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- 22 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
Seven Strategy Questions: A Simple Approach for Better Execution
Business leaders can't develop and execute effective strategy without first gathering the right information, says Harvard Business School professor Robert Simons. In his new book, Seven Strategy Questions: A Simple Approach for Better...
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by Robert Simons
- Research Summary
Performance Management Systems
By: Robert S. Kaplan
Kaplan's research on performance management systems includes further applications of strategy maps and The Balanced Scorecard for effective strategy execution. His recent research...
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- January 2008
- Article
Mastering the Management System
By: Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton
Companies have always found it hard to balance pressing operational concerns with long-term strategic priorities. The tension is critical: World-class processes won't lead to success without the right strategic direction, and the best strategy in the world will get...
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Keywords:
Framework;
Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques;
Management Systems;
Operations;
Performance Improvement;
Strategy
Kaplan, Robert S., and David P. Norton. "Mastering the Management System." Special Issue on HBS Centennial. Harvard Business Review 86, no. 1 (January 2008): 62–77.
- Research Summary
Managing Processes
David A. Garvin is examining the nature and use of managerial and organizational processes—the means by which work is accomplished—including strategic processes that chart corporate direction, resource allocation processes that distribute funds,...
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The Scandal Effect
By: Boris Groysberg, Eric Lin, George Serafeim and Robin Abrahams
Executives with scandal-tainted companies on their résumés pay a penalty on the job market, even if they clearly had nothing to do with the trouble. Because the scandal effect is lasting, a company you left long ago could have an impact on your current and future job...
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Keywords:
Misconduct;
Career;
Career Management;
Career Changes;
Executive Leadership;
Executive Development;
Crime and Corruption;
Executive Compensation;
Personal Development and Career;
Management Skills;
Management Teams
Groysberg, Boris, Eric Lin, George Serafeim, and Robin Abrahams. "The Scandal Effect." Harvard Business Review 94, no. 9 (September 2016): 90–98.
- March 1989 (Revised September 1995)
- Background Note
Management Support Systems
Provides a technical overview of executive information systems.
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Management Systems
Applegate, Lynda M. "Management Support Systems." Harvard Business School Background Note 189-159, March 1989. (Revised September 1995.)
- 2007
- Article
Trends in Executive Education in Business Marketing
By: Das Narayandas
Narayandas, Das. "Trends in Executive Education in Business Marketing." Journal of Business-to-Business Marketing 14, no. 1 (2007).
- November 1993 (Revised February 1996)
- Supplement
Rudi Gassner and the Executive Committee of BMG International (B)
By: Linda A. Hill
Describes the final decision by CEO Rudi Gassner and the subsequent actions taken by the members of the executive committee.
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Hill, Linda A. "Rudi Gassner and the Executive Committee of BMG International (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 494-056, November 1993. (Revised February 1996.)
- 14 May 2009
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Teams
Organizations stand to benefit when ideas are cross-fertilized and diverse individuals learn to work together. "Outsiders" can introduce valuable ideas. Learning and execution are often at odds: Learning by its nature involves...
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Re: Multiple Faculty
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Making Markets Work: An Executive Education Program for Africa
By: Debora L. Spar
In the last decades of the 20th century economic growth was distributed unevenly across the world. While some countries experienced sustained and unprecedented prosperity, others fell further and further behind. This widening gap was particularly evident in Africa,...
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Accounting for Managers
By: V.G. Narayanan
I teach financial and managerial accounting to executives and MBA students.
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- Teaching Interest
Managing Social Enterprise (MSE)
This course examines how to create, develop and scale high-performing social enterprises - be they nonprofit, for-profit, or hybrid organizations. Unlike the business world where most stakeholders agree on the definition of success and are driven by market forces,...
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- 24 Mar 2016
- Working Paper Summaries
Economic Uncertainty and Earnings Management
- January 2023
- Teaching Note
The Opioid Settlement and Executive Pay at AmerisourceBergen
By: Suraj Srinivasan and Li-Kuan Ni
Teaching Note for HBS Case No 122-014. In 2020, AmerisourceBergen Corporation, a Fortune 50 company in the drug distribution industry, agreed to settle thousands of lawsuits filed nationwide against the company for its opioid distribution practices that critics alleged...
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Keywords:
Opioids;
Shareholder Activism;
Investment Activism;
Corporate Accountability;
Corporate Governance;
Governance Compliance;
Governance Controls;
Executive Compensation;
Risk Management;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Business and Stakeholder Relations;
Distribution Industry;
Health Industry;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
United States;
West Virginia;
Tennessee;
Ohio;
Pennsylvania
- November 2018 (Revised January 2019)
- Supplement
The Weir Group: Reforming Executive Pay (B)
By: Lynn S. Paine and Federica Gabrieli
Supplement to the (A) case. The case describes the events that took place in the run-up to the 2018 Annual General Meeting, the voting outcome, key perspectives on success factors, and the challenges that The Weir Group faced in the near future.
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Corporate Governance;
Human Resources;
Management;
Executive Compensation;
Europe;
United Kingdom;
Scotland
Paine, Lynn S., and Federica Gabrieli. "The Weir Group: Reforming Executive Pay (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 319-047, November 2018. (Revised January 2019.)
- Teaching Interest
Overview
By: Susanna Gallani
At HBS, Professor Gallani teaches in the Executive Education Program for Leadership Development and in focused Executive Education programs, including Managing Health Care Delivery, Driving Corporate Performance, and several programs focused on the implementation of...
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- Teaching Interest
Supply Chain Management
The Supply Chain Management (SCM) course builds on aspects of the first-year Technology and Operations Management (RC TOM) course. However, whereas RC TOM focuses primarily on developing and producing products and services, SCM emphasizes managing... View Details
- 1985
- Book
Harvard Business Review: Essentials of Executive Development
By: L. A. Hill
Hill, L. A., ed. Harvard Business Review: Essentials of Executive Development. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Publishing, 1985. (Reprint No. 12044.)
- 19 Apr 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
Top Executive Background and Financial Reporting Choice: The Case of Goodwill Impairment
- October 1992
- Supplement
British Airways: Question and Answer Session with Advanced Management Program Participants, November 15, 1991 Sir Colin Marshall Chief Executive
By: John P. Kotter
Keywords:
Air Transportation Industry
Kotter, John P. "British Airways: Question and Answer Session with Advanced Management Program Participants, November 15, 1991 Sir Colin Marshall Chief Executive." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 493-503, October 1992.