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- 12 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 12
lack of customer and geographic diversification, aggressive warranty policies, excessive production capacity growth, and supply chain risks. The case places students in the shoes of CFRA analysts who need to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Are the Big Four Audit Firms Too Big to Fail?
expressed concerns about decreased "reliability" (a key component of "verifiability," auditing's touchstone) in proposed standards. To benchmark the auditors' assessments of decreased accounting reliability, the... View Details
- February 2022 (Revised January 2024)
- Supplement
Winning Business at Russell Reynolds (C)
By: Ethan Bernstein and Cara Mazzucco
In an effort to make compensation drive collaboration, Russell Reynolds Associates’ (RRA) CEO Clarke Murphy sought to re-engineer the bonus system for his executive search consultants in 2016. As his HR analytics guru, Kelly Smith, points out, that risks upsetting—and... View Details
- 04 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Life
job, if you're building a happy family: to realize that they need to be motivated and that there's a clear way to motivate them." Listing your assumptions about a prospective plan and View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 19 Mar 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Overcoming the Stress of ‘Englishnization’
long-term effort for us," he said. "Starting this month, my own speech will simply be in English." All workers were required to take a two-hour 200-question test to assess their reading and... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 14 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact
of Nonprofit Organizations in June, a joint executive education program presented by the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative, Harvard's Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, and the Harvard Kennedy School.... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 08 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Building Effective R&D Capabilities Abroad
considered a number of locations and carefully evaluated such aspects as their scientific excellence and relevance, university liaison programs, licensing programs, View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
- 18 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
How New Managers Become Great Managers
oneself, however, is well documented. There are mechanisms that keep people from honestly evaluating themselves.6 The more candid feedback that managers can obtain from varied sources, the more accurate and... View Details
Keywords: by Linda Hill
- 06 Jan 2016
- What Do You Think?
Why Do Leaders Get Their Timing Wrong?
long-term strategy and culture. David Wittenberg led the way in making the argument for an inadequate strategy as a primary cause of the problem. He suggested that bad timing is related to a lack of “strategic frameworks to View Details
- 19 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?
professors are evaluated in part on the number of papers they publish in peer-reviewed journals. Primarily written for and read by other academics, many of those journals tend to reward novelty over... View Details
- 15 Nov 2018
- Book
Can the Global Food Industry Overcome Public Distrust?
JamesBrey Food is the largest segment of the global economy. It is also widely recognized as more critical for human health than any pharmaceutical drug on the planet. But significant changes in the industry are making people lose trust in many institutions involved in... View Details
- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
appropriate policy mix to raise productivity (this is similar to the logic in Rodrik, 2007 and Hausmann/Hwang/Rodrik, 2005). An added complexity is that policy choices are often highly interdependent, i.e. the effectiveness of a View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
- 22 Feb 2021
- Book
Reaching Today's Omnichannel Customer Takes a New Sales Strategy
interviews. The correlation between a manager's assessment of people in interviews and their actual on-the-job performance is less than 50 percent. In other words, less than flipping a coin, View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 06 Aug 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Super Bowl Ads Sell Products, but Do They Sell Brands?
sick to work the day after the Super Bowl, and there are some HR executives that are lobbying to actually have the day after the Super Bowl be a holiday. Kenny: Yes, I'm in favor of that. Kenny: How many minutes of advertising in a... View Details
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Mastering Strategy Execution
By: Robert Simons
Professor Robert Simons’ research encompasses three areas of management accountability that are the foundation for successful strategy execution: organization design, performance measurement and control, and risk management. In addition, Simons is interested in the... View Details
- 08 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 8, 2006
overweighted in probability judgments but are underweighted in repeated decisions under uncertainty. Two laboratory studies examine both decisions and probability assessments within the same paradigm. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Counting Up the Effects of Sarbanes-Oxley
changes had any impact in the lead-up to the financial crisis. HBS Associate Professor Suraj Srinivasan and Harvard Law School Professor John C. Coates leverage the benefit of hindsight to assess research... View Details
- 04 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Start to Measure Your E-commerce Success
stringent economic environment and the widely publicized negative impacts of many e-commerce initiatives has caused many senior managers to question the payoffs of e-commerce investments. As companies assess... View Details
Keywords: by Marc J. Epstein
- 10 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 10, 2015
officials. They can help decision makers in tax administrations, public procurement offices, and other public agencies design programs informed by well-founded evidence. This paper provides an introductory... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Indulgence vs. Regret: Investing in Future Memories
of the shoppers asked to evaluate their purchase the next day were more likely to cite the importance of frugal behavior. To The Mall! Then the participants actually went shopping. On the bus ride home, they were asked to list what they... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna