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- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
situations that many companies faced, and intensified their need for more sophisticated measures that could be used to evaluate and compare many different types of businesses. Since business policy groups at Harvard and elsewhere remained... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 12 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Facing the New World Order
Published since 1979 by the World Economic Forum, the Global Competitiveness Report ranks seventy-five countries and measures the comparative strengths and weaknesses of their economies. At a press conference announcing publication of the... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
They instituted an incentive scheme that gave employees a financial stake in the performance of the business. They invested in IT systems and other tools to improve the ability of frontline call-center workers to deliver superior customer service. They put in place... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
more effectively design and measure complex projects and organizations. Sean Silverthorne: What drew you to the NASA/JPL Mars program as potential case material? Alan MacCormack: First, it was an ideal context in which to explore one of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 14
characterizing these networks, our primary measure is "hierarchy," defined as the degree to which transactions flow in one direction, from "upstream" to "downstream." Our empirical results show that the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 16 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 16, 2015
senior executives emphasize in their communications. We find that our measure of disclosure time horizon is associated with capital market pressures and executives' short-term monetary incentives. Consistent with the language emphasized... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World
to a number of fluid circumstances. At times, Badaracco argues, the most responsible decision can be putting off the "big decision" as long as possible in order to respond to an ever-evolving configuration of moving parts. The measures of... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 19 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
How to be Extremely Productive
billable hours. How does that hurt productivity? A: The most obvious answer is that there is a negative financial incentive to solving problems quickly and efficiently. Hourly billing is a deeply ingrained model of measuring work, but it... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
- 22 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 22
take advantage of factor cost differences. Instead, multinationals tend to own the stages of production proximate to their final production, giving rise to a class of high-skill, intra-industry vertical FDI. Measuring and Managing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Exit Interview: HBS Dean Kim Clark
should always be held to that high standard. Our work should be more than rigorous and relevant. It should give some measure of inspiration and aspiration to the world. Part of our work is providing the means to more effectively mobilize... View Details
Keywords: by HBS Alumni Bulletin Staff
- 30 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Your Board’s Effectiveness
allows a company and its board to monitor themselves against predetermined objectives and targeted measures. Among the questions asked to measure board effectiveness: Are the meetings engaging and interactive? Rather than being passive... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan
- 17 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Business Case for Diabetes Disease Management
employers who offered a too-generous plan? Since long-term effects of the disease are measured in decades, it is complicated to figure out a business case for diabetes, said one alumnus. Participants said that since many people with... View Details
- 07 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing
high at that outlet, while the Boston store might stock relatively few items in this category because demand is lower there. Why don't more retailers customize their inventories? The answer, as we explain later on, lies in slow supply chains, inadequate or inaccurate... View Details
- 14 Aug 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018
Psychology Preferences for Experienced Versus Remembered Happiness By: Mogilner, Cassie, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—Consider two types of happiness: one experienced on a moment-to-moment basis, the other a reflective evaluation where people feel happy looking back.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
managing labor and delivery units in the United States and assess the associations between unit management and maternal outcomes. Methods: We developed and administered a management measurement instrument using structured telephone... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
we could only dream of just a few years ago, ranging from unobtrusive physiological and neurological measures to massive databases on billions of individuals' decisions about consuming, saving, investing, and living their lives. As... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2006
- HBS Case
Oprah: A Case Study Comes Alive
traditional measures of market performance. "Consumers," Koehn said, "are interested in how a product or offering meets a specific need or satisfies a given want. But they are increasingly also looking at companies'... View Details
- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
collection of patient physiological measurements such as blood pressure, weight, or blood glucose levels—and both commercial health insurers as well as the Medicare system have seen dramatic increases in the use of these services in... View Details
Keywords: by HBS News
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
(IMM), a measure of the social value created by a company per equity dollar invested. If a company fails to meet the IMM threshold, Rise will not invest in it. The case finds McGlashan and Maya Chorengel (HBS MBA ’97), Rise’s senior... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
Theory of Dynamic Capabilities: Connecting Strategy, Know-How, and Competition By: Pisano, Gary P. Abstract—The field of strategy has mounted an enormous effort to understand, define, predict, and measure how organizational capabilities... View Details