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  • 04 Sep 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Governing the Family-Run Business

The topic of governance is hot. Shareholders, managers, and business advisors are demanding improved governance of (typically public) companies by strengthening their boards of directors and developing more responsive shareholder... View Details
  • 17 Jan 2018
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If the CEO’s High Salary Isn't Justified to Employees, Firm Performance May Suffer

kutaytanir It’s no surprise that business executives make more money than lower-level employees. But when that pay disparity between a CEO and the average worker is perceived as unfair, the result may be more than unhappy workers: A... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • January 2020
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Rethinking Measurement of Pay Disparity and Its Relation to Firm Performance

By: Ethan Rouen
I develop measures of firm-level pay disparity and examine their relation to firm performance. Using comprehensive compensation data for a large sample of firms, I find no statistically significant relation between the ratio of CEO-to-mean employee compensation and... View Details
Keywords: Pay Disparity; Pay Ratio; CEO Pay Ratio; Income Inequality; Executive Compensation; Employees; Wages; Equality and Inequality; Business Ventures; Performance
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Rouen, Ethan. "Rethinking Measurement of Pay Disparity and Its Relation to Firm Performance." Accounting Review 95, no. 1 (January 2020): 343–378.
  • 01 Dec 1996
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Intellectual Debate: The Business of Business

With Dean Clark and former Dean McArthur present, along with some fifty current and former faculty members, two back-to-back sessions at the McArthur symposium under-scored differing views within the HBS community on some fundamental View Details
  • 06 Jun 2017
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Will business fill the Paris void?

  • July–August 2011
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Putting Business Models Under the Microscope

By: K. Merchant, Tatiana Sandino and D. Huelsbeck
The article provides advice for financial managers on evaluating business models for corporate performance measurement. Emphasis is given to a study sponsored by the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) that examined the business model of a medical... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Financial Management; Performance Evaluation
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Merchant, K., Tatiana Sandino, and D. Huelsbeck. "Putting Business Models Under the Microscope." Financial Management (CIMA) (July–August 2011), 54–55.
  • 01 Jun 2024
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Conducting Business

like in the classroom. I wrote this for them. Here’s the scene: It’s the first class of my first day at Harvard Business School in 1969. Five years after graduating from Princeton as an English major, I’ve been discharged from the US... View Details
Keywords: Michael Farmer (MBA 1971); illustration by Lucinda Rogers; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training
  • 2017
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Designing an Agile Software Portfolio Architecture: The Impact of Coupling on Performance

By: Alan MacCormack and Robert Lagerstrom
The modern industrial corporation encompasses a myriad of different software applications, each of which must work in concert to deliver functionality to end-users. However, the increasingly complex and dynamic nature of competition in today’s product-markets dictates... View Details
Keywords: Applications and Software; Design; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Effectiveness
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MacCormack, Alan, and Robert Lagerstrom. "Designing an Agile Software Portfolio Architecture: The Impact of Coupling on Performance." Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings (2017). (doi:10.5465/AMBPP.2017.297, ISSN 2151-6561.)
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Financing New Business Formation

By: Paul A. Gompers
New business creation has become a potent force for economicdevelopment in the United States. Prior to 1980, large firms created the majority of new jobs in the American economy. While considerable debate rages over whether small firms are the source of recent job... View Details
  • 01 Apr 2011
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When Power Makes Others Speechless: The Negative Impact of Leader Power on Team Performance

Keywords: by Leigh Plunkett Tost, Francesca Gino & Richard P. Larrick

    Business Analysis and Valuation: Using Financial Statements

    This book provides a framework for business analysis and has been used by business schools throughout the world. It provides a foundation for analysis using four key steps: 1) Strategy analysis: Identifying a firm's strategy and understanding sources of its competitive... View Details
    • March 1997 (Revised March 1997)
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    Business Teams at Rubbermaid, Inc.

