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- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
tax shelters. These changes included a common compensation bonus pool for the entire firm and rewarding people for professionalism as much as for business development; strengthening governance by adding a lead director to the board,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Management Education’s Unanswered Questions
Bill after World War II, which created a huge pool of potential new students. What were other crucial turning points? A: The Great Depression of the 1930s reinvigorated the discourse and questions about what a profession is and what end... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
are many communities that must be satisfied." Venture Capital and Private Equity The pool of U.S. private-equity funds has grown on the order of 2,500 percent in the past decade-and-a-half. Venture Capital and Private Equity (VCPE), a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
Michael Ward (MBA ’76) grew up in blue-collar Baltimore. As a kid, he racked balls and collected customers’ money at Club Ritchie Billiards, his father’s pool hall; when he was older, he took summer jobs in an asphalt factory to pay for... View Details
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
recommendations cover the entire hiring cycle in seven steps: anticipating the need for new hires, specifying the job, developing a pool of candidates, assessing the candidates, closing the deal, integrating the newcomer, and reviewing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
We Rise
team of senior investment professionals improved the firm’s fund return by approximately 10 percent and increased the percentage of startups with successful exits. Gompers speculates that this positive business impact is likely caused by a combination of factors: a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
factors: a relatively untapped pool of high-quality candidates, the introduction of various perspectives into the deal-evaluation process, and a new source of deal flow. “When I get an all-Caucasian male team pitching me, one of the... View Details
- 14 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 14
lose weight; lottery incentive systems enable participants to win money if they attain weight loss goals. In this paper, we pool data from two prior studies to examine a variety of issues that unpublished data from those studies allow us... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
infirmary, like her peers, Margaret emerged from the war as a fully certified truck and airplane mechanic. “She always encouraged us to do things and figure it out, and I think it’s enabled me to jump into the deep end of a swimming pool... View Details
- 19 Jun 2017
- News
Can Neuroscience Find You the Perfect Job?
Dan. I actually did take the test. And what was very interesting is that at the beginning of pymetrics we didn't have any career matches. The way we develop a career match is we have lots of other people play the games, and then from the entire View Details
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
Index Connect, that would essentially allow retailers to pool customer contact data and be more competitive with Amazon. Participants must evaluate whether Index was taking the right approach to sales and marketing and consider how the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work
tasks in a different domain: international management. His current research project examines the challenges that foreigners face in adopting practices central to effective management in their new national culture that seem inauthentic in light of their native-born... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 May 2022
- News
Onboarding
that criterion, there really just, weren’t very many women in the pool of candidates. The other thing about recruitment back in the 1980s and 90s, is that it was much less systematized, professionalized. Today, personal networks are still... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
To with Zibby Owens (MBA 2003) Writer Zibby Owens interviews other writers, health experts, and more, from the perspective of a busy mom of four. Capital Allocators with Ted Seides (MBA 1999) Meet the people who allocate vast pools of... View Details
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
discouraged by being left out of recruiting processes altogether or repeatedly rejected from the small pool of coveted roles in venture capital and private equity—despite having the necessary qualifications, technical skills, and networks... View Details
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
hosting and infrastructure. We explore trends in the concentration of the DNS space since at least 2011. In addition, we examine changes in domains’ tendency to “diversify” their pool of nameservers—how frequently domains employ DNS... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
Business School Case 309-056 The Posse Foundation selected high-potential, non-traditional students to attend selective colleges as part of a group of 10 from the same city. The organization had developed an ambitious growth plan, but because it focused on the most... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
under risk), one-shot decisions from experience, and repeated decisions from experience. Each competition was based on two experimental datasets: an estimation dataset and a competition dataset. The studies that generated the two datasets used the same methods and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
has forced companies to rapidly advance their digital footprint, using cloud storage, cybersecurity, and device tools to accommodate their new remote workforce. Experiencing the benefits of remote working—including nonexistent commute times, lower operational costs,... View Details
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
cross-sectional and pooled data collected by the U.S. Census Bureau for quinquenial censuses conducted between 1982 and 2002 support the key predictions of the model. We find that advertising agency establishments are more likely to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace