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  • 2012
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What Do Managers Do? Exploring Persistent Performance Differences among Seemingly Similar Enterprises

By: Rebecca Henderson and Robert Gibbons
Keywords: Management Practices and Processes; Performance Productivity
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Henderson, Rebecca, and Robert Gibbons. "What Do Managers Do? Exploring Persistent Performance Differences among Seemingly Similar Enterprises." Chap. 17 in Handbook of Organizational Economics, edited by Robert Gibbons and John Roberts, 680–731. Princeton University Press, 2012.
  • December 2016
  • Article

Industry Window Dressing

By: Huaizhi Chen, Lauren Cohen and Dong Lou
We explore a new mechanism by which investors take correlated shortcuts and present evidence that managers undertake actions—in the form of sales management—to take advantage of these shortcuts. Specifically, we exploit a regulatory provision wherein a firm’s primary... View Details
Keywords: Investor Shortcuts; Industry Classification; Opportunistic Managerial Behavior; Discontinuity; Management Practices and Processes; Investment; Sales
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Chen, Huaizhi, Lauren Cohen, and Dong Lou. "Industry Window Dressing." Review of Financial Studies 29, no. 12 (December 2016): 3354–3393.
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Total Quality Management and the Human Resource Professional: Applying the Baldrige Framework to Human Resources

By: Leonard A. Schlesinger and Christopher L. Hart
The still evolving discipline of total quality management (TQM) has left many human resource professionals confused about their role. The authors believe that the HR function personnel should spearhead company quality efforts, as well as assess the performance of their... View Details
Keywords: Quality; Management Practices and Processes; Human Resources
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Schlesinger, Leonard A., and Christopher L. Hart. "Total Quality Management and the Human Resource Professional: Applying the Baldrige Framework to Human Resources." Human Resource Management 30, no. 4 (Winter 1991): 433–454.
  • 28 Oct 1994
  • Lecture

Japanese and American Corporate Governance: Converging to Best Practice?

By: W. Carl Kester
Keywords: Corporate Governance; Management Practices and Processes
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Kester, W. Carl. "Japanese and American Corporate Governance: Converging to Best Practice?" Lecture at the Amherst College Family Weekend, Amherst College, Department of Economics, Amherst, MA, October 28, 1994. (Guest speaker.)
  • 01 Jun 2010
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Get Well Soon

CEO, he convinces Kotagal to lead the hospital’s improvement efforts as senior vice president of quality and transformation. Anderson, a practicing attorney with expertise in the quality improvement methods used by manufacturing firms, is... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance
  • 28 May 2019
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Tech for the People

about ways that tech companies can develop products and services that both benefit the public and align with their business model,” he observes. Tsai says courses such as Public Entrepreneurship, taught by Mitchell Weiss, professor of Management View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
  • May 3, 2023
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What Top-Performing Sales Managers Do Differently

By: Mike Schultz and Frank V. Cespedes
Sales managers hire reps, influence their training, provide (we hope) feedback and so reinforce good selling behaviors, and are key in the execution of growth and change initiatives. In a study of more than 1,000 sales managers and sellers across industries, we found... View Details
Keywords: Management Practices and Processes; Sales; Performance Effectiveness
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Schultz, Mike, and Frank V. Cespedes. "What Top-Performing Sales Managers Do Differently." TrainingIndustry.com (May 3, 2023).
  • June 2012
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Racial Colorblindness: Emergence, Practice, and Implications

By: Evan P. Apfelbaum, Michael I. Norton and Samuel R. Sommers
We examine the pervasive endorsement of racial colorblindness-the belief that racial group membership should not be taken into account or even noticed-as a strategy for managing diversity and intergroup relations. Despite research demonstrating that race is perceived... View Details
Keywords: Management; Strategy; Law; Practice; Race; Research; Social Issues; Diversity
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Apfelbaum, Evan P., Michael I. Norton, and Samuel R. Sommers. "Racial Colorblindness: Emergence, Practice, and Implications." Current Directions in Psychological Science 21, no. 3 (June 2012): 205–209.
  • November 2007
  • Supplement

Differences at Work: Jason (B)

By: Sandra J. Sucher and Rachel Gordon
In Differences at Work: Jason (B) HBS Case No. 9-408-049 Jason decides that his firm should have a more articulated position that everyone in the firm understands about why diversity benefits the firm instead of pursing diversity because it feels like the “right” thing... View Details
Keywords: Management Practices and Processes; Policy; Employees; Diversity
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Sucher, Sandra J., and Rachel Gordon. "Differences at Work: Jason (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 408-049, November 2007.
  • April 2000 (Revised March 2015)
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The First Six Months: Launching a PSF Career

By: Ashish Nanda, Thomas J. DeLong and Scot H. Landry
Presents two situations: 1) two graduating MBAs from Harvard Business School compare and contrast their strategies for getting off to a good start in consulting, and 2) a junior consultant has to deal with difficult feedback in his very first performance review. View Details
Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Planning; Practice; Strategy; Performance Evaluation; Adaptation; Consulting Industry
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Nanda, Ashish, Thomas J. DeLong, and Scot H. Landry. "The First Six Months: Launching a PSF Career." Harvard Business School Case 800-373, April 2000. (Revised March 2015.)
  • July 1999
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Comments on Standard Times and the Division of Labor

By: Roy D. Shapiro
A brief note on the origins and uses of standard times in production process flow diagrams and on the benefits and drawbacks of division of labor. A rewritten version of two earlier notes. View Details
Keywords: Labor; Management Practices and Processes; Standards; Production
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Shapiro, Roy D. "Comments on Standard Times and the Division of Labor." Harvard Business School Background Note 600-013, July 1999.
  • 19 Feb 2021
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3 Steps to Better Virtual Meetings

  • 1 Jun 1991
  • Conference Presentation

Information Technology and Fast-Cycle Management

By: L. M. Applegate
Keywords: Information Technology; Management Practices and Processes
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Applegate, L. M. "Information Technology and Fast-Cycle Management." Paper presented at the International Conference on Decision Support Systems, June 01, 1991.
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Milestones in Marketing

By: John A. Quelch and Katherine Jocz
Marketing flourished in U.S. business schools in the prosperous years following World War II. Students preparing for assistant-product-manager positions at the likes of Procter & Gamble, Lever, and General Foods enrolled in courses in marketing management, management... View Details
Keywords: Education; Business History; Marketing; Practice
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Quelch, John A., and Katherine Jocz. "Milestones in Marketing." Business History Review 82, no. 4 (Winter 2008): 827–838.
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Hospital Disclosure Practices: Results of a National Survey

By: Rae M. Lamb, David M. Studdert, Richard M.J. Bohmer, Donald M. Berwick and Troyan A. Brennan
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Practice; Health Industry
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Lamb, Rae M., David M. Studdert, Richard M.J. Bohmer, Donald M. Berwick, and Troyan A. Brennan. "Hospital Disclosure Practices: Results of a National Survey." Health Affairs 22, no. 2 (March–April 2003).
  • April 1976 (Revised January 1989)
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Yellowtail Marine, Inc.

Designed for use as an in-basket exercise in a general management course. Focuses on the first few hours work of the new president of Yellowtail Marine, Robyn Gilchrist, and the decisions she has to make. The decisions mix strategic and operations issues and make the... View Details
Keywords: Management Practices and Processes; Operations; Business Strategy
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Hatten, Kenneth J. "Yellowtail Marine, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 376-235, April 1976. (Revised January 1989.)
  • Editorial

New Directions for Practice: Nonprofit Strategy Formulation, Organization and Measurement

By: Elaine Backman, Allen Grossman and V. Kasturi Rangan
Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations; Strategy; Measurement and Metrics; Practice
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Backman, Elaine, Allen Grossman, and V. Kasturi Rangan. "New Directions for Practice: Nonprofit Strategy Formulation, Organization and Measurement." Nonprofit Management & Leadership 11, no. 3 (Spring 2001). (Editorial.)
  • February 2008 (Revised February 2015)
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Your Strategy—A Strategy Formulation Exercise for the General Management Program (GMP)

By: Tarun Khanna, Robyn C. Davis and Stephanie R. Khurana
This exercise is meant to help students take strategy concepts learned and adapt/apply them to their organizations. View Details
Keywords: Learning; Business or Company Management; Practice; Strategy
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Khanna, Tarun, Robyn C. Davis, and Stephanie R. Khurana. "Your Strategy—A Strategy Formulation Exercise for the General Management Program (GMP)." Harvard Business School Exercise 708-494, February 2008. (Revised February 2015.)
  • October 1988 (Revised February 1990)
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HCC Industries

Describes a corporation that switches its philosophy of budgeting from "stretch" targets to "minimum performance standard" targets. The change has implications for management incentives, compensation, and corporate planning. Early results suggest the concept was not... View Details
Keywords: Management Practices and Processes; Budgets and Budgeting
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Merchant, Kenneth A. "HCC Industries." Harvard Business School Case 189-096, October 1988. (Revised February 1990.)
  • April 1942 (Revised December 1982)
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Dashman Co.

The vice president in charge of purchasing sends a letter to each of the company's 20 purchasing executives requesting that contracts made in excess of $10,000 be cleared with him prior to signing. The branches promise to cooperate, but no notices of negotiations are... View Details
Keywords: Management Practices and Processes; Accounting; Business Processes
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Lombard, George F. "Dashman Co." Harvard Business School Case 642-001, April 1942. (Revised December 1982.)
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