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  • Research Summary

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Professor Sherman's research has long focused on financial reporting, performance measurement/management, and financial literacy issues facing corporate management and Boards of Directors in global businesses. He also actively studies methods to improve productivity in... View Details
  • 2019
  • Working Paper

Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 17 The Wintel Standards-based Platform

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin
The purpose of this chapter is to use the theory of bottlenecks laid out in previous chapters to better understand the dynamics of an open standards-based platform. I describe how the Wintel platform evolved from 1990 through 2000 under joint sponsorship of Intel and... View Details
Keywords: Open Platforms; Bottlenecks; Wintel Platform; Disintermediation; Information Infrastructure; Applications and Software; Business History; Digital Platforms; Computer Industry
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  • October 2008
  • Article

Evaluating the CEO

By: Stephen P. Kaufman
This article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading. After Kaufman became a CEO, he was struck by how perfunctory the board was in its... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Governing and Advisory Boards; Leadership; Managerial Roles; Performance Evaluation; Motivation and Incentives
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  • October 1, 2021
  • Article

An Evaluation of Cross-efficiency Methods: With an Application to Warehouse Performance.

By: B.M. Balk, M.R. De Koster, Christian Kaps and J.L. Zofio
Cross-efficiency measurement is an extension of Data Envelopment Analysis that allows for tie-breaking ranking of the Decision Making Units (DMUs) using all the peer evaluations. In this article we examine the theory of cross-efficiency measurement by comparing a... View Details
Keywords: Efficiency Analysis; Performance Benchmarking; Warehousing; Analytics and Data Science; Performance Evaluation; Measurement and Metrics; Mathematical Methods
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  • 01 May 2025
  • HBS Seminar

Dan Iancu, Stanford Graduate School of Business

  • Research Summary

Managing Networked Businesses

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann
Platform-based businesses that leverage network effects face a distinctive set of management challenges. A platform encompasses components and rules that facilitate interactions between the platform's users. A platform-based product or service exhibits a network... View Details
  • March 1998
  • Article

An Assessment of the Performance of Indian State-Owned Enterprises

By: Gautam Ahuja and Sumit K. Majumdar
We examine the determinants of performance of 68 Indian state-owned enterprises in the manufacturing sector for a five-year period: 1987 to 1991. Relative performance is determined using data envelopment analysis, with variations in performance patterns subsequently... View Details
Keywords: State-owned Enterprises; Economic Reform; Efficiency Analysis; Performance Efficiency; Privatization; Microeconomics; State Ownership; Manufacturing Industry; India
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  • 28 Sep 2010
  • First Look

First Look: September 28, 2010

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-027.pdf Platform Envelopment Authors:Thomas R. Eisenmann, Geoffrey Parker, and Marshall Van Alstyne Publication:Strategic Management Journal (forthcoming) Abstract Due to network effects and switching... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Mar 2013
  • First Look

First Look: March 5

  PublicationsHow to Identify the Best Customers for Your Business Authors:Cespedes, Frank V., James P. Dougherty, and Ben S. Skinner III Publication:MIT Sloan Management Review Abstract How can businesses achieve profitable growth so that their costs don't grow faster... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Help - Alumni

tool, the Messaging Service replaces the formerly used LEFA links with envelope icons and a prompt to "send a message." Clicking on "send a message" opens a window with a form for you to compose your message. The new service sends... View Details
  • 12 May 2021
  • News

The First Five Years: Sophie Bai (MBA 2020)

problem was that Bai had actually graduated from HBS the previous spring. Sophie Bai: “I was confused. The envelope said ‘HBS’ and ‘YES’ on it, so I guessed it was admissions-related. It had my name and my Boston address on it, so I... View Details
  • 07 Jan 2002
  • Research & Ideas

How Marketing Can Reduce Worldwide Poverty

admit that they're no pioneers. James D. Wolfensohn, president of the World Bank, for example, has advocated a variation of social marketing, and it's a common—though they believe often ill-applied—topic in development. But together the two are pushing the View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 07 Oct 2021
  • News

Planning Ahead

immediately drove to campus with the envelope he received from the admissions office. “I wanted the full HBS experience,” he says, describing the spring day that he sat in front of Baker Library and opened his acceptance letter. He... View Details
  • 13 Jun 2011
  • HBS Case

Mobile Banking for the Unbanked

of the population lives in rural areas, but the majority of bank branches and jobs are in the cities. To send money home, a city worker had to seal his wages in an envelope and pay a courier to travel for hours to the village.... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking; Communications; Telecommunications

    Henry R. Kravis

    Kravis, along with his partners Kohlberg and Roberts, was instrumental in legitimizing the use of leveraged buy-outs for underperforming organizations. Kravis did not just specialize in orchestrating LBOs, he constantly pushed the View Details
    Keywords: Finance

      Jerry Della Femina

      Della Femina was part of a new breed of executives that shook up the staid world of advertising in the late sixties. Wildly creative and eccentric, Della Femina pushed the envelope of provocative advertising throughout his career. He... View Details
      Keywords: Services
      • Portrait Project

      Shelby Colby

      On July 20th, 2016, I learn I have a tumor. This only happens to others, but now it’s happening to me. My husband, Douglas, envelops me. I sink into a ball, and my tears soak through his shirt. Douglas and I were packing our apartment and... View Details
      • 14 Nov 2015
      • News

      A Message to HBS Alumni in France

      our alumni and their families in France. We are thinking of you and hope that you and your loved ones are safe. We encourage you to connect with your fellow alumni using the messaging service on the alumni website (look for the envelope... View Details
      • 10 Nov 2009
      • First Look

      First Look: Nov. 10

        Working PapersPlatform Envelopment (revised) Authors:Thomas Eisenmann, Geoffrey Parker, and Marshall Van Alstyne Abstract Due to network effects and switching costs, platform providers often become entrenched. To enter established... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • Web

      Apostille & Certification Support | MBA

      are unable to come in-person, you may send us your original, unframed diploma along with a private carrier pre-paid return label and envelope (e.g. UPS, FedEx, DHL) so that we may return the original diploma and the notarized copy .... View Details