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- 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, information, and culture. The View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
The awarding of “up-front” bonuses — before cash and profits from commercial endeavors — invites employees to maximize their short-term interests while compromising the company’s long-term interests. Systems of reward that ignore... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Organizations and Markets: A Challenging View of the World
incentives and compensation systems, is investigating his theory that effective measurement of performance must use subjective judgment and qualitative assessments in combination with objective measures. Professor Carliss Y. Baldwin, with Dean Kim B. Clark, is... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- Web
SAS/CONNECT - Research Computing Services
cluster, it is most convenient to use a .scr script to start a link. The script is a file on the local system containing special SAS statements that control the connection. This script is called... View Details
- 21 Nov 2013
- News
Case Study: BlackBerry and Thorsten Heins
of BlackBerry’s problems were sown well before Heins took on the CEO role. BlackBerry’s system had its roots in a mobile data architecture that came out of paging networks. By developing complimentary software that connected to email... View Details
- 16 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018
DSMC holds as a consistent pattern in a dynamic equilibrium. Given DSMC, clusters of firms making different complementary goods, including open platforms with surrounding ecosystems, can survive and compete effectively against integrated firms that View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Studying Japan from the Inside
choose one. But if I have to choose one, I would say I enjoyed the case on Nissan Motor, the auto manufacturer that had been turned around by Carlos Ghosn. Ghosn was sent from Renault, the French auto company, which acquired management View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- Web
Security & Privacy | Information Technology
benefit of the University and for the benefit of you and your loved ones. Apply Updates to Your Devices and Apps Cyberattacks exploit vulnerabilities in devices or apps to install malicious code and enable unauthorized access to systems... View Details
- 10 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 10
Business School Case 110-087 Continental Media Group has a series of business reviews struggling to achieve profitability. This case focuses on the use of management control systems to identify emerging... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Growing Pains: Prescriptions for U.S. Health Care
gravely ill, HBS professor Clayton Christensen finds its prognosis encouraging. These symptoms, he says, merely reflect inefficient delivery systems that market forces have already begun to reshape. Christensen's optimistic outlook stems... View Details
- 04 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter
role of leaders for centuries. Plato, writing his Republic in the fourth century B.C., argued that the ideal city would have an elaborate system to choose its leaders that made any individual leader replaceable. Thucydides, writing just a... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Critical Information: MIS Monitors the Ever-Changing World of IT
no longer being used as just a tactical resource, it's now fundamentally influencing business strategy and competition," says Richard L. Nolan, MBA Class of 1942 Professor of Business Administration, who teaches in the School's Management Information View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
she had a different type of leukemia. They ran more tests but saw no sign of one. The hospital was affiliated with the University of Tokyo’s Institute of Medical Science, which had partnered with IBM Watson, a cloud-based cognitive-computing View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 19 Jun 2017
- News
How Women's Basketball Conquered Europe
league that started failed miserably, because they couldn't control salaries. And when some superstars develop, they ask for a lot of money. Things start to collapse. Well, the WNBA has a system where for... View Details
- 20 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School
With corporate America rocked by revelations of conflict of interest, malfeasance, negligence, and greed, a group of HBS professors recently gathered to review the current crisis. Is it a case of dé jà vu or an unprecedented, systemic... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020
for true disruption, this book outlines what consumers can do themselves and demand from doctors, hospitals, health plans, and policymakers to get more for their health care spending and, in so doing, reshape the health care system into... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Green House
traditional problem of significant air leakage around window and door frames. An air-exchange system turns over the filtered air supply in the house every three hours, providing superior indoor-air quality and helping the house maintain a... View Details
- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
multiple business contexts, the field of operations and supply chain management have not yet explored the possibilities it offers in improving firms' operational decisions. This study attempts to do that by empirically studying whether... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Build Winning Streaks
of the reason he was given the top coaching job. Losing streaks are associated with autocrats who cling to control even as events spin out of control—one consequence of my principle that "powerlessness corrupts." But in winning... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 11 Jan 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
New Game, New Rules: Developing Managers for a Competitive World
rethink their business models and radically transform their organizational capabilities. The implications for organizations and management are profound. Let's take one example. At the heart of most modern corporations are information, planning and View Details
Keywords: by Staff