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  • 01 Sep 2004
  • News

Outsourcing for Radical Change

Linder Photo Courtesy of Accenture Institute As research director at the Accenture Institute for High Performance Business, Jane C. Linder (MBA 1976, DBA 1989) was asked to provide a managing director with new material for a speech on... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • April 2012
  • Article

The Changing Ecology of Teams: New Directions for Teams Research

By: Ruth Wageman, Heidi K. Gardner and Mark Mortensen
The nature of collaboration has been changing at an accelerating pace, particularly in the last decade. Much of the published work in teams research, however, is still focused on the archetypal team that has well-defined membership, purposes, leadership, and standards... View Details
Keywords: Groups and Teams; Research; Change Management; Leadership; Standards; Performance Effectiveness; Theory; Civil Society or Community
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  • 05 Sep 2012
  • What Do You Think?

Will Business Management Save US Health Care?

the background? How will change be achieved? What could go wrong? Will management save US health care? What do you think? To Read More: Atul Gawande, Big Med, The New Yorker, August 13 & 20, 2012, pp. 52-63. Paul C. Weiler, Howard W. Hiatt, Joseph P. Newhouse,... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Health
  • 22 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 22, 2008

the performance of, teams. We find that the level of team familiarity (i.e., the average number of times that each member has worked with every other member of the team) has a significant positive effect on performance, but we observe... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Nov 2016
  • First Look

November 22, 2016

16% greater measurement error variance and imply an average performance penalty of 106 to 277 basis points in annual returns. Finally, reduced-form estimates suggest that ineffective and index-based RPE... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • May 2008
  • Article

Excess Comovement of Stock Returns: Evidence from Cross-sectional Variation in Nikkei 225 Weights

By: Robin Greenwood
In the presence of limits to arbitrage, cross-sectional variation in periodic investor demand should be related to the degree of comovement of returns. I exploit the unusual weighting system of the Nikkei 225 index in Japan to identify cross-sectional variation in... View Details
Keywords: Stocks; Investment; Investment Return; Market Transactions; Weight; Performance Expectations; Behavior; Japan
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  • 12 Oct 2011
  • First Look

First Look: October 12

(September-October 2011) An abstract is unavailable at this time. Read the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/gyu/TWFR%20Sept-Oct%202011%20The%20Return%20Experience%20of%20Hedge%20Fund%20Investors.pdf Dynamically Integrating Knowledge in Teams: A Resource-based View of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2000
  • News

Books

www.mindedge.com. Performance Measurement & Control Systems for Implementing Strategy by Robert L. Simons (Prentice Hall) "This book is built around a number of tensions inherent in all business," declares... View Details
  • September 1996 (Revised May 1997)
  • Case

Mobil USM&R (C): Lubricants Business Unit

By: Robert S. Kaplan
The general manager of a Lubricants Business Unit in Mobil's U.S. Marketing and Refining division launched a project to develop a Balanced Scorecard (BSC) for his unit. The purpose was to provide focus for all employees of the unit, enabling it to operate on an... View Details
Keywords: Balanced Scorecard; Employees; Customization and Personalization; Performance Evaluation; Measurement and Metrics; Management Teams; Projects; Energy Industry; Mining Industry; United States
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  • 02 Jul 2001
  • What Do You Think?

Built to Last or Bought to Sell?

destruction" research. As Devdip Ganguli put it: "The sphere of influence of companies goes beyond themselves and their investors: their decisions encompass social and environmental consequences too. Therefore to say that the ultimate View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 10 Jun 2021
  • Blog Post

Managing Sustainable Advantage with Key ESG Cofounders, Anne-Marie Schoonbeek and Heleen van Poecke

trends emerging. “Most companies I worked with received an increasing amount of inbound questions for greater disclosure on their ESG performance from their lenders, shareholders and regulators, but were often ill-equipped to provide... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2010
  • News

Faculty Research Online

The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact Donors are placing nonprofits on the hot seat to measure social performance. Problem is, there is little agreement on what those metrics should be. Associate... View Details
Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance
  • Web

Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Semifinalists Margot Dushin 23 Mar 2017 On March 20, the Social Enterprise Initiative announced the sixteen semifinalists for the Social ... Faculty Insights: Performance Measurement for Effective Management... View Details
  • 22 Jan 2013
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 22

and Tesco. The case introduces the tools of Dupont and Modified Dupont Decomposition. While performance as measured by return on equity has been similar for the two companies, Ahold has had significantly... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Jul 2021
  • Blog Post

Managing Sustainable Advantage with Key ESG Co-Founders, Anne-Marie Schoonbeek and Heleen van Poecke

noticed trends emerging. “Most companies I worked with received an increasing amount of inbound questions for greater disclosure on their ESG performance from their lenders, shareholders and regulators, but were often ill-equipped to... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Technology
  • 19 Dec 2012
  • Research & Ideas

How to be Extremely Productive

billable hours. How does that hurt productivity? A: The most obvious answer is that there is a negative financial incentive to solving problems quickly and efficiently. Hourly billing is a deeply ingrained model of measuring work, but it... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
  • February 1987 (Revised February 2000)
  • Case

Polysar Limited

By: Robert L. Simons
Canada's largest chemical company produces and markets butyl rubber in two divisions, each treated as a profit center. The new plant in the North American Division operates below capacity resulting in a significant volume variance and an operating loss. The European... View Details
Keywords: Loss; Profit; Financial Management; Volume; Performance Capacity; Financial Statements; For-Profit Firms; Market Participation; Chemical Industry; Rubber Industry; Canada
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  • 01 Dec 1998
  • News

Short Takes

comparisons of performance among industry competitors and to measure whether owners could actually affect performance over time." Kang's data reveal that there were 81 publicly... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
  • 21 Aug 2012
  • First Look

First Look: August 21

Eccles, George Serafeim, and Jorge Amar Publication:Ideia sustentável (June 2012) Abstract An abstract is unavailable at this time. Read the paper: http://www.ideiasustentavel.com.br/2012/06/brasil-uma-sociedade-sustentavel/   Working PapersField Evidence on Individual... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Aug 2014
  • First Look

First Look: August 12

than measurements indicate? The current research explores problems that result, in part, from malfeasance by outside perpetrators who overstate their efforts to increase their measured performance. In... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne