Pooling - Publications - Faculty & Research

28 Jul 2015
First Look

First Look: July 28, 2015

resolve the information asymmetry that exists. Our experimental results provide evidence that participants are unlikely to choose to separate when a pooling equilibrium is also available. This result is important for research and practice... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

04 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter

constituencies within their organization, making the identity of the leader unimportant as long as the internal dynamics of the organization remain constant. Leader selection systems. The process by which leaders come to power homogenizes the View Details

01 Jun 1999
News

Moir Donelson

in Technology and Operations Management, to cochair the School's Honor Committee, and to work with the Admissions Office to help attract a more diverse pool of applicants to the MBA Program. Donelson attributes much of his motivation to... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

24 Apr 2014
News

Driving the family business onto a global stage

equipment. “We decided that we weren’t going to be in any business that wasn’t global. You can’t compete in a small pool anymore,” he observes. M&M’s single largest product investment has been the Scorpio, which gave the corporation a... View Details

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Shantanu Rege

"Investors from China, the U.S., Japan, India, and other countries are competing for the same pool of capital. I want to look at the macroeconomic trends to see how you should allocate capital in a globalized world. An HBS MBA pulls... View Details

06 Jul 2021
Blog Post

The MS/MBA Technology Showcase: A Celebration of Our Startups

and a friend to start studying the tech career pipeline and the bottlenecks that restrict the growth of talent. From there, we created Pathlight. Pathlight is a hiring platform where engineers build their careers in public. We're focused on broadening the talent View Details

11 Oct 2024
News

Highlights from the Fall 2024 Alumni Board Meeting

with each other. The HBS Alumni Board, whose members are selected from a pool of active and committed volunteer leaders, represents the global HBS alumni community. Members serve as resources for the Dean, faculty, staff, and students by... View Details

01 Dec 2011
News

Uncle Sam’s Business Man

single-country economy, and our labor pool is one of the best-educated, most productive, and most innovative in the world,” China Radio International’s CRIenglish.com reported (September 10, 2011). View Details

02 Apr 2013
First Look

First Look: April 2

returns can produce large valuation errors. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2182628 The Impact of Pooling on Throughput Time in Discretionary Work Settings: An Empirical Investigation of Emergency Department Length of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

31 Jul 2014
News

Making Private Equity Public Knowledge

says Sheyner. And Sheyner estimates that the industry counts only about 20,000 strong nationwide and hires just a couple thousand annually from a pool of tens of thousands, meaning that firms don't need to do much recruiting outside of... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

14 Jun 2024
News

Highlights from the Spring 2024 Alumni Board Meeting

other. The HBS Alumni Board, whose members are selected from a pool of active and committed volunteer leaders, represents the global HBS alumni community. Members serve as a resources for the Dean, faculty, staff and students by providing... View Details

Portrait Project

Mardie Oakes

that light shine on everyone, brown or white, rich or poor, healthy or sick, lucky or not. And I promise to never tell my kids not to splash me in the pool so they won't mess up my hair. April 2006: Reflections on my essay from 2002 It is... View Details

12 May 2021
News

Aid from Afar

article in The Harvard Gazette. So Badgaiyan teamed up with Priyank Lathwal, a Ph.D. candidate at Carnegie Mellon University, to mobilize South Asian student organizations across Harvard and other universities to pool resources for health... View Details

Keywords: Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

29 Sep 2011
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Leveraging Intellectual Property

a cure-all, but rather as a tool with both strengths and weaknesses. The increasing use of patent pools to share technology is one method for firms to avoid costly litigation arising from overlapping patent awards. How Should I Think... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

24 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

Can Obamacare Be Saved?

losses. In 2014, the health insurance industry’s aggregate pre-tax margin in the individual market was –5.2 percent, amounting to an overall loss of $2.7 billion. A SHRINKING POOL OF PROVIDERS Though Aetna is currently enduring a healthy... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch and Emily Boudreau; Insurance; Health

18 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Beyond Heroic Entrepreneurs

entrepreneurs who also were starting from scratch—those for whom social ventures were still in the very early phases. They identified an ideal data pool through a partnership with Echoing Green, a socially focused investment organization... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Dec 2018
News

A Force for Good

the practice known as “résumé whitening,” are more likely to get through a recruiting process than those whose names clearly identify them as a racial minority. Ananth Kasturiraman (MBA 2017) says that employers are missing out on a rich View Details

17 Dec 2015
News

Addressing Gender Equity In Business And Society

findings are integrated into the MBA curriculum through an expanded pool of case studies with female protagonists—an effort led by Boris Groysberg (DBA 2002), Richard P. Chapman Professor of Business Administration—as well as through the... View Details

01 Feb 1998
News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

new initiatives, including the California Research Center (see the feature in the December 1997 Bulletin), an effort to increase the pool of outstanding women applicants to the MBA Program, and new Executive Education programs tailored... View Details

01 Dec 2004
News

Comings and Goings

A snapshot of the MBA Program’s newest recruits reveals that this year’s incoming class — chosen from a pool of 7,140 applicants — represents a select, diverse group of individuals hailing from 67 countries around the world. As the new... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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