Performance Expectations - Publications - Faculty & Research

17 Apr 2019
News

Give It to Me Straight

and eventually the inevitable happens. I realize that if I don't fire Bob, I'm going to lose all my star performers because they're fed up with having to redo his work, having to cover for his mistakes. So I sit down to have a... View Details

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Sep 2018
News

September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

resilience while changing your relationship to stress, and shares a roadmap for sustainable performance in the face of ongoing change. How to Wash a Chicken: Mastering the Business Presentation by Tim Calkins (MBA 1991) Page Two This is... View Details

01 Mar 2014
News

The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria

affordable rates," Balogun says, adding that his bank expects lending to increase 21 percent a year for the next three years. Here's what all of that looks like in practice: With a $500 input loan, 22-year-old Jamila Josua was able to... View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs; John H. Davis; Michael Halse; Crop Production; Agriculture; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing

26 Feb 2020
News

Phoenix Rising

Misery isn’t good for business, he says. “It doesn’t get the best performance from people. We want to create a sense of higher optimism.” Like Papalexopoulos—and every other HBS alum interviewed in Greece for this story—Macridis knows... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

13 Jul 2010
First Look

First Look: July 13

initially? Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/810096-PDF-ENG Supply Chain Partners: Virginia Mason and Owens & Minor (A) (Abridged) V.G. Narayanan and Lisa BremHarvard Business School Case 110-063 Owens & Minor (O&M) View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

25 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 25

facilities, well designed and equipped (parking, transportation, services) and located in key developing zones of Chinese growing cities. In the first 27 years, Red Star had opened 115 shopping malls in 85 different cities. With capacity to launch up to 10 new malls... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 14

the aftermath of the 2008 recession, the asset management firm BlackRock was busy charting a course for growth. Its revenues, profits, and stock price all performed consistently through this tumultuous period. The authors looked at... View Details