Firm Performance - Publications - Faculty & Research

30 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 30, 2007

PublicationsManaging School Districts for High Performance: Cases in Public Education Leadership Authors:Stacey Childress, Richard F. Elmore, Allen Grossman, and Susan Moore Johnson, editors Publication:Cambridge: Harvard Education Press, 2007 Abstract Managing School... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Dec 2016
Research & Ideas

The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2016

corporate HR function. Becoming a Cognitive Referent: Market Creation and Cultural Strategy Rory McDonald describes the making of a "cognitive referent," which is a firm that customers, the media, analysts, and employees... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

12 Dec 2017
News

Hal (MBA 1968) and Diane Brierley

embarked on a path that would lead him to become a pioneer in database marketing and customer engagement. While working as a research assistant at HBS after graduation, Brierley agreed to help the headquarters of his undergraduate fraternity, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, find... View Details

01 Sep 2007
News

Faculty Books

show how Cemex, Toyota, Procter & Gamble, and other firms adroitly managed cross-border differences and how others failed at this challenge. From Higher Aims to Hired Hands by Rakesh Khurana (Princeton University Press) Associate... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

10 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Counting Up the Effects of Sarbanes-Oxley

companies, although it was ultimately deferred for companies with market caps of less than $75 million and made permanent in the Dodd-Frank Act. Audit standards also were modified in 2007, a change that reportedly reduced costs for many View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Accounting; Banking

01 Jan 2005
News

Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965

unchallenged position in the marketplace until Japanese firms such as Hitachi and Fujitsu flooded the market with less expensive alternatives. In a bold opening move, Gerstner slashed the price of mainframe systems and pushed the... View Details

30 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 30

Authors:Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Koleman Strumpf Publication:NBER Innovation Policy & the Economy (MIT Press) 10 (2010) An abstract is unavailable at this time. Book: http://www.nber.org/books/lern09-1 Working PapersInternational Financial Integration and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Around the World of Entrepreneurial Ventures

finance, and entrepreneurship. An increasing number of entrepreneurial firms go abroad much earlier in their lives than ever before in recent business history.— Walter Kuemmerle The twenty-nine sites he has studied range from start-ups to... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

10 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt--‘Accelerate: Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World’

number of US organizations with over a hundred employees is well over a hundred thousand. In the year 1900, the number of firms that did business around the world, on all continents, was very close to zero. Today the number is so large it... View Details

Keywords: Re: John P. Kotter

25 May 2010
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First Look: May 25

and performance in professional service firms and how to use McKinsey 7S Alignment to diagnose a firm's or practice's alignment, identify misalignments, and determine how to bring about the changes needed to... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

22 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

Not Your Father’s State-Run Capitalism

afford to write off these firms as noncompetitive threats or unworthy partners on the global business stage. "There is still a lot of apprehension about state-owned enterprises," says Musacchio. "The debate is very polarized. Either you... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

27 May 2008
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Thinking About Global

matter the most in your industry, and look at them not just as difficulties to be overcome but also as potential sources of value creation. Which Countries Are The Most Business Friendly? Handicapping the Best Countries for Business India? South Africa? Russia? Which... View Details

01 Mar 2018
News

Ink: Alumni Books and Recommendations

“Real estate chatter is the most popular sport in Manhattan,” says Kirk Henckels (MBA 1976), who has made a career buying and selling some of New York City’s most luxurious apartments. In his new book with Annie Walker, Life at the Top, Henckels—vice chairman of New... View Details

Keywords: April White

02 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 2, 2007

teams often changes over time or between projects. In this paper, we use detailed data from an Indian software services firm to examine how such changes may affect the accumulation of experience within, and the View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2013
News

Sizing Up Social Impact

increased expectations for hard, measurable results. Which seems only fair, right? The problem: Nonprofits can lose sight of their mission if a major funder's performance measurement priorities don't align with the necessary actions to... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Crop Production; Agriculture; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities

19 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: “The Architecture of Innovation”

level. Yet the corporation's senior management and human resource professionals resisted changing the scheme, pointing out the high quality of junior hires that the firm was making. It was not until 2009 that the firm's management agreed... View Details

Keywords: by Josh Lerner; Financial Services

06 Aug 2020
Blog Post

WHY WE STARTED THE HBS BLACK INVESTMENT CLUB

Hedge funds are no different. Despite recent evidence showing hedge funds led by females or minorities performed better than their non-minority counterparts, the industry still suffers from a severe lack of diversity in ownership.... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

12 Jul 2010
Research & Ideas

Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide

The New Science of Retailing: How Analytics Are Transforming the Supply Chain and Improving Performance (Harvard Business Press). As a practical guide, The New Science of Retailing helps retailers mine their sales data to identify and... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Retail; Auto

05 Mar 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019

firms lever up, the overall cost of capital falls as leverage increases equity beta, but as debt becomes riskier the marginal benefit of increasing equity beta declines. As a simple theoretical framework predicts, we find that leverage is... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Sep 2009
News

Of Value and Values

stock picker, Generation doesn’t artificially constrain its choices, and the performance of the firm at this time would suggest that its returns can be competitive with traditional global equity funds whose... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

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