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- 01 Sep 2012
- News
An Intellectual Capital: Some Influential HBS Ideas, at a Glance
The Balanced Scorecard, an influential book on strategic performance management and control. 1997 Robert Merton and Myron Scholes win the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for a new method to... View Details
Keywords: Professor Elton Mayo: Professor Fritz Roethlisberger; George M. Moffett Professor of Agriculture and Business, Professor Emeritus Ray A. Goldberg; Professor Abraham Zaleznik; Professor Alfred Chandler; Professor Michael Porter; Professor Robert S. Kaplan; Professor Michael C. Jensen; Professor C. Roland Christensen; Professor Robert Menton; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
- 11 Oct 2022
- News
Righting the Ship
creating one that did. The plan he assembled had three parts. The first was addressing the performance of CIP division managers by rating their execution performance. Here, Stuckey held fast to the familiar:... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 04 Jun 2008
- News
Whistle While You Work
bought into that, too, until one day he had a transformational insight. “The conductor’s power depends on his ability to make other people powerful. I started paying attention to how I was enabling my musicians to be the best performers... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Research Brief: Where Top-Down Tops Out
recent study, “The Impact of CEOs in the Public Sector: Evidence from the English NHS,” Associate Professor Raffaella Sadun and her coauthors conclude that a singular leader is far less effective in these large and complex public hospitals. The decentralized View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
the lives of other women like her, providing advice and concrete examples of how to succeed without feeling overwhelmed or compromised. How to Lose Friends and Irritate People: The First Satirical Self-Help Book to Lead You to Failure by Daniel Barach (MBA ’88B)... View Details
Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Short Takes
the behaviors necessary to learn and perform well, and they appeared to be less constrained by outside factors," Edmondson explained. Edmondson contends that managers and team leaders can set an example when... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Shaping the Way Business Does Business: HBR at 75
the times. HBR has been a voice for the concepts and practices that have created the practice of management - a profession that was in its infancy when the magazine was inaugurated in 1922. This month marks HBR's 75th anniversary, a... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Replicating Toyota's Success
Spear focused on the company's approach to solving problems and noticed the conscious way Toyota's managers involve employees in this process, even to the point of leaving a production line at suboptimal View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Dean’s Award
Surgery; Lee Koffler, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts; and Louise Hulme, Endeavor Global. Missing from photo, Maria Rivas, president of Nicaragua/ProNicaragua. View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
business and financial-market orientation. Louis Gerstner Jr. (MBA 1965), former CEO and chair of IBM, has written that you always get more of whatever you measure. Certainly, the constant measurement of professional money managers... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Education: Investing in the Next Generation of Workers
Business needs to care about the performance of students in the public education system, from preschool through college. It is the primary source of future employees for every business. It’s also where the vast majority of teachers of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Rating Better
Three finance professors have devised a new mutual fund rating system that appears to do a better job of separating fund managers whose performance reflects genuine ability from those whose results depend on... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Ink: Alumni Books and Recommendations
introduction in the early ’90s of low-fat cookies and other healthier snack foods under the SnackWell’s brand for Nabisco. In the first year, SnackWell’s grew to a $400 million business. Store managers had such a difficult time keeping... View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
Cultivating the Next Generation of Thought Leaders
two reasons for management failures to heed shareholder proposals for greater action on ESG issues: processes within the organization may not be sufficiently developed, and performance incentives may be... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Third Force: Indispensable to Society, Nonprofits Should Redirect Oversight Efforts
"I'm a great believer in nonprofits," Herzlinger said, "but sometimes they don't achieve their mission. Nonprofit managers more than agree with me. Many grade their own performances as poor." Herzlinger... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
An Eye to the East
with the office's January inauguration. By bringing together nearly sixty business and management academics and about twenty CEOs and managers from across Asia, the forum provided an opportunity for HBS... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
J. Ronald Fox (MBA '59)
opportunity not only to serve his country but also to enrich his teaching and research, which focused on the management of large engineering development and construction projects. "It was the preeminent position in the field in which I... View Details
- 08 May 2015
- News
An alternative view of the role of the corporation in society
world’s largest corporations has created an opportunity for managers to consider the interests of a broader set of stakeholders. The role of the corporation in society can be a function of the larger economic, social, and political... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
merchandise, and "Look of the Games," Atlanta 1996's signature graphics and signage - that she manages in support of the approximately two hundred ticketed performances and exhibitions, as well as the many... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Kicking Off a Startup: Jennifer Rottenberg (MBA '96)
way, the league is planning to debut in 2000. "The gold medal performance of the U.S. women's soccer team at the 1996 Olympics showcased our talented players to the nation and the world," says the NSA's development consultant, Jennifer... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry