Performance Pressure - Publications - Faculty & Research

09 Jan 2006
What Do You Think?

Should More Transparency Extend to Education for Management?

because they fail to account for the fact that management is less about writing and analyzing and more about getting things done!" What's the problem? Are grading methods broken? If so, what could be done to fix them? Or is any information about academic View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

01 Dec 2002
News

Bad Times for Business

think more carefully about how they manage and organize themselves. Palepu: Paul, you spoke about the breakdown of checks and balances in the system generally. Can you elaborate? Healy: One thing that strikes me is the enormous pressure... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

28 Nov 2016
Research & Ideas

Challenging the Belief that Liability Laws Kill Medical Device Innovation

Doctors are afraid of getting sued. According to some accounts, 75 percent of them perform more tests and procedures than necessary to avoid potential lawsuits over medical malpractice. The phenomenon of “defensive medicine” has been... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Medical Devices & Supplies

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Financials | Annual Report 2024

Financials From the Chief Financial Officer Harvard Business School’s economic model performed well in fiscal 2024, delivering a healthy operating surplus on investments in our core programs, strategic priorities, faculty initiatives, and... View Details

27 Oct 2016
News

Pathfinder

of the more successful companies in the world,” Lesser told The Business Times of Singapore in a wide-ranging conversation that touches on the firm’s five decades of double-digit growth and evolution into digital solutions. Clients, he says, are “feeling more View Details

12 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

Waking Up a Sleeping Company

One of the greatest challenges for the values-centered culture is to produce top performance and succeed in the market against "win at any cost" competitors. Values are only one part of an organization's culture; the other half... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

01 Jul 2019
What Do You Think?

Are Super Stretch Goals Only for the Very Young?

adding the software was very large. The engineers undoubtedly felt the pressure of a long-standing culture comprising equal parts of pride, arrogance, and fear. The Company is still recovering from the costs of enormous government fines,... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Oct 2002
News

Bozidar Djelic

When Bozidar Djelic turned 37 last April, the musicians cutting loose at his birthday soiree boasted some pretty impressive days jobs. The one hundred guests at the celebration, including Serbia's Prime Minster Zoran Djindjic, were treated to a View Details

01 Mar 2011
News

On the Outside at HBS

thought. In this or any context, however, there is a lot of “baggage” in being from a minority. As an outsider, there is an unspoken pressure to speak and act on behalf of “your” people. For example, consider an individual female... View Details

01 Jun 1998
News

Short Takes

compensation does not result in improved performance in American companies, they conclude, corporations abroad should resist pressures to tie incentives to individual and unit performance. Two Best Ways?... View Details

Keywords: Orna Feldman and Caroline Chauncey

01 Sep 2018
News

Research Brief: Where Top-Down Tops Out

facility’s performance. “There is a lot of pressure to deliver and deliver quickly,” Sadun says. “The rational response of an appointed NHS CEO is not necessarily to improve the long-term performance of the... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

10 May 2023
News

Alumna Snags an Emmy

Emmy win for her work on YouTube TV’s Key Plays feature was announced in April, several months before the Primetime Emmys air. “For this particular Emmy’s ceremony, the Academy decides and announces all the winners in advance so you don’t have the View Details

Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries

16 Sep 2002
Research & Ideas

The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs

and the consequences of CEO succession and selection decisions for subsequent firm performance and strategic choices. Industry wisdom, company relationships, and technological expertise all matter in our new knowledge-based enterprises.—... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

08 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

A Bold Proposal for Investment Reform

high quality information in the asset management business comes from increases over time in liquidity for investors. Liquidity is typically thought of as a positive, since it allows investors to quickly switch their savings out of poor View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

10 Oct 2007
Research & Ideas

“Blank” Inside: Branding Ingredients

ingredient is central to the functional performance of the final product. Think Shimano gear systems on performance bicycles or Monsanto's Nutrasweet, added to Equal sweetener. 3. The final products are not... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Aerospace; Consumer Products

01 Jun 2003
News

HBS Releases First-Ever Financial Report

it is important they understand how their contributions are being used. The report explains the School’s strategic and flexible rolling five-year plan, which is responsive to changes in the operating environment. “During a year of multiple View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Oct 1999
News

Culture Clash: Exploring Cross Cultural Conflicts in Business

course-development project in 1997. Writing cases on firms in China, Japan, Thailand, Argentina, Nigeria, and Russia, she focused on businesses indigenous to each culture as well as multinationals moving between cultures. She chose companies that aspire to excellence... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

13 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Why Public Companies Underinvest in the Future

managers to favor short-term profits over long-term gains. The research results suggest that managers of public companies are under much more pressure than their private-firm counterparts to show short-term financial results. Peeking In... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

11 Feb 2002
Research & Ideas

Secrets of the Successful Businesswoman

would you base a decision on?'" But the pressures are many. What will my boss think? What will my team think? If you make smart business decisions, she said, you will make fewer mistakes. "And you know what? You'll like yourself... View Details