Performance Feedback - Publications - Faculty & Research

17 Apr 2019
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Give It to Me Straight

on effective professional feedback, honing it in roles at tech icons Apple and Google. The idea? Radical candor, or as Scott (MBA 1996) defines it, caring personally while at the same time, challenging directly. At its base, she says, it’s about being humble enough to... View Details

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

01 Dec 2018
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018

step-by-step, room-by-room guidance on how to create a welcoming and functioning space that expresses your unique individuality. Breaking Through: Leadership Disciplines from Top Performing Staffing Firms by Mike Cleland and Barry Asin... View Details

01 Dec 2018
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Hard Choices

orientation that manifests itself in investing, in business decision-making, and in our politics. Educational and philanthropic endowments, for example, with institutional time horizons that necessarily span centuries, invest their funds with monthly View Details

Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)

27 Jul 2017
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Seeing a Way Forward

are enormous obstacles, with cataract surgery costing between 18,000 to 30,000 pesos (about $1,000–$1,500 USD) in private institutions. Founded in 2011 by engineers Javier Okhuysen and Carlos Orellana, salauno helped more than 150,000 patients in its first five years... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

01 Mar 2017
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017

today means a shortfall in performance tomorrow. Miller describes how to nurture leaders throughout the organization, from the front lines to the executive ranks. He outlines a clear and replicable approach to creating the leadership... View Details

01 Jun 2011
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The Best-Laid Plans

forcing mechanism for us,” Gulati says. “Without the discipline of deadlines and deliverables we might have flamed out at the first hurdle.” “For us, the main goal wasn’t to make it to the finals or win, it was to get good feedback that... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; contests; Health, Social Assistance; Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services; Professional Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Apr 1998
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World Class Learning

MBA elective curriculum and teaches Coordination, Control, and the Management of Organizations. Salter believes that "all great courses at HBS communicate performance hypotheses - notions about what makes for good business practice - for... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

01 Oct 1996
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Leading In a New Era

inattention to customer feedback — led to stagnating sales and declining profits. "When I walked into this company in 1994," says Claiborne's straight-talking chairman, president, and CEO Paul Charron, "it was a $2-billion corporation... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

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