employee performance - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2000
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Books

today's top executives must build organizations in which the new can constructively displace the old and where talented employees are encouraged to help formulate company strategy. "Successful e-leaders focus on two things: a new approach... View Details

01 Jun 2010
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Get Well Soon

Art by James Yang/Getty Images Health-care reform is more than a political football. For twenty years it’s been a ground-level topic of increasing importance for the administrators, physicians, nurses, and frontline employees who interact... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

01 Dec 2011
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Faculty Research Online

employees they hire and the way they socialize those employees. See http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6795.html. Making the Case for Consumer-Driven Health Care Even as “Obamacare” becomes an issue in the 2012 presidential election, policymakers... View Details

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28 Sep 2017
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Alumni-Founded Aerospace Pioneer Orbital Acquired for $7.8 Billion

two years ago, and will make Northrop the fourth-largest Pentagon contractor. In a statement about the deal, Thompson said: “The unique alignment in culture and mission offered by this transaction will allow us to maintain strong operational View Details

01 Jun 2005
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When No News Isn’t Good News

If you’ve been waiting for your annual performance review to receive feedback from your boss, you may be doing yourself — and your company — a big disservice. Christine McKay (MBA ’98), a career coach who works with students through MBA... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; career consulting; career advice

01 Jun 2024
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The Exchange: Chance Encounters

Assistant Professor Maria Roche and Associate Professor Andy Wu; image by John Ritter Late one day in the fall of 2021, as she was packing up to head home, Assistant Professor Maria Roche bumped into Andy Wu, a colleague in the Strategy Unit whose office is next to... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

07 Sep 2021
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One Degree of Difference

Courtesy Paris Wallace Courtesy Paris Wallace At 70 employees strong, the Boston-based digital company Ovia Health is on the smallish-but-mighty size compared to the rest of the local tech hub. Competing for talent is tough. While those... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

30 Apr 2021
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Revealing the Rules

conventional rules for success aren’t enough. There is another set of expectations that determine who gets ahead and who doesn’t. Top performers follow these patterns without realizing it—and managers expect them from View Details

01 Oct 1996
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No Bull — Nancy E. Havens-Hasty (MBA 1971)

before being asked to head the company's bankruptcy department in 1987. In 1991, she was granted responsibility for the high-yield department as well, and in 1992 became the first female employee elected to the Bear Stearns board of... View Details

Keywords: Linda Goodspeed

01 Dec 2011
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Making the Case for Leadership

plant in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, to introduce a new pilot project designed to enhance the motivation and performance of a group of 200 employees. A rare female manager at Frito-Lay, Johnson finds that her youth, inexperience, and... View Details

01 Dec 2020
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Tried and Tested

are active, I’m also looking for, as Katie mentioned, a situation that is really meaningful to somebody’s life. I know that employees talk quite a bit about their managers and how that manager affects their career progress, for example,... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Scientific Research and Development Services

01 Jun 2014
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014

which employees act like free agents. The solution? Think of employees not as family or free agents but as allies. Both managers and employees must trust each other enough to... View Details

01 Feb 2002
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Replicating Toyota's Success

Spear focused on the company's approach to solving problems and noticed the conscious way Toyota's managers involve employees in this process, even to the point of leaving a production line at suboptimal View Details

Keywords: Machinery Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Motor Vehicle and Parts Dealers; Retail Trade

01 Jun 1997
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Short Takes

statistical data from five hundred business groups in India and spoke to dozens of managers in Malaysia, Indonesia, and Chile. The pair found that companies outside the United States perform better when they replicate the quality... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

01 Sep 2012
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What’s the Big Idea?

Issue Focus: Ideas & Impact Illustration by Timothy Cook An Intellectual Capital: Some Influential HBS Ideas, at a Glance Pleasure in Progress Teresa Amabile It sounds so obvious: Employees who make meaningful progress in their work enjoy... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Corporate Services; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management

01 Dec 2020
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Invest in the New Abnormal

current drought of in-person events. Be human. “Firms that connect emotionally with customers and employees are expected to perform better than firms that just connect physically.” Dettol soap’s... View Details

01 Jun 2022
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Vision: Into the Breach

large, established carriers, which write policies to cover cyberattacks but do little to preempt them, At-Bay takes a preventive approach to cyber insurance. Before signing up a new policyholder, the company performs non-intrusive... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand

23 Sep 2021
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Confronting Sustainability in Business; Pro-Bono Consulting for Black-Owned Companies

October 11 event will be in English. Interested alumni can register here. Alumni Pro-Bono Service Lifts Black-Owned Enterprises In an effort to maximize its community impact, the HBS African-American Alumni Association (HBSAAA) recently launched the Opportunity and... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Dec 2010
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Faculty Books

critical performance variables are we tracking? What strategic boundaries have we set? How are we generating creative tension? How committed should our employees be to helping each other? And what strategic... View Details

Keywords: business proposals; financial regulation

01 Oct 1999
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Culture Clash: Exploring Cross Cultural Conflicts in Business

course-development project in 1997. Writing cases on firms in China, Japan, Thailand, Argentina, Nigeria, and Russia, she focused on businesses indigenous to each culture as well as multinationals moving between cultures. She chose companies that aspire to excellence... View Details