern Partners have…
About a year and a half ago, Lantern Partners integrated an innovative step into our senior executive recruitment process: Onboarding. It works like this: After a final decision has been made on a new hire, Lantern Partners holds an onboarding meeting with the hiring manager and HR representatives from the client company in order to…
Sustainability: It’s a word that’s frequently thrown around in the business world and, because of rampant greenwashing, is often met with scoffs of cynicism and plenty of eye rolls. When companies misleadingly slap “green” labels onto products or engage in other tactics that exaggerate their sustainability, it is almost always revealed through the media that they’ve…
Famed psychologist Stanley Milgram conducted his “small-world experiments” back in the mid-20th century. Milgram asked a random selection of people in Omaha and Wichita to get a letter to a person in Boston through someone they personally knew. In other words: If you knew the Bostonian, mail to him directly. If not, send the letter to…
Businesses seeking progress, growth, and evolution want only the brightest, most promising, and established winners to take the lead. Thus, they put people in charge who have extensive education and experience and seem qualified to lead. But just because those in the C-suite have a wealth of intelligence, a drive to be on top, and seem to be…
