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- 13 Feb 2020
- Book
Open Your Organization to Honest Conversations
But he’s not talking about the typical ways companies gather input, such as through employee surveys, interviews by external consultants, or even one-on-one conversations between key managers and the CEO. These seldom move an organization...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Organizing the Family-Run Business
"paper" board, existing only on paper, or acts as a "rubber stamp," validating whatever decisions the owner makes. During the Sibling Partnership stage, where two or more siblings have voting control of the company,...
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- 11 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard
Stage 1, the CEO leads the change agenda and drives it from the top to reinforce the mission, values and vision. Leadership sets the ambitious vision and stretch targets. In Stage 2, the executive leader validates the strategy map as an...
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by Martha Lagace
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Benchmarks Don’t Work
like comparing Armani's selling expenses per transaction to Wal-Mart's, a comparison that deviates from benchmarking's original purpose: to perform detailed process comparisons across similar entities, as in the Toyota/GM example. Simplistic benchmarking using...
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- 28 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Investor Lawsuits Against Auditors Are Falling, and That's Bad News for Capital Markets
auditing as a profession? Srinivasan: Auditors are in an interesting position. They rely on management teams in a lot of ways, but they also have an adversarial relationship. They verify that companies follow generally accepted accounting principles and by doing so...
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- 04 Aug 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Dangerous Is Common Sense to Managers?
Mott commented that "Managers who use only common sense to make decisions can fall prey to short-sighted thinking." Ajay Kumar Gupta cautioned that "we tend to forget many things" and "tend to exclude external...
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by James Heskett
- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
of externalities became additional features of the debate. The introduction of market imperfection arguments actually introduced significant complications: specialization in the "wrong" activities, i.e. those with lower levels...
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by Christian Ketels
- Web
Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online
HBS Online platform. Our courses cannot be hosted on an external course platform or LMS. How are the courses delivered? Our courses are delivered asynchronously through the HBS Online platform. Our courses are cohort-based. Each cohort...
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- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
evidence, there is still a segment of our population that will not accept the validity of the science relating to this. So it is with climate change. Despite clear scientific consensus, there is still a reluctance on the part of too many...
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- 01 Sep 2018
- News
What I Do: Clare Reichenbach (AMP 185, 2013)
to highlight the fact that culture and conduct are as important as cooking and craft. As a validator and industry accreditor, we have an increased responsibility to ensure that we are highlighting those players who are excellent across...
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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Alumni News | Bookshelf: A Manager's Responsibility in the 21st Century
individuals to whom you are speaking or writing to begin thinking, 'You know, maybe this guy . . . does have a valid point.' " From Pareto's optimal outcomes to Plato's Republic, the authors draw on academic research, classical...
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- 24 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 24
primarily at auditors (both external and internal), risk managers, accountants, CFOs, and consultants, Effective Auditing for Corporates covers the following: 1) compliance and the corporate audit, 2) fraud detection, 3) risk-based...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Right Connections
particularly crucial; yet it is also difficult for external parties to assess the quality of a young firm." Higgins had noticed that in many pre-IPO discussions, venture capitalists would invariably ask company executives what firms they...
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Judith A. Ross
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
A Perfect Fit: Aligning Organization & Strategy
when they report their findings. Our research shows that their assessment of the organization is valid and insightful. Senior executives have observed that having employees provide the feedback motivated them and their top team more than...
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by Judith A. Ross
- 20 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively
in Europe than in the United States. Miller: As business becomes more global, much of this learning will be increasingly valid for companies in any kind of industry. Managers have to explain their increasingly complex firms to different...
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- 12 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting
lecturer at HBS specializing in corporate reporting, and Krzus, a public policy and external affairs partner with Grant Thornton LLP. They recently authored One Report: Integrated Reporting for a Sustainable Strategy. "This new path isn't...
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by Martha Lagace
- 28 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 28
chosen strategy. By enabling an honest, organization-wide, and public conversation, senior management teams, working collaboratively with scholar-consultants and organizational members, have access to valid data (the unvarnished truth),...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Career Advice: Transforming the Energy Industry
create a viable business out of any toughtech idea. In a way, that was a catalyst for me to think about what was going on outside the walls of the corporate environment I occupied. Coming from the oil and gas space, it's easy to get tunnel vision about the future....
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- 17 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 17
discriminant validity from voice-related individual and organizational factors and their incremental predictive validity on workplace silence. Collectively, the results from the four studies indicate the...
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Martha Lagace
- 16 May 2016
- HBS Case
Food Safety Economics: The Cost of a Sick Customer
four leading global food safety firms gives their testing a certain level of external validity that they may not enjoy by doing their own testing, although big companies such as Nestle remain strongly...
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