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  • March 2013
  • Case

Massachusetts Financial Services (Abridged)

By: Brian J. Hall and Karen Huang
This case describes the compensation and performance evaluations at an investment management company. The senior management team of Massachusetts Financial Services (MFS) Investment Management was contemplating an introduction of hedge funds at the firm, but many... View Details
Keywords: Compensation; Incentives; Investment Management; Performance Measurement; Portfolio Management; Motivation and Incentives; Asset Management; Performance Evaluation; Compensation and Benefits; Financial Services Industry; Massachusetts
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  • 30 Jan 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers

Firms in the United States, Japan, and Germany tend to be managed especially well, while firms in Brazil, China, and India tend to be managed poorly. Those are among the initial findings of the World... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • October 2013 (Revised October 2013)
  • Supplement

Henkel's CEO Kasper Rorsted: On Building a Winning Culture

By: Robert L. Simons
Keywords: Performance Measurement; Performance Appraisals; Human Resource Management; Work/life Balance; Strategy Execution; Values; Organizational Transformations; Pay For Performance; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Values and Beliefs; Work-Life Balance; Organizational Culture; Performance Evaluation; Compensation and Benefits
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  • June 2012
  • Article

A Reexamination of Tunneling and Business Groups: New Data and New Methods

By: Jordan I. Siegel and Prithwiraj Choudhury
One of the most rigorous methodologies in the corporate governance literature uses firms' reactions to industry shocks to characterize the quality of governance. This methodology can produce the wrong answer unless one considers the ways firms compete. Because... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Governance; Mergers And Acquisitions; Business Economics; Firm Organization; Firm Performance; Groups and Teams; Analytics and Data Science
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  • 2014
  • Working Paper

Institutional Strategies in Emerging Markets

By: Christopher Marquis and Mia Raynard
We review and integrate a wide range of literature that has examined the strategies by which organizations navigate institutionally diverse settings and capture rents outside of the marketplace. We synthesize this body of research under the umbrella term... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Organizations; Emerging Markets
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  • Web

Creating Shared Value - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

framework. CSV Explained Emerging Topics Discover the latest work on Shared Value Measurement and Investment. Read about Emerging Topics Reinventing Capitalism Preview the award-winning 2011 Harvard Business... View Details
  • 26 Mar 2006
  • Research & Ideas

The Office of Strategy Management

other roles where it plays a coordinating function, essential to ensuring that strategy informs critical processes like budgeting, operational planning, and performance... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • Web

Events & Presentations - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

2023 January 2023 Strategy for Health Care Delivery Online, Boston, MA Bringing together top management and senior physician leaders from global health care organizations, this Executive Education program... View Details
  • 2013
  • Working Paper

The Appeal of the Appropriate: Accounting, Risk Management, and the Competition for the Supply of Control Systems

By: Anette Mikes
How do certain risk measurements in organizations come to be seen as more reliable and acceptable than others? Taking a multiple-control perspective, I investigate the aftermath of a control debacle at a financial services company (MultiBank), focusing on its insurance... View Details
Keywords: Management Control Systems; Multiple Control Systems; Interactive Control Systems; Performance Measurement; Risk Measurement; Financialization Of Accounting; Institutional Logics; Banking; Risk Management; Fair Value Accounting; Insurance; Financial Services Industry
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  • Web

VBHCD Initiative - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Kaplan’s research, Executive Education teaching, and consulting focus on linking cost and performance management systems to strategy... View Details
  • September 1991 (Revised January 2017)
  • Teaching Note

Nordstrom: Dissension in the Ranks? (A) and (B)

By: Robert Simons
Teaching Note for Nordstrom: Dissension in the Ranks, Case A (191-002) and Case B (192-027) View Details
Keywords: Strategy And Execution; Control Systems; Performance Goals; Incentives; Span Of Control; Span Of Accountability; Problems and Challenges; Retail Industry
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  • Web

Geography of Care - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

performed every procedure in an aim to provide a full set of services in every location. While that strategy was effective when hospitals had little to offer, the ever increasing complexity of medical care... View Details
  • Web

Health Care Curriculum - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Health Care Health Care Value-Based Health Care Health Care Courses Fast Facts Health Care Courses Health Care Courses Executive Education Courses Health Care Curriculum Residents & Fellows Course Strategy for Health Care Delivery... View Details
  • April 2000 (Revised October 2002)
  • Background Note

Career Strategies and Tactics in Professional Service Firms

By: Ashish Nanda, Thomas J. DeLong and Scot H. Landry
Presents suggestions for ensuring a good start in a professional services career. View Details
Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Performance Expectations; Performance Effectiveness; Customization and Personalization; Practice; Valuation; Performance Evaluation; Business Startups; Competency and Skills; Learning; Talent and Talent Management; Management Skills; Consulting Industry
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  • Web

Levels of Government - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Strategy Levels of Government Role of Different Levels of Government Economic performance is not ruled by borders. The competitiveness of neighboring locations is often closely linked, whether or not they... View Details
  • December 2006
  • Article

Internet Companies' Growth Strategies: Determinants of Investment Intensity and Long-Term Performance

By: T. R. Eisenmann
Keywords: Internet and the Web; Performance; Investment; Growth and Development Strategy; Technology Industry
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Emerging Topics - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

strategies with tangible social benefits, is gaining widespread acceptance within the business and nonprofit communities. These are some tools and emerging research topics.... View Details
  • March 2007
  • Class Lecture

Strategy, Leadership, and Performance Management in the Social Enterprise Sector (FSS)

By: Herman B. Leonard
Keywords: Social Enterprise; Nonprofit Organizations; Strategy; Leadership; Performance
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  • Article

DEA Model with Shared Resources and Efficiency Decomposition

By: Yao Chen, Juan Du, H. David Sherman and Joe Zhu
Data envelopment analysis (DEA) has proved to be an excellent approach for measuring performance of decision making units (DMUs) that use multiple inputs to generate multiple outputs. In many real world scenarios, DMUs have a two-stage network process with shared input... View Details
Keywords: Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA); Efficiency; Intermediate Measure; Performance Efficiency
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  • 2021
  • Book

Better, Simpler Strategy: A Value-Based Guide to Exceptional Performance

By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee
In nearly every business segment and corner of the world economy, the most successful companies dramatically outperform their rivals. What is their secret? In Better, Simpler Strategy, Harvard Business School professor Felix Oberholzer-Gee shows how these... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Strategic Planning; Value; Analysis; Competitive Advantage; Performance Effectiveness
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