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- May 2024
- Teaching Note
Making Progress at Progress Software (A) and (B)
By: Katherine Baldiga Coffman, Hannah Riley Bowles, Emma Ronzetti and Alexis Lefort
Teaching Note for HBS Case Nos. 924-010 and 924-011. View Details
- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
perspectives on how such networks of ties shape organizational behavior and performance outcomes, but they have paid little attention to the underlying mechanisms driving these effects. We propose reach,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
clients may be served by separate organizational units that are under common control and/or ownership. Second, a family of hybrid conflict polices has evolved that feature elements of the split account system long practiced in Japan,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The New CEO’s Wrong Message
calendar became a bottleneck, and organizational decision making virtually ground to a halt. For a while, the CEO was oblivious to the high cost of his intrusive approach. As an outsider new to the company, he felt good about being part... View Details
- 01 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 1
benefiting their performance irrespective of whether these decisions negatively affect other profit centers. However, the firm implemented a third system that would potentially lead managers to benefit other profit centers. The firm... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 2017
- Supplement
Uncommon Schools (B): Seeking Excellence at Scale through Standardized Practice
By: John J-H Kim and Sarah McAra
The (B) case provides an update to the (A) case by illustrating how charter school management organization Uncommon Schools responded to the disparity in its students’ 2013 standardized test results. In 2015, CEO Brett Peiser and his management team decided to align... View Details
Keywords: Charter Schools; Nonprofit Organizations; Strategy; Teaching; Talent And Talent Management; Innovation; Education; Early Childhood Education; Middle School Education; Organizational Structure; Performance Consistency; Growth and Development Strategy; Innovation and Invention; Education Industry
Kim, John J-H, and Sarah McAra. "Uncommon Schools (B): Seeking Excellence at Scale through Standardized Practice." Harvard Business Publishing Supplement, 2017. (Case No. PEL-080.)
- March 1999
- Case
MotivAction plc (A)
By: William J. Bruns Jr.
The owner/manager of MotivAction is developing a package of incentives and bonuses that he hopes will stimulate sales growth, encourage development of new autonomous teams, and increase profitability. If they are adopted, these new incentives will replace others... View Details
Keywords: Employee Relationship Management; Compensation and Benefits; Motivation and Incentives; Performance Improvement; Growth and Development Strategy; Decisions; Profit; Organizational Culture
Bruns, William J., Jr. "MotivAction plc (A)." Harvard Business School Case 199-004, March 1999.
- 07 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Need to Do To Restore Investor Confidence
involved with options. No one change by itself will be enough. CEOs must address the organizational architecture: the planning systems; the performance measurement and evaluation systems; the incentives... View Details
Keywords: by Harvard Management Update
- 11 Jan 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
New Game, New Rules: Developing Managers for a Competitive World
corporate management, and how PGL helps executives address these critical issues. Q: How are fundamental changes occurring in the global business environment driving change at the organizational level? A: These are turbulent times for... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- Article
Values, Purpose, Meaning, and Expectations: Why Culture and Context Matter
The "rational person" standard, based on assumptions of economic self-interest, has long prevailed in legal reasoning. But understanding of decision making, behavioral choices, and possibilities for action must be enlarged to include a variety of factors that give... View Details
Keywords: Standards; Interests; Decision Making; Behavior; Value; Groups and Teams; Performance Expectations; Organizational Culture; Leadership; Business Cycles; Forecasting and Prediction; Motivation and Incentives
Kanter, Rosabeth M. "Values, Purpose, Meaning, and Expectations: Why Culture and Context Matter." Alabama Law Review 62, no. 5 (2011).
- 22 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 22
We then introduce a framework that provides a unified perspective on these research streams, thereby highlighting some important areas for future research and policy analysis in entrepreneurial finance. Organizational Designs and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 30, 2007
the economic foundations of activity-based costing and balanced scorecard, as generalized supply and demand curves. It argues, however, that management accounting systems should not be viewed solely through an economic/social science lens but as constructed phenomena,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
Paul M. Healy, and Yang Gui Periodical:Journal of Financial Transformation (forthcoming) Abstract Since 1949 Lehman Brothers has used an investment committee to select the top ten recommendations made by its analysts each year. We examine the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- February 2021
- Case
A Cultural Transformation at Southeastern Grocers
By: Suraj Srinivasan, Jonah S. Goldberg and Joseph A. Paul
When Anthony Hucker, the CEO of Southeastern Grocers (SEG), took over in that role in July 2017, the company was in dire financial and operational condition and was headed towards bankruptcy. SEG, the fifth largest grocery chain in the U.S. in early 2021, operated... View Details
Keywords: Business Transformation; Strategy Execution; Retail; Organizational Culture; Transformation; Growth and Development Strategy; Performance; Success; Retail Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; United States; Florida
Srinivasan, Suraj, Jonah S. Goldberg, and Joseph A. Paul. "A Cultural Transformation at Southeastern Grocers." Harvard Business School Case 121-049, February 2021.
- 28 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 28
Management: Can a Balanced Scorecard Change a Culture? By: Gibbons, Robert, and Robert S. Kaplan Abstract—Agency theorists, historically, have analyzed what kinds of performance measures should be used in formal incentive contracts. For... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jan 2019
- What Do You Think?
Who Will Measure up to These Two Remarkable Leaders?
well. It is easy to exaggerate the contribution of one leader to the performance of an organization —we do it to excess. But in the case of these two, it is warranted. “Bogle taught us a new way to invest while Kelleher taught us a new... View Details
- 17 Apr 2017
- HBS Case
This Turkish Debt Collector Is Customer-friendly
sees 65 percent turnover, Turkasset became choosy about its employees, hiring less than one in 100 applicants. Once hired, it paid them higher salaries and performed more in-depth training. The investment paid off, dropping the turnover... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
What It Takes: Minorities in the Executive Suite
some difficult twists and turns. Promotions, for instance, are typically much harder to come by in the early stages of their careers than they are for whites. And once they make the leap into middle and upper management, these trailblazers have to put together a... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 17 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
Man vs. Machine: Which Makes Better Hires?
who has studied how companies make organizational decisions in industries such as health care and education. “They are figuring out how to use the information of managers and combine it with this new technology.” Testing the testers To... View Details
- 02 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2011
motivator is our natural tendency to measure our own performance against the performance of others. 2011 Top 10 Working Papers: (# Unique Visitors) What Do CEOs Do? (3,708)... View Details
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