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- 28 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Improving Accountability at the World Bank
enhancing public participation across the project cycle and increasing staff performance incentives for greater citizen engagement. It is crucial to better understand the incentive and promotion structures for staff and then seek closer View Details
Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim
- 22 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 22, 2008
for business strategy, organization, control systems, and sales management requirements. As a result, the case raises issues and analytics relevant to topics such as aligning strategy and organization, strategy implementation, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2003
- What Do You Think?
To Whom Should Boards be Accountable?
those of employees, customers, or the public, as opposed to a substantially lower bid from a company whose interests are more closely aligned with the seller's and its various constituencies? Some of you opted to sell to the high bidder;... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 30 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 30, 2016
agility, ensuring the continued alignment of a firm’s capabilities with a changing business environment. Despite advances in our understanding of the role of IT, however, we lack robust empirical data on the precise mechanisms by which IT... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
Using Competition to Reform Healthcare
needs it is trying to meet, and how it should organize. Implicit in every business definition is a view of how value is created. Aligning an organization's view of value with actual value is a precondition for excellent performance. In... View Details
- 22 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients
correspondingly negative effect." Align employees with company goals. Anecdote and data alike confirm the adage that “People don’t leave jobs, they leave managers.” For most employees, their direct manager is the face of the organization.... View Details
- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
completely aligned with managerial needs. Therefore, our goal is to draw on previous research and current practice to provide insights on managing retention and identify areas for future research. This examination leads us to advocate a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
faster-growing companies to raise more capital. These results highlight the importance of institutions in enabling the provision of entrepreneurial capital to young companies. In Search of Organizational Alignment Using a 360-Degree... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Management Education’s Unanswered Questions
reconsidering their point of arrival and experimenting with new approaches to MBA education. I think the challenge we face is that the world has changed very quickly for business schools. The imprint that gave rise to us, and the imprint around which we have become... View Details
- 13 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Small Businesses Are Worse Off Than We Thought
and advisor to Alignable, put the team in touch with the company’s CEO. Alignable members received a link to the survey March 26. More than 5,800 responses from companies with fewer than 500 employees were collected within one week.... View Details
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Waking Up a Sleeping Company
aligning the organization's values and performance objectives. Working in complementary fashion, practicing values and driving for performance reinforce each other and enable the creation of a great company. View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 23 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Businesses Need a 'Catalyst' to Make CSR Practices Stick
providers, and financing to at-risk youth. The nonprofit created alignment among all the entities for shared measurable outcomes—youth successfully placed in jobs with the shortest time and lowest cost possible. Not only did 95 percent of... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
challenge, which is aligning the interests of different stakeholders. When you think about a business, ideally the customers are paying for a product that generates revenue for the firm, which ultimately generates value in the form of... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 08 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 8
to accomplish the following: mine your sales data to identify "homerun" products you're missing; reinvent your forecasting and pricing strategies; build end-to-end agility into your supply chain; establish incentives that align... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
helpful to consider that the window to launch a Mars mission is essentially fixed. Approximately every two years, the Earth and Mars align in such a way to provide the lowest cost trajectory for a mission flying between them. So the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Health Care Conundrum
coordinated and aligned to focus on one or more specific diseases or conditions, such as cancer or heart disease. The organizational structure and staffing, work processes, and facilities will evolve to provide the highest value, highest... View Details
- 24 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 24
global basis the alignment the firm has begun to achieve in Europe and the Middle East. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/411006-PDF-ENG Purchase this supplement... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 24, 2009
rewarded more than just financial contribution and encouraged partners to work together for the benefit of the firm as a whole. In the midst of the global economic crisis, Smith must decide whether and how to extend on a global basis the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
transformation. In accordance with the shift in strategy, Microsoft needed to come up with a viable go-to-market plan that would align its new commercial strategy with sales, partners, products and services, and customers to drive... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
Amy, Elizabeth Baily Wolf, Peter Glick, Susan Crotty, Jihye Chong, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—Four studies tested whether cultural values moderate the content of gender stereotypes, such that male stereotypes more closely align with... View Details