Performance Pressure - Publications - Faculty & Research

30 Sep 2002
What Do You Think?

Are Business Schools Really Important “Crucibles of Leadership?”

crucible. Crucibles—by design—are boot camps of a sort, where the heat and pressure make or break the participant." Lim Yung Hui commented, "Business schools can only create a context that is fertile for the emergence of... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

10 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

Privatization and the New European Economy

almost half of its stock was acquired by the SairGroup, a unit of Swissair; as of last April, their stake in the airline climbed to 85 percent. The move to the private sector has Sabena flying high. Its number of passengers has doubled over the past five years, for... View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner; Air Transportation; Transportation

07 Sep 2017
Blog Post

How One Organization Increased Their Internship Yield

Murphy, “Companies have put tremendous time, thought and management resources into selecting and evaluating new talent, the potential leaders of the future.” But it’s at this precise juncture, when the pressure is greatest, that companies... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing

01 Oct 1996
News

The Drive for Excellence: An Interview with Jim Henderson

the community -- its outside stakeholders. You can have responsibility at the top of the company, but if it doesn't permeate the entire organization the stakeholders can't count on it. What about bottom-line responsibility to shareholders? Any senior manager today has... View Details

29 Jan 2015
Op-Ed

The Fall of Greece

Not allowing establishment of private educational institutions on equal footing with public institutions. The best educational institutions in the world are private and I am proud to be a faculty in one of them. Rehiring public sector employees who were laid off... View Details

Keywords: by George Serafeim

22 Mar 2016
First Look

March 22, 2016

forthcoming World Scientific Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance in Emerging Markets By: Iyer, Lakshmi Abstract—Emerging markets play an increasingly important role in the global economy, accounting for 31% of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 15, 2008

local levels of government; (3) the Chinese electoral system; and (4) current pressures for change. Also includes a number of useful exhibits on Communist Party membership, political structure, and the administrative system. Can be... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

19 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

Public Education Goes to School

years, we've produced sixteen teaching cases, two conceptual notes, and a working paper. Q: The performance problems of U.S. public education are receiving growing attention. How are urban schools performing... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark; Education

14 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

Deflategate and the Sustained Success of the New England Patriots

human nature and organizations and performance,” Iansiti says. “The case shows that in any kind of environment, you’ve got to know your stuff. So from this perspective you can’t go ahead and accuse somebody of deflating a football without having a deep understanding of... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Sports

02 Jan 2007
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2006

Trust Your Gut Most of us trust our intuition more than we should, especially when the pressure is on in negotiations. Professors Max Bazerman and Deepak Malhotra on negotiating more rationally. From Negotiation. On Managing with Bobby... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

10 Apr 2012
First Look

First Look: April 10

insisting that no one's contribution be marginalized, and framing new information within familiar contexts, teams can escape the performance pressure paradox and keep doing their best work when it matters... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

03 Mar 2008
Research & Ideas

Marketing Your Way Through a Recession

Industrial customers prefer to see products and services unbundled and priced separately. Gimmicks are out; reliability, durability, safety, and performance are in. New products, especially those that address the new consumer reality and... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

03 Jan 2017
First Look

January 3, 2017

powerful machine learning technique known as Thompson sampling to address the challenge of balancing the exploration-exploitation tradeoff under the presence of inventory constraints. Our algorithms prove to have both strong theoretical View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

Web

HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer

mix within the income statement was relatively consistent with the prior year. Another constant in fiscal 2023 was the outstanding performance of Executive Education, which continued to expand its international reach with a range of both... View Details

07 Jun 2019
Book

Are You a Digital Manager?

Lagace: As you teach MBA students and Executive Education participants, are they describing new pressures that weren’t there before? Hill: Leadership is truly getting more demanding. I don’t think anyone ever succeeded by him- or herself... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

19 Jun 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018

investors, could provide this commitment mechanism. Common ownership of competitors within industries and long-time horizons in ownership of shares are key characteristics for investors that could act as stewards of the commons. Social View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Nov 2024
In Practice

Layoffs Surging in a Strong Economy? Advice for Navigating Uncertain Times

other hand, Intuit said that 1,000 of its 1,800 layoffs were for performance reasons. This is a hard tag to put on someone who needs a new job who may have to explain whether they were cut for performance. It’s also a dangerous conflation... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology; Information Technology

06 Mar 2012
First Look

First Look: March 6

and Michael W. Toffel Abstract Mandatory information disclosure regulations seek to create institutional pressure to spur performance improvement. By examining how organizational characteristics moderate... View Details