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  • July 2012
  • Case

Performance Management at Vitality Health Enterprises, Inc.

By: John Bingham and Michael Beer
Vitality Health Enterprises, a medium-sized firm that manufactures health and personal care products, has experienced six straight quarters of strong revenue growth. James Hoffman, the new Senior Vice President of Human Resources, fears that the chain of success is... View Details
Keywords: Performance Evaluation; Motivation and Incentives; Compensation and Benefits; Talent and Talent Management; Health Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Manufacturing Industry; United States
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  • 2018
  • Book

Horngren's Cost Accounting: A Managerial Emphasis

By: Srikant M. Datar and Madhav Rajan
Horngren’s Cost Accounting defines the cost accounting market and continues to innovate today by consistently integrating the most current practice and theory into the text. This acclaimed, market-leading text emphasizes the basic theme of “different costs for... View Details
Keywords: Cost Accounting; Management
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    Christopher T. Stanton

    Christopher Stanton is Marvin Bower Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit. Professor Stanton's research streams focus on personnel economics, organizational economics, labor markets, and entrepreneurship. His MBA... View Details

    • 20 Aug 2018
    • Blog Post

    Summer Snapshot: Interning for the City of Philadelphia

    the U.S. have enjoyed recent economic gains, but all too often those gains are concentrated in particular segments of society based on race, zip code, and income level. So far, my work has involved interviewing government, non-profit, advocacy, and business... View Details
    Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
    • 16 Oct 2012
    • News

    On Marriage, Kidneys and the Economics Nobel

    • 09 Jun 2021
    • News

    How the Retail Workforce Has Changed for Good

    • 30 Jan 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers

    seven years, large teams of affiliated WMS analysts have interviewed managers at some 10,000 organizations in 20 countries, setting out to determine how and why management practices differ vastly in style and quality. Best View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
    • Research Summary

    Risk Management

    The recent proliferation of risk management, as a management control system, and the continuing failures in risk oversight suggest that risk practices warrant further research and understanding.

    My mission, ambition, and indeed passion is to document,... View Details

      Derek C. M. van Bever

      Derek van Bever is a Senior Lecturer in the General Management Unit of Harvard Business School. He teaches courses in both years of the MBA program (“Leadership and Corporate Accountability” in the first-year required curriculum and “Building and Sustaining a... View Details

      • 18 Apr 2013
      • News

      A Closet Filled With Regrets

      • January 2023
      • Article

      Psychological Safety Comes of Age: Observed Themes in an Established Literature

      By: Amy C. Edmondson and Derrick P. Bransby
      Since its renaissance in the 1990s, psychological safety research has flourished—a boom motivated by recognition of the challenge of navigating uncertainty and change. Today, its theoretical and practical significance is amplified by the increasingly complex and... View Details
      Keywords: Safety; Risk and Uncertainty; Leadership; Working Conditions; Research; Performance; Learning; Organizational Culture
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        Arthur C. Brooks

        Arthur C. Brooks is the Parker Gilbert Montgomery Professor of the Practice of Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School, and Professor of Management Practice at the Harvard Business School, where he teaches courses on leadership, happiness, and... View Details

          Feng Zhu

          Feng Zhu is the MBA Class of 1958 Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, where he leads the Platform Lab within the Digital, Data, and Design Institute, co-chairs the Harvard Business Analytics Program, and serves as the course head for the... View Details

            Joshua D. Margolis

            Joshua Margolis is James Dinan and Elizabeth Miller Professor of Business Administration and the Unit Head for the Organizational Behavior unit. He is also Faculty Chair of the Program for Leadership Development. His research and teaching revolve around leadership... View Details

            Keywords: furniture; health care; insurance industry; nonprofit industry; pharmaceuticals
            • 2022
            • Book

            Private Equity

            By: Paul A. Gompers and Steven N. Kaplan
            This Advanced Introduction provides an illustrative guide to private equity, integrating insights from academic research with examples to derive practical recommendations. Paul Gompers and Steven Kaplan begin by reviewing the history of private equity then exploring... View Details
            Keywords: Private Equity; Investment Funds; Value Creation
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              Summer R. Jackson

              Summer Jackson is an Assistant Professor of Management in the Organizational Behavior unit at Harvard Business School. She teaches LEAD in the MBA required curriculum.

              Professor Jackson is an organizational ethnographer and field researcher... View Details

              • 05 Jul 2006
              • Working Paper Summaries

              Implementing New Practices: An Empirical Study of Organizational Learning in Hospital Intensive Care Units

              Keywords: by Anita L. Tucker, Ingrid M. Nembhard & Amy C. Edmondson; Health
              • 30 Apr 2001
              • Research & Ideas

              Why Evolutionary Software Development Works

              industry in which the need for a responsive development process has never been greater. The researchers analyzed data from 29 completed projects and identified the characteristics most associated with the best outcomes. (See "Four... View Details
              Keywords: by Alan MacCormack; Technology
              • 07 Jul 2003
              • Research & Ideas

              4+2 = Sustained Business Success

              research effort in which we carefully examined more than 200 well-established management practices as they were employed over a ten-year period by 160 companies. Our findings took us quite by surprise. Most... View Details
              Keywords: by Nitin Nohria, William Joyce & Bruce Roberson
              • August 2005 (Revised August 2006)
              • Exercise

              People Management

              By: Boris Groysberg and David Lane
              Highlights critical gaps between research and practice in the field of strategic human resources management. Also, aims to debunk some myths and preconceptions that general managers bring to their HR decisions. Before class, participants fill out a true-or-false... View Details
              Keywords: Human Resources; Management; Compensation and Benefits; Retention; Performance Evaluation
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