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- 11 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard
budget be driven from the revenue targets in the strategic plan. In The Execution Premium, we describe how a time-driven activity-based cost model provides the previously missing link between the revenue growth targets in a strategic plan... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 May 2020
- What Do You Think?
Does Remote Work Mix with Organizational Culture?
SUMMING UP Is Management the Missing Ingredient in Melding Organization Culture and Remote Work? Those who have experienced remote work are largely vocal supporters of the notion. Its success is dependent, on the one hand, on an effective... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 29 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 29, 2006
variable using dispersion among experts' forecasts. We test this methodology using three datasets, demand data at item level, sales data at firm level for retailers, and sales data View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
For Entrepreneurs, Blown Deadlines Can Crush Big Ideas
gain experience, they get worse at predicting timelines." Record venture capital investment and a surge of new businesses launched during the COVID-19 pandemic are raising the stakes for entrepreneurs. In a domain that prizes speed,... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 26 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
David, Goliath, and Disruption
relating the story, Miller said, "I believe in Christensen's fundamental premise that you find very few of those guys who are actually successful at disrupting the market, and [then disrupting] themselves." How To Not View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 15 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 15
Delmar Cengage Learning, 2011 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Publisher's Link: http://www.cengage.com/search/productOverview.do?N=+4294922452+11&Ntk=P_Isbn13&Ntt=9781435488182#mainTab_1 Accounting Scholarship That... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities
linkages or externalities across industries. Regional economies and clusters are analyzed at various geographic levels including states, economic areas, and metropolitan areas. Access to top-level data on the CMP is free; more in-depth... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is There Still a Role for Judgment in Decision-Making?
respondents to this month's column is that judgment has a dominant role to play in some decisions while it is an element in all decisions. That assumes, of course, that we can arrive at some agreement about what the term means. Seena... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 23 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 23
MIT Sloan Management Review Experiments in Open Innovation at Harvard Medical School By: Guinan, Eva C., Kevin J. Boudreau, and Karim R. Lakhani Abstract—Harvard Medical School seems an unlikely organization to open up its innovation... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Oct 2022
- What Do You Think?
Have Managers Underestimated the Need for Face-to-Face Contact?
the supply-demand ratio for talent? Will the need for recognition and advancement on the job lure people back to the office? Or have the attractions of working at home changed the job satisfaction equation permanently? Just as important... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 30 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers
professor at Harvard Business School who coleads the WMS with Nicholas Bloom of Stanford University and John Van Reenen of the London School of Economics. "If you really want to be convincing, it's important to have large-scale... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 15 Jul 2019
- Book
Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence
of those in finance as they benefit from the obfuscation; it creates more mystery about what they do. This is particularly true when one looks at the array of differing institutions that interact in capital markets. In one of the chapters... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 2
colocation impacts the likelihood of scientific collaboration. We introduce exogenous colocation and face-to-face interactions for a random subset of biomedical researchers responding to an opportunity to apply for a research grant. While... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 10
the economy to organize production and innovation. We study individual contestant-level data from 2,796 contestants in 774 software algorithm design contests with random assignment. Precisely conforming to theory predictions, the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jul 2021
- Research & Ideas
Bankruptcy Spells Death for Too Many Businesses
Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection is supposed to allow companies to shed debt and get a fresh start. Ideally, creditors recover most of what they’re owed as the restructured firm begins turning a profit. Yet, more companies are liquidated than rebuilt, giving up the... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 06 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
John Kotter: Four Ways to Kill a Good Idea
"confounding questions, inane comments, and verbal bullets." This excerpt looks at attack strategies used by naysayers: fear mongering, delay, confusion, ridicule. For more information, read Kotter's HBR.org blog post, Know Your... View Details
Keywords: by John Kotter & Lorne A. Whitehead
- 14 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
A Strategy For Steady Leadership in an Unsteady World
Listening only to information sources and opinions that reinforce their own views carries great risk of missing alternate points of view. Instead, leaders need to tap into myriad sources covering the full spectrum of viewpoints by... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 26 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers
When HBS professor Steven Spear recently released an abstract on problem solving at Toyota, HBS Working Knowledge staffer Sarah Jane Johnston e-mailed off some questions. Spear not only answered the questions, but also asked some of his... View Details
- 14 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Business Case for Becoming a Jack-of-All-Trades
A few hundred years ago, it was considered a virtue to know a little bit about everything. They even had a word for it: “Renaissance man.” Now, with vast amounts of knowledge literally at our fingertips, generalists tend to be tarred with... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 04 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Real Cost of Bribery
that launch anticorruption efforts grow their businesses more slowly than firms that don't, especially in regions where bribery is the expected norm. “If you think of the cost [of bribery] as just fines and regulatory actions, you're View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel