Performance Goals - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Looking in the Mirror: Questions Every Leader Must Ask

question certain activities where they are spending substantial time and money yet not contributing to organizational goals and maybe they shouldn't be pursuing." Does The Way You Spend Your Time Match Your Key Priorities? Many CEOs... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

15 Jul 2019
Book

Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence

year, with the goal of making the world of finance accessible to broader audiences by providing a rigorous but accessible overview of the biggest topics in finance. Finance is “the language of business, the lifeblood of the economy, and... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 May 2017
Research & Ideas

Bad At Your Job? Maybe It's the Job’s Fault

jobs is not expanding,” says Simons. “People feel more pressure to own their roles and they’re stressed because they’re being pulled in a lot of different directions, but they’re not getting the help they need.” The idea that an employee’s poor View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

28 Aug 2012
First Look

First Look: August 28

higher crop yields and reduced carbon emissions, the company's return on this investment has been estimated at $5 billion. The company was even more ambitious when setting its next set of 10‐year goals in 2006. In this statement, Dow's... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Mar 2020
Book

A Great Teacher's Lessons for Leading

credit where credit isn’t due. Contractual leaders and teachers worry about their image, how they are perceived by their boss—a manager or department head. They possess little empathy for others because their goal is to survive where they... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

23 May 2017
First Look

First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017

openness-extroversion dyads perform substantially better—having both a higher pool of novel information and better recombinative capability with the team. We discuss implications for future research on the individual and social... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

18 Dec 2013
HBS Case

Lessons from the Lance Armstrong Cheating Scandal

Corrupted, which was taught to all incoming MBAs on their second day on campus in the fall. The goal was to get them to think about their own values and the obligations they have to shape the culture of an organization. As much as... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Sports

16 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Nonprofit Networking: The New Way to Grow

are deliberately using a network strategy and discovering its potential to serve more people more effectively. "I'm interested in high performance networks and understanding how those networks were created and are managed," says... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

14 Jun 2010
Research & Ideas

The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact

Quantifying performance and measuring results are no longer the sole domain of for-profit enterprises. Today, many nonprofit organizations also find themselves on the hot seat—not with stockholders but with donors who expect similar... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

23 Apr 2018
Research & Ideas

Sponsorship Programs Could Actually Widen the Gender Gap

more money. The goal of the researchers: To find out whether participants were more likely to compete if someone were sponsoring them. The research revealed that sponsorship definitely increased the likelihood that participants would... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

18 Apr 2000
Research & Ideas

Learning in Action

never made twice. AT&T's Bell Laboratories conducted reviews of its own software engineers to determine why some were more productive than others with the goal of distilling their techniques into best practices that their less... View Details

Keywords: by David A. Garvin

13 Nov 2019
Research & Ideas

Don't Turn Your Marketing Function Over to AI Just Yet

how new products or services would perform at various prices or with different characteristics. The machine learning algorithms that might power such a device are, at least for now, incapable of producing such promising results. But what... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

18 Dec 2019
Book

6 Skills That Wise Companies Harness for World-Changing Innovation

As a boy, Soichiro Honda, the eventual founder of Honda Motor Co., was infatuated with airplanes. At age 10 he biked 20 kilometers to see American pilots performing aerobatics near his home in Japan, climbing a tree to watch the show. It... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

29 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

How Organizations Create Social Value

organizations in Latin America and Spain. For good governance you need some degree of overlap between governance and management.— Ezequiel A. Reficco This research will be published in Harvard's David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies book series through... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

19 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

Rethinking Company Loyalty

"employees can give their employers 100 percent and provide great performance while furthering their own careers," says Joyce Gioia of The Herman Group, a consultancy based in Greensboro, North Carolina "The two aren't... View Details

Keywords: by Lauren Keller Johnson

04 Apr 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, April 4

Understanding Boards of Directors: A Systems Perspective By: Lorsch, Jay W. Abstract—In this essay, my goal is to explore why, despite the tireless efforts of talented people, research on corporate governance has been slow and uneven, and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 May 2022
Research & Ideas

Desperate for Talent? Consider Advancing Your Own Employees First

Job openings in the United States continue to hover at record high levels, exacerbated by the Great Resignation and a sputtering emergence from the pandemic. Competition remains fierce among companies struggling to find qualified workers. Yet many employers,... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

10 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot

reduction are the wellsprings of competitive strength and unique advantages for Toyota Even today, all Toyota production divisions are making improvements to TPS day-and-night to ensure its continued evolution.” Danaher’s system for achieving its View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Katherine Connolly Baden

13 Apr 2016
Research & Ideas

Why Your Company Wants to be a 'Cognitive Referent' (Hint: SpaceX)

bigger than just creating the market. They need to epitomize the market. “If they become the cognitive referent, they gain an unequal share of the gains from doing so” “The goal is not only to make sure that the product category takes... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Aerospace; Food & Beverage; Retail

03 May 2010
Research & Ideas

What Is the Future of MBA Education?

entitled "The Future of MBA Education," and Srikant and I were responsible for preparing and leading it. Our initial goal was simply to gather enough material to conduct a day-long conversation with our faculty drawing on interviews with... View Details