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- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Democratizing Data to Favor Farmers
harvest data with one another to help find the best performing seeds—which represented their largest variable expense. The idea quickly evolved into developing a completely independent, farmer-driven information source identifying top... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 20 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 20
Shareholders Using a Geographic Instrument Authors:Bo Becker, Henrik Cronqvist, and Rüdiger Fahlenbrach Abstract Large shareholders may play an important role for firm performance and policies, but identifying this empirically presents a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Nov 2003
- What Do You Think?
Can Investors Have Too Much Accounting Transparency?
it, "We cannot look at investor losses as the only benchmark to evaluate the costs of Sarbanes-Oxley. One must also consider the cost of capital if confidence in the markets does not return…Unfortunately, you cannot legislate... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 13 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 13, 2008
These performance differences appear to be partially explained by the buy-side's higher retention of poor-performing analysts and by differences in performance benchmarks used... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
But, surprisingly, athletic success impacts applications even among academically stronger students. 2006 Harvard Business Review The Performance Frontier: Innovating for a Sustainable Strategy By: Eccles, Robert G., and George Serafeim... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Inexperienced Investors and Market Bubbles
"Past performance is no guarantee of future results." —standard financial disclaimer Neophyte investors—it is believed—play a role in creating asset price bubbles such as the tech collapse a few years ago. Just think back to the... View Details
- 30 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 30, 2016
variation generated by the experimental treatments, we model sales force performance to identify the effectiveness of various forms of conditional and unconditional compensation. We account for salesperson heterogeneity by using a... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating Challenges for Women Leaders
are talking with women friends. You have to think strategically about your social network. McGinn: Part of looking at benchmarks is recognizing that both men and women have socio-emotional support networks. It just happens that men's... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 10
from the incorporation of non-directed donors in transplant chains rather than simple exchanges. It is controversial whether these chains should be performed simultaneously ("domino paired donation," DPD) or nonsimultaneously... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
The New International Style of Management
systems remain powerful and distinct. With that caveat, Palepu observes, "In general, world-class companies facing global competition do appear to benchmark themselves with global best practices and View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Do You Speak Business?
general, world-class companies facing global competition do appear to benchmark themselves with global best practices and performance standards.” He defines those aspired-to View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- Web
Strategic Financial Analysis Online Course | HBS Online
Online. What you earn . Overview Syllabus Enrollment Stories FAQs Enroll Now Key Concepts Forecast financial performance in the near and long term to guide strategic decision-making Compare organizations’ View Details
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
Reenen Abstract—We investigate the link between hospital performance and managerial education by collecting a large database of management practices and skills in hospitals across nine countries. We find that hospitals that are closer to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Manager or Mentor? Why You Must Be Both
aisles. That shows the students that you're in charge. "Managers who manage for performance are more likely to be blindsided by events they should have foreseen and in many cases fixed." While Thomas did not automatically... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 20 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
How CEOs Sustain Higher-Ambition Goals
and help build a better world while we are still striving to deliver high performance for the enterprise. Managing that tension is difficult." HBS invited the executives to the second Higher Ambition CEO Leadership Conference, held... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
Using Competition to Reform Healthcare
Business definition always involves a geographic component. A health care provider must understand the geographic market or service area over which it must compete. Otherwise, the provider will misunderstand the true benchmarks for View Details
- 10 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 10
from "real work." But when Google's people analytics team examined the value of managers, applying the same rigorous research methods the company uses in its operations, it proved the skeptics wrong. Mining data from employee surveys, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 16
seven large institutions. These direct investments perform better than public market indices, especially buyout investments and those made in the 1990s. Outperformance by the direct investments, however, relative to the corresponding... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Silo Lives! Analyzing Coordination and Communication in Multiunit Companies
as we replicate analyses like this one in a variety of different settings, we will establish benchmarks that can be used to compare one organization with another. Q: What are you working on now? A: A variety of extensions of this project.... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
Performance Goals and Incentives This module explains how managers use performance goals and incentives to ensure that employee actions align with the strategy of the organization. We demonstrate how to use... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel