Managing Performance - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 19

table. Just as negotiation theory could be enriched by principles of maneuver warfare, military doctrine offers officers and soldiers a potentially useful foundation to better understand and manage the negotiation process, especially in... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Nov 2004
Research & Ideas

Solving the Health Care Conundrum

providers are beginning to offer unique services, creating the facilities and organizations to effectively deliver them, and gathering the data to show superior performance and to continue to improve. Public policy can help accelerate... View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health

23 Feb 2016
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February 23, 2016

February 2016 Review of Financial Studies Industry Window Dressing By: Chen, Huaizhi, Lauren Cohen, and Dong Lou Abstract— We explore a new mechanism by which investors take correlated shortcuts and present evidence that managers... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 19

the right questions. The challenge lies in being able to step back, reflect, and ask the key questions that are critical to your performance and your organization's effectiveness. In What to Ask the Person in the Mirror, HBS professor and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 Apr 2003
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Shareholders Key to Corporate Reform

funds, and money managers are natural active investors, but they have been shut out of boardrooms and strategy by the legal structure, by custom, and by their own practices." There are many reasons why shareholders have remained on... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia A. Montgomery & Rhonda Kaufman

05 Apr 2004
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Should We Brace Ourselves for Another Era of M&A Value Destruction?

mergers and acquisitions fail to achieve their objectives, suggesting possible remedies to this "flawed process." Kathryn Yates, for example, cited three primary reasons for M&A failure: "1) Forgetting to plan for the cost of integration… 2)... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

17 May 2011
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First Look: May 17

valuations in first financing rounds. Further econometric tests suggest that, as predicted by the theory, this effect is driven by unobservable heterogeneity, and it is more pronounced in teams that make quick decisions about founder share allocations. In addition we... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Jun 2001
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Tech Investment the Wise Way

Excerpted with permission from "The Dual Edged Role of the Business Model in Leveraging Corporate Technology Investments," in Taking Technical Risks: How Innovators, Executives, and Investors Manage High Tech Risks, article ©... View Details

Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough & Richard S. Rosenbloom

15 Dec 2009
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First Look: Dec. 15, 2009

distribution: (1) assistance selecting funds that are harder to find or harder to evaluate, (2) access to funds with lower costs excluding distribution costs, (3) access to higher performing funds, (4) superior asset allocation, and (5)... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

03 Feb 2015
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our discussions and suggests directions for research to investigate its validity. Publisher's link: http://pps.sagepub.com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/content/10/1/3.full.pdf+html February 2015 Antitrust Bulletin The Influence of Strategic View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 28

Publications October 2014 John Wiley & Sons International Strategy: Context, Concepts and Implications By: Collis, David J. Abstract—This book is designed for every student who will be involved in managing and advising companies... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

15 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018

antagonists in a tug-of-war. They tend to focus on regulating workers’ behavior, often putting a damper on commitment, innovation, and performance without realizing it. But freedom and control aren’t zero sum, argues the author. By giving... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

20 Aug 2007
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HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively

management of financial communication? Greg Miller: The French group Total and the British BP are both major players in the oil and gas industry, which is increasingly moving into the center of public interest due to its booming oil and... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities

01 Dec 2021
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How Will the Metaverse Affect Productivity?

“Getting the right leaders and managers is important. But putting the right management system in place enhances the performance of all existing team members. People come and... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

18 Sep 2000
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Big Deals: Financing Large-Scale Investments

good projects and good returns. Esty's interest in project finance evolved out of his doctoral thesis on risk-taking in the savings and loan (S&L) industry during the 1980s. "I have been intrigued with high leverage and its effects on managerial incentives and... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

10 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 10

different functions, divisions, and cultures. Several project management principles-scoping out the challenge, structuring the boundaries, and sorting tasks for execution-help leaders facilitate effective teaming. Leaders can also foster... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

07 Sep 2020
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How to Help Small Businesses Survive COVID's Next Phase

performance on real-time dashboards, making monitoring less onerous. “Small-business owners tend to focus on their customers, and on their products and services,” Mills says. “They often don’t have time for the accounting and paperwork.... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Food & Beverage; Service

19 Dec 2017
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New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017

successfully increase immigrants' political participation, even when they do not specifically target their communities and concerns. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53575 November 28, 2017 athenaInsight The No-excuses Way to View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

06 Nov 2007
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First Look: November 6, 2007

River in identifying investments, performing due diligence, and working with portfolio companies and asks how Blue River should build itself into a top-tier private equity fund, particularly as more and more foreign firms target the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne