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      • 2010
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      The Limits of Nonprofit Impact: A Contingency Framework for Measuring Social Performance

      By: Alnoor Ebrahim and V. Kasturi Rangan
      Leaders of organizations in the social sector are under growing pressure to demonstrate their impacts on pressing societal problems such as global poverty. We review the debates around performance and impact, drawing on three literatures: strategic philanthropy,... View Details
      Keywords: Development Economics; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Leadership; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Performance Expectations; Nonprofit Organizations; Social Issues
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      Ebrahim, Alnoor, and V. Kasturi Rangan. "The Limits of Nonprofit Impact: A Contingency Framework for Measuring Social Performance." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-099, May 2010. (Recipient of 2010 Academy of Management, Public and Nonprofit Division, Carlo Masini Award for Innovative Scholarship runner-up prize; and, selection for the Best Papers proceedings.)
      • 17 Apr 2010
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      New Jersey Competitiveness: State and Cluster Performance

      By: Michael E. Porter
      Prepared for Governor Chris Christie. View Details
      Keywords: Economics; Growth and Development; United States
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      Porter, Michael E. "New Jersey Competitiveness: State and Cluster Performance." Meeting with the Governor of New Jersey, NJ, April 17, 2010.
      • April 2010
      • Case

      The Credit Crisis of 2008: An Overview

      By: V.G. Narayanan, Fabrizio Ferri and Lisa Brem
      This case examines the causes and consequences of the credit crisis of 2008 from a national and global perspective and explores the actions taken and proposed by the U.S. and European governments. View Details
      Keywords: Credit; Financial Crisis; Crisis Management; Risk Management; Globalized Economies and Regions; Global Strategy; Mortgages; Performance Effectiveness; Financial Services Industry; United States
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      Narayanan, V.G., Fabrizio Ferri, and Lisa Brem. "The Credit Crisis of 2008: An Overview." Harvard Business School Case 110-048, April 2010.
      • 17 Mar 2010
      • Other Presentation

      Massachusetts Competitiveness: State and Cluster Performance

      By: Michael E. Porter
      Keywords: Economics; Growth and Development
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      Porter, Michael E. "Massachusetts Competitiveness: State and Cluster Performance." Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness, Boston, MA, March 17, 2010.
      • 2010
      • Working Paper

      Multinational Strategies and Developing Countries in Historical Perspective

      By: Geoffrey Jones
      This working paper offers a longitudinal and descriptive analysis of the strategies of multinationals from developed countries in developing countries. The central argument is that strategies were shaped by the trade-off between opportunity and risk. Three broad... View Details
      Keywords: History; Competition; Multinational Firms and Management; Corporate Strategy; Developing Countries and Economies; Business and Government Relations
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      Jones, Geoffrey. "Multinational Strategies and Developing Countries in Historical Perspective." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-076, March 2010.
      • Article

      Signaling Firm Performance Through Financial Statement Presentation: An Analysis Using Special Items

      By: Edward J. Riedl and Suraj Srinivasan
      This paper investigates whether managers' presentation of special items within the financial statements reflects economic performance or opportunism. Specifically, we assess special items presented as a separate line item on the income statement (income statement... View Details
      Keywords: Managerial Roles; Financial Statements; Economics; Performance; Research; Opportunities; Business Earnings; Motivation and Incentives
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      Riedl, Edward J., and Suraj Srinivasan. "Signaling Firm Performance Through Financial Statement Presentation: An Analysis Using Special Items." Contemporary Accounting Research 27, no. 1 (Spring 2010): 289–332.
      • February 2010
      • Case

      Shurgard Self-Storage: Expansion to Europe (Abridged)

      By: Richard G. Hamermesh
      Shurgard, a U.S.-based firm that rents storage facilities to consumers and small businesses, is considering financing options for rapid expansion of its European operations. Five years after entering Europe, Shurgard Europe has opened 17 facilities in Belgium, France,... View Details
      Keywords: Business Model; Business Growth and Maturation; Multinational Firms and Management; Logistics; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Trade; Equity; Corporate Finance; United States; Europe
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      Hamermesh, Richard G. "Shurgard Self-Storage: Expansion to Europe (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 810-102, February 2010.
      • January 2010 (Revised April 2013)
      • Case

      Aubrey McClendon's Special Incentive Compensation at Chesapeake Energy (A)

