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  • 01 Jun 2023
  • HBS Case

A Nike Executive Hid His Criminal Past to Turn His Life Around. What If He Didn't Have To?

in seconds today. If Miller hadn’t concealed his previous life of crime, would he ever have been given the chance to start fresh and perform his way to remarkable success, making his mark as a highly influential African American business... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Apparel & Accessories
  • 30 Jun 2009
  • First Look

First Look: June 30

Venture capital firms based in locales that are venture capital centers outperform, regardless of the stage of the investment. Ironically, this outperformance arises from outsized performance outside of the venture capital firms' office... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

    Stefan H. Thomke

    Stefan Thomke (sthomke@hbs.edu), an authority on the management of innovation, is the William Barclay Harding Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He has worked with firms on product, process, and... View Details

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    • 10 May 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: May 10

    from the incorporation of non-directed donors in transplant chains rather than simple exchanges. It is controversial whether these chains should be performed simultaneously ("domino paired donation," DPD) or nonsimultaneously... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 26 Mar 2018
    • Research & Ideas

    To Motivate Employees, Give an Unexpected Bonus (or Penalty)

    says. “Second prize is a set of steak knives. Third prize is you’re fired.” This might seem an extreme way to motivate employees (and, of course, fails spectacularly in the movie). But companies hold so-called tournaments based on relative View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Manufacturing
    • 14 Apr 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: April 14, 2009

    Bradley R. Staats and David M. Upton Abstract While the concepts of lean production are frequently applied in service organizations, there is little work that rigorously has examined implementing lean production in contexts other than manufacturing, as well as lean... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 21 Mar 2019
    • HBS Case

    The Ferrari Way

    car on the market, but the best combination of the two, which makes us the most thrilling. Our concept of performance includes pleasure.” While other sports car manufacturers try to make their cars as light... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Auto
    • 07 Dec 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: Dec. 7

    regularly explore together: (1) Who is your primary customer? Have you organized your company to deliver maximum value to that customer? (2) How do your core values prioritize shareholders, employees, and customers? Is everyone in your company committed to those... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Web

    MOC Network reaches 20 year milestone - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    Biden for Manufacturing and Economic Development Elisabeth is a principal research scientist and executive director of the MIT Industrial Performance Center as well as a lecturer in MIT’s Department of Urban... View Details
    • 05 Oct 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: October 5, 2010

    delivers in the current period conditional on a stockout in the prior period. We also provide a method for estimating the impact of changes in supplier performance along these two dimensions on customer demand. Using data from Hugo Boss,... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 22 Jul 2002
    • Research & Ideas

    Is Performance-Based Pricing the Right Price for You?

    is an arrangement in which the seller is paid based on the actual performance of its product or service. It is becoming much more popular. In the advertising industry, agencies had been traditionally paid 15 percent of the cost of the... View Details
    Keywords: by Benson Shapiro; Manufacturing
    • 24 Aug 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: August 24

    magnitude of 3% to 7% lower than corresponding buy-and-hold fund returns. Using factor models of risk and the estimated dollar-weighted performance gap, we find that the real alpha of hedge fund investors is close to zero. In absolute... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Web

    Mid-US - Global

    themes include a late-career transition to entrepreneurship, leveraging relationships, team building, and scaling a mission-driven business. July 2024 Case Living up to Purpose and Performance at Parker Hannifin By: Hubert Joly , Alicia... View Details
    • Web

    Leadership - Faculty & Research

    and access to real-time data. But less transparent work environments can yield more-transparent employees. Employees perform better when they can try out new ideas and approaches within certain zones of privacy. Organizations allow them... View Details
    • 05 Apr 2004
    • Research & Ideas

    Six Ways to Build Trust in Negotiations

    unaccommodating behavior by the slighted party. In their 1991 book, A Behavioral Theory of Labor Negotiations (ILR Press), Richard E. Walton and Robert B. McKersie recount such a scenario. After a string of long, protracted contract negotiations with his employees'... View Details
    Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra
    • April 2024
    • Case

    Michelin in Motion: Putting Purpose to Work

    By: Hubert Joly, Nitin Nohria and Emilie Billaud
    When he became CEO, facing limited growth prospects, a low valuation, and therefore a stagnating share price, Menegaux and his team launched a set of initiatives to reposition Michelin. These included (1) articulating a clear purpose (“We care about giving people a... View Details
    Keywords: Transformation; Talent and Talent Management; Innovation Strategy; Leading Change; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Culture; Identity; Motivation and Incentives; Corporate Strategy; Diversification; Value Creation; Mission and Purpose; Valuation; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Europe; France
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    Profiles - MBA

    business, especially as it relates to businesses focused on manufacturing and construction. The opportunities being a Fellow provides are quite expansive, from access to a network of peers with similar interests yet diverse backgrounds,... View Details
    • Web

    Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research

    the needs of both individual dentists and Dental Service Organizations (DSOs). Yet, the puzzle remained: how precise and reliable would the AI's performance need to be to earn the trust of practitioners, enhance patient care, and... View Details
    • 05 Apr 2016
    • First Look

    April 5, 2016

    https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49445 Performance Feedback in Competitive Product Development By: Gross, Daniel P. Abstract—Performance feedback is ubiquitous in competitive settings where new products are developed. This... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
    • 09 Mar 2003
    • Research & Ideas

    Six Keys to Building New Markets by Unleashing Disruptive Innovation

    customization. Value flowed to Dell and to the manufacturers of important subsystems that themselves were not good enough, like Microsoft and Intel. In short, companies must be integrated across whatever interface drives View Details
    Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen, Michael E. Raynor & Scott D. Anthony