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- November 2012
- Article
Does Management Really Work?
By: Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen
HBR's 90th anniversary is a sensible time to revisit a basic question: Are organizations more likely to succeed if they adopt good management practices? The answer may seem obvious to most HBR readers, but these three economists cast their net much wider than that. In... View Details
Keywords: Best Practices; Consulting Firms; Corporations; Cost Control; Employee Training; Executive Ability (Management); Executives—training Of; Hospitals—administration; Industrial Management—research; Productivity Incentives; School Management Teams; Work Environment; Management; Research
Bloom, Nicholas, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen. "Does Management Really Work?" Harvard Business Review 90, no. 11 (November 2012).
- October 1995 (Revised January 2002)
- Background Note
Managing Performance
By: John J. Gabarro and Linda A. Hill
Encourages managers to think critically about how to prepare for and give a performance appraisal interview. Presents frameworks for evaluating subordinates' work and suggestions for coaching them. View Details
Gabarro, John J., and Linda A. Hill. "Managing Performance." Harvard Business School Background Note 496-022, October 1995. (Revised January 2002.)
- 06 Dec 2012
- News
Wall Street Doesn't Understand Innovation
- 2024
- Working Paper
Private Equity Fund Valuation Management during Fundraising
By: Brian K. Baik
I investigate whether and how private equity fund managers (GPs) inflate their interim fund valuations (net asset values or NAVs) during fundraising periods. Specifically, I study the extent to which the GPs inflate NAVs by managing valuation assumptions (e.g.,... View Details
Keywords: Private Equity; Institutional Investors; Valuation Multiples; Earnings Management; Private Firms; Valuation; Investment Funds
Baik, Brian K. "Private Equity Fund Valuation Management during Fundraising." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 23-013, August 2022. (Revised May 2024.)
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
An Engine of Innovation
Innovation Labs. Previously, Joseph Lassiter, the Senator John Heinz Professor of Management Practice in Environmental Management, Retired, and Srikant Datar, the George F.... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- December 2012
- Course Overview Note
Entrepreneurial Management in a Turnaround Environment (EMTE) Fall 2012: Course Overview and Syllabus
Course Overview and Syllabus in the Fall Term 2012 for the Entrepreneurial Management in a Turnaround Environment (EMTE) course. View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurial Management; Entrepreneurs; Entrepreneurship; Turnarounds; Bankruptcy Reorganization; Bankruptcy; Small ＆ Medium-sized Enterprises; Careers; Entrepreneurial Finance; Distressed Debt; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture
Sharpe, Jim. "Entrepreneurial Management in a Turnaround Environment (EMTE) Fall 2012: Course Overview and Syllabus." Harvard Business School Course Overview Note 813-127, December 2012.
- 07 Jul 2010
- News
Innovation in Entrepreneurship Pedagogy Award
- April 2013
- Article
Using the Crowd as an Innovation Partner
By: Kevin J. Boudreau and Karim R. Lakhani
More and more organizations are turning to crowds for help in solving their most vexing innovation and research questions, but managers remain understandably cautious. It seems risky and even unnatural to push problems out to vast groups of strangers distributed around... View Details
Boudreau, Kevin J., and Karim R. Lakhani. "Using the Crowd as an Innovation Partner." Harvard Business Review 91, no. 4 (April 2013): 61–69.
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Innovation as Antidote
that can't afford any lost time. You know—the perfect kind of challenge for the HBS community. Last year, HBS and Harvard Medical School's Forum on Healthcare Innovation brought together everyone from... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- November 2005
- Case
Playgrounds and Performance: Results Management at KaBOOM! (A)
By: Herman B. Leonard, Marc J. Epstein and Laura Winig
KaBOOM!, a successful playground-building social enterprise funded through corporate partnerships, wants to develop a performance measurement system that will enable the organization to expand its impact substantially. The board of directors and management are trying... View Details
Keywords: Governing and Advisory Boards; Growth and Development Strategy; Social Enterprise; Performance Evaluation; Management Systems; Design; Construction Industry
Leonard, Herman B., Marc J. Epstein, and Laura Winig. "Playgrounds and Performance: Results Management at KaBOOM! (A)." Harvard Business School Case 306-031, November 2005.
- 2025
- Working Paper
Too Much, Too Soon? Early Funding, Technological Unconventionality, and Innovation Capabilities
By: Harsh Ketkar and Maria Roche
The availability of financial resources significantly shapes firm innovation outcomes, especially for early-stage,
innovation-focused technology firms. However, prior research has provided conflicting findings about this
relationship: On the one hand, resource... View Details
Keywords: Startups; Technology Strategy; Novelty; Unconventionality; Resource Constraints; Early Stage Firms; Business Startups; Technological Innovation; Entrepreneurial Finance
Ketkar, Harsh, and Maria Roche. "Too Much, Too Soon? Early Funding, Technological Unconventionality, and Innovation Capabilities." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 25-032, December 2024. (Revised February 2025.)
- January 2001
- Teaching Note
Measurement and Management at CitySoft TN
By: V.G. Narayanan, Lisa Brem and Sanjay Pothen
Teaching Note for (9-100-056). View Details
Keywords: Information Technology Industry
- March 2018 (Revised February 2023)
- Teaching Note
Managing Diversity and Inclusion at Yelp
By: Michael Luca, Joshua Schwartzstein and Gauri Subramani
Teaching Note for HBS No. 918-009. View Details
- 2011
- Casebook
Transnational Management: Text Cases and Readings in Cross Border Management
By: Christopher A. Bartlett and Paul W. Beamish
Transnational Management focuses on the management challenges associated with developing strategies and managing the operations of companies whose activities stretch across national boundaries. The purpose of this book is to provide a conceptual framework showing the... View Details
- 1998
- Chapter
Competitive Policy Shocks and Strategic Management
By: P. Ghemawat, R. E. Kennedy and Tarun Khanna
- 1994
- Book
Cases in Advertising and Promotion Management
By: John A. Quelch and Paul Farris
Quelch, John A., and Paul Farris. Cases in Advertising and Promotion Management. 4th ed. Burr Ridge, IL: Irwin, 1994.
- 1987
- Book
Cases in Advertising and Promotion Management
By: John A. Quelch and Paul Farris
Quelch, John A., and Paul Farris. Cases in Advertising and Promotion Management. 2nd ed. Plano, TX: Business Publications, Inc., 1987.
- January 2014 (Revised June 2015)
- Teaching Note
Amgen Inc: Pursuing Innovation and Imitation? (A), (B)
By: Ian Mackenzie