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February 1999
Case

Volant Skis

By: Steven C. Wheelwright and Matt Verlinden

Volant brought innovation to the ski equipment industry in 1989 by developing a stainless steel ski. He claimed the skis could turn more easily, could hold an edge in icy conditions, and were more stable than aluminum or fiberglass skis. The company's "soft-flex"... View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Technological Innovation; Growth and Development Strategy; Operations; Product Development; Performance Improvement; Quality; Corporate Strategy; Value Creation

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October 1987 (Revised November 1994)
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Boston Fights Drugs (A): Designing Communications Research

By: V. Kasturi Rangan

Describes in detail the research mounted by five individuals with a $20,000 budget to combat drug abuse among Boston's school-going population. Using the focus group methodology they discover that most of the current anti-drug advertising is useless. They create their... View Details

Keywords: Budgets and Budgeting; Misleading and Fraudulent Advertising; Communication Intention and Meaning; Brands and Branding; Performance Evaluation; Research and Development; Segmentation; Pharmaceutical Industry; Boston

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February 2011 (Revised April 2012)
Teaching Note

Braddock Industries, Inc. (TN)

By: William E. Fruhan

Teaching Note for 211061. View Details

Keywords: Value Creation; Business and Shareholder Relations; Motivation and Incentives; Compensation and Benefits; Economics; Business Units; Performance Evaluation

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March 2010 (Revised April 2010)
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Deworming Kenya: Translating Research into Action (A)

By: Nava Ashraf, Neil Buddy Shah and Rachel Gordon

Karen Levy and her colleague, Margaret Ndanyi, have spent the last six months planning and preparing for a national Kenyan program to target school children most at risk for parasitic worm infection. One week after its launch, the program seemed to be going well but... View Details

Keywords: Planning; Risk and Uncertainty; Mission and Purpose; Performance Efficiency; Programs; Problems and Challenges; Research; Policy; Health Care and Treatment; Management Practices and Processes; Kenya

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December 2009
Article

Strategy-proofness versus Efficiency in Matching with Indifferences: Redesigning the NYC High School Match

By: Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Parag A. Pathak and Alvin E. Roth

The design of the New York City (NYC) High School match involved tradeoffs among efficiency, stability, and strategy-proofness that raise new theoretical questions. We analyze a model with indifferences—ties—in school preferences. Simulations with field data and the... View Details

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Secondary Education; Marketplace Matching; Performance Efficiency; Mathematical Methods; Motivation and Incentives; Strategy; Balance and Stability

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Measuring the Effectiveness of Competition in Defense Procurement: A Survey of the Empirical Literature

By: James J. Anton and Dennis A. Yao

This article surveys the literature that has attempted to measure competition's effects on defense procurement. The focus is on conceptual underpinnings of models rather than technical aspects of estimation procedures. While providing valuable insight, the models are... View Details

Keywords: Performance Effectiveness; Competition; Surveys; Value; Economics; Forecasting and Prediction; Programs; Power and Influence; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques

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September–October 2013
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The Role of Organizational Scope and Governance in Strengthening Private Monitoring

By: Lamar Pierce and Michael W. Toffel

Governments and other organizations often outsource activities to achieve cost savings from market competition. Yet such benefits are often accompanied by poor quality resulting from moral hazard, which can be particularly onerous when outsourcing the monitoring and... View Details

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01 Oct 2001
News

Looking for a Leader: The Role of Executive Search Firms

of the personal connection it already enjoyed? Understanding the dynamics of the CEO search process — and the ways in which chief executive turnover influences corporate performance — has been the subject of recent research by HBS... View Details

Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs; Telecommunications; Information

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Develop a data mindset and the analytical skills to interpret and communicate data. This course will demystify data analysis and equip you with concrete skills to apply in your work or further studies. Program Dates: March 20, 2019 - May 15, 2019 View Details

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Blake Landro

dates. In effect, Nenlu sells privacy and community; not just tea.” Today, Blake seeks opportunities for combining his creative side – as an actor and performer --with his analytical skills. “Helping direct the HBS Show is interesting... View Details

01 Oct 2001
News

¡Vamos al Cine!

Heyman: hitting 317 screens. As a student at HBS, movie buff Matthew Heyman (MBA '93) used to ask classmates what the theaters were like in their hometowns. When two classmates from Mexico City told him the theaters there were terrible, Heyman sensed an opportunity,... View Details

Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries

01 Sep 2013
News

A Hollywood Backstory

Illustration by Alex Nabaum, theispot.com Every Sunday night when I was a kid, I'd sneak out of bed to watch the late movie on TV, film classics like Patton or A Man for All Seasons. I may very well have been the only fourth grader to have a profound, life-altering... View Details

Keywords: Armbruster, Michael; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries

01 Dec 2011
News

Alumni Book Briefs

Age of Greed: The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to the Present by Jeff Madrick (MBA ’71) (Knopf) This is a history of how greed has bred America’s economic ills over the last 40 years, and of the men most responsible for them. In telling the... View Details

Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries

01 Jun 2008
News

Nine MBAs Chosen for Leadership Fellows Program

Meredith Hamilton, Citizen Schools; Tim Nicolette, City of Boston Mayor’s Office; and Adrian Mucalov, Endeavor; (front row) John Kim, Clinton Foundation HIV/AIDS Initiative; Mikaela Boyd, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Maura Marino, NewSchools Venture Fund; and... View Details

2017
Working Paper

Learning by Doing: The Value of Experience and the Origins of Skill for Mutual Fund Managers

By: Elisabeth Kempf, Alberto Manconi and Oliver Spalt

Learning by doing matters for professional investors. We develop a new methodology to show that mutual fund managers outperform in industries where they have obtained experience on the job. The key to our identification strategy is that we look "inside" funds and... View Details

Keywords: Fund Managers; Experience and Expertise; Performance; Forecasting and Prediction

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16 Mar 2023
News

Shifting Your Perception After Being Laid Off

Keywords: layoff

01 Dec 2013
News

Adding Value

according to Bloomberg Markets (September 4, 2013). One of the most influential executives on Wall Street, Erdoes said, "You worry just as much about great performance as you do about underperformance....Are we getting [great performance]... View Details

Keywords: Finance

27 Jul 2021
Interview

Amy Edmondson on How to Create a Psychologically-Safe Workplace and What to Do If You Don't Work in One

By: Amy C. Edmondson

Harvard Business School Professor and renowned business expert, Amy Edmondson, talks about the growing link between psychological safety at work and the results that high-performing teams accomplish. She details what psychological safety is, how to create a... View Details

Keywords: Psychological Safety; Teaming; Groups and Teams; Trust; Performance

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