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- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
sugarcoated: balancing the challenges of a demanding career with motherhood. "You've got three choices," Hunt tells her students at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, where she runs the Women and Public Policy Program. "You can go... View Details
- 31 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017
from the CEO—a process entailing the judicious selection of benchmarks for relative performance evaluation (RPE). We evaluate the efficacy of firms' chosen RPE benchmarks and document that, relative to a... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 11 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing
the 1980s, with time dimension modifications introduced by Anderson for clients of Acorn Systems. We asked Kaplan to describe the problems with traditional costing approaches, the improvements made by TDABC, and how it works with the View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
neighborhood-based health plan for the city of Charlestown, and I became involved in building a system of benchmarks for the various services that were being offered—everything from dental care to drug and alcohol abuse counseling. I... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Do You Speak Business?
general, world-class companies facing global competition do appear to benchmark themselves with global best practices and performance standards.” He defines those aspired-to benchmarks as sound corporate... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 14 Dec 2010
- Op-Ed
Tax US Companies to Spur Spending
holdings--estimates of the amount held by US public corporations easily exceed $1 trillion; several technology companies alone are sitting on cash balances in excess of $20 billion--are thought to result from the absence of investment... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Third Force: Indispensable to Society, Nonprofits Should Redirect Oversight Efforts
and refugees. In effect, nonprofit organizations act as a check and balance on government and on business." Valuable as they are, Herzlinger asserted that nonprofits need to overcome the Achilles' heel — ineffective oversight — that... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 12 Feb 2016
- Op-Ed
The Real Jobs Tragedy in the US: We've Lost the Skills
of jobs over the past few decades. And while trade deals undoubtedly play a role in the global topography of jobs, today many American jobs may hang in the balance based upon a completely different factor: the availability of skilled... View Details
- 03 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
How Companies Can Increase Market Rewards for Sustainability Efforts
helpful in identification of stocks with superior and undervalued ESG characteristics,” the report states. When investors can pinpoint ESG-conscious companies that aren’t getting credit in the markets because of overall negative sentiment, returns over View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 07 Jun 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Important are Big Ideas?
big ideas guide us to put our brain to work." And Don Martin added, "Management concepts provide a benchmark against which the desired direction within a company both externally and internally can be measured." Others... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 11 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
The New International Style of Management
systems remain powerful and distinct. With that caveat, Palepu observes, "In general, world-class companies facing global competition do appear to benchmark themselves with global best practices and performance standards." He... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
international capital to local infrastructure decides how to balance range of services, risk-adjusted return, margin pressure, and nation building. IDFC was chartered with partial ownership from the Indian government to help evaluate... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 10
quite brief (a total of 4 pages) so the balance between thinking time and reading set-up time for students is quite attractive. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/211067-PDF-ENG ABICI Mukti Khaire, Elena Corsi, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
How CEOs Sustain Higher-Ambition Goals
environment strategies. They also acknowledged the difficult challenge inherent in balancing the effort needed to achieve these goals with the central need to generate profit. "There's this natural tension," said Douglas Conant, former... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
default. Over the two years preceding default, we find that ratings grow increasingly pessimistic relative to a standard benchmark rating model prediction, while optimism remains for similar firms that do not default. Further, we find... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018
systematic component of returns. However, 40% of firms—those that choose index-based benchmarks—retain substantial systematic noise in their rTSR metrics, which they could have substantially corrected by using their self-chosen compensation-benchmarking peers. We show... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- Web
Strategic Financial Analysis Online Course | HBS Online
between strategic decisions and impacts on financial metrics, including amortization changes and capital investments 8-10 hrs Module 2 Assessing Strategy Execution Use financial ratio analysis to identify corporate profitability drivers and View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Cynthia Carroll
practice. What keeps you up at night? Right now, I’m thinking a lot about the preservation of our balance sheet and cash position. Whatever spending we have ongoing, it clearly has to be for the highest shareholder value. We have... View Details
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
benchmark setting, the marketplace mode is preferred if and only if the variance of local information exceeds the squared value of spillovers from marketing activities across products. We explore several generalizations, showing how the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 10
Fink had asked Global Head of HR Jeff Smith to outline to the GEC the firm's Diversity and Inclusion efforts, benchmarking its progress against eight practices associated with building more inclusive cultures. At the July 2014 off-site,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel