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- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
private profitability of activities. This is not only an absolute benchmark to decide whether an individual measure should be introduced but can also be used to compare different policy instruments. Wage-restraint, for example, has mainly...
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by Christian Ketels
- 26 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers
American Big Three and many other auto companies had done major benchmarking studies, and they and other companies had tried to implement their own forms of the Toyota Production System. There is the Ford Production System, the Chrysler...
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- 19 Mar 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Overcoming the Stress of ‘Englishnization’
invested in working and speaking together, Neeley says. Managers should also be aware that workers often underestimate their language capabilities. In many cases, testing and offering benchmarks helps calm anxieties, as can limiting...
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by Kim Girard
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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information
with relevant tools, skills, and frameworks. As a new benchmark of its growth, HBS Online in fiscal 2021 reached a record 40,000 participants across the portfolio. This included 41 percent women and 53 percent international students....
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Business Economics Online Course | HBS Online
effective pricing strategies Benchmark costs compared to competitors through relative cost analysis Apply conjoint analysis to understand what features customers value most Understand the power of network effects to drive demand Identify...
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Launching Tech Ventures | HBS Online
Founder Sarah Tavel, Benchmark General Partner Show Hide Details Concepts Khatabook Retaining the Users You Acquire Scaling Decisions Featured Exercises Describe the marketing funnel Apply startup playbooks under different scenarios and...
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- 04 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Are the Big Four Audit Firms Too Big to Fail?
expressed concerns about decreased "reliability" (a key component of "verifiability," auditing's touchstone) in proposed standards. To benchmark the auditors' assessments of decreased accounting reliability, the...
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- 29 Aug 2023
- News
Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we’re going to be highlighting an episode of another HBS podcast: Climate Rising, which focuses on what businesses are doing, can do, and should do...
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- 06 Aug 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Super Bowl Ads Sell Products, but Do They Sell Brands?
compelling story was told in anticipation of a product launch, and that became sort of the benchmark going forward for must-see TV and what brand storytelling could look like on this phenomenal platform when you've got one out of every...
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- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
benchmark and eventually create its own protocols. Second, it decided to ensure the use of effective safety practices by creating a simple principle: the clients’ protocols could not be less stringent than what was required by...
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The Value of Family Ownership, Control, and Management
In collaboration with Professor Raphael Amit of Wharton, Belén Villalonga is investigating how family ownership, control, and management affect firm value. Their forthcoming Journal of Financial... View Details
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Buildings: performance data
background information on benchmarking (select benchmarking as a topic in your search). Green building information gateway (gbig.org) - (U.S. Green Building Council) Provides data about building energy,...
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- 06 Dec 2006
- Op-Ed
India Needs to Encourage Trade with China
Jiabao last year during a similar visit. But $19 billion is hardly anything to write home about, even if one were to discount the fact that much of what India exports to China is low-value-added commodities (notably iron ore). I asked myself what a sensible View Details
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by Tarun Khanna
- 31 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017
from the CEO—a process entailing the judicious selection of benchmarks for relative performance evaluation (RPE). We evaluate the efficacy of firms' chosen RPE benchmarks and document that, relative to a...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Get Well Soon
to be among the best hospitals in the country, even though it had scant evidence to benchmark its performance against others. But data co-collected by the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation instead showed that the outcome for the clinic’s...
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Preqin | Baker Library
infrastructure, natural resources, secondary market, and asset level benchmarks data. Preqin Private Equity and Venture Capital data also available via WRDS . Downloading large data sets: Make sure to change the email address before...
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- 22 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 22, 2016
predict that the board will design incentive contracts that filter out common shocks in performance to motivate costly effort from the CEO—a process that entails the judicious selection of benchmarks for relative performance evaluation...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Nov 2014
- News
In partnership to support a mission
Meredith Jenkins (MBA 1999) serves as vice president and cochief investment officer of Carnegie Corporation of New York, the foundation established by Andrew Carnegie in 1911. With business partner Kim Lew (MBA 1992), she manages $3.2 billion in assets, which have...
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- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Professors Introduce Valuation Software
financial data to perform accounting analysis, ratio analysis, forecasted financials, and valuation. It also provides benchmarking for comparable firms. It was created by Harvard Business School faculty Krishna Palepu and Paul Healy, in...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2014
- Blog Post
A Summer Internship: Sparking Curiosity
management. As I embark on this next stage of learning and discovery, I am certain that my summer experience at Danaher will provide a valuable benchmark and perspective. -Gong Ke, MBA 2015
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