The topic of “Would you hire your friend?” came up recently with one of my colleagues. Apparently, we are not the only ones who have addressed this concern. A simple search on Google using the query, “Should I hire my friend?” brought up 12.3 million results. If you asked me, I would answer “no” without any hesitation. If you look through the first few Google query results, you will find a mixture of “yeses” and “nos.” Rather than adding one more article to Google’s pile, I’d