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- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
opportunities to cheat on tests are likely to engage in self-deception, inferring that their elevated performance is a sign of intelligence. This short-term psychological benefit of self-deception, however, can come with longer-term... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1
rate is relatively higher, leading to lower economic growth. Our findings have implications for policy setters. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52971 Rethinking Measurement of Pay Disparity and Its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Q & A: Confronting New Technologies: When Doing Right Is Wrong
focus instead on improving the performance of existing products - what I call sustaining technologies. For this reason, good companies have little difficulty succeeding in sustaining innovation - even radical innovation. If their... View Details
- 16 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 16
are (a) "strategic" mergers that are potentially used as mechanisms for competitor pre-emption, (b) systems effects of mergers including the impact of mergers on sector-wide diffusion of technologies, (c) "consequential" effects of mergers on more... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 7, 2007
non-profit corporation—must create a new "Dashboard" performance measurement tool to track the effectiveness of its new strategic plan. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Sustainable Investing - Course Catalog
between the public and private sectors is important. We will emphasize practical skills, including pitching stocks, performing diligence, measuring impact, and evaluating portfolio performance. This course... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Alumni Books
sweet spot; designing the offer to create customer value and secure differential advantage; integrating to serve the customer; and measuring what matters. Science Lessons: What the Business of Biotech Taught Me about Management by Gordon... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
How DC is Taxing the Country
performance has been waning since at least the late 1990s. In Problems Unsolved and a Nation Divided, Professors Michael Porter, Jan Rivkin—cochairs of the School’s US Competitiveness Project—and Mihir Desai, with program director Manjari... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Your Corporate Strategy
Since the 1990s, the Balanced Scorecard system has cut a path in business as a more rigorous way to measure performance by quantifying what had been considered intangible assets, such as human capital,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
team, how to measure progress, and more. The Virtual Manager: Cutting-Edge Solutions for Hiring, Managing, Motivating, and Engaging Mobile Employees by Kevin Sheridan (MBA 1988) (Career Press) As more and more jobs can be View Details
- 11 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 11
that technology diffuses slower to locations that are farther away from adoption leaders. This effect is stronger across rich countries and also when measuring distance along the south-north dimension. A simple theory of human... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 7
decided to exercise their discretionary power to award five top executives a bonus for 2008, even though they had not met the necessary performance measures under the compensation plan. Proxy advisors... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Aug 2009
- What Do You Think?
Why Can’t Americans Get Health Care Right?
Original Article It is said that health care is the biggest threat to the long-term health of the U.S. economy and therefore, to some extent, the global economy. Americans pay much more for what they get (at least measured in terms of... View Details
- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
to standardize their products and helped establish brand identities through consistent appearance. By 1938, food dyes had achieved such widespread use, and had raised such public concern, that the federal government amended the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act to implement... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
theoretical prediction using a novel methodology based on the classic gravity equation in economics and measures of knowledge distance. Using a custom dataset of patents filed by all global subsidiaries of the top 25 patenting U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
In the Virtual Dressing Room Returns Are A Real Problem
comparisons based on independent performance evaluations. (Although for online purchases, as for catalog purchases, brand names help consumers infer certain aspects of quality or fit, especially for consumers making repeat purchases.)... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Minding The Gap
institute for the past five years. Measurable Success Some measures of PELP's success to date are quantifiable. PELP's summer institute, a centerpiece of the project, has brought nearly 450 district... View Details
- 05 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles and Working Papers 2008
with the strategy. 18. How Female Stars Succeed in New Jobs Women who are star performers on Wall Street tend to fare better than men after changing jobs. Why? According to HBS professor Boris Groysberg, star women place greater emphasis... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
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Democratizing development: Inequality in Latin America | Institute for Business in Global Society
met in São Paulo, Brazil, to explore actionable measures that Latin American enterprises can take to drive inclusive prosperity and upward mobility. Learning resources At BiGS, we want to make resources and learning materials accessible... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Faculty Research Symposium
organizational properties of each team, measuring factors such as leadership behaviors of nurse managers; adequacy of training, information, and equipment; team characteristics (stability, composition, quality of relationships, and View Details