Performance And Value Analysis - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Mar 2018
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A Voice for Diversity and Impact at Scale

scaling local knowledge. Back in the United States, that realization led Hunt to explore other aspects of the health care industry’s value chain, from billing to insurance to product development. “I loved the sense that I was working in... View Details

01 Jun 1997
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Blockbuster Deals

inappropriate centralized and bureaucratic organizational design on the target firm. Management was unable to make critical decisions without multiple approvals. "As a result, the organization lost its vitality, View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry

01 Apr 1998
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Short Takes

values of their managers and the organizational culture they create. In their working paper, "Chinese Corporate Culture, Market Orientation, Innovation, and Firm Performance,"... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons and Caroline Chauncey

01 Feb 1998
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Women at the Top

Kim B. Clark talked about the School's efforts in areas such as entrepreneurial studies, information technology, and the recruiting of more women students to the MBA Program. Day three's sessions offered a mix of business View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young

01 Feb 1997
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Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management

making business decisions," observes Lecturer Thomas J. Kosnik, who teaches Entrepreneurial Marketing. "Entrepreneurial Marketing encourages students to embrace analysis and logic while remaining open to the... View Details

01 Dec 1996
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Organizations and Markets: A Challenging View of the World

turn triggers the adrenal gland and floods the conscious brain with chemicals. By the time the information reaches the thinking part of the brain, the cortex has been tainted by the prior emotional response. Thus, messages of emotional... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Apr 1996
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Stasis and Turmoil: HBS Research for the Real World

guidelines and encouraging employees to create value through long-term thinking - rather than by trying to follow the latest "flavor-of-the-month." "Predictability is not certainty," Stevenson emphasizes.... View Details

18 Sep 2019
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Level Up

immersive and interactive media, and new ways to bring in audiences with performance data. It requires a long-term view from the C-suite, says Ruggiero. “The old business model... View Details

Keywords: Paul Flannery and Dan Morrell; illustrations by Matt Chinworth

01 Jun 1997
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Competition and Strategy Unit at HBS Sets Pace In Its Field

entrepreneurship, joint action, and the creation of value. Their work shows that value creation is an interdependent process in which an enterprise must align itself with customers, suppliers, employees,... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

24 Jul 2018
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How Amy Hood Won Back Wall Street and Helped Reboot Microsoft

to the failing performance and then encouraging everyone to focus on making hard decisions quickly," says Microsoft President and Chief Legal Officer Brad Smith, whose office... View Details

01 Oct 1997
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New Course for General Managers Broadens Managerial Scope and Builds Confidence

participants to understand how their role encompasses all organizational disciplines; to learn to manage up, down, across, and outside the organization; to perform a working assessment of their... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

07 Sep 2012
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What Every Nonprofit Board Needs to Know

01 Oct 1999
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The Same the World Over: Focusing on Customers and Innovation Brings Success

driver of performance in these organizations, regardless of nationality. Eager to determine whether this finding would also hold true among developing economies, Deshpandé and Farley have expanded their... View Details

Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs

01 Apr 2001
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New Ventures New Gains

experience a different educational model. “Cases can’t always completely capture the way the real world unfolds,” says Roberts, explaining that participants must source primary data and conduct in-depth View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna and Susan Young; Martin Dubilier (MBA 1952); Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Apr 1996
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Stewards of the Seventh Generation

Resources for the Future, a Washington, D.C., think tank dedicated to providing research and policy analysis for environmental decision makers. "And even if returns on environmental investments were always... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso, Garry Emmons, Linda Goodspeed, and Elaine Gottlieb