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- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Benchmarks Don’t Work
that internal support or shared services groups provide, such straight-across cost or numeric comparisons become meaningless. Today's successful support unit earns its keep by being a trusted partner to the business units it serves. So,... View Details
- 25 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 25
effect of greater rivalry dominates for less uncertain problems whereas the effect on the extreme value prevails for more uncertain problems. Adding competitors thus systematically increases overall contest performance for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
Recording Leveraging HBS Online for Social Impact in the Education Sector Senior Lecturer Monique Burns Thompson (MBA 1993) + More Info – Less Info HBS and the Harvard Graduate School of Education have partnered to develop a multi-course... View Details
- 22 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 22, 2016
forthcoming World Scientific Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance in Emerging Markets By: Iyer, Lakshmi Abstract—Emerging markets play an increasingly important role in the global economy, accounting for 31% of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Publications - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
MHS, FACS, FRCSC, Mary Witkowski, MD, MBA This article describes the challenges and solutions in determining whether a patient’s treatment has been successful. Such an assessment depends on multiple factors, including the patient’s pretreatment status; the... View Details
- 15 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 15
case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/310071-PDF-ENG George Martin at The Boston Consulting Group (A) Leslie A. Perlow and Kerry HermanHarvard Business School Case 410-112 George Martin, managing partner at The Boston Consulting... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 7
commissions hurt sales. If managers must retain a cap, they should set it as high as possible to avoid reducing reps' incentives. Although overly complicated compensation systems have their downsides, research has found that a system needs to include enough elements... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Feb 2020
- In Practice
6 Ways That Emerging Technology Is Disrupting Business Strategy
these ‘experimental strategies’ improve performance in new ventures, but questions, such as whether experiments bias firms toward easy-to-test and measure ideas and markets, remain.” Rembrand M. Koning (@orgRem), an assistant professor of... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 07 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
My One Case: MBA Class of 2023 Looks Back
how well I did in school. The Peterson case made me realize that career success from a managerial perspective is less about individual contribution and performance and more about team-based collaboration. It made me think about questions... View Details
- 05 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Six Ways to Build Trust in Negotiations
had handled the account to find out the concerns Impress had had before the conflict escalated. She arranged to offer Impress a few perks in a new contract as a show of good faith. She asked the president of another RLX client, who knew people at Impress, to speak with... View Details
Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra
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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
- 08 May 2012
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First Look: May 8
thought (versus conscious thought) would reduce frequency of intrusions from an analogue trauma film. Participants viewed a distressing film and were subsequently instructed to think about the film deliberately (conscious thought), to View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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Accounting & Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Facility-Level Misconduct” with Gerardo Perez Cavazos. V.G. Narayanan : Winner of the David Solomons Prize for Best Paper Published in Management Accounting Research in 2018 for “The Performance Effect of Feedback in a Context of Negative... View Details
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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research
Beiting Cheng, Ioannis Ioannou and George Serafeim In this paper, we investigate whether superior performance on corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategies leads to better access to finance. We hypothesize that better access to... View Details
- 07 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron
partnerships. Within weeks, Enron collapsed into bankruptcy as its trading partners quickly lost faith—proving, once again, that even a hint of negligence or misconduct can be devastating to a company. In the end, the Justice Department... View Details
- 07 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
and that this difference is associated with significant performance differentials. We propose three possible reasons for the managerial gap of founder CEO firms: a) informational problems preventing a clear understanding of the weakness... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 13 Feb 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Case Against Racial Colorblindness
researchers conducted an experiment in which white participants engaged in a two-person guessing game designed—unbeknownst to them—to measure their tendencies toward attempted racial colorblindness. Each participant was given a stack of photographs, which included 32... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 11 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing
of the company's actual economics. Once managers see what causes them to make or lose money, they easily identify multiple actions that transform loss or break-even operations into profitable ones. The actions include improving internal processes and eliminating waste,... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 09 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Six Keys to Building New Markets by Unleashing Disruptive Innovation
refinements or radical breakthroughs, improve the performance of established products and services along the dimensions that mainstream customers in major markets historically have valued. Examples: a microprocessor that enables personal... View Details
- 19 Jan 2023
- Research & Ideas
What Makes Employees Trust (vs. Second-Guess) AI?
researchers say. “Companies are trying to make the decision: ‘Do we invest in AI or not?’ And it's very expensive,” says Timothy DeStefano, an affiliated researcher with the LISH team from Harvard Business School and an associate professor at Georgetown University.... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne