Performance Monitoring - Publications - Faculty & Research

28 Jul 2008
Research & Ideas

Making the Decision to Franchise (or not)

headquarters maximize an organization's overall revenues by efficiently (and effectively) monitoring the desires of consumers representing a wide range of ethnicities and income levels, large families and singletons? Much has been written... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail

08 Mar 2004
Research & Ideas

Creating Value in Your Business Ecosystem

Wal-Mart's and Microsoft's dominance in modern business has been attributed to any number of factors, ranging from the vision and drive of their founders to the companies' aggressive competitive practices. But the performance of these two... View Details

Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien

11 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard

integrates them in a powerful way. Kaplan and Norton introduced the Balanced Scorecard, a performance measurement system, in 1992. The Execution Premium is their fifth book as coauthors. Kaplan recently explained the ideas behind The... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

06 Feb 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

customization to the online environment and credible monitoring and punishments. I analyze the pricing, enforcement, and channel management policies of a manufacturer over several years. During this period, new channel policies take... View Details

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Is AI