      By: Paul Healy, Clayton S. Rose and Aldo Sesia
      Aubrey McClendon, founder and CEO of Chesapeake Energy, was, according to Fortune Magazine, the highest paid U.S. CEO in 2008 receiving over $100 million in total compensation. McClendon received this compensation despite a significant drop in the company's stock price... View Details
      Keywords: Financial Statements; Financial Reporting; Price; Stock Options; Valuation; Joint Ventures; Business Growth and Maturation; Economic Growth; Growth and Development Strategy; Change Management; Energy Industry; United States
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      Healy, Paul, Clayton S. Rose, and Aldo Sesia. "Aubrey McClendon's Special Incentive Compensation at Chesapeake Energy (A)." Harvard Business School Case 110-047, January 2010. (Revised April 2013.)
      • January 2010 (Revised November 2017)
      • Background Note

      GUIDES: Insight through Indicators

      By: Matthew Weinzierl, Jonathan Schlefer and Ann Cullen
      GUIDES is an easily remembered framework that can help the business leader and student to confidently and quickly identify, organize, and interpret a country's key economic indicators. Alternatively, it can help them to evaluate third-party analyses and to compare such... View Details
      Keywords: Economy; Macroeconomics; Framework; Country; Analysis; Performance Evaluation
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      Weinzierl, Matthew, Jonathan Schlefer, and Ann Cullen. "GUIDES: Insight through Indicators." Harvard Business School Background Note 710-044, January 2010. (Revised November 2017.)
      • 2010
      • Working Paper

      International Capital Allocation, Sovereign Borrowing, and Growth

      By: Laura Alfaro, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan and Vadym Volosovych
      The key in the investigation of "where" and "why" capital flows, relative to the neoclassical benchmark, is how we measure these flows. The macro literature has been using three main yardsticks: the current account balance, returns to capital, and the volume of net... View Details
      Keywords: Sovereign Finance; Performance Productivity; Capital; Economics
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      Alfaro, Laura, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, and Vadym Volosovych. "International Capital Allocation, Sovereign Borrowing, and Growth." NBER Working Paper Series, No. w17396.
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      Recent Advances in the Empirics of Organizational Economics

      By: Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen
      We present a survey of recent contributions in empirical organizational economics, focusing on management practices and decentralization. Productivity dispersion between firms and countries has motivated the improved measurement of firm organization across industries... View Details
      Keywords: Economics; Management Practices and Processes; Performance Productivity; Geographic Location; Motivation and Incentives; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Competition; Human Capital; Markets; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Multinational Firms and Management; India; Brazil; United States
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      Bloom, Nicholas, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen. "Recent Advances in the Empirics of Organizational Economics." Annual Review of Economics 2 (2010): 105–137.
      • 2010
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      Revisiting the Meaning of Leadership

      By: Joel Podolny, Rakesh Khurana and Marya Hill-Popper
      During the past 50 years, organizational scholarship on leadership has shifted from a focus on the significance of leadership for meaning-making to the significance of leadership for economic performance. This shift has been problematic for two reasons. First, it has... View Details
      Keywords: Communication Intention and Meaning; Economics; Leadership; Performance Improvement; Behavior
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      Podolny, Joel, Rakesh Khurana, and Marya Hill-Popper. "Revisiting the Meaning of Leadership." Chap. 3 in Handbook of Leadership Theory and Practice, edited by Nitin Nohria and Rakesh Khurana. Harvard Business Press, 2010.
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      What Really Motivates Workers

      By: Teresa M. Amabile and Steve J. Kramer
      This essay appears in "The HBR List: Breakthrough Ideas for 2010," which is compiled by this journal in collaboration with the World Economic Forum. The ten problems and the innovative solutions are discussed in each essay. This particular essay describes research... View Details
      Keywords: Problems and Challenges; Innovation and Invention; Research; Performance Improvement; Managerial Roles; Motivation and Incentives; Creativity
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      Amabile, Teresa M., and Steve J. Kramer. "What Really Motivates Workers." Harvard Business Review 88, nos. 1/2 (January–February 2010): 44–45. (#1 in Breakthrough Ideas for 2010.)
      • 2009
      • Working Paper

