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01 Sep 2011
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Alumni Book Briefs

loyalty) into a full-fledged management system that results in extraordinary financial and competitive results. They define the fundamental concept of Net Promoter; explain its connection to a company’s growth and sustained success; demonstrate the power of the... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

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Leading Change and Organizational Renewal | HBS Online

What you earn . Overview Syllabus Enrollment Stories FAQs Enroll Now Key Concepts Explore the roadblocks to change and how to overcome them Analyze the root cause of your organization’s performance and opportunity gaps Develop strategies... View Details

23 Sep 2008
First Look

First Look: September 23, 2008

Feedback in Tournament and Individual Performance Compensation Plans Authors:Lynn Hannan, Ranjani Krishnan, and Andrew Newman Publication: The Accounting Review 83, no. 4 (July 2008) Abstract This study... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

27 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

Employee-Suggestion Programs That Work

and medical officers. Each officer went out for roughly an hour at a time and was encouraged to obtain feedback from nurses, doctors, respiratory therapists, and administrators. Later, the officers held large staff meetings in each unit... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Guttry

10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Professors Introduce Valuation Software

financial data to perform accounting analysis, ratio analysis, forecasted financials, and valuation. It also provides benchmarking for comparable firms. It was created by Harvard Business School faculty Krishna Palepu and Paul Healy, in... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Judging | New Venture Competition

It will provide feedback to participants and narrow the pool of contestants to a group of semi-finalists. Semi-Final & Final Round These two rounds are based on the executive summary and live presentation to a mix of philanthropists,... View Details

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1.7 Grading | MBA

Registrar the grade earned by the student on the basis of the student’s performance in the course. Feedback on Grades All requests for grade feedback should be directed to... View Details

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Inside the Learning: The Impact of a Personal Case

performing team member or a looming career decision. AMP provides a unique opportunity to address an important issue head-on. All participants choose one significant challenge as the topic of their Personal Case, which they work on... View Details

18 Apr 2005
Research & Ideas

Selling Luxury to Everyone

everybody is getting into the cosmetic business.— Tyler Morse, Bliss "We'll know exactly what brands are performing well, exactly what sizes are selling," she said. Instant Feedback Morse said... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Jette; Consumer Products

02 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2011

good CSR performance are likely to report their CSR activities, thus increasing their overall transparency. Higher levels of transparency ease the fears of potential investors, making them more likely to invest. Driven by Social... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

19 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Do I Dare Say Something?

worked with, many employees suggested that (a) "openness to input from below" should become a key component of each leader's 360-degree performance evaluation and (b) a cut-off score be set for this component, such that those... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

01 Jun 2016
News

Prima Datarina

were the first company in North America to perform the Mahler, because it requires an extraordinary orchestra and corps of dancers.” It also demands something of the viewer, in a way that more narrative works like The Nutcracker and Swan... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Jun 2005
News

Transforming the IRS

traditional services on the telephones and in local offices, and offered new electronic services for filing, paying, and information. Why did you change the way the IRS measures employee performance? Performance measures have an enormous... View Details

Keywords: Ann Cullen; IRS; Many Unhappy Returns; reform; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

01 Jun 2000
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Flexibility Is Key to Product Development in Internet Time

encompassed a wide range of applications, including products, services, and development tools for both commercial and individual users. Because the undertakings were so diverse, the researchers couldn't measure each project against the same View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

15 Feb 2011
First Look

First Look: Feb. 15

about Coworkers' Effort Influences Individual Productivity Authors:Francesca Gino and Bradley R. Staats Abstract Drawing on theoretical insights from research on social comparison processes, this article explores how managers can use View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Jan 2013
What Do You Think?

Should We Rethink the Promise of Teams?

society, extroversion is encouraged, developed, and recognized in so many ways that introverts—with their abilities to work alone, sometimes focusing on complex problems, not relying on feedback from others—may have fewer opportunities to... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Feb 1999
News

Short Takes

members of a work team believe that well-intentioned efforts, regardless of outcome, will neither be seen negatively nor lead to punishment or rejection? New research by HBS assistant professor Amy C. Edmondson shows that such teams are more able to learn - and,... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

13 Aug 2024
Research & Ideas

Why Companies Shouldn't Delay Software Updates—Even After CrowdStrike's Flaw

issued and new fixes made available. Then again, roughly half of firms were “way back from the frontier,” says Greenstein, not performing updates for long periods of time, such as two years, if ever, following Apache alerts about software... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Technology; Information Technology; Computer; Web Services

03 Dec 2024
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From One to Many

my research,” Ferrazzi recently wrote in Forbes online. “Work today happens fluidly in networked teams, and the performance of these teams is powered by purposeful relationships.” That realization powers Ferrazzi’s recently published... View Details

27 Jun 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

Learning to Make the Move to CEO

explains Simons. At a recent AMP session, Simons rolled out his research on what he calls the Executive Compass, which assigns key performance factors to each of the tool's 8 points. "The North Star of this is identifying your... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education

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