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- January 2022 (Revised February 2022)
- Case
Introducing EVA at ISS: A Better Way to Evaluate CEO Performance and Compensation?
By: Jonas Heese, Charles C.Y. Wang and James Weber
In early 2019, Anthony Campagna, the global director of fundamental research at ISS EVA, a unit of the proxy advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), was preparing to release ISS's analyses of public company performance and CEO compensation ahead of Say... View Details
Keywords: Jobs and Positions; Compensation and Benefits; Performance; Performance Productivity; Measurement and Metrics; Analytics and Data Science; Value; Business or Company Management; Performance Evaluation; Business and Shareholder Relations
Heese, Jonas, Charles C.Y. Wang, and James Weber. "Introducing EVA at ISS: A Better Way to Evaluate CEO Performance and Compensation?" Harvard Business School Case 122-061, January 2022. (Revised February 2022.)
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Northern California Initiative Reaches Out to Women, Girls
HBSA/NC, men are also included in the mix. At three sold-out events last year — “The Balancing Act” (which focused on the work/family dynamic), “Women in Technology,” and “Closing the Deal” — male attendance ranged from 5 percent to 20... View Details
- 16 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History
only responded to globalization but also driven and framed it. The study of particular industries over the long term, employing deep archival research on individual firms, has generated unique insights on... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman
- 06 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
How to Do Away with the Dangers of Outsourcing
efficient, and customer focused. It also enables faster response to shifts in the market—something especially important as innovation continues to flow globally, rapidly, and often from unknown sources. Most... View Details
- 2021
- Working Paper
Does Observability Amplify Sensitivity to Moral Frames? Evaluating a Reputation-Based Account of Moral Preferences
By: Valerio Capraro, Jillian J. Jordan and Ben Tappin
A growing body of work suggests that people are sensitive to moral framing in economic games involving prosociality, suggesting that people hold moral preferences for doing the “right thing”. What gives rise to these preferences? Here, we evaluate the explanatory power... View Details
Keywords: Moral Preferences; Moral Frames; Observability; Trustworthiness; Trust Game; Trade-off Game; Moral Sensibility; Reputation; Behavior; Trust
Capraro, Valerio, Jillian J. Jordan, and Ben Tappin. "Does Observability Amplify Sensitivity to Moral Frames? Evaluating a Reputation-Based Account of Moral Preferences." Working Paper, January 2021.
- 14 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog
what the human body needs physically and mentally to respond to these challenges. Think of these as your new toolkit for high performance in a business world turned upside... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- Blog
Up Close: A Return to In-Person Executive Education Programs
moment. We have a baseline of what to expect, but the details might change days before. We just have to be more comfortable knowing that we might not have an answer until much later than we normally... View Details
- March 1993 (Revised April 1995)
- Case
Signalling Costs
NutraSweet's worldwide patent-protected monopoly on aspartame, the low-calorie high-intensity sweetener, ended with the 1987 entry of the Holland Sweetener Co. (HSC) into the European market. Following the arrival of a challenger, NutraSweet acted to reduce sharply the... View Details
Keywords: Patents; Competition; Price; Market Entry and Exit; Food and Beverage Industry; United States; Europe
Brandenburger, Adam M. "Signalling Costs." Harvard Business School Case 793-125, March 1993. (Revised April 1995.)
- 03 Dec 2008
- What Do You Think?
Can Housing and Credit be “Nudged” Back to Health?
one might conclude that efforts to influence human decisions through "nudging" might be effective. However, respondents were far from unanimous in drawing this conclusion. Adnan Younis Lodhi... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 11 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
Fix This! Why is it so Painful to Buy a New Car?
dealers. Lexus wants to experiment with Saturn-like “no-haggle” pricing, responding to complaints, especially from younger-generation buyers, that negotiation is frustrating,... View Details
- January 1993 (Revised April 1995)
- Case
Fog of Business, The
In the mid-1980s, the Holland Sweetener Co. (HSC) was facing the decision whether to enter the European and Canadian aspartame markets, following the ending of NutraSweet's patents there. A major question facing HSC was whether NutraSweet would respond to entry in an... View Details
Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Patents; Competition; Market Entry and Exit; Food and Beverage Industry; Canada; United States; Europe
Brandenburger, Adam M. "Fog of Business, The." Harvard Business School Case 793-098, January 1993. (Revised April 1995.)
- 08 May 2020
- In Practice
Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On
survey by the Charities Aid Foundation of America. A staggering 97 percent of respondents expect their funding to decline during the next 12 months as the struggling economy and social distancing hurts... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 02 Sep 2002
- What Do You Think?
What Can Business Schools Do to Avoid Bad Apples?
Summing Up This month's column resulted in a number of suggestions for sorting out the "bad apples" among applicants to MBA programs across the country. But just as many respondents questioned the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Article
National Trends in the Safety Performance of Electronic Health Record Systems From 2009 to 2018
By: David Classen, A Jay Holmgren, Zoe Co, Lisa Newmark, Diane Seger, Melissa Danforth and David Bates
Importance Despite the broad adoption of electronic health record (EHR) systems across the continuum of care, safety problems persist.
Objective To measure the safety performance of operational EHRs in hospitals across the country during a 10-year period.
Design,... View Details
Keywords: Electronic Health Record Systems; Health Care and Treatment; Information Technology; Performance; Safety; Measurement and Metrics; United States
Classen, David, A Jay Holmgren, Zoe Co, Lisa Newmark, Diane Seger, Melissa Danforth, and David Bates. "National Trends in the Safety Performance of Electronic Health Record Systems From 2009 to 2018." JAMA Network Open 3, no. 5 (May 2020).
- 05 Jun 2013
- What Do You Think?
Do We Need to Extend ‘No Surprises Management?’
Summing Up Why Not Turn "No Surprises Management" On Its Head? If "managing up" with a "no surprises management" (NSM) philosophy is popular, "managing down" with NSM makes just as much sense, according View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 19 Aug 2021
- News
A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues
them, you may be missing an opportunity to do something that is extraordinarily impactful. So I refer to that experience in the book and say that that actually impacted the way that I felt about how Black... View Details
- 05 Aug 2015
- What Do You Think?
What Happened to the ‘Innovation, Disruption, Technology’ Dividend?
How Patient Should We Be In Waiting for the Tech Productivity Dividend? Respondents to this month’s column cited a number of factors accounting for the fact that there is no discernable increase in the rate... View Details
- 05 Feb 2009
- What Do You Think?
Why Can’t We Figure Out How to Select Leaders?
any other factor, including class size and quality of the facilities. In various studies, the truly great teachers do things like giving good, individualized feedback while remaining sensitive and responding View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 17 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why a Blended Workforce May Be Key to Lasting Competitive Advantage
In recent years, companies have been anxious about the lack of skilled workers to fill pivotal jobs. But then came COVID-19 and a subsequent recession. The ensuing business turmoil and record-high unemployment may have temporarily distracted companies from their... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller
- 2022
- White Paper
Building from the Bottom Up: What Business Can Do to Strengthen the Bottom Line by Investing in Front-line Workers
By: Joseph B. Fuller and Manjari Raman
A significant number of American workers—44%—are employed in low wage jobs at the front line of industries. Despite undertaking some of the most tedious, dirtiest, and most dangerous jobs, low-wage workers are—and have long been—the most likely to be overlooked by... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19; Labor Market; Low-wage Workers; Worker Welfare; Churn/retention; Morale; Jobs and Positions; Employees; Wages; Retention; Well-being; Human Resources
Fuller, Joseph B., and Manjari Raman. "Building from the Bottom Up: What Business Can Do to Strengthen the Bottom Line by Investing in Front-line Workers." White Paper, Harvard Business School, January 2022.