Measurement Problems - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 2

to engage in deception. Drawing on literatures in social psychology and workplace self-esteem, we theorize that negative comparisons with peers could cause either junior or senior employees to seek to improve reported relative performance View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Three Steps for Crisis Prevention

of foresight. Nor should they be blamed if they've taken all reasonable preventive measures against a looming crisis. But if a damaging event happens that was foreseeable and preventable, no excuses should be brooked. The leaders' feet... View Details

Keywords: by Michael D. Watkins & Max H. Bazerman

14 Jun 2016
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June 14, 2016

forthcoming Harvard Business Review Press Managing in the Gray: Five Timeless Questions for Resolving Your Toughest Problems at Work By: Badaracco, Joseph L. Abstract—Part of a manager's job is making tough calls, and the hardest... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 3, 2006

Harvard Business School Case 606-090 Brandon Fogg must solve two seemingly unrelated problems in his management of creative R&D professionals. First, despite having hired brilliant research professionals, his firm is having View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care

knowledge to solving the problems of individual patients—offer enormous potential to help patients and the U.S. health-care system overall, says HBS senior lecturer Richard M.J. Bohmer, a physician and researcher on the intersection of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

28 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 28, 2007

Trachtman had learned how to manage founders who had strong relationships, but those experiences had not prepared him for the current situation. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=807173 Publications View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

17 May 2011
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First Look: May 17

existence of rural areas not supplied by grid electricity was an important motivation for early movers in both the U.S. and Denmark. Public policy was the problem rather than the opportunity for wind entrepreneurs before 1980, but... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 May 2007
What Do You Think?

How Do Managers Think?

in which it is carried out. Joe Schmid observed that "both medical doctors and organizational managers work in cultures that are historically problem definition poor and solution rich. Their individual rewards systems are both driven... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

06 Oct 2011
What Do You Think?

How Will the ‘Moneyball Generation’ Influence Management?

Moneyball Analytics play a greater role in preparation for management? If so, what should it replace? What do you think? Jim Heskett's latest book,The Culture Cycle, was published in September. Original Article In the past we've discussed the importance of adding... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

23 Jul 2008
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Balanced Scorecard in Action

problems with the firm's strategy was captured in the multiple performance measures of its Balanced Scorecard. Key concepts include: Store24's Balanced Scorecard contained useful and timely information for... View Details

31 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration

pursue her passion in technology and risk not seeing her family for a long time; or visit her family in Canada or the U.K., and risk losing her livelihood. The question she posed: Would I be willing to sign the ‘no-to-immigration-ban’ petition? “It is a lazy person’s... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

23 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018

formulate strategy in large, evolving technical systems. I argue that the points of value creation and value capture in a technical system are the system’s bottlenecks. Bottlenecks arise first as important technical problems to be solved.... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

03 Feb 2003
What Do You Think?

Can Business Schools Teach the Craft of Getting Things Done?

case discussion methods employed by many business schools may exacerbate the problem by their frequent reliance on heavy class participation, conveying subtle messages that those who sound smart and speak a lot "have more... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

20 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency

government is run by a small number of people calling all the shots. I think his hard-charging tone, coupled with his willingness to single out certain groups — from the media to Muslims to women to Hispanics — as responsible for many of the nation’s View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese

12 Jul 2016
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July 12, 2016

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50693 Towards a Prescriptive Theory of Dynamic Capabilities: Connecting Strategic Choice, Learning, and Competition By: Pisano, Gary P. Abstract—The field of strategy has mounted an enormous effort to understand, define,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2011

Christensen's Milkshake Marketing (24,877) http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6496.html Published: February 14, 2011 About 95 percent of new products fail. The problem often is that their creators are using an ineffective market segmentation... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

22 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

Balancing the Future Against Today’s Needs

leaders must bring to bear a new perspective on how growth efforts are situated in their companies, how they measure and reward executing the present and building the future, and how they align behaviors to their specific growth... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Michelman

02 Jul 2001
What Do You Think?

Built to Last or Bought to Sell?

assumption that continuity is more desirable. The problem apparently has much to do with the narrow definition of success, the ability to outperform the stock market that the authors use as the primary criterion for their study. Jonathan... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

28 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World

to a number of fluid circumstances. At times, Badaracco argues, the most responsible decision can be putting off the "big decision" as long as possible in order to respond to an ever-evolving configuration of moving parts. The measures of... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

May 2018
Case

Environmental Platform LEEDership at USGBC

By: Michael W. Toffel, Timothy S. Simcoe and Aldo Sesia

By 2018, it was clear that U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) had significantly contributed to the growth of green building and over its 25-year history had become a powerful brand in the construction sector with its Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design... View Details

Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Standards; Business Model; Leadership; Problems and Challenges; Construction Industry; Green Technology Industry

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