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  • 01 Jul 2019
  • What Do You Think?

Are Super Stretch Goals Only for the Very Young?

little communication between the ranks and the top about how they were (or were to be) achieved. Both are now trying to regain reputations that may be lost for some time. Stretch goals have wide acceptance in the business world.... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 2021
  • Working Paper

Studying the U.S.-Based Portfolio Companies of U.S. Impact Investors

By: M. Diane Burton, Gurveen Chadha, Shawn A. Cole, Abhishek Dev, Christina Jarymowycz, Leslie Jeng, Laura Kelley, Josh Lerner, Jaime R. Diaz Palacios, Yue (Cynthia) Xu and T. Robert Zochowski
Recent years have seen a dramatic increase in the reliance on market-based solutions to social and environmental problems around the world (Barman 2016; Horvath and Powell 2020). The growth of impact investing is a vivid example of this trend and, although there have... View Details
Keywords: Impact Investing; Impact Portfolio Companies; Investment; Social Issues; Environmental Sustainability; Investment Portfolio; Business Ventures; Analytics and Data Science; Performance; United States
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  • 22 Dec 2015
  • First Look

December 22, 2015

enterprises. The focus is on supply- and demand-side factors that help explicate cross-border expansion. The article explores how appropriability-informed and legacy-shaped entrepreneurial imagination motivates a process of creation and co-creation of the cross-border... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 26 Jan 2016
  • First Look

January 26, 2016

a set of practices to guide firms as they adopt ambidexterity. Senior leadership is crucial here. We discuss the importance of leading in a consistently inconsistent fashion. Readers will come away with a new understanding of how to improve their existing View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2010
  • Working Paper

CREATING LEADERS WORKSHOP: Mastering the Principles and Effective Delivery of 'The Ontological Leadership Course' (PDF File of PowerPoint Slides)

By: Werner Erhard, Michael C. Jensen, Kari L. Granger and Joseph J. DiMaggio M.D.
This workshop is designed to support participants in gaining mastery in the delivery of our new course: "Being A Leader and the Effective Exercise of Leadership: An Ontological Model." The Workshop was delivered at the United States Air Force Academy (July 13 - 16,... View Details
Keywords: Curriculum and Courses; Values and Beliefs; Globalization; Policy; Leadership Development; Goals and Objectives; Performance Capacity; Social and Collaborative Networks
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  • 12 Apr 2016
  • First Look

April 12, 2016

April 2016 Harvard Business Review Can You Cut 'Turn Times' Without Adding Staff? By: Bernstein, Ethan, and Ryan W. Buell Abstract—The president of RSA Ground, the subsidiary of Rising Sun Airlines responsible for servicing its planes at... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Feb 2016
  • First Look

February 23, 2016

sense of pride and ownership in working with BRF, will be critical to enabling BRF's global ambitions. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/516058-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 116-031 Alibaba Goes Public... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Aug 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Mapping Your Board’s Effectiveness

corporation's business strategy. Mapping Board Performance Currently, prior to a typical board meeting, members receive reams of paper that are difficult to wade through and make sense of. Once the meeting... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan
  • May 2011 (Revised January 2012)
  • Teaching Note

Risk Management at Wellfleet Bank: All That Glitters Is Not Gold (TN)

By: Anette Mikes
Teaching Note for 110011. View Details
Keywords: Credit; Risk Management; Governance; Performance Evaluation; Banking Industry
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  • 22 Mar 2016
  • First Look

March 22, 2016

investor's financial returns. Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance in Emerging Markets brings together a series of Harvard Business School case studies on emerging markets. This book... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Jul 2010
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation

The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act slated to be signed this week by U.S. President Barack Obama has been called the most sweeping set of rules for banks and Wall Street since the Great Depression. But what do several Harvard View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 14 Jan 2014
  • First Look

First Look: January 14

the aftermath of the 2008 recession, the asset management firm BlackRock was busy charting a course for growth. Its revenues, profits, and stock price all performed consistently through this tumultuous... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • December 2003
  • Teaching Note

Negotiation Self-Assessment (TN)

By: Michael A. Wheeler
Teaching Note to (9-902-218). View Details
Keywords: Negotiation Style; Performance Evaluation; Personal Characteristics
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  • 12 Nov 2013
  • First Look

First Look: November 12

http://hbr.org/search/314050-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 514-026 Sustainability at Siemens Describes sustainability efforts at Siemens since arrival of Chief Sustainability Officer, Barbara Kux, in 2008. Asks students to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jan 2012
  • First Look

First Look: January 10

also find substantial variation in management practices across organizations in every country and every sector, mirroring the heterogeneity in the spread of performance in these sectors. One factor linked to this variation is ownership.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2007
  • Chapter

Assessing and Improving the Safety of Internet Search Engines

By: Benjamin Edelman
Keywords: Internet and the Web; Search Technology; Performance Evaluation; Performance Improvement; Safety; Information Technology Industry
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  • 12 Nov 2018
  • Research & Ideas

'Always On' Isn't Always Best for Team Decision-Making

Improve Collective Intelligence, written by Ethan Bernstein, the Edward W. Conard Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School; Jesse Shore, assistant professor at Boston... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
  • 23 Sep 2014
  • First Look

First Look: September 23

that pursue a social mission through the use of market mechanisms. These hybrid organizations, often referred to as social enterprises, combine aspects of both charity and business at their core. In this paper we distinguish between two... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2023
  • News

Is AI OK?

and attention, generosity and fairness. She cofounded pymetrics to capitalize on those existing tools. Polli and her partners developed a collection of gamified assessments and used them to evaluate top View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance
  • Article

The Allure of Unknown Outcomes: Exploring the Role of Uncertainty in the Preference for Potential

By: Daniella Kupor, Zakary L. Tormala and Michael I. Norton
Influence practitioners often highlight a target's achievements (e.g., "she is the city's top-rated chef"), but recent research reveals that highlighting a target's potential (e.g., "she could become the city's top-rated chef") can be more effective. We examine whether... View Details
Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Forecasting and Prediction; Performance Evaluation
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