      Private Equity and Industry Performance

      By: Josh Lerner
      The growth of the private equity industry has spurred concerns about its potential impact on the economy more generally. This analysis looks across nations and industries to assess the impact of private equity on industry performance. Industries where PE funds have... View Details
      Keywords: Private Equity; Investment; Common Law; Industry Growth; Performance Productivity; Europe; United Kingdom; United States
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      Lerner, Josh. "Private Equity and Industry Performance." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-045, December 2009. (NBER Working Paper Series, No. 14861, April 2009.)
      • Dec 2009
      • Other Presentation

      The Economic Performance of Swiss Regions

      By: Michael E. Porter and Michael Keller
      Indicators of Economic Performance, Composition of Cantonal Economies and Clusters of Traded Industries View Details
      Keywords: Economics; Switzerland
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      Porter, Michael E., and Michael Keller. "The Economic Performance of Swiss Regions." Université de Fribourg. Centre de recherche sur la compétitivité, Switzerland, December 2009.
      • October 2009 (Revised January 2010)
      • Case

      The University of Notre Dame Endowment

      By: Andre F. Perold and Paul Michael Buser
      The Endowment Model of Investing, which was based on creating high risk-adjusted performance through diversification, a long time horizon, top-notch outside managers, and illiquid investments, had served Notre Dame and other large universities well over the past... View Details
      Keywords: Financial Crisis; Higher Education; Asset Management; Private Equity; Financial Liquidity; Investment; Risk Management; Performance Evaluation; Education Industry; Financial Services Industry
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      Perold, Andre F., and Paul Michael Buser. "The University of Notre Dame Endowment." Harvard Business School Case 210-007, October 2009. (Revised January 2010.)
      • September 2009
      • Article

      Are You Having Trouble Keeping Your Operations Focused?

      By: Robert S. Huckman
      As a business broadens over time, it can lose the operational edge that led to its original success. Core strengths atrophy, efficiency or quality suffers, and sharper rivals close in to take advantage of the loss of focus. In his classic article "The Focused Factory"... View Details
      Keywords: Business Units; Business Growth and Maturation; Goals and Objectives; Resource Allocation; Operations; Performance Efficiency
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      Huckman, Robert S. "Are You Having Trouble Keeping Your Operations Focused?" Harvard Business Review 87, no. 9 (September 2009): 90–95.
      • September 2009 (Revised September 2010)
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      Genzyme Center (A)

      By: Michael W. Toffel and Aldo Sesia
      Genzyme Corporation is in the midst of planning its new corporate headquarters, which incorporates many innovative green building features. After learning that the building as planned would likely earn a LEED Silver rating, an intermediate score in the LEED green... View Details
      Keywords: Green Building; LEED Rating System; Economic And Environmental Performance; Program Evaluation And Assessment; Tradeoffs Between Process- And Performance Standards; Buildings and Facilities; Business Headquarters; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Standards; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Performance Improvement; Environmental Sustainability; Pollutants; Green Technology Industry
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      Toffel, Michael W., and Aldo Sesia. "Genzyme Center (A)." Harvard Business School Case 610-008, September 2009. (Revised September 2010.)
      • June 2009 (Revised January 2011)
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      Target Corporation: Ackman versus the Board

      By: Krishna G. Palepu, Suraj Srinivasan and James Weber
      After 15 years of great performance, Target's faltering performance during an economic downturn led an activist shareholder to initiate a proxy fight. Target Corporation, the second largest discount store retailer in the U.S., had competed successfully against industry... View Details
      Keywords: Financial Crisis; Investment Activism; Governing and Advisory Boards; Business and Shareholder Relations; Business Strategy; Value; Retail Industry
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      Palepu, Krishna G., Suraj Srinivasan, and James Weber. "Target Corporation: Ackman versus the Board." Harvard Business School Case 109-010, June 2009. (Revised January 2011.)
      • May 2009 (Revised June 2011)
      • Case

      Going to the Oracle: Goldman Sachs, September 2008

      By: Clayton S. Rose and David Lane
      On September 23, 2008, in the midst of an historic crisis in the U.S. financial markets, Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway invested $5 billion in Goldman Sachs. Goldman CEO, Lloyd Blankfein, said: "We are pleased that given our longstanding relationship, Warren... View Details
      Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Financial Crisis; Capital Structure; Financial Liquidity; Financial Markets; Investment; Performance Capacity; Financial Services Industry; United States
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      Rose, Clayton S., and David Lane. "Going to the Oracle: Goldman Sachs, September 2008." Harvard Business School Case 309-069, May 2009. (Revised June 2011.)
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