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  • 27 Nov 2006
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What’s to Be Done About Performance Reviews?

Summing Up The topic of performance reviews triggers a wide range of complex responses. The fact that most of their strongest critics elected to reply anonymously to this month's column suggests that there are also political overtones to... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • April 2025
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Gender and Preferences for Performance Feedback

By: Katherine Baldiga Coffman and David Klinowski
Across multiple studies, we investigate whether there are gender differences in preferences for receiving performance feedback. We vary many features of the feedback context: whether the performance task is a cognitive test or a mock interview, whether the feedback is... View Details
Keywords: Feedback; Gender; Cognition and Thinking; Motivation and Incentives; Behavior
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Coffman, Katherine Baldiga, and David Klinowski. "Gender and Preferences for Performance Feedback." Management Science 71, no. 4 (April 2025): 3497–3516.
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The Consumption of Performance

By: J. A. Deighton
Keywords: Performance
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Deighton, J. A. "The Consumption of Performance." Journal of Consumer Research 19, no. 3 (December 1992): 362–72.
  • 2020
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Mutual Funds: Skill and Performance

By: Jonathan B. Berk, Jules van Binsbergen and Max Miller
The authors summarize the recent literature on mutual fund manager skill and performance. They discuss the latest contributions in the field and reinterpret them through the lens of the rational expectations framework (efficient market hypothesis). They further discuss... View Details
Keywords: Investment Return; Investment Portfolio; Financial Management; Performance Evaluation; Measurement and Metrics
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Berk, Jonathan B., Jules van Binsbergen, and Max Miller. "Mutual Funds: Skill and Performance." Journal of Portfolio Management 46, no. 5 (2020): 17–31.
  • spring 1998
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Developing the Star Performer

By: L. A. Hill
Keywords: Performance; Personal Development and Career
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Hill, L. A. "Developing the Star Performer." Leader to Leader 8 (spring 1998).
  • January – February 1991
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The Performance Measurement Manifesto

By: Robert G. Eccles Jr.
Keywords: Performance; Measurement and Metrics; Information
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Eccles, Robert G., Jr. "The Performance Measurement Manifesto." Harvard Business Review 69, no. 1 (January–February 1991).
  • 10 May 2023

Highlights Video: Accountability is Key to Climate Performance

  • 14 Apr 2014
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A Better Path to High Performance

  • September 2016
  • Supplement

ZenRecruit: Sales Coaching and Performance Reviews

By: Mark N. Roberge
Amara Kaggwa leads the small but rapidly expanding sales team at ZenRecruit, a recruiting software application used by small businesses. Armed with six months of sales performance metrics, Kaggwa is preparing for her monthly performance conversations with two... View Details
Keywords: Business or Company Management; Salesforce Management; Applications and Software; Employees; Performance Evaluation; Information Technology Industry; Retail Industry
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Roberge, Mark N. "ZenRecruit: Sales Coaching and Performance Reviews." Harvard Business School Spreadsheet Supplement 817-704, September 2016.
  • 2010
  • Working Paper

Performance Tradeoffs in Team Knowledge Sourcing

By: Bradley R. Staats, Melissa Valentine and Amy C. Edmondson
This research examines how teams organize knowledge sourcing (obtaining access to others' knowledge or expertise) and investigates the performance trade-offs involved in two approaches to knowledge sourcing in teams. One approach a team can take is to specialize, such... View Details
Keywords: Information Management; Knowledge Sharing; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Performance Efficiency; Performance Productivity; Quality; Groups and Teams; Information Technology Industry; India
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Staats, Bradley R., Melissa Valentine, and Amy C. Edmondson. "Performance Tradeoffs in Team Knowledge Sourcing." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-031, September 2010. (Revised December 2010, May 2011, and October 2011.)
  • 31 Jan 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

Boardroom Centrality and Firm Performance

Keywords: by David F. Larcker, Eric C. So & Charles C.Y. Wang
  • 02 Oct 2015
  • Working Paper Summaries

Is Mandatory Nonfinancial Performance Measurement Beneficial?

Keywords: by Susanna Gallani, Takehisha Kajiwara & Ranjani Krishnan; Health
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Performance Measurement and Incentive Alignment

Professor Kulp is interested in how organizations use information to enhance firm performance. The manner in which an organization gathers, analyzes, and uses performance information as part of its internal governance system affects organizational success. Professor... View Details
  • 2011
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The Performance Effects of Regulatory Oversight

This paper explores the heterogeneity in firm performance that can arise from exogenously varying levels of oversight in regulated industries. We use data on the performance of U.S. commercial banks to show that banks located physically closer to their supervisors'... View Details
Keywords: Performance; Corporate Governance
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Wilson, Kristin, and Stan Veuger. "The Performance Effects of Regulatory Oversight." 2011.
  • 1992
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Making Performance Appraisal Work

By: M. Beer
Keywords: Performance Evaluation
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Beer, M. "Making Performance Appraisal Work." In Managing People and Organizations, edited by J. J. Gabarro. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 1992.
  • 1999
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Developing the Star Performer

By: Linda A. Hill
Keywords: Growth and Development; Performance
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Hill, Linda A. "Developing the Star Performer." Leader to Leader (1999).
  • 2012
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Pay Dispersion and Work Performance

By: Alessandro Bucciol and Marco Piovesan
The effect of intra-firm pay dispersion on work performance is controversial and the empirical evidence is mixed. High pay dispersion may act as an extra incentive for employees' effort or it may reduce motivation and team cohesiveness. These effects can also coexist... View Details
Keywords: Performance; Wages; Motivation and Incentives; Groups and Teams; Italy
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Bucciol, Alessandro, and Marco Piovesan. "Pay Dispersion and Work Performance." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-075, February 2012.
  • 2021
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Diversity and Performance in Entrepreneurial Teams

By: Sophie Calder-Wang, Paul A. Gompers and Kevin Huang
We study the role of diversity and performance in the entrepreneurial teams. We exploit a unique dataset of MBA students who participated in a required course to propose and start a real micro-business that allows us to examine horizontal diversity (i.e., within the... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Groups and Teams; Diversity; Performance
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Calder-Wang, Sophie, Paul A. Gompers, and Kevin Huang. "Diversity and Performance in Entrepreneurial Teams." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 28684, April 2021.

    Managing School Districts for High Performance

    Managing School Districts for High Performance brings together more than twenty case studies and other readings that offer a powerful and... View Details
    • October 2013
    • Teaching Note

    Ahold versus Tesco—Analyzing Performance

    By: Suraj Srinivasan
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    Srinivasan, Suraj. "Ahold versus Tesco—Analyzing Performance." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 114-036, October 2013.
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