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  • 2009
  • Article

Placing the Normative Logics of Accountability in 'Thick' Perspective

By: Alnoor Ebrahim
This article provides a critical reflection on the heavily normative nature of current accountability debates. In particular, it explores three streams of normative discourse on nonprofit accountability: improving board governance, improving performance-based... View Details
Keywords: Fair Value Accounting; Accounting; Governance; Performance Evaluation; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Goals and Objectives; Management Practices and Processes; Power and Influence; Social and Collaborative Networks; Organizational Structure; Relationships; Accounting Industry
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  • 29 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 29, 2008

and team learning, in organizational behavior, and technology and innovation to offer insights for research on new product development teams. Building on prior work, we summarize the organizational benefits... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 May 2012
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First Look: May 15

Robert L. Simons and Natalie KindredHarvard Business School Case 112-060 This case illustrates a CEO-led organizational transformation driven by stretch goals, performance measurement, and accountability.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 11 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 11, 2007

acknowledged that the difficulties faced in RE are multifarious, recent research has primarily focused on limited factors. This ongoing research project addresses this limitation by integrating the fields of social and organizational... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Jun 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Using Competition to Reform Healthcare

Knowledge next month.How can providers compete on value? To do so, they must embrace a series of strategic and organizational imperatives, shown in Figure 5-1. We describe the imperatives in the context of hospitals and physician groups.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health
  • Web

Building a Culture of Awareness and Accountability in your Organization - Recruiting

with the full humanity recognized every single day,” said Manso-Brown. Without this important aspect of organizational policy and culture, adjusting hiring practices will not make meaningful change. Create Metrics and Hold Your... View Details
  • 10 Feb 2021
  • Blog Post

What You Can Do to Create an Anti-Racist Organization

winter of 2021, that national conversation continues, but what have we done, and what can we continue to do, as individuals and organizations to make meaningful progress? Danika Manso-Brown (HGSE ’18), Founder of Manso Brown Group and co-founder of Spoken Verb, a... View Details
  • 20 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 20

clients may be served by separate organizational units that are under common control and/or ownership. Second, a family of hybrid conflict polices has evolved that feature elements of the split account system long practiced in Japan,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 1

http://www.people.hbs.edu/liyer/BCCI_JEBO_Final_Sept2013.pdf August 2013 Contemporary Accounting Research The Role of Performance Measures in the Intertemporal Decisions of Business Unit Managers By: Bouwens, Jan, Margaret A. Abernethy,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 10

also find substantial variation in management practices across organizations in every country and every sector, mirroring the heterogeneity in the spread of performance in these sectors. One factor linked to this variation is ownership.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Feb 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Marketing Wine to the World

differentiation, which reduces buyer power. Structural differences suggest that firms need to compete differently as they enter markets around the world. We can perform similar comparisons along other dimensions of industry structure. In... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation; Food & Beverage
  • Web

VBHCD Initiative - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Kaplan’s research, Executive Education teaching, and consulting focus on linking cost and performance management systems to strategy implementation. His current research focuses on two topics: measuring and managing View Details
  • 01 Feb 1997
  • News

Herzlinger on Health Care: Revolution in Evolution

transactions. Now they're requiring that the health-care system also provide convenience and information. Patients can't be patient anymore. What other market forces are at work? Major organizational changes. During the 1980s, companies... View Details
  • Article

Values, Purpose, Meaning, and Expectations: Why Culture and Context Matter

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter
The "rational person" standard, based on assumptions of economic self-interest, has long prevailed in legal reasoning. But understanding of decision making, behavioral choices, and possibilities for action must be enlarged to include a variety of factors that give... View Details
Keywords: Standards; Interests; Decision Making; Behavior; Value; Groups and Teams; Performance Expectations; Organizational Culture; Leadership; Business Cycles; Forecasting and Prediction; Motivation and Incentives
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  • 01 Mar 2003
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Books

tasks: strengthening links between portfolio objectives and overall company goals; ensuring that the relationship among projects creates greater value and efficiency; and making sure that projects build organizational capacity to respond... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 19 Apr 2011
  • First Look

First Look: April 19

the right questions. The challenge lies in being able to step back, reflect, and ask the key questions that are critical to your performance and your organization's effectiveness. In What to Ask the Person in the Mirror, HBS professor and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Dec 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Deflategate and the Sustained Success of the New England Patriots

organizations involved. But Deflategate isn’t the only issue examined by the case. “What started essentially as an analytics exercise ended up as a much broader analysis of the data, the sport, the NFL, and how it’s organized and how it’s structured. So combining both... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Sports
  • 27 May 2009
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First Look: May 27, 2009

utilization in teams, revealing how and when teams appropriately draw on their members' expertise. Feeling the Heat: The Effects of Performance Pressure on Teams' Knowledge Use and Performance Author:Heidi... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 29

Abstract—Learning in organizations is a key determinant of individual and organizational success, and one valuable source of this learning is prior failure. Previous research finds that although individuals can learn from failed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Jan 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 16, 2018

companies offer a direct stake in the company's performance through stock, a share in profits, or both. Companies with employee stock ownership plans report significantly higher sales growth and higher revenue per employee than do... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne