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Business & Environment - Faculty & Research
Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) increasingly guides investment management and corporate agendas nowadays, public reactions to firms' ESG performance remain under-studied. This paper fills this gap by investigating whether the... View Details
- 03 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Succeed With Your New Boss
Your new boss will have more impact than anyone else over whether you succeed or fail. Your boss establishes benchmarks for your success, interprets your actions for other key players, and controls resources you need. Building a... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Watkins
- 18 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
The Cost of Leaning In
said, Exley adds that there are undoubtedly times when women miss opportunities to negotiate for the better, for instance, if they do not realize the true worth of their contributions. The participants in this experiment always knew exactly how much money they earned... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 11 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Budgeting Kills Your Company
whole team setting and meeting a range of performance benchmarks over a period of time," write Hope and Fraser. "Performance is then evaluated by a peer review group (using relative measures) with... View Details
Keywords: by Loren Gary
- 11 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing
margin by 1 to 2 percent of sales within months. These improvements are significant for both small and large companies. Q: What are the key benefits to an organization for implementing this model? Can it be benchmarked and evaluated? A:... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- Web
Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research
Beiting Cheng, Ioannis Ioannou and George Serafeim In this paper, we investigate whether superior performance on corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategies leads to better access to finance. We hypothesize that better access to... View Details
- Web
Negotiating - Alumni
than money! Evaluate all aspects of an offer and prioritize those that are most important to you. These include: Organizational culture and values Paid vacation time Maternity/paternity leave Growth opportunities Career progression flexibility Frequency of View Details
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Resources for Investment Management and Financial Analysis
instructions available in Knowledge Base. Individual account required. Please see More Info page for instructions on signing up for an account. Morningstar Direct Multi-currency research platform that provides performance... View Details
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
Falk Bräuning & Victoria Ivashina JULY 2020 When central banks adjust interest rates and equity capital is limited, global banks must benchmark domestic and foreign lending opportunities. The authors show that, in equilibrium, the... View Details
- 21 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Common Strategy Mistakes
rivals. And "better" because you are performing different activities than they perform, because you've chosen a different configuration than they have. Another common mistake is getting the definition of the business wrong, or... View Details
Keywords: by Joan Magretta
- 25 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 25
thresholds, targets, or benchmarks are set, and defining the pay-performance relation and how the relation changes over time. Download the paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1935654 Performance Tradeoffs in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
actions on performance. However, standard regression models estimate only the average effects of these actions across firms. Our paper discusses how random coefficient models (RCMs) may generate new insights about firm heterogeneity and its effects on View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact
can nonetheless establish their own internal benchmarks to assess performance and determine whether they are achieving their mission. "In these complex challenges, especially policy and advocacy, it's... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
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Cluster Studies - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
developed, leading to the current benchmark cluster definitions (Delgado, Porter, Stern, 2016). Cluster mapping data was made available by ISC both through its website and location-specific analysis and reports. All U.S. governors... View Details
- 06 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
index-based benchmarks do not adequately achieve this objective. Further, the index-benchmark selection is associated with governance-related frictions and is not driven by plausible alternative theories. Both structural calibration and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2022
- News
Making Peace with Anger
me was that prior to that moment, when a problem would arise, if I put my full intensity behind it, and that might include some anger, and really started to drive the process, that I could make things right, that I could get a business unit that wasn’t View Details
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53787 Subjectivity in Tournaments: Implicit Rewards and Penalties and Subsequent Performance By: Cai, Wei, and Susanna Gallani Abstract—This study explores the effects of subjective... View Details
- 22 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
Pulling Campbell’s Out of the Soup
to imagine that we could inspire high performance with no employee engagement." Conant decided to grow the soup business, and he championed the idea of "winning" on two fronts--in the workplace and in the marketplace. To... View Details
- 29 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 29, 2016
institution’s patient portal. Conclusions. As healthcare costs continue to rise in the United States and around the world, a value-based approach with explicit, transparently reported patient outcomes will not only create opportunities for View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
vulnerability indicators prior to the Asian Financial Crisis (AFC) attributed to corporate financial roots provide a benchmark for comparison. The firm-level data suggest that emerging markets post-GFC have lower leverage ratios than the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel