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- 13 Jun 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: A Startup Takes On the Credit Ratings Giants
the industry might have continued as it had for decades were it not for the growth of a different type of financial product. Structured finance instruments, described in the case as securities "constituting a claim on a pool of... View Details
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Minal Mehta
When did you and your cofounders come up with the idea of a Bollywood-inspired dance and fitness program? "I grew up splitting my time between swimming pools and dance studios. When I wasn't choreographing synchronized swimming... View Details
- Web
A Rewarding Work Life - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
talented pool of graduates from Harvard and MIT as well as Smith College, many of whom were recommended by Clarence Kennedy. The company routinely employed women in top-level research positions, an unusual practice for the time.... View Details
- 20 Aug 2014
- News
With No Time to Lose
Pooled Resource Open-Access ALS Clinical Trials (PRO-ACT) database, which was developed by Prize4Life together with Massachusetts General Hospital. Independent of the prize, PROACT is a powerful tool for biomedical researchers,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
be non-American. Andy Grove, a survivor of the Holocaust, would not have wanted to come to a country that didn’t welcome immigrants. Moreover, it is no wonder that Silicon Valley is up in arms over this policy. Our most dynamic industry depends on tapping into the best... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 12 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Strength in Numbers
individuals invested, the returns to the group pool were then divided among all members of the group. Given the theorized impact of group size on cooperation, the authors expected larger groups to have fewer students contributing their... View Details
Keywords: Re: Gunnar Trumbull
- 08 Mar 2018
- News
HBSAAA Leads the Way in Celebrating African American Alumni Impact
it all, from a pool of nearly 100 alumni volunteers, many have been working tirelessly on the various programs, projects, and events, according to HBSAAA president Ken Powell (MBA 1974). “This celebration has given us a tremendous... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 05 Nov 2007
- What Do You Think?
Why Is Succession So Badly Managed?
the organization for a number of years and was making his mark running a non-core business, plastics, with a management style that was very different from his predecessor, Reg Jones. His selection culminated a careful process in which Jones nurtured a talent View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- 13 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
Paid Search Ads Pay Off for Lesser-Known Restaurants
packages based on Yelp’s guidelines: They were in good standing with a certain number of trusted reviews, solid ratings, and complete business listing information, including photos. Starting with a total pool of 18,295 businesses, the... View Details
- Web
Design: At, Into, & Beyond - Race, Gender & Equity
interpersonal dynamics within a specific setting. Pipeline Problems The perceived and confirmed limitations/constraints/barriers to cultivating a diverse talent pool and ability to retain members of underrepresented demographic groups.... View Details
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
were longer when physicians were assigned patients under a pooled queuing system, compared to when each physician operated under a dedicated queuing system. The dedicated queuing system resulted in a 10% decrease in LOS-a 32-minute... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 21
http://hbr.org/product/keeping-up-with-the-quants-your-guide-to-understan/an/11177-HBK-ENG 2006 Strategic Management Journal Location Strategies for Agglomeration Economies By: Alcácer, Juan, and Wilbur Chung Abstract—Geographically concentrated industry activity... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Are the Most Talented Employees the Highest Paid? Yes—If They’re Bankers
the financial sector." Implications For The Talent Pool It's not so easy for other industries to offer such competitive compensation packages for talented workers. "Scalability differs a lot across sectors," Vallée explains. "In finance,... View Details
- 16 Jul 2014
- HBS Case
Marketing Obamacare
Harvard MBA Philip Stevens as a member of the project team. Together, they realized early on that the state pool of 345,000 uninsured Connecticut residents was hardly a homogenous group—within it were young people who didn't want... View Details
- 22 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Businesses Can Respond to AIDS
2002, according to UNAIDS, the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS Recognizing The Threat What should responsible organizations do to counter the epidemic for their employees and their business? For a start, they must pool knowledge... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 16 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs
to sitting CEOs with supposedly proven track records? The pool of these marquee names is limited. Such scarcity naturally drives up wages; the compensation of the ten highest paid CEOs has soared 4,300 percent during the past twenty... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 24 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Trick of Balancing Business and Government
professorship? Why not endow a scholarship? Why not endow a laboratory?" Bolnick said. In the long run, he said, this kind of assistance is more valuable than doing nothing and, in the medium term, business will benefit from an enlarged View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 16 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Creating a Candidate-Centered Recruiting Process
company in an environment that suits his needs. “If you want to have a diverse workforce and you want to be able to encourage people who bring fresh ideas and a fresh perspective, you have to facilitate people to be able to work remotely,” O’Grady said. This move... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 30 Oct 2017
- News
Giving Minorities a Playbook for Career Success
for anything, so you have to navigate a more ambiguous path—one with fewer role models and fewer people to help you. The problem builds on itself: underrepresentation in the fast-track, post-college jobs that feed into the B-schools leads, in turn, to a narrow View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 24 Apr 2020
- Op-Ed
Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19
continues. Similar to the NFL, this hiring has to take place virtually. And the shortcomings of virtual hiring in the business world are not dissimilar—technology fails, the impersonal nature of remote interactions, and the challenges associated with building a robust... View Details