    By: Teresa M. Amabile and Dean Whitney
    Rubbermaid, a consumer-products company widely praised for its innovation, has instituted a company-wide experiment to stimulate innovation even further. The experiment consists of creating small cross-functional business teams within each division, with each team... View Details
    Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Innovation Strategy; Groups and Teams; Innovation and Management; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Consumer Products Industry; United States
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    Amabile, Teresa M., and Dean Whitney. "Business Teams at Rubbermaid, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 897-165, March 1997. (Revised March 1997.)
    • 07 Jul 2003
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    4+2 = Sustained Business Success

    The dot-com boom of the 1990s had changed the rules of business forever, it seemed; all you needed was a sexy IPO, cold nerve, and the magic carpet of momentum trading. But even as entrepreneurs and venture capitalists were dismissing... View Details
    Keywords: by Nitin Nohria, William Joyce & Bruce Roberson
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    Medium-term Business Cycles

    By: Diego Comin and Mark Gertler
    Over the postwar period, many industrialized countries have experienced significant medium-frequency oscillations between periods of robust growth versus relative stagnation. Conventional business cycle filters, however, tend to sweep these oscillations into the trend.... View Details
    Keywords: Business Cycles; Fluctuation; Information Technology; Research and Development; Resource Allocation; Framework; Trends; Performance Efficiency; Performance Productivity
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    Comin, Diego, and Mark Gertler. "Medium-term Business Cycles." American Economic Review 96, no. 3 (June 2006).
    • December 2000
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    Triad Lessons: Generalizing Results on High Performance Firms in Five Business-to-Business Markets

    By: Rohit Deshpandé, John U. Farley and Frederick E. Webster Jr.
    Keywords: Learning; Performance; Business Ventures; Markets
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    Deshpandé, Rohit, John U. Farley, and Frederick E. Webster Jr. "Triad Lessons: Generalizing Results on High Performance Firms in Five Business-to-Business Markets." International Journal of Research in Marketing 17, no. 4 (December 2000): 353–362.
    • December 2005
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    Reducing Slack: The Performance Consequences of Downsizing by Large Industrial Firms, 1977-93

    By: E. Geoffrey Love and Nitin Nohria
    Keywords: Business Ventures; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Performance; Outcome or Result
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    Love, E. Geoffrey, and Nitin Nohria. "Reducing Slack: The Performance Consequences of Downsizing by Large Industrial Firms, 1977-93." Strategic Management Journal 26, no. 12 (December 2005): 1087–1108.
    • winter 1997
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    Risk and Reward in Private Equity Investments: The Challenge of Performance Assessment

    By: Paul A. Gompers and J. Lerner
    Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Motivation and Incentives; For-Profit Firms; Equity; Investment; Problems and Challenges; Performance
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    Gompers, Paul A., and J. Lerner. "Risk and Reward in Private Equity Investments: The Challenge of Performance Assessment." Journal of Private Equity 1 (winter 1997): 5–12.
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    Clogs to Clogs in Three Generations? Explaining Entrepreneurial Performance in Britain Since 1850

    By: Tom Nicholas
    Research into culture and entrepreneurship in Britain has been dominated by casual empiricism. This article shows the benefits of using a new method. Lifetime wealth accumulation is specified as a measure of entrepreneurial performance, and applied to data collected... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Performance Evaluation; Biography; Culture; Education; Wealth; Research; Great Britain
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    Nicholas, Tom. "Clogs to Clogs in Three Generations? Explaining Entrepreneurial Performance in Britain Since 1850." Journal of Economic History 59, no. 3 (September 1999).
    • 2008
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    A Problem-Solving Approach to Designing and Implementing a Strategy to Improve Performance

    By: Stacey Childress and Geoff Marietta
    This note helps teams work through a problem-solving process that facilitates the design and implementation of a strategy for continuous improvement. View Details
    Keywords: Business Processes; Performance Improvement; Problems and Challenges; Strategy
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    Childress, Stacey, and Geoff Marietta. "A Problem-Solving Approach to Designing and Implementing a Strategy to Improve Performance." Harvard Business School Publishing, 2008.
    • January – February 2011
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    How to Design a Winning Business Model

    By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Joan E. Ricart
    Most executives believe that competing through business models is critical for success, but few have come to grips with how best to do so. One common mistake is enterprises' unwavering focus on creating innovative models and evaluating their efficacy in standalone... View Details
    Keywords: Business Model; Design; Strength and Weakness; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage
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    Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Joan E. Ricart. "How to Design a Winning Business Model." Harvard Business Review 89, nos. 1-2 (January–February 2011): 100–107.
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