Measurement and Metrics - Publications - Faculty & Research

17 Mar 2009
First Look

First Look: March 17, 2009

care services are internationally renowned for quality. In 2008, The Clinic is restructuring the organization into teams defined around patient needs, rather than traditional medical specialties. "Patients First!" takes shape as the teams View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

26 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 26, 2010

PublicationsSelling to Many Countries—Within the U.S. Authors:Frank V. Cespedes and Michael Wong Publication:MIT Sloan Management Review 52, no. 1 (fall 2010) Abstract In pursuing growth, many companies have plans to sell to emerging... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

27 May 2014
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First Look: May 27

products. Specifically, we measure the impact of municipal policies requiring governments to construct green buildings on private-sector adoption of the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 22, 2008

right mix between organic growth and external collaboration and in-licensing, and how to measure success when it takes so many years to develop... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

04 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 4

PublicationsCases about Redefining Global Strategy Authors:Pankaj Ghemawat and Jordan I. Siegel Publication:Harvard Business Publishing, 2011 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Publisher's Link:... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

September 2020 (Revised September 2021)
Supplement

Student Success at Georgia State University (B)

By: Michael W. Toffel, Robin Mendelson and Julia Kelley

This is a supplement to the Student Success at Georgia State University (A) case. The (B) case includes the results of a randomized control trial that Georgia State conducted to test education technology start-up AdmitHub’s chatbot solution as a strategy for improving... View Details

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16 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 16, 2010

CEOs are retained in a sample of mergers in the 1990s, we find greater retention of better-performing and higher-paid CEOs—both measures of valuable human capital. We also show that the performance-retention... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 21, 2008

2002). No prior evidence at a societal level has manipulated both structural predictors and measured both stereotypes and prejudices. In the present study, participants (n =... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

24 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 24

environments and does not seem to be explained by measurement error. Third, difference in differences estimates with respect to the cost of effort, due to weather shocks and... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

10 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

How to Look at Globalization Now

instability in Latin America and Russia give fodder to the global skeptics. Why do you advocate a more historically measured view of globalization? A: Accounts of the cross-border integration of markets have... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

14 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 14, 2010

management practices and decentralization. Productivity dispersion between firms and countries has motivated the improved measurement of firm organization across industries... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company

questions: "What resources do I control to accomplish my tasks?" "What measures will be used to evaluate my performance?" "Who do I need to interact with and influence to achieve my... View Details

Keywords: by Robert Simons

12 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 12

http://www.ssireview.org/articles/entry/chinas_quest_to_adopt_electric_vehicles Why 'Fair Value' Is the Rule: How a Controversial Accounting Approach Gained Support Authors:Ramanna, Karthik Publication:Harvard Business Review Abstract For the past two decades,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Jun 2016
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June 14, 2016

forthcoming Harvard Business Review Press Managing in the Gray: Five Timeless Questions for Resolving Your Toughest Problems at Work By: Badaracco, Joseph L. Abstract—Part of a manager's job is making tough calls, and the hardest... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 17

Abstract—We analyze time-series of investor expectations of future stock market returns from six data sources between 1963 and 2011. The six measures of expectations are highly positively correlated with... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Oct 2015
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October 20, 2015

entrepreneurship. Immigrants account for roughly a quarter of U.S. workers in these fields, and they have a similar contribution in terms of output measures like patents or firm starts. This contribution has... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 May 2003
What Do You Think?

Is This a Golden Era for Marketing Productivity?

we should be experiencing a resurgence of productivity in marketing, measured in terms of less waste in advertising, more clearly focused sales effort, and fewer product, service, View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

17 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 17

case describes the role of the compensation committee and the company's executive performance measurement factors. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/110047-PDF-ENG Aubrey McClendon's... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

11 Jan 2000
Lessons from the Classroom

New Game, New Rules: Developing Managers for a Competitive World

management make sound strategic choices and ensure efficient implementation of those decisions. They do this by allocating scarce capital resources to the best opportunities, then measuring View Details

Keywords: by Staff