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  • 21 Oct 2014
  • First Look

First Look: October 21

compensation and incentives, performance reviews, and measuring sales effectiveness. Part 4 examines broader organizational requirements for effective selling and strategy implementation: developing sales View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Mar 2019
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Has the Glass Ceiling Been Broken (or at Least Cracked)?

workplace—starting with job listings. What Will It Take to Achieve Gender Equality in Leadership?James Heskett's readers question the meaning of "gender equality" and ponder ways to give women access to the same management... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 May 2001
  • Research & Ideas

How Technological Disruption Changes Everything

the fundamental causal mechanisms through which our lives have improved," Christensen said. Health Care Takes A Hit At the conference, Christensen looked forward to areas where disruptive technologies could soon or are already taking hold: health care, Microsoft,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health
  • 13 Aug 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Why Companies Shouldn't Delay Software Updates—Even After CrowdStrike's Flaw

software update to the Falcon security platform managed by CrowdStrike, the giant cybersecurity company. “What happened in CrowdStrike is an illustration of the risk of picking up an upgrade immediately.” Greenstein’s work focuses on... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Technology; Information Technology; Computer; Web Services
  • May 2011
  • Article

Extreme Productivity

By: Robert C. Pozen
A veteran top executive at two giant mutual fund companies, the author has also been an attorney, a government official, a law school professor, and a business school professor-sometimes simultaneously. Over the years, he has devised a number of principles and... View Details
Keywords: Managerial Roles; Time Management; Performance Capacity; Performance Effectiveness; Performance Productivity; Personal Development and Career
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  • 19 Apr 2011
  • First Look

First Look: April 19

the right questions. The challenge lies in being able to step back, reflect, and ask the key questions that are critical to your performance and your organization's effectiveness. In What to Ask the Person in the Mirror, HBS professor and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Right from the Start: Common Traps for the New Leader

fairness; others are motivated by arrogance ("I can make these people") or hubris ("All it takes is hard work, support, and leadership"). Whatever the rationale, retaining managers with a history of mediocre View Details
Keywords: by Dan Ciampa & Michael D. Watkins
  • May 2004
  • Article

Underwater Options and the Dynamics of Executive Pay-to-Performance Sensitivities

By: Brian J. Hall and Thomas A. Knox
Keywords: Management; Compensation and Benefits; Performance
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  • December 1997 (Revised March 1998)
  • Case

Mid Ocean Limited: Trading Catastrophe Index Options

By: Kenneth A. Froot and Markus Mullarkey
An insurance industry executive must evaluate the potential of a set of newly-offered catastrophe insurance derivatives. The background addresses the roles of traditional reinsurance and securitization efforts in providing risk transfer and risk financing in the "cat"... View Details
Keywords: Commodity Market; Derivatives; Insurance; Capital Markets; Natural Disasters; Risk Management; Financial Management; Financial Strategy; Performance Evaluation; Insurance Industry; Bermuda
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  • 22 May 2012
  • First Look

First Look: May 22

require a grand organizational makeover or buy-in from the CEO. All it takes is collaboration between you and your team-working together and making small, doable changes. What started as an experiment with a six-person team at The Boston Consulting Group-one of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • May 2018
  • Case

Kaiser Permanente Colorado: Primary Care Plus

By: Robert S. Kaplan and Mahek A. Shah
A geriatrician in Kaiser Permanente’s Colorado region is concerned with the high and growing cost of treating the elderly population. She introduces a new care model, Primary Care Plus, using an interdisciplinary team of a primary care doctor, palliative care... View Details
Keywords: Primary Health Care; Elderly Patients; Integrated Practice Unit; Interdisciplinary Care; Health Care and Treatment; Age; Cost Management; Performance Improvement; Health Industry; United States; Colorado
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  • 06 Dec 2021
  • Research & Ideas

The Popular Stock Metric That Can Lead Investors Astray

identifying value stocks.” Wang teamed up with Ki-Soon Choi and Eric C. So from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management to author the new research, entitled Going by the Book: Valuation Ratios and Stock... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 20 Aug 2007
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively

management of financial communication? Greg Miller: The French group Total and the British BP are both major players in the oil and gas industry, which is increasingly moving into the center of public interest due to its booming oil and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities
  • 03 Feb 2015
  • First Look

First Look: February 3

our discussions and suggests directions for research to investigate its validity. Publisher's link: http://pps.sagepub.com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/content/10/1/3.full.pdf+html February 2015 Antitrust Bulletin The Influence of Strategic View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Nov 2002
  • Research & Ideas

From Lone Star to Team Player

keep rewarding and promoting them. Managers may feel that they need them, of course, as they do perform well. So it is pretty gutsy to fire them in today's rather poor economic environment. But if you're... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
  • 17 Apr 2017
  • HBS Case

This Turkish Debt Collector Is Customer-friendly

consortium of asset management companies (AMCs) that included the Turkish branch of Lehman Brothers. When Lehman went bankrupt, Turkasset acquired a $200 million portfolio of non-performing loans (NPLs). After that, it continued to... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
  • 09 Jan 2006
  • Research & Ideas

What Really Drives Your Strategy?

plans that get approved are the ones that deliver earnings in the short term. This is a very big problem, because it happens even when managers wish it didn't. Another very interesting way the markets are influential is that when... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 27 Aug 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Employee-Suggestion Programs That Work

June 2012 working paper, Key Drivers of Successful Implementation of an Employee Suggestion-Driven Improvement Program. Tucker is an associate professor in the Technology and Operations Management unit, and the Marvin Bower Fellow at HBS.... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Guttry
  • 28 Jul 2009
  • First Look

First Look: July 28

broad or focused managers, to leverage, to the timing of investment, and finally, to the compensation paid to both external managers and internal staff. Purchase this note: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/209152-PDF-ENG Moods of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Aug 2007
  • Op-Ed

Company Town: Fixing Corrupt Governments

Nigerians. It could lay out its management plan as part of its election campaign, and voters would take that into account in making their decision. Why would locals vote for a foreigner? If they felt it was their only option to get out of... View Details
Keywords: by Eric Werker

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