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- 16 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 16
clear; 4) Taking the wrong approach to performance assessment. Milestones relevant to each stage of an initiative's development should be established, and key assumptions in the business plan should be linked to the financial forecast; 5)... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 26 May 2015
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First Look: May 26
that individuals who are given time to reflect on a task improve their performance at a greater rate than those who are given the same amount of time to practice with the same task. Our results also show that if individuals themselves are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 2, 2007
teams often changes over time or between projects. In this paper, we use detailed data from an Indian software services firm to examine how such changes may affect the accumulation of experience within, and the performance of, teams. We... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 May 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 8, 2018
Medicare cannot directly monitor HAI rates and instead relies on providers accurately self-reporting HAIs in claims to correctly assess penalties. Consequently, the incentives for providers to improve service quality may disappear if... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms
to monitor TARP expenditures and recommend regulatory reforms. Led by Harvard Law School professor Elizabeth Warren, the panel recruited Moss, an expert in risk management, to provide historical context to the financial crisis and a... View Details
- 04 Nov 2014
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First Look: November 4
monitoring of psycho-physiological measures. We find that participants are more likely to make utilitarian decisions when asked to suppress their emotions rather than when they do not regulate their affect. In Study 4, we show that one's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 8
opacity and agility. Clients find it very difficult to judge a firm's performance in advance, because they are usually hiring it for specialized knowledge and capability that they themselves lack. Price becomes a proxy for quality. And... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 May 2014
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First Look: May 13
maintaining a long-term strategic plan is of value in thwarting such investors. Executives and directors are advised to analyze their corporations from the point of view of an activist investor, to create harmony within the board of directors, and to measure View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
New Challenges for Long-Term Investors
monitor my investments as often as I like, and that I can perform all kinds of financial transactions from my home computer at a fraction of the cost I would have had to pay twenty years ago. In this sense,... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 21 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation
two steps to the side, and jumps over a large pothole. Congress took a giant step forward by establishing a framework for monitoring and addressing systemically risky institutions (SRI). The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation is... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 05 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 5, 2008
transfer in security markets. We focus on connections between mutual fund managers and corporate board members via shared education networks. We find that portfolio managers place larger bets on firms they are connected to through their network and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
The New International Style of Management
systems remain powerful and distinct. With that caveat, Palepu observes, "In general, world-class companies facing global competition do appear to benchmark themselves with global best practices and performance standards." He... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 17 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Pandemic Self-Care for CEOs: Rituals, Running, and Cognitive Restructuring
“reflect on what I liked and wanted to keep after the pandemic.” Developing a daily cadence and mental stamina. Interviewees were nearly unanimous on the need to monitor themselves on an ongoing basis—“to pace myself not to get... View Details
- 25 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
New Learning at American Home Products
in moving out of lower-value into higher-value paths as technologies and markets changed. Before World War II those managers became proficient in monitoring the processes of production and marketing in each of the different paths. After... View Details
- 13 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 13
measure of national competitiveness. Download the paper: http://papers.nber.org/papers/w18249 Clusters, Convergence, and Economic Performance Authors:Mercedes Delgado, Michael E. Porter, and Scott Stern Abstract This paper evaluates the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 May 2016
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May 31, 2016
targeting behavior. For managers contemplating the use of performance goals or targets to encourage more volunteer effort, our results suggest careful consideration about the extent to which they may render other incentives less... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 12
let people pay their bills online, and airline apps let them check in and monitor the status of their flights. (2) Offer unique value. In South Korea, commuters can use an app to order groceries while waiting for their trains. (3) Provide... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Operations and the Competitive Edge
subordinates. Moreover, as we see every day in sporting contexts, there are such things as bad teams: teams that aren't very successful and cause their participants to perform more poorly than if they worked alone. In the book we address... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 14, 2006
Grossman Periodical:Harvard Business Review 84, no. 11 (November 2006) Abstract One of the biggest management challenges anywhere is how to improve student performance in urban public schools in the United States. There has been no... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 3, 2008
examining performance over time, comparing adopters to non-adopters, and incorporating strategies to overcome selection bias. Evaluations that meet the highest methodological standards are critical to inform the debates about this new... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace