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- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
at Harvard Business School. He has published extensively on the challenges of accountability and performance management facing nonprofit organizations, including the award-winning book NGOs and Organizational Change: Discourse, Reporting,... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 10 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017
and provide the impetus for evaluating research on disruptive innovation in management and strategy. We trace disruptive innovation theory’s intellectual history, noting both how core principles have crystallized through a process of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
September 2021 Alumni Books
equip and support entrepreneurs in Africa, through the process of starting and growing successful and resilient agriculture and food businesses that will transform the continent. Through case studies and practical guidance, the book... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
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... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
Publications Market Reaction to and Valuation of IFRS Reconciliation Adjustments: First Evidence from the UK Authors: Joanne Horton and George Serafeim Publication: Review of Accounting Studies (forthcoming) Abstract We investigate the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
Lending Outcomes By: Campbell, Dennis, Maria Loumioti, and Regina Wittenberg Moerman Abstract—We explore how cognitive constraints can impede the effective processing and interpretation of less salient, non-quantitative (soft) information... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
IBM team pitched their superiors on the company building a computer that could compete on Jeopardy!. It was bold, even risky; Jeopardy! was the ur–game show of idioms and double meanings. Building software for natural-language processing... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 09 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 9, 2015
is even more important as markets and buying processes change, and key levers for linking strategy and selling behaviors. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49188 June 2015 ThinkSales It Doesn't Matter If... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 10
culture of making excuses for performance shortfalls. These issues not only plagued Mekong, but also the portfolio companies that they took positions in. The case recounts how the founder and managing partner of Mekong undertook a process... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Online Digital Marketing Strategy Course | HBS Online
Earned Media Define owned and earned media and how to incorporate both into your marketing plan. Explore the process of working with influencers and learn to manage and measure their impact. Highlights Maggie Malek, MMI Agency CEO Erica... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
To The Rescue
amazing for India. Falls are a leading cause of emergency calls, but traffic accidents are also a huge problem. India has only 1 percent of the world’s vehicles but accounts for 6 percent of the world’s traffic accidents. As the 108... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
student, such services may be offered months prior to the orientation program. Maureen Walker reports that "some students are identified in the admissions process as people who would benefit from prematriculation skills building." These... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
View from the Top
contemporaries, so I tend to reserve my admiration for historical figures. Winston Churchill comes to mind. As a leader, he had a remarkable ability to get people and processes moving together in the right direction, clearing obstacles... View Details
- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
and Michael Goold Publication:Journal of International Management 18, no. 3 (September 2012) Abstract Based on a six-country survey of nearly 250 multinationals (MNCs), this paper is the first empirical analysis to describe the size and composition of MNC headquarters... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 26, 2010
and Erik Hurst Abstract For over three centuries and throughout the globe, people have enthusiastically bought savings products that incorporate lottery elements. In lieu of paying traditional interest to all investors proportional to their balances, these Prize Linked... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
Earth Day Reflections
this ritualistic document filled with financial information, different types of narratives, and lots of pretty pictures. The amount of detail and the level of complexity in the financial section have grown considerably in response to the increasing onslaught of View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 24 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 24, 2009
at Solvay's attempts to develop talent management and mobility processes that allow the firm to align its strategic needs with the complexities of its individual employees' needs and lives. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Forgotten Book that Helped Shape the Modern Economy
how European debates about political economy were translated with time across the Atlantic in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries. Through acts of translation, and in the context of intense processes of international and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Designing Cities for a Sustainable Future
On a June day in Manhattan with temperatures heading into the 90s, a straphanger named Mike is taking his customary subway ride to work. People are grumbling about the heat, but hey, it's summer, it's supposed to be hot, and besides, "Whaddya gonna do?" New Yorkers... View Details
- 09 Jan 2020
- News
Your Whole Self
process and rebooting your personal operating system, really are about addressing how do we make sure that our time, focus, and energy are truly ours and that we're making the best choices there? And then the third principle of people,... View Details