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- 24 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Boards and Corporate Governance: A Balanced Scorecard Approach
Companies can create shareholder value through more effective governance, and through boards that do not simply ensure compliance, but focus their time and efforts on the most critical strategic areas. Past board results have often not...
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Re: Robert S. Kaplan & Krishna G. Palepu
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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Fiduciary Duty: Evidence from Variable Annuities” ( The Review of Financial Studies , 2022) with Shan Ge and Johnny Tang. Benjamin C. Esty : Winner of the 2023 Case Centre Award in the Finance, Accounting and Control category for “Valuing...
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- 26 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Office of Strategy Management
other roles where it plays a coordinating function, essential to ensuring that strategy informs critical processes like budgeting, operational planning, and performance management. Q: Your article discusses...
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by Martha Lagace
- 20 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 20
compensation plan. Substantively, the paper sheds insights on how different elements of the compensation plan enhance productivity. We find evidence that: (1) bonuses enhance productivity across all segments; (2) overachievement commissions help sustain the high...
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Anna Secino
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Sustainable Investing Course | HBS Online
strategies Gain insights into the climate risk inherent in investment opportunities Discover how to integrate risks into financial models Think critically about how and where to add value while avoiding “impact washing” Who Will Benefit...
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Growing on the Job - Alumni
continued growth depends largely on your own initiative. Ultimately, growing on the job requires two things: identifying the areas in which you would like to grow, and establishing goals for your progress. Assessing needs and goals View Details
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Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Best Complete Paper Award at the 2022 INFORMS Workshop on Data Science for "Ensemble IV: Creating Instrumental Variables from Ensemble Learners for Robust Statistical Inference” with Gordon Burtch, Mochen Yang, and Gediminas Adomavicius....
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- 26 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers
either in the Toyota system or at sites that have successfully transformed themselves, there is a palpable, positive difference in the attitude of people that is coupled with exceptional performance along View Details
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Scaling Work - Research Computing Services
leverage multiple CPUs across multiple compute nodes. For this to work, your script or code must be parallelizable -- it can be broken into parts that can execute independently. This is often the case with for loops or functions that can View Details
- 14 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: SELCO - Last Mile Solar Powered Energy for Rural India
Professor Vikram Gandhi’s Immersive Field Course (IFC) “Development while Decarbonizing: India’s Path to Net-Zero" delved into the critical aspect of decarbonization and sustainability goals amid India's rapid development. The course...
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- 28 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Supply Chain Risk: Deal With It
low-frequency/high-consequence event, such as the sinking of a cargo ship laden with critical parts. But depending on the particular company's risk tolerance, such apparently similar risks can have vastly different qualitative effects....
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by David Stauffer
- 03 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion
and their health.” · In a memo to employees, Morgan Stanley’s CEO, James Gorman, wrote, “While long term we can’t be sure how this will play out, we want to commit to you that there will not be a reduction in force at Morgan Stanley in 2020. Aside from a View Details
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by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
- 04 Aug 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Dangerous Is Common Sense to Managers?
and many of the phenomena examined by the Freakonomists. In fact, nearly all writing about management and behavioral economics that seeks to credit performance to one cause or another is suspect. Anything based on this faux knowledge,...
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by James Heskett
- 05 Sep 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Making the Right Technical Hire
performance engineer is a critical full-time hire. However, it may behoove you to find a good contract engineer who specializes in performance tuning as needed, at least until...
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- 10 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Little Understood Problem Confronting Diverse Workplaces
working closely with students in small groups, assisting teachers, and running extracurricular programs.) The ethos of the school centers on a “no excuses,” high standards approach for performance and behavior, backed by a system of...
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by Julia Hanna
- 14 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
trainees how to assemble an aircraft wing—and has cut the time it takes them to do that task by 35%. At GE, factory workers have achieved a similar gain in efficiency by using voice commands in AR experiences to perform complex wiring. AR...
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Carmen Nobel
- 25 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why IT Does Matter
advantage. As a result, he said, companies should rethink how much they pay for IT given this reduced return on investment. HBR received a large number of positive and critical responses to Carr's piece including a letter we offer here...
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by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan
- 18 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 18
PublicationsOptimizing Organic Waste to Energy Operations Authors:Bariş Ata, Deishin Lee, and Mustafa H. Tongarlak Publication:Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (forthcoming) Abstract A waste-to-energy firm that recycles organic waste with energy...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
critical role in global society. In the lead-up to COP26, the Business & Environment Initiative asked HBS alumni business leaders from a wide range of sectors and disciplines what they see as the role of business and business leaders in...
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- 26 Nov 2001
- Op-Ed
Why Corporate Budgeting Needs To Be Fixed
they reach specific performance goals, two things inevitably happen. First, they attempt to set low targets that are easily achievable. Then, once the targets are in place, they do whatever it takes to see that they hit them, even if the...
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by Michael C. Jensen