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- 01 Oct 1997
- News
New Course for General Managers Broadens Managerial Scope and Builds Confidence
solutions between sessions, and then get feedback and analysis from participants and faculty when they return to HBS. TGM's pool of collective experience was also cited by other participants as a key asset of the course. Jeffrey D.... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Tax and Grow
a remarkably large pool of unmobilized capital is sitting within our firms, and managers appear frozen in their decision-making. A gentle nudge to break this coordination failure — through the combination of the fiscal carrot and stick... View Details
- 18 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
Better by the Bunch: Evaluating Job Candidates in Groups
choose an employee among the pool of participants, with the knowledge that employers would be paid according to that employee's round-two performance. The employers were informed of the employees' gender and past performance. (For this... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 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
- 25 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
We May Have Taken Too Much Credit for Easing Workplace Segregation
guard—largely because it flies in the face of other studies and anecdotal evidence showing that, within many businesses, the employee pool has grown more racially mixed over time. “There’s this assumption that firms are more diverse,”... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Oct 2017
- Blog Post
4 Advantages of the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program
and differentiating factor for HBS is the concept of “One Harvard.” In other words, by studying at HBS you will have access to the resources of not only HBS, but of the other 11 graduate and professional schools plus Harvard College. These include a deep technical... View Details
- 26 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Transparency Improves For Foreign Firms in U.S. Markets
study. One question managers could ask themselves is whether they are providing sufficient information for various market participants to assess them in the course of their business. For example, companies interested in tapping the global talent View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- Profile
Kimball Thomas
cousins noticed a brisk market for discounted pool tables made in China. “We flew to China and talked to manufacturers,” says Kimball. “Right then and there, we committed to the minimum order: fifty tables. It wasn’t scary then, but... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Data-Driven Diligence
than 60,000 financings dating back to 1987, representing some 98 percent of the pool of deals in that period. Coats calls it “the most complete and accurate database of US-based venture capital financings in the world.” In 2010,... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 27 Jun 2016
- Blog Post
From Africa to HBS
has served as a natural home base for me and has enabled me to connect with fellow Africans and people who are interested in Africa. The club feels like a family and it is great to know that there is a ready pool of people at HBS who I... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Enron’s Legacy
to independent directors. First, public companies need to consider a different population of directors to include the large pool of former executives and successful entrepreneurs who have stepped down after decades of accomplishment and... View Details
- 05 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
It’s Alive! Business Scholars Turn to Experimental Research
makers." One indicator that experimental research is hot: business is booming at Harvard Business School's Computer Lab for Experimental Research (CLER), which manages a pool of paid human participants and provides researchers with dozens... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Tackling the World’s Most Difficult Challenges
professor of management practice Joe Fuller and in partnership with Accenture, set out to understand why this mismatch occurs and how to solve it. A Harvard Business Review article summarizes their findings, which include focusing on “skills-based” hiring to help... View Details
- 12 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Michael Porter’s Prescription For the High Cost of Health Care
procedures. Nondiscriminatory Insurance Underwriting. Two anomalies mar the pricing of health plans. First, people who are included in large risk pools (such as those who work for big companies) can get a reasonably priced health plan... View Details
- 14 Dec 2010
- Op-Ed
Tax US Companies to Spur Spending
centralized effort or another significant program by the Federal Reserve. But a remarkably large pool of unmobilized capital is sitting within our firms and managers appear frozen in their decision-making. A gentle nudge to break this... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
GMAT Added to Admissions Criteria
with us in the future to continuously improve the test. You mentioned changes in the kinds of students applying to HBS. Did you have in mind the increase in international applicants? Yes, that's one area of change. Our applicant pool has... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
The Small Business Difference: How Smaller Companies Manage with Less
systematizing a business so it will run without the owner’s hands-on attention; and dealing with government, especially over tax and regulation matters. These concerns, Bowen told his audience, closely conformed with those expressed by the companies in his research... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do I Get Your Job?
people would want to use because of what it looks like or how it functions. OW: Once you came up with your idea, what steps did you take to validate it? SK: I wish I could say that I hired consultants and did a focus group, but honestly, it was my HBS friends. We’d sit... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Newman's Own Brand of Charity
office equipped with the Newman family's pool furniture. An early stumbling block was Newman's reluctance to associate his well-known face with the product. When a colleague finally convinced him that he "would not be able to sell one... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Batteries and Chocolates
Indeed. Usually that means they don't actually need a woman at all, but think others will expect a woman to be there and are therefore under pressure to produce one. Usually it means there aren't enough women in the pool from which... View Details