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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
HBS Clubs and Associations
concepts to improve organizational effectiveness. Richardson attended a more targeted program titled Performance Measurement for Effective Management of Nonprofit Organizations, which is designed to boost organizational accountability and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Eyes in the Skies
Beijing—simply by dropping a pin onto a map. Because the company’s satellites fly over the same sites multiple times a day, customers can monitor evolving situations over time, such as tracking tug boats as they haul barges laden with cargo down a river in the United... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Organizations and Markets: A Challenging View of the World
incentives and compensation systems, is investigating his theory that effective measurement of performance must use subjective judgment and qualitative assessments in combination with objective measures. Professor Carliss Y. Baldwin, with... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
The School of Life
into a book, How Will You Measure Your Life? The following excerpt, adapted for the Bulletin by Allworth, presents a fresh look at what it means to have “the right stuff” at work and draws a parallel to good parenting. Helping your... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
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Ban the Butterfly Rule for Corporate Directors
loses his or her brilliant colors - turns from a butterfly into a moth - then he or she no longer measures up. This view of the director's role creates a terrible perception for the public. Beyond that, it is the antithesis of enlightened... View Details
Keywords: Joseph Hinsey IV
- 25 Aug 2015
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Sunset in the East?
“hoping” that consumer and small-business debt will accelerate GDP growth (like Brazil did at the beginning of the century). Will this new measure take the Chinese consumer beyond tolerable levels of debt-to-income ratio? —Robert... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Insight: Yenball
advertising over his first four years with the club. Matsui's presence reportedly brought $500 million in five years to New York City, measured by everything from hotel bookings to restaurant sales. Of course, no amount of marketing in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Alumni Books
M.R. Covey (MBA ’89) with Rebecca R. Merrill (Free Press) Covey argues that trust is a hard-edged economic driver, a learnable, measurable skill that makes organizations more profitable, people more promotable, and relationships more... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
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The Fine Print: Alumni Recommend Their Best Reads
(MBA 2009) I received a copy of the late Professor Clay Christensen’s How Will You Measure Your Life? as a graduation gift from BSSE (Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise) this year. I highly recommend the book, regardless of... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
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The Small Business Difference: How Smaller Companies Manage with Less
success,” Bowen said. “An important part of that process is developing systems and measurements to ensure that the people you hire, beyond their résumé qualifications, will fit the firm’s culture. That’s a big problem for small companies.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
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A United Front
embraced new technologies and new approaches, hiring sports scientists on his staff and adopting new ways of both measuring and improving the performances of players. That sounds straightforward, but if you have been as successful as he... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Theory & Practice
predictability, Stevenson writes, the management fads often invoked in response to these changes actually undermine predictability. In Do Lunch or Be Lunch, Stevenson discusses techniques for honing predictive power, making decisions, and View Details
- 25 Jun 2019
- News
After the Storm
where they’ve built 20 schools over the last four years. It’s a measured response to a national catastrophe. Dyson says that 8,000 schools were damaged by the earthquake. They can’t fix them all, but that’s not the point. “Don’t get... View Details
Keywords: Paul Flannery
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
As it happened, many of the young men and women returning home from war were in complete agreement with Slichter. By one measure - a series of Air Force outprocessing interviews conducted in 1945 - the number of veterans intending to join... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
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Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Thirteen years ago, Marcelo Claure, founder of wireless services company Brightstar, discussed with a reluctant Steve Jobs the idea of launching a trade-in and recycling program for iPhones. It was a business move that expanded the market and created a new profit... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Meyers
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
How Deep Brain Stimulation Could Change Medicine
tone quality, it was nothing short of a nightmare. After exhausting other treatment options, Frisch chose a radical alternative: having tiny, needle-like electrodes placed inside his brain. Those electrodes are part of a device called Harmoni, a deep brain stimulation... View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos
- 02 Jan 2014
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The Power to Change
light-water nuclear plants, the young scientists' reactor runs on radioactive fuel dissolved into liquid molten salt. In theory at least, that means it can use nuclear waste from conventional plants as fuel and that it needs no active, electricity-dependent safety... View Details
- 01 Jan 2009
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Jorge Paulo Lemann, A.B. 1961; Carlos A. Sicupira, OPM 9, 1984; Marcel H. Telles, OPM 10, 1985
Economics, Harvard College, 1961 On Leadership: “Create a big dream. Keep it simple, easily understood, and measured. Attract the right people who work well together. Measure results consistently. You can create, run, or improve anything... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
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James McNerney Jr.
subject that we define, teach, model, expect, measure, and reward. It’s not something we try to find in people, or wish we had. We believe we can help create it, foster it, teach it, learn it. We take it as seriously as measuring business... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
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Rahul Bajaj, MBA 1964
the group companies. During that time, he also earned a law degree in Bombay (now Mumbai). By the 1990s, Bajaj Auto faced problems worthy of an HBS case study. A combination of the company's ramped-up production and the entry-thanks to some early liberalization View Details