Performance Review - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 Aug 2015
Research & Ideas

New Medical Devices Get To Patients Too Slowly

While the US Food and Drug Administration has chiseled away pharmaceutical review times over the years to speed innovative drugs to market, the opposite seems to have occurred in the agency's approval of medical devices. Instead of... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health; Technology

04 Jun 2018
What Do You Think?

Are There Conditions Under Which Directors Should Consider Hiring a CEO Fired Elsewhere for Inappropriate Behavior?

contains men with a wide variety of attitudes and capabilities. Some lost their jobs for what they did; others lost their jobs for what they didn’t do. What’s to be done with senior executives such as these? It’s the duty of boards View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

14 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World

expenses and health checks. To make sure to reach everyone in the firm, including production workers who lacked company email addresses, WhatsApp groups were created. After a few weeks, PrecisionCo completed their human resources View Details

Keywords: by Raffaella Sadun, Andrea Bertoni, Alexia Delfino, Giovanni Fassio, and Mariapaola Testa

02 Jul 2013
First Look

First Look: July 2

and to what extent their skill is impacted by the VC firm where they work. We examine a unique dataset that tracks the performance of individual venture capitalists' investments across time and as they move between firms. We find evidence... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

11 May 2011
Research & Ideas

Building a Better Board

real money," Kaufman says. "So who's going to tell Bill that we really like his ideas, but that his management style pisses people off? It can feel very risky for board members to think, 'If I pick on Bill, will he pick on me?'" “The goal of the View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

30 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

Mapping Your Board’s Effectiveness

review the information before the meetings and to perform their monitoring and governance functions, board members must receive the information that is most relevant to their governance responsibilities and... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan

15 Nov 2010
Lessons from the Classroom

Connecting Goals and Go-To-Market Initiatives

are, what they know, how you hire, and how you develop their skills and attitudes over time. Performance management practices, including compensation, incentives, values, control systems, and performance... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

06 Jun 2012
What Do You Think?

Is Something Wrong with the Way We Work?

triggered by a culture centered around long hours and a 24/7 focus on the needs of BCG's clients, fears that PTO would contribute to poor performance reviews, and a reluctance to discuss with colleagues personal matters that begged for... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Consulting

01 Mar 2017
Research & Ideas

A Good Thing Happens When Doctors Start Talking to Their Patients

performing costly medical procedures. And that’s a problem, argues Senior Fellow Robert S. Kaplan, the Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development, Emeritus, at Harvard Business School. “It becomes obvious that you can make the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

02 May 2011
Research & Ideas

Casino Payoff: Hands-Off Management Works Best

across the United States. Host Controls The job performances of casino hosts are subject to various degrees of monitoring, even within the same MGM-Mirage organization. The enterprise comprises a number of individual properties that were... View Details

Keywords: by Dennis Fisher; Entertainment & Recreation

06 Nov 2013
What Do You Think?

Is Top-Down Resource Allocation on the Rise?

be familiar with specific opportunities) manages the context—organization, the way managerial performance is measured and rewarded, etc.—that shapes definition of opportunities and the selection of those to be supported. In this view,... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

31 Jan 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017

models foreclosed by Google's restrictions. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52178 January 2017 Nature Biomedical Engineering Review Times and Adverse Events for Cardiovascular Devices By: Stern, Ariel... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

23 Jul 2018
Research & Ideas

The Open Office Revolution Has Gone Too Far

(like employee satisfaction). Those are fine for understanding individual perceptions, but aren’t so good at quantifying real behavioral responses and organizational performance outcomes from open offices. The gap between perceptions and... View Details

Keywords: Re: Ethan S. Bernstein

30 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Why Evolutionary Software Development Works

companies identified through a review of industry journals. The final sample contained data on 29 projects from 17 companies. The most remarkable finding was that getting a low-functionality version of the product into customer's hands at... View Details

Keywords: by Alan MacCormack; Technology

20 Mar 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018

March 2018 Review of Economics and Statistics Scraped Data and Sticky Prices By: Cavallo, Alberto Abstract—I use daily prices collected from online retailers in five countries to study the impact of measurement bias on three common price... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Nov 2002
Research & Ideas

From Lone Star to Team Player

review system where both individual and cross-unit performances are assessed. Q: What is the biggest surprise that you have encountered in your research in the area of knowledge management and collaboration... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

11 Jul 2017
First Look

First Look at New Ideas and Research, July 11

patients with laryngeal cleft seen between 2008 and 2013 at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary Pediatric Aerodigestive Center. Retrospective chart review was performed to identify clinic utilization by... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

Fixing the ‘I Hate Work’ Blues

solution to this dilemma? I believe we need to restructure large organizations by giving much more responsibility and authority to first-line workers and paying them accordingly—with appropriate performance incentives. We need to trust... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

11 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

Germany May Have the Answer for Reducing Drug Prices

insurers, a potentially costly process. Stern and her co-authors studied 171 new drugs that Germany’s IQWiG reviewed between 2012 and 2016. They found that manufacturers were 10 times more likely to withdraw products that lacked any... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Health

03 Jan 2017
First Look

January 3, 2017

Winter 2017 MIT Sloan Management Review Why Big Data Isn't Enough By: Chai, Sen, and Willy C. Shih Abstract—There is a growing belief that sophisticated algorithms can explore huge databases and find relationships independent of any... View Details