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Strategy for Universities & Nonprofits - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Strategies for Universities & Nonprofits What is strategy for a nonprofit organization? Historically, many organizations have confused mission statements or aspirations with strategies. Their performance has suffered as a result. Using... View Details

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Alternative Investments Course | HBS Online

and key players involved, interpret metrics to analyze performance, and discuss trends in alternatives. Highlights The Money Journey Part 1 Complementarity PFA Pension: Strategy 2020 Show Hide Details Concepts The Money Journey View Details

01 Feb 2011
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Abstract Existing performance metrics utilized by the PGA TOUR have biases towards specific styles of play, which make relative player comparisons challenging. Our goal is to evaluate golfers in a way that... View Details

13 Dec 2011
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First Look: Dec. 13

portfolio would offer investors exposure to a basket of nine major hedge fund strategies. The DELTA strategy would be innovative in two ways. First, in terms of its structure, AQR would implement these underlying strategies using a well-defined investment process, with... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 Sep 2011
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The Profit Power of Corporate Culture

part of an effort to change the culture. This sounds like a lot, but the culture cycle provides a foundation for the creation of an organization capable of setting high goals and meeting them. Q: Your research produces an eye-opening... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

28 Jul 2020
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Racism and Digital Design: How Online Platforms Can Thwart Discrimination

Airbnb's "instant book" feature, which allows guests to book rentals before hosts view their profiles, as a move in the right direction. Through experimentation, Luca says, platform companies like Airbnb can surface design elements that align with both firm... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Travel; Entertainment & Recreation; Service

16 Oct 2017
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The Most Successful Startups Have Hands-On Founders

product companies in India for a three-day executive retreat. Prior to the retreat, participants were surveyed to find out how often they engaged in four management practices: providing structured feedback, conducting performance reviews,... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

11 Aug 2008
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Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard

integrates them in a powerful way. Kaplan and Norton introduced the Balanced Scorecard, a performance measurement system, in 1992. The Execution Premium is their fifth book as coauthors. Kaplan recently explained the ideas behind The... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

09 Nov 2022
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COP27: What Can Business Leaders Do to Fight Climate Change Now?

The US government’s newly passed Inflation Reduction Act will direct $370 billion toward advancing renewal energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions—the country's largest investment in fighting climate change so far. As business and government leaders around the... View Details

Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Danielle Kost

01 Jun 2024
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Again and Again

Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; Illustrations by Jason Holley Whenever he’s presenting to a large audience, Professor Michael Norton likes to pose this question to the crowd: After you get up in the morning, do you brush your teeth first and then shower, or vice versa?... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

23 Aug 2016
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August 23, 2016

Kotsantonis, Sakis, Christopher Pinney, and George Serafeim Abstract—The authors’ aim in this article is to set the record straight on the financial performance of sustainable investing while also correcting a number of other widespread... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

11 Apr 2012
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The High Risks of Short-Term Management

volatility, the length of time investors held a firm's stock, and the cost of capital. The results showed that short-term companies attracted short-term investors (bringing with them a whole new set of performance pressures on executives)... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services

18 Nov 2022
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What Does It Take to Safeguard a Legacy in Asset Management?

in a business environment awakening to equity and inclusion. One of the first Black portfolio managers, Eddie Brown, founded the eponymous firm in 1983. It was only the second Black-founded investment firm in the US. Its performance in... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services

September 2017
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Blackstone's Julia Kahr at the Summit

By: Paul A. Gompers, John D. Dionne and Amram Migdal

In 2009, Blackstone, the New York-based alternative asset and financial services firm, committed to invest up to $750 million into Summit Materials, a new company in the aggregates sector (i.e., construction materials, such as crushed stone, sand, gravel, cement,... View Details

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2021
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How to Fix ESG Reporting

By: Robert S. Kaplan and Karthik Ramanna

Investors, advocacy groups, academics, and the 200 CEOs of the US Business Roundtable have asked corporations to take on an added purpose beyond a narrow pursuit of shareholder value. In response, many companies now issue ESG (Environmental, Societal, and Governance)... View Details

Keywords: ESG Reporting; Sustainability; Corporate Purpose; Greenhouse Gas; Activity-Based Costing; Environmental Sustainability; Environmental Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Measurement and Metrics; Goals and Objectives; Agreements and Arrangements; Corporate Accountability

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Criteria | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

applicant's background and previous experience. Applicant's ability to succeed in the position. Commitment & Long-Term Goals Commitment to the relevant industry or sector. Alignment of applicant's long-term career View Details

26 Jan 2022
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Making Peace with Anger

me was that prior to that moment, when a problem would arise, if I put my full intensity behind it, and that might include some anger, and really started to drive the process, that I could make things right, that I could get a business unit that wasn’t View Details

01 Jun 2007
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How Should Pay Be Linked to Performance?

Summing Up Pay for performance: Why do we assume so much and know so little? Pay for performance is an important element of good management, judging from responses to this month's column. The question of what kind of pay for what kind of... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

17 Feb 2022
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When Employees Feel a Sense of Purpose, Companies Succeed

to the specific content of their cultures, shaping them to inculcate specific behaviors relevant to strategic execution. Eager to support goals like innovation, quality, growth, and excellence in customer service, companies like Southwest... View Details

Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati

18 Nov 2015
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Who Really Determines CEO Salary Packages?

It stands to reason that every major company has a unique set of strategic goals. Consequently, it stands to reason that the chief executive’s compensation package should be uniquely designed to align to those goals, while addressing the individual View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consulting

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