Pooling - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jan 2011
News

Seth Klarman, MBA 1982

situations," says Klarman. Also at HBS, Klarman met Professor William Poorvu, who recruited him to manage a pool of capital in the newly formed Baupost Group. While the job initially didn't pay particularly well, it gave him a platform on... View Details

22 Dec 2008
Research & Ideas

10 Reasons to Design a Better Corporate Culture

pool of prospective employees grows. -- The cost of selecting among many applicants is offset by cost savings as prospective employees sort themselves into and out of consideration for jobs. -- This self-selection process reduces the... View Details

Keywords: by James L. Heskett, W. Earl Sasser & Joe Wheeler

27 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

IPO or M&A? How Venture Capital Shapes a Startup's Future

Experience and Start-Up Exits, a forthcoming study in the Academy of Management Journal. Startup founders, pick your path Past research about the degree of collaboration among investors offers mixed messages. On one hand, investors who have worked together might View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

09 Jan 2020
Book

Rethinking Business Strategy in the Age of AI

and says it may never make money. Businesses need to figure out where the profits can pool and how they can sustain themselves over time. Yes, there’s opportunity everywhere, but it’s tricky because some will lead to a sustainable... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

31 Jan 2023
Op-Ed

Can Insurance Technology Solve the Uninsured Driver Problem?

minimum coverage are relegated to shopping in the higher-priced “nonstandard market,” which pools them with high-risk drivers who have been denied coverage by standard carriers, even if they have a clean driving record. [div... View Details

Keywords: by Ray Kluender; Insurance

01 Dec 2023
News

Case Study: Staking a Claim

Illustration by Nhung Lê Kate Terry (MBA 2005) knows that no one attends their fifth-grade career fair and comes home hoping to pursue a career in insurance—but that’s exactly where she wound up. “I really fell in love with it,” she says. As cofounder and CEO of... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Insurance Carriers and Related Activities; Finance

15 Dec 2023
News

Like-Minded

Yumiko Murakami (MBA 1994), Miwa Seki (MBA 1993), and Kathy Matsui share the same month and year of birth, so the friends started an annual birthday get-together to reflect on the year ahead. Work was always a hot topic of discussion. Each woman had built a strong... View Details

06 Oct 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters

underlying principles: Businesses try to learn from noisy signals and quickly adapt their activities to newly emerging information. They actively cooperate with external stakeholders (including, in some instances, their competitors) to View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

Banking By: Nicola Gennaioli & Robert W. Vishny JUN 2011 The rise and extent of shadow banking – the origination and acquisition of loans by financial intermediaries, their assembly into diversified pools, and the financing of these pools... View Details

17 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Blue Skies, Distractions Arise: How Weather Affects Productivity

study gives you the reality of the phenomenon. A lab study answers the question, why is this happening?" The team recruited 136 college students through the study pool at the Harvard Decision Science Laboratory in Cambridge,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Climate Impact - Business & Environment

captured atmospheric carbon during manufacturing, to produce concrete products with 70-100+% less embodied carbon.” Wyatt Smith MBA 2015 | Founder & CEO, Upsmith “UpSmith is on a mission to combat skilled worker shortages. We develop technology to expand the talent... View Details

09 May 2023
Research & Ideas

Where to Find Remote Work Now: 250 Million Job Postings Paint a Complex Picture

company is based is another big factor, Sadun says. “What's in the San Francisco and Boston talent pool is likely very different from what is in Savannah or Miami Beach,” she says. “You will compete for talent based on whether you offer... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

Profile

Jay Bhandari

of his selection tests, where dozens of candidates had to swim together across a pool at night without visibility. Short on breath and under time pressure, many would attempt to exit the pool as quickly as... View Details

08 Feb 2023
Op-Ed

Building an Inclusive Workplace? Prepare to Shield It from Economic Fears

allowed some companies to hire from a broader pool of candidates. Cutting so many barriers has been disorienting for some executives—it’s tempting to go back to what’s familiar. But the lack of structure can also be liberating, freeing... View Details

Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and Nicole Gilmore

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Tethys | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

tesserae. The Tethys mosaic originally was submerged in water, created for a pool in an Antioch bath building. Visitors surely admired its central image of the sea goddess Tethys, a fitting subject for a bath not far from the... View Details

02 Mar 2012
HBS Seminar

Joe Lassiter/Gordon Jones, Harvard Business School/Harvard University

16 Dec 2022
Research & Ideas

Why Technology Alone Can't Solve AI's Bias Problem

proportion to their presence in the wider pool of qualified candidates. A fair algorithm may also change the applicants ranked highest, theoretically giving more opportunities for a variety of candidates to make a hiring company’s short... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology

01 Feb 1999
News

Too Much of a Good Thing?

predicts. That all has social fallout, of course. Salter notes that one result in the United States will be a widening income gap as a growing pool of less-educated, low-skilled American workers see jobs that match their abilities... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Nov 2022
What Do You Think?

Why Aren’t Business Leaders More Vocal About Immigration Policy?

gone on for decades as a giant skimming effect that benefits the US while reducing the talent pool of countries offering the least opportunity. Few groups have been as maligned or as poorly portrayed as our immigrant pool. This has been... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Why HBS? - Doctoral

consultation, data procurement and analysis, programming, subject pool administration, and region-based field support. And, the collections of Baker Library – one of the world’s largest and most respected business libraries – are... View Details

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