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- 2009
- Article
Placing the Normative Logics of Accountability in 'Thick' Perspective
By: Alnoor Ebrahim
This article provides a critical reflection on the heavily normative nature of current accountability debates. In particular, it explores three streams of normative discourse on nonprofit accountability: improving board governance, improving performance-based... View Details
Keywords: Fair Value Accounting; Accounting; Governance; Performance Evaluation; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Goals and Objectives; Management Practices and Processes; Power and Influence; Social and Collaborative Networks; Organizational Structure; Relationships; Accounting Industry
Ebrahim, Alnoor. "Placing the Normative Logics of Accountability in 'Thick' Perspective." American Behavioral Scientist 52, no. 6 (2009): 885–904.
- 14 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Breaking the Smartphone Addiction
but for the team's work process and ultimately the client—that the experiment was expanded to more and more of BCG's teams. Four years later, over nine hundred BCG teams from thirty countries on five continents had participated. Sleeping... View Details
Keywords: by Leslie A. Perlow
- Web
European and UK Personal Data Collection Disclosure | HBS Online
processing or sharing of Personal Data by a Harvard Entity when those activities are within the scope of any Relevant Law. “Relevant Law” means any personal data protection law applicable to individuals located outside the U.S. that apply... View Details
- Web
Live Online Classrooms | Information Technology
with peers from diverse cultural and professional backgrounds, enriching the learning process through varied perspectives. The Experience Ninety-six high-definition screens create a fully immersive teaching experience. As soon as you make... View Details
- 29 Jul 2021
- News
Support System
20 percent premium—and educational and retirement benefits is not good just for the workers and their families, says Akuete. It’s also ideal for her brands. By keeping the processing and manufacturing in Ghana, where the companies have... View Details
- 13 Jun 2016
- News
Brenda Bence (MBA 1991)
Brenda Bence (MBA 1991) Harvard Business School was the only business school to which Brenda Bence (MBA 1991) applied for admission. “I wanted a learning process that was practical and pragmatic,” explains Bence. She liked that HBS used... View Details
- 21 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
It Matters That Your CEO Doesn't Know Much About Sales
CEOs need to roll up their sleeves and learn more about the customer-facing sides of their businesses, like sales. Source: AlexBrylov Let’s face it: To most C-suite executives, sales processes are often an afterthought or a somewhat... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 03 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Ingredients of a Deal Disaster
ensure that potentially influential parties bought into the new social contract. When third parties drive the deal. Failure also happens when one team, such as the business development unit, uses a heavily price-driven process to... View Details
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
Allocation Theory By: Bower, Joseph L. Abstract—This article considers the process of resource allocation, whereby an organization determines how best to apportion its factors of production between the various productive activities in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet
Robertson, of the acclaimed ensemble Medici String Quartet. It seemed a perfect opportunity to explore the process of creative collaboration, a central theme not just in music but in knowledge-intensive businesses. The result is... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
of development process for a project. But my past work (studying projects in high-tech industries) had convinced me that we were missing an important level of analysis. It seemed that decisions made in a project sometimes worked against... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- December 2018 (Revised June 2019)
- Case
Wolfgang Puck: Setting the Table for the Future
By: Boris Groysberg and Matthew G. Preble
Chef Wolfgang Puck oversees a disparate business empire that includes fine dining restaurants, a catering business, and various licensed products that run from cookware, to soup, to fast-casual restaurants. His businesses activities are divided among three separate... View Details
Keywords: Brands and Branding; Growth and Development; Management Systems; Business Processes; Leadership; Transition; Food and Beverage Industry; Consumer Products Industry
Groysberg, Boris, and Matthew G. Preble. "Wolfgang Puck: Setting the Table for the Future." Harvard Business School Case 419-001, December 2018. (Revised June 2019.)
- December 2017
- Case
La Ceiba: Navigating Microfinance and Relationships in Honduras (A)
By: Christine L. Exley, John Beshears and Alison Wood Brooks
This case follows the program director of La Ceiba, a Honduras-based microfinance institution, as he navigates four challenging negotiation scenarios involving the organization's loan clients. Students are asked to adopt the perspective of the Program Director and to... View Details
Keywords: Negotiation; Power; Apology; Negotiation Process; Microfinance; Power and Influence; Situation or Environment
Exley, Christine L., John Beshears, and Alison Wood Brooks. "La Ceiba: Navigating Microfinance and Relationships in Honduras (A)." Harvard Business School Case 918-014, December 2017.
- August 2017
- Article
Relationship Between Labor and Delivery Unit Management Practices and Maternal Outcomes
By: Avery C. Plough, Grace Galwin, Zhonghe Li, Stuart R. Lipsitz, Shehnaz Alidina, Natalie J. Henrich, Lisa R. Hirschhorn, William R. Berry, Atul A. Gawande, Doris Peter, Rory McDonald, Donna L. Caldwell, Janet H. Muri, Debra Bingham, Aaron B. Caughey, Eugene R. Declercq and Neel T. Shah
OBJECTIVE: To define, measure, and characterize key competencies of managing labor and delivery units in the United States and assess the associations between unit management and maternal outcomes.
METHODS: We developed and administered a management measurement... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Management Practices and Processes; Performance Evaluation; Outcome or Result; United States
Plough, Avery C., Grace Galwin, Zhonghe Li, Stuart R. Lipsitz, Shehnaz Alidina, Natalie J. Henrich, Lisa R. Hirschhorn, William R. Berry, Atul A. Gawande, Doris Peter, Rory McDonald, Donna L. Caldwell, Janet H. Muri, Debra Bingham, Aaron B. Caughey, Eugene R. Declercq, and Neel T. Shah. "Relationship Between Labor and Delivery Unit Management Practices and Maternal Outcomes." Obstetrics & Gynecology 130, no. 2 (August 2017): 358–365.
- June 2016
- Teaching Note
N12 Technologies: Building an Organization and Building a Business
By: David A. Garvin
N12 Technologies was a startup founded in 2010 that employed nanotechnology to manufacture a patented material to improve the performance of carbon fiber composites, which were used in a wide variety of products, ranging from bicycles to automobiles to aircraft parts.... View Details
Keywords: Startup; Organizational Structure; Nanotechnology; Business Processes; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Design; Management Systems; Commercialization; Industrial Products Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Auto Industry; Bicycle Industry; Transportation Industry; United States
- May 2011 (Revised July 2015)
- Case
Ford Motor Company: Strengthening the Dealer Network
By: V. Kasturi Rangan, Katharine Lee and Marie Bell
The case describes a five-year effort (2006-2011) of distribution rationalization and consolidation at Ford. The financial crisis in the second-half of 2008 forced GM and Chrysler into bankruptcy. Having completed the distribution overhaul work by 2011, its senior... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Product; Distribution; Consolidation; Distribution Channels; Transformation; Business Processes; Auto Industry
Rangan, V. Kasturi, Katharine Lee, and Marie Bell. "Ford Motor Company: Strengthening the Dealer Network." Harvard Business School Case 511-132, May 2011. (Revised July 2015.)
- 09 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 9, 2008
Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=809019 AMD Dresden: Copy Inexactly! Harvard Business School Case 609-004 The establishment and growth of AMD's Dresden, Germany manufacturing site illustrates how... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 7, 2007
H. Carpenter Abstract Front-line staff possess an immense amount of functional and experiential knowledge from which their organizations can learn. This paper examines two distinct processes for leveraging front-line staff knowledge in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
There Are No HBS People, Just People Who Happen to Go to HBS
engineering, I wasn’t excited to design a chemical process or tank. That same summer, I learned about the HBS Peek Program* through a fellow intern and friend. It was a weekend program to “peek inside” the Harvard MBA experience. He... View Details