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- 21 Aug 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Machine Learning Teaches Us about CEO Leadership Style
CEOs into distinct communication styles that, among other things, appear to be correlated with the financial performance of their companies. “There is a whole ocean of data out there that people aren’t using” The research was conducted by... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 04 Nov 2010
- What Do You Think?
Why Do We Chase Stars?
said that "Management performance is 75% portable (but) today's tough environment has forced upper management to adopt a 'welcome to the team, good luck, here is the deep end of the pool, hope you survive'" approach. Guy Higgins... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 17 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 17
volatility, whereas shadow banks tend to hold relatively liquid assets. Publisher's link: http://www.people.hbs.edu/shanson/banks_20150305_FINAL.pdf March 2015 Production and Operations Management Managing the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Professional Networking Makes People Feel Dirty
participants who read the professional networking story gave much higher ratings to the cleansing products than those who imagined the friendly party. The neutral products received similar ratings across the board. The Effect On Job View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2190963 Which Does More to Determine the Quality of Corporate Governance in Emerging Economies, Firms or Countries? Authors:Hugill, Andrea, and Jordan Siegel Abstract Scholars of corporate governance have debated the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Geography of Care - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
performed every procedure in an aim to provide a full set of services in every location. While that strategy was effective when hospitals had little to offer, the ever increasing complexity of medical care today means that every hospital... View Details
- 11 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
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
- 24 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 24
how roles encode individual responsibilities so that coordination between relative strangers is possible. We extend this research by introducing key tenets from team effectiveness research to theorize when role-based coordination might be... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
disclosures, performance evaluations, self-regulation, participation, and adaptive learning. Nonprofit leaders must adapt any such mechanisms to suit their organization-be it a membership-based organization, a service-delivery nonprofit,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 29, 2016
how today's organizations run. By demonstrating the interconnectivity among the three key pillars of management, students see how decisions impact strategic choices, organizational alignment, and leadership approaches, ultimately leading to the overall View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
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
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Organizing the Family-Run Business
particular individual or branch of the family. Figure 1: Governance structures of the family business system Most experts agree that a family company board should be a relatively small group of about five to eight members. It should... View Details
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
financial variables. They use a diagnostic expectations version of a dispersed information learning model to explain why individual forecasters typically overreact to news, while consensus forecasts underreact relative to full-information... View Details
- 28 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Profit Power of Corporate Culture
relatively uniform, low customer involvement nature where it is important to move people of different backgrounds and nationalities around the world as part of their development. In contrast, high involvement products or services such as... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 22
non-value added and redundant steps, improve resource utilization, and redesign care so that appropriate medical resources perform each process step. These actions enable costs to be reduced while maintaining or improving medical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 28
more to their lower status parent group. Why? The present paper begins to establish the role of individual differences and social context in hypodescent, the process of assigning multiracials the status of their relatively disadvantaged... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
Want a Happy Customer? Coordinate Sales and Marketing
Financial performance is the result of operating performance. Operating performance includes all the things that a company must do to win the competitive battle in its industry to attract, retain, and... View Details
Keywords: by Benson Shapiro
- 15 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
IT Job Wages Are No Longer 'Exceptional'
engineering, and mathematics) labor market trends. And in geographic regions where competition is fiercest for IT talent, superstar performers do not earn the same high premium they once did over their average-performing peers. In short,... View Details
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
variability than was the case historically. Under the new policy, dividends would be tied to the company's underwriting results, its performance relative to predetermined goals, and a target payout ratio.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Cases & Teaching Notes - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Haiti. It devises a simple approach for tracking the resources... September 2016 (Revised October 2018) HBS Case Collection Springfield Hospital by Susanna Gallani and Robert Kaplan One of the key roles of costing systems is to support the evaluation of View Details