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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
The CEO and the Functions of Leadership
budgeting, management development, and performance reviews are needed to ensure timely implementation of the organization’s goals and strategy to the highest standards desired by its leadership. Selection:... View Details
- 06 Jun 2012
- What Do You Think?
Is Something Wrong with the Way We Work?
triggered by a culture centered around long hours and a 24/7 focus on the needs of BCG's clients, fears that PTO would contribute to poor performance reviews, and a reluctance to discuss with colleagues personal matters that begged for... View Details
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1.7 Grading | MBA
work and no credit has been earned. If a "No Credit" determination is recorded in any RC course, then the student will be subject to Academic Review by the Academic Performance Committee (APC) at the end of... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Three Promoted to Full Professor
business school faculty at the University of Chicago, where he created a new course titled Entrepreneurial Finance and Management. Gompers joined the HBS faculty in 1995. His research focuses on the structure, governance, and performance... View Details
- 05 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Fixing the ‘I Hate Work’ Blues
solution to this dilemma? I believe we need to restructure large organizations by giving much more responsibility and authority to first-line workers and paying them accordingly—with appropriate performance incentives. We need to trust... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Faculty Books
Buy-In: Saving Your Good Idea from Being Shot Down by John P. Kotter and Lorne A. Whitehead (Harvard Business Review Press) Professor Emeritus Kotter and his coauthor reveal how to win the support ideas need to deliver results. The key is... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
environment everyday practices. The Ultimate Question 2.0: How Net Promoter Companies Thrive in a Customer-Driven World by Fred Reichheld (MBA ’78) with Rob Markey (MBA ’90) (Harvard Business Review Press) Reichheld and Markey explain how... View Details
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Sarah Zia
leaving with: an excitement for my 8am discussion group meetings. (At the beginning of first year, everyone was assigned a discussion group, consisting of students from different sections. We met every morning during the first semester to View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- First Look
First Look -- September 1, 2015
Abstract—People demonstrate an impressive ability to self-deceive, distorting misbehavior to reflect positively on themselves—for example, by cheating on a test and believing that their inflated performance reflects their true ability.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Ink: Miami’s Dark Neon Era, the Language of Success, and Getting Psyched Up
Review senior editor Daniel McGinn interviews athletes, entertainers, soldiers, and executives to understand the ways in which different people deal with performance anxiety. Then he turns to the research to... View Details
- 23 Jul 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Balanced Scorecard in Action
reduce the gap between strategy and execution? Does the BSC work in testing strategy? How Can The Balanced Scorecard Improve Corporate Governance? Working Paper: Improving Corporate Governance with the Balanced Scorecard The authors View Details
- 19 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
How to be Extremely Productive
and maintained rewarding relationships with his wife and their two children. “It takes a lot more than organizing your schedule to be productive.” In a widely read Harvard Business Review article (May 2011), Pozen outlined six... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
- 23 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
How to Break the Expert’s Curse
summer) to review and evaluate the advice. As a whole, the young advice recipients gave higher ratings to the advice from the experienced interns who had "rediscovered" their own summer diary accounts. Zhang was not surprised. "The people... View Details
- 03 Mar 2003
- What Do You Think?
Are Conditions Right for the Next Accounting Scandal?
have been more active in reviewing the mergers of the major firms as the industry consolidated over the last fifteen years." Several responses hinted at the need for audit committees to be more adventurous in their selection of... View Details
- 12 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 12, 2008
problems in the renovation of the 27-floor, 60,000 square meter complex. The WTC owners, two Dutch financial institutions, had hired TvT in 1995 to advise how to best handle their property's underperformance, which stood 20% empty and had prematurely aged. 1. Should... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 18
power. Publisher's link: http://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/amy-cuddy/presence/9780316256575/ February 2015 Prentice Hall Managerial Accounting: Making Decisions and Evaluating Performance By: Datar, Srikant M., and Madhav V. Rajan... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Alumni News | Book Briefs
to provide the resources needed to change the world. Boards That Lead: When to Take Charge, When to Partner, and When to Stay Out of the Way by Ram Charan (MBA 1965, DBA 1967), Dennis Carey, and Michael Useem (Harvard Business Review... View Details
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Engage with the broader business community to promote racial equity. - Advancing Racial Equity
approach racial matters. Our initial actions in the broader business community are therefore focused on learning from and alongside others rather than taking the lead on advising or instructing others. In the short run, our business engagement efforts will focus on:... View Details
- 05 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 5, 2006
helping intentions; in other words, those participants who did not dehumanize outgroup victims were the individuals most likely to report volunteering for hurricane relief efforts. Internet Companies' Growth Strategies: Determinants of Investment Intensity and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is it Worth a Pay Cut to Work for a Great Manager (Like Bill Belichick)?
world-beating performances out of some good-but-not-great players and even to motivate others to take pay cuts in order to play for him, an anomaly? Can unusually gifted managers improve employees’ View Details