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    How Google Sold Its Engineers on Management

    High-performing knowledge workers often question whether managers actually contribute much, especially in a technical environment. Until recently, that was the case at Google, a company filled with self-starters who viewed management as more destructive than beneficial... View Details
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    Social Determinants of Health

    By: Susanna Gallani
    Healthcare provider organizations are becoming progressively more involved in ways to improve health equity and address social determinants of health (SDOH). In this line of work, Prof. Gallani studies organizational factors interacting with the implementation of SODH... View Details
    Keywords: Healthcare Organizations; Performance Management; Accountability; Health Industry
    • 10 Sep 2007
    • Research & Ideas

    High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet

    Why would a business school professor want to write a case study about a string quartet? The answer was easy for Robert Austin, a scholar with research expertise in the management of innovation. While attending an academic workshop near... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Music
    • 23 Jan 2019
    • Sharpening Your Skills

    Sports: Lessons for Managers

    sports as the ultimate metaphor or analogy. A manager lagging in her work is "behind the eight ball" while another who is changing tactics is "calling an audible." If your staff can't do the basic "blocking and... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Sports
    • November 2016 (Revised December 2017)
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    Blake Sports Apparel and Switch Activewear: Bringing the Executive Team Together

    By: Boris Groysberg and Katherine Connolly Baden
    Cameron (Cam) Barker, founder and CEO of Blake Sports Apparel and Switch Activewear, manufacturers and distributers of sports apparel and accessories, was facing a challenge with his executive team. Their inability to work together on seemingly simple issues was a... View Details
    Keywords: Team Dynamics; Team Management; Team Effectiveness; Team Performance; Executive Leadership; Groups and Teams; Leadership; Performance Effectiveness; Apparel and Accessories Industry; United Kingdom
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    Groysberg, Boris, and Katherine Connolly Baden. "Blake Sports Apparel and Switch Activewear: Bringing the Executive Team Together." Harvard Business School Case 417-048, November 2016. (Revised December 2017.)

      A Global Leader's Guide to Managing Business Conduct

      An extensive global survey by three Harvard Business School professors finds that employees agree on core standards of corporate behavior; but meeting those standards will require new approaches to managing business conduct. The compliance and ethics programs of... View Details

      • 14 Apr 2014
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Facts and Figuring: An Experimental Investigation of Network Structure and Performance in Information and Solution Spaces

      Keywords: by Jesse Shore, Ethan Bernstein & David Lazer
      • 11 Jan 2008
      • Conference Presentation

      Are Management Standards Effective?

      By: Michael W. Toffel
      Keywords: Management; Standards; Performance Effectiveness
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      Toffel, Michael W. "Are Management Standards Effective?" Paper presented at the Just Supply Chains Conference, January 11, 2008.
      • 30 Apr 2008
      • Sharpening Your Skills

      Sharpening Your Skills: Brand Management

      Personality? Marketing Maria: Managing the Athlete Endorsement Million-dollar endorsement deals were made and broken by how baseball players on the Boston Red Sox and Colorado Rockies performed in the 2007... View Details
      Keywords: by Staff; Sports; Publishing; Auto
      • 30 Apr 2024
      • Book

      When Managers Set Unrealistic Expectations, Employees Cut Ethical Corners

      performance against quotas set by their regional managers. Managers falling short were reportedly criticised and embarrassed in front of their colleagues. Between 2011 and 2016, this system seemed to be... View Details
      Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
      • September 1983 (Revised October 1984)
      • Case

      Boston Whaler, Inc.: Managing the Dealer Network

      Mr. Joseph Lawler, newly-appointed president of Boston Whaler, Inc. (BWI), believes that better dealer management is the key to his company's continued growth. BWI manufactured a high-price, high performance line of power and other boats for the recreational,... View Details
      Keywords: Distribution Channels; Product Marketing; Consumer Products Industry
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      Bonoma, Thomas V. "Boston Whaler, Inc.: Managing the Dealer Network." Harvard Business School Case 584-036, September 1983. (Revised October 1984.)
      • 2007
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      Managing School Districts for High Performance: Cases in Public Education Leadership

      By: Stacey Childress, Richard F. Elmore, Allen S. Grossman and Susan Moore Johnson
      Managing School Districts for High Performance brings together more than twenty case studies and other readings that offer a powerful and transformative approach to advancing and sustaining the work of school improvement. At the center of this work is the... View Details
      Keywords: Management; Strategy; Leadership; Public Sector; Organizational Design; Education; Performance Improvement
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      Childress, Stacey, Richard F. Elmore, Allen S. Grossman, and Susan Moore Johnson, eds. Managing School Districts for High Performance: Cases in Public Education Leadership. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press, 2007.
      • 18 Aug 2017
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      Managing Climate Change: Lessons from the U.S. Navy

      • July 2019
      • Article

      Market Reaction to Mandatory Nonfinancial Disclosure

      By: Jody Grewal, Edward J. Riedl and George Serafeim
      We examine the equity market reaction to events associated with the passage of a directive in the European Union (EU) mandating increased nonfinancial disclosure. These disclosures relate to firms’ environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance and would be... View Details
      Keywords: Nonfinancial Information; Nonfinancial Performance; ESG; ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; Investor Behavior; Disclosure; Disclosure Regulation; Regulation; Sustainability; Corporate Performance; Information; Corporate Disclosure; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Performance; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Governance; Outcome or Result
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      Grewal, Jody, Edward J. Riedl, and George Serafeim. "Market Reaction to Mandatory Nonfinancial Disclosure." Management Science 65, no. 7 (July 2019): 3061–3084.
      • April 2023 (Revised September 2023)
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      Levels: The Remote, Asynchronous, Deep Work Management System

      By: Joseph B. Fuller and George Gonzalez
      Levels is a highly innovative startup in the health care space. They intend to revolutionize health by linking behavior—eating, exercise, sleeping, etc.—to changes in metabolism. They believe metabolic health can be managed through careful monitoring of changes in... View Details
      Keywords: Applications and Software; Business Startups; Organizational Culture; Management Style; Technology Industry; United States
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      Fuller, Joseph B., and George Gonzalez. "Levels: The Remote, Asynchronous, Deep Work Management System." Harvard Business School Case 323-069, April 2023. (Revised September 2023.)
      • 2011
      • Teaching Note

      UFIDA (C) (TN)

      By: F. Warren McFarlan, Donglin Xia and E. Chen
      This case documents the evolution of UFIDA's management control system over a decade as it grew five-fold from a 325 million RMB to a 1.66 billion RMB company, while its staff grew by more than three-fold. View Details
      Keywords: Budgeting; Computer Software; Emerging Markets; Management Controls; Performance Management; Planning; China; Applications and Software; China
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      McFarlan, F. Warren, Donglin Xia, and E. Chen. "UFIDA (C) (TN)." Tsinghua University Teaching Note, 2011.
      • November 2005
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      Playgrounds and Performance: Results Management at KaBOOM! (A)

      By: Herman B. Leonard, Marc J. Epstein and Laura Winig
      KaBOOM!, a successful playground-building social enterprise funded through corporate partnerships, wants to develop a performance measurement system that will enable the organization to expand its impact substantially. The board of directors and management are trying... View Details
      Keywords: Governing and Advisory Boards; Growth and Development Strategy; Social Enterprise; Performance Evaluation; Management Systems; Design; Construction Industry
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      Leonard, Herman B., Marc J. Epstein, and Laura Winig. "Playgrounds and Performance: Results Management at KaBOOM! (A)." Harvard Business School Case 306-031, November 2005.
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      Online Management Course | HBS Online

      This course is part of the Leadership & Management track. Introduction to Management Essentials ENROLL NOW No application needed for our certificate programs. Start your... View Details
      • 22 Feb 2010
      • Research & Ideas

      Manager Visibility No Guarantee of Fixing Problems

      Observing and understanding the tasks and challenges that workers face every day is important. But managers who merely put in time "walking the floor" are not doing enough; in fact, it can make employees feel worse about their... View Details
      Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health
      • March 2009 (Revised May 2011)
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      Risk Management at Wellfleet Bank: Deciding about "Megadeals"

      By: Anette Mikes
      Inspired by one of the few banks that successfully weathered the 2007-2009 credit crisis, the case illustrates risk management in a corporate finance business. Chief executive Alastair Dowes has to decide if the risk governance process is adequate to uncover mega-risks... View Details
      Keywords: Risk Management; Decision Making; Performance Evaluation; Credit; Balance and Stability; Integrated Corporate Reporting; Decision Choices and Conditions; Negotiation Offer; Performance Effectiveness; Corporate Finance; Banking Industry
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      Mikes, Anette. Risk Management at Wellfleet Bank: Deciding about "Megadeals". Harvard Business School Case 109-071, March 2009. (Revised May 2011.)
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