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  • 05 Sep 2012
  • First Look

First Look: September 5

scientists that may be due to a performance management system that leaves top performing employees slighted by the practice of uniform ratings. In an effort to retain top employees, the company institutes a forced distribution model of performance rankings, moving from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Jun 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Racial Diversity Pays Off

the benefit of racial diversity alone, done right, pays off not just in a better company, but a more productive one. In new research that focuses specifically on racial diversity, Ely said they found measurable performance benefits when... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jan 2003
  • News

James E. Burke, MBA 1949

within a year of the crisis, thanks to decisions by Burke and his team to recall millions of bottles and replace them in a matter of weeks with pioneering tamper-resistant packaging while keeping the media and public well informed, the View Details
  • 01 Mar 2005
  • News

Venture Capital’s Comeback

2003. But the road ahead remains uncertain for many, especially those not in the top ranks in terms of size and investment track record, say industry veterans. For all but the leading firms, raising money remains difficult. And deciding... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance
  • 12 Apr 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Waking Up a Sleeping Company

issue of Medtronic's performance standards, I found that goals and deadlines were routinely set, missed, and then simply adjusted. Poor performance was rationalized by excuses. Even incentive payments were adjusted upward to reflect these excuses. As a result, sales... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
  • Profile

Michael R. Bloomberg

chose Salomon. He was smart, ambitious and energized by the hyper-intense Wall Street environment. Becoming an entrepreneur was not yet on his radar screen. At Salomon, he quickly rose through the ranks and eventually ran information... View Details
  • 10 Jun 2022
  • Blog Post

New Venture Competition 2022: Business and Environment Ventures

carbon-neutral product. Sharing-OAurora Rotes, MBA 2009Sharing-O, the sharing platform for those things that are still too good to go, filling the gap between new and pre-owned. Let’s be sustainable today, not in 10 years. The most planet-friendly View Details
  • 04 Sep 2019
  • News

The School that Donham Built

campus on the banks of the Charles. “Dean Donham was an extraordinarily innovative and productive leader,” says Dean Nitin Nohria. “Many iconic HBS elements—including our mission, residential campus, case method teaching, the Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
  • 01 Oct 1996
  • News

Leading In a New Era

owns. Rising through the company's ranks as a financial strategist, he has been CEO since July 1994 and became chairman in April 1995. An integrated paper and forest products company based in Boise, Idaho,... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
  • 23 Jun 2020
  • Book

Beginning America Over Again with a New Electoral System

which the top five candidates qualify for the general election. Part two is ranked-choice voting (RCV) in the general election, where voters rank the candidates in order of preference. If no candidate wins a majority of first-place votes,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Mar 2018
  • News

HBSAAA Leads the Way in Celebrating African American Alumni Impact

substituting for Alexa after she lost her voice, and Tide, which offered multiple spots featuring actor David Harbour seemingly appearing in other ads, then pointing to clean clothes and calling it “a Tide ad.” PepsiCo, Wendy’s, and Avocados from Mexico also View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 07 Oct 2008
  • First Look

First Look: October 7, 2008

industry as "unconcentrated." We find mixed support for the hypotheses that the ranks of mid-sized agencies were depleted by ongoing waves of mergers and acquisitions and resulted in a polarized size structure. The size... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Jul 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Don’t Get Buried in Customer Data—Use It

top players' market share declined more than 10 percent. Not surprisingly, many executives' faith in CRM has waned. In a 2001 Bain & Co. survey of the 25 most popular management tools, CRM was ranked near the bottom. In a follow-up... View Details
Keywords: by Jean Ayers
  • 28 Oct 2008
  • First Look

First Look: October 28, 2008

platform-based products (applications) and users of such products. We show that the unique equilibrium under platform compatibility leads to higher profits than the symmetric equilibrium under incompatibility. Notwithstanding,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 May 2012
  • First Look

First Look: May 15

which emphasized a focus on customers. He also instituted a new, simplified performance management system, which rated managers' performance and advancement potential on a four-point scale. The system also included a forced ranking... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Apr 2008
  • First Look

First Look: April 1, 2008

rankings even after changing employers: women. Unlike their male counterparts, female stars who switched firms performed just as well, in the aggregate, as those who stayed put. The 189 star women in the sample (18% of the star analysts... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Nov 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Corrupting Silence: Companies Must Speak Up Against Bribes

assessments of corruption such as enforcement actions, independent directors, and more rigorous auditing. Furthermore, relative to firms with high anticorruption rankings, firms with low rankings had higher sales growth in regions... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 07 Sep 2021
  • News

September 2021 Alumni Books

probiotic beverage products throughout different regions of the world. The book includes in-depth knowledge of local authors on indigenous and commercially produced probiotic beverages and related products. Examining current advancements... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 13 Nov 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018

immigrants. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54963 Reverse the Curse of the Top-5 By: Kaplan, Robert S. Abstract—The past 40 years has seen a large increase in the number of articles submitted to journals View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Dec 2011
  • News

Making the Case for Leadership

and staff officer during the Iraq War. Reaching the rank of captain while serving as a battalion adjutant in charge of all personnel matters, Johnson won raves from superiors and subordinates alike. Whether leading soldiers or civilians,... View Details
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