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Sarah Zia

This comment was my most memorable of RC year, and it coincided with our section's Virtual Friends & Family Day, where relatives and friends were invited to listen in on class discussions via Zoom. My dad was on the call, and to top... View Details

14 Jan 2013
Research & Ideas

Few Women on Boards: Is There a Fix?

they do like the United States—and leave the issue alone? The answer may lie in determining when, why, and how businesses can thrive by balancing their boards, says Harvard Business School Professor Boris Groysberg, whose research on drivers of individual and... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

07 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

Excerpt: ‘The Art of Negotiation’

things as well. Familiar routines and old assumptions have to be disrupted, even though doing so entails risk. Otherwise nothing new can be created. Frank Barrett calls this trait "provocative competence." It tops his list of key... View Details

Keywords: Re: Michael A. Wheeler

01 Feb 2002
News

If You're #1, Watch Out

You're the top performer in your market. Your products are of such a high quality that they exceed the requirements of all but the most demanding customers, and you're the only one able to serve them. Clear... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

Larissa Bifano

systems, cellular networks, and options trading. Larissa has been recognized by The Legal 500 United States. She was recently named a top performing IP attorney by intellectual property company Patexia,... View Details

Keywords: Legal

John M. Regan, Jr.

the process, he has achieved stellar financial returns. During his CEO tenure, Marsh & McLennan was recognized as one of the top 50 financially performing companies in the United States. View Details

Keywords: Finance

01 Mar 2015
News

3-Minute Briefing: Angela Ruggiero (MBA 2014)

Nagano in 1998, it was the first time that women’s hockey was offered as an Olympic sport. There’s nothing like hearing the national anthem and being on top of the podium with your teammates. That’s part of why I kept playing for so... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Olympics; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Paid for Success: Options for Compensating CEOs

When large public companies perform poorly, do the CEOs running them share the financial pain? That question, according to HBS associate professor Brian Hall, is not answered by looking at their salary and bonus but rather by a careful... View Details

Keywords: by Judith A. Ross

09 Aug 2017
News

Finding a Path Out of Poverty

for school, to set him on his way. Deploying what he learned at HBS, Magwegwe set up Inspire Belief to give young people in the poor community of Orange Farm the opportunity to get a secondary or tertiary education. The program provides scholarships and fellowships at... View Details

01 Apr 2001
News

Hit Radio Show and HBS Alumni Help Young Classical Musicians

When you think of kids and music these days, it’s easier to imagine Chopin and Elgar spinning in their graves than getting any airtime. But move over, J.Lo — a classical music radio show, driven by youthful performers and listeners, is... View Details

Keywords: Arts, Entertainment; Broadcasting (except Internet); Information

01 Jun 1998
News

Short Takes

performance rather than individual or unit performance. Beer and Katz thus suggest that instead of putting energy into designing complicated incentive plans intended to motivate executives, top managers... View Details

Keywords: Orna Feldman and Caroline Chauncey

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Robert Simons | Working Knowledge

Simple Approach for Better Execution (2010) and Levers of Organization Design: How Managers Use Accountability Systems for Greater Performance and Commitment (2005). In addition, he has written Levers of Control (1995) that describes how... View Details

21 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

Don’t Get Buried in Customer Data—Use It

top players' market share declined more than 10 percent. Not surprisingly, many executives' faith in CRM has waned. In a 2001 Bain & Co. survey of the 25 most popular management tools, CRM was ranked near the bottom. In a follow-up... View Details

Keywords: by Jean Ayers

04 Jan 2010
Research & Ideas

Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009

Goals Gone Wild: The Systematic Side Effects of Over-Prescribing Goal Setting (Working Paper) A working paper made the Top 10! For decades, goal setting has been promoted as a halcyon pill for improving employee motivation and View Details

Keywords: by Staff

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Trade publications: industry research

industry, or profession. They usually provide news of current developments in the field, reviews of past performance or forecasts for the future, as well as descriptions of key companies and personalities in the industry. They can... View Details

10 Nov 2020
News

In Harmony

finance director of the New York City Opera. For the next 35 years, Weinstein made his way through arts organizations in roles as general director of the Pittsburgh Opera, executive director of the Washington Opera at the Kennedy Center, and CEO of the AT&T View Details

27 Mar 2007
First Look

First Look: March 27, 2007

Organizational Behavior (forthcoming) Abstract Using a panel data set of top-performing security analysts over a nine-year period, we show that top performers do not "own" their performance, even... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2011
News

Knowing the Score

me to ask questions about how people treated each other in the workplace, along with how and why some rose to the top while others languished in the nether regions. It is quite possible that OB is one of the most important courses in the... View Details

Keywords: James Andrew Miller; Organizational Behavior; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries

20 Dec 2018
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2018

blues, and a job set up for failure. If the CEO’s High Salary Isn't Justified to Employees, Firm Performance May Suffer Researcher Ethan Rouen discovers that rank-and-file employees understand the boss deserves a big salary, but only when... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

A Perfect Fit: Aligning Organization & Strategy

begin with, the top team must first agree on a "statement of strategic and organizational direction" — an outline of what the company must do as a whole in order to gain competitive advantage. They then appoint an employee task... View Details