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Poor’s Manual: The Rise of Business Analysts - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

and useful comparative ratios among states such as net earnings to cost, net earnings to gross, and stocks to bonds. Managers and investors eagerly bought copies of Poor’s Manual , which allowed them to follow a company’s growth and... View Details
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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online

recommended bandwidth of 2 Mbps download speed. Your browser performance will also affect your experience on the platform. To avoid browser-based issues and to ensure the best experience, we recommend that you update your browser to its... View Details
  • 2011
  • Chapter

Developing an Effective Organization: Intervention Method, Empirical Evidence, and Theory

By: Michael Beer
The field of organization development is fragmented and lacks a coherent and integrated theory and method for developing an effective organization. A 20-year action research program led to the development and evaluation of the Strategic Fitness Process (SFP)-a platform... View Details
Keywords: Learning; Corporate Governance; Leadership Development; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Teams; Organizational Design; Performance Effectiveness; Research; Alignment; Theory; Value
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  • 18 Dec 2013
  • HBS Case

Lessons from the Lance Armstrong Cheating Scandal

from the group. So when Armstrong decided to dope, he required other riders to dope as well to match his escalating performance level, and the rest of the support team to facilitate the doping and manage the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Sports
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Business Economics Online Course | HBS Online

This course is part of the Strategy track. Introduction to Economics for Managers ENROLL NOW No application needed for our certificate programs. Start your journey today! Economics for Managers $1,850 Next... View Details
  • 27 Jun 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27

Policy Experiment By: Alfaro, Laura, Anusha Chari, and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract—Emerging-market governments adopted capital control taxes to manage the massive surge in foreign capital inflows in the aftermath of the global financial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • April 2022 (Revised August 2022)
  • Case

Restaurant Brands International: Version 2.0

By: Boris Groysberg and Sarah L. Abbott
In 2010, 3G Capital acquired Burger King, the second largest burger chain globally. 3G expanded Burger King’s operations via acquisitions into a multi-brand business, renamed Restaurant Brands International. The acquisition had been a financial success story for 3G.... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Growth and Development; Performance Evaluation; Private Equity; Franchise Ownership; Culture; Change Management; Strategy; Human Resources; Information Technology; Competition; Retail Industry; United States
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  • 30 Jul 2001
  • What Do You Think?

What’s the Future of Corporate Governance?

go astray. An organization's books may be in order, but its performance may be going down the tubes. What's to be done? Should the growing number of governance committees require management to establish... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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Our Mission & Team | Institute for Business in Global Society

Professor Business Administration and Senior Associate Dean for Business and Global Society. She previously served as President of Barnard College (2008-2017) and President and CEO of Lincoln Center for Performing Arts (2017-18). Before... View Details
  • 14 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World

As economies reopen after forced shutdowns caused by COVID-19, managers around the world are faced with a dual challenge: keep the workforce safe while preserving business viability in an evolving and volatile market. How should... View Details
Keywords: by Raffaella Sadun, Andrea Bertoni, Alexia Delfino, Giovanni Fassio, and Mariapaola Testa
  • 23 Jun 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Building a Better Buyer-Seller Relationship

particular, is to understand patterns of investment and reward, and effectively manage the process that defines the dynamics of buyer-seller evolution, according to Narayandas. But how to do that? New research he shared with other... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • March 2018
  • Case

Summit Public Schools (A)

By: John J-H Kim and Aldo Sesia
Summit Public Schools was a very successful charter management organization with schools in California and Washington State. The students came from a variety of socioeconomic backgrounds, many from economically disadvantaged households. While nearly all of its students... View Details
Keywords: K-12; Online Learning; Virtual Learning; Blended Learning; Secondary Education; Middle School Education; Early Childhood Education; Learning; Business Model; Performance Improvement; Technology
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  • 15 Mar 2007
  • Working Paper Summaries

Initiating Divergent Organizational Change: The Enabling Role of Actors’ Social Position

Keywords: by Julie Battilana
  • 26 Nov 2001
  • Op-Ed

Why Corporate Budgeting Needs To Be Fixed

expressed as profits, sales, output, or any number of things; for our purposes, it doesn't matter what's being measured.) When the manager exceeds that hurdle, she receives a bonus, often a substantial one. The bonus then increases as... View Details
Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen
  • 14 Nov 2006
  • First Look

First Look: November 14, 2006

Grossman Periodical:Harvard Business Review 84, no. 11 (November 2006) Abstract One of the biggest management challenges anywhere is how to improve student performance in urban public schools in the United... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • October 23, 2013
  • Article

Banyan Family Business Advisors On The Keys to Long-Term Resilience

By: Josh Baron and Rob Lachenauer
Family businesses have been found to excel in resilience during economic downturns compared to publicly-traded ones. This is attributed to their focus on resilience over performance. Key qualities of resilient family firms include managing low debt, practicing... View Details
Keywords: Performance Consistency; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Family Ownership; Family Business; Values and Beliefs; Business Strategy
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  • 02 Oct 2007
  • First Look

First Look: October 2, 2007

teams often changes over time or between projects. In this paper, we use detailed data from an Indian software services firm to examine how such changes may affect the accumulation of experience within, and the performance of, teams. We... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • June 2003 (Revised August 2003)
  • Case

Pension Policy at The Boots Company PLC

By: Luis M. Viceira and Akiko M. Mitsui
In early 2000, the trustees of the pension scheme at Boots considered a proposal to move 100% of the pension assets into a bond portfolio, which would be passively managed. The Boots Co. PLC was a leading retailer of cosmetics and toiletries in the United Kingdom, and... View Details
Keywords: Performance Productivity; Employees; Asset Management; Capital Structure; Investment Portfolio; Consumer Products Industry; United Kingdom
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  • 01 Jan 2005
  • News

Joseph J. O'Donnell, MBA 1971

throughout the past three decades, as I've grown the company a little bit each year. In time, you end up with something a lot bigger and more diverse than you ever imagined." Today, Boston Culinary Group (as it is now known) manages and... View Details
  • 14 Sep 2010
  • First Look

First Look: September 14, 2010

management practices and decentralization. Productivity dispersion between firms and countries has motivated the improved measurement of firm organization across industries and countries. There appears to be substantial variation in View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne