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- 04 Nov 2010
- What Do You Think?
Why Do We Chase Stars?
said that "Management performance is 75% portable (but) today's tough environment has forced upper management to adopt a 'welcome to the team, good luck, here is the deep end of the pool, hope you survive'" approach. Guy Higgins... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 25 May 2011
- HBS Case
QuikTrip’s Investment in Retail Employees Pays Off
benefits including health insurance, performance bonuses, and paid vacation—all relatively rare in the industry. Blueprint For Transformation The QuikTrip (QT) case, taught in the MBA course Coordinating and... View Details
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Cluster Studies - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Clusters, Convergence, & Economic Performance by Mercedes Delgado, Michael E. Porter, Scott Stern This paper evaluates the role of regional cluster composition in the economic performance of industries,... View Details
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
Abstract Existing performance metrics utilized by the PGA TOUR have biases towards specific styles of play, which make relative player comparisons challenging. Our goal is to evaluate golfers in a way that... View Details
- 17 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 17, 2015
prowess, productivity, and ultimately prosperity. This chapter describes recent work in economics and management scholarship on how firms grow, with specific focus on questions surrounding the types of innovations that large and small firms pursue and how they impact... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations
in this primary group have interlocking tasks, their bonds of trust will facilitate their joint task performance and they can be officially recognized as a work group or team. The more extended bonding drive of employees will also... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
- 18 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
How New Managers Become Great Managers
general competencies into company- and job-specific expertise, develop relationships, and make a contribution to organizational performance in relatively short order. Once they begin to make a contribution... View Details
Keywords: by Linda Hill
- Research Summary
Career Histories and the Biotechnology Industry
Professor Higgins' other major project focuses on the consequences of individuals' career experiences for firms and industries. This second research stream centers on the careers of executives in the biotechnology industry.
Professor Higgins has written... View Details
- 08 Apr 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
The Life of Luxury and How to Sell It
maker better off emphasizing performance over luxury? Are luxury and sustainability mutually exclusive? And just what is the “new aspirational lifestyle?” Here is what they found. A Good Place to Start The ‘Luxury Prime’: How Luxury... View Details
- 06 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52718 Relative Performance Benchmarks: Do Boards Follow the Informativeness Principle? By: Ma, Paul, Jee Eun Shin, and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—Relative TSR... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Aug 2022
- Research & Ideas
Can Amazon Remake Health Care?
years, but their performance is somewhere between a C and C+.” Gazette: Why do you think Amazon decided to plunge further into health care, an area they haven’t had a lot of success in? Chandra: When Amazon looks at health care, they... View Details
- 27 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
Want a Happy Customer? Coordinate Sales and Marketing
Financial performance is the result of operating performance. Operating performance includes all the things that a company must do to win the competitive battle in its industry to attract, retain, and... View Details
Keywords: by Benson Shapiro
- 02 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 2
Publications Corporate Social Responsibility and Access to Finance Authors: Beiting Cheng, Ioannis Ioannou, and George Serafeim Publication: Strategic Management Journal (forthcoming) Abstract In this paper, we investigate whether superior View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Remote Work Changes What We Think About Onboarding
to address ever-changing challenges. "Companies struggle to onboard employees even when times are good and relatively predictable." The only way to fast track onboarding and enable those workers to reach peak View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
variability than was the case historically. Under the new policy, dividends would be tied to the company's underwriting results, its performance relative to predetermined goals, and a target payout ratio.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Business Economics Online Course | HBS Online
Structure Show Hide Details Concepts An Introduction to Cost Fixed versus Variable Costs Relative Cost Analysis Supply Curves Scale Economies Featured Exercises Predict market structure by examining various costs and cost structures... View Details
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Cases & Teaching Notes - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Haiti. It devises a simple approach for tracking the resources... September 2016 (Revised October 2018) HBS Case Collection Springfield Hospital by Susanna Gallani and Robert Kaplan One of the key roles of costing systems is to support the evaluation of View Details
- 02 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Not All M&As Are Alike—and That Matters
We know surprisingly little about mergers and acquisitions, despite the buckets of ink spilled on the topic. In fact, our collective wisdom could be summed up in a few short sentences: Acquirers usually pay too much. Friendly deals done using stock often View Details
Keywords: by Joseph L. Bower
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Bridging the Gap
institution of higher learning in Ohio State University, and relatively robust economic growth for the Midwest as a whole, YALP participants point out. Yet 34 percent of children who arrive at Columbus public schools aren’t ready for... View Details
- 16 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Nonprofit Networking: The New Way to Grow
are deliberately using a network strategy and discovering its potential to serve more people more effectively. "I'm interested in high performance networks and understanding how those networks were created and are managed," says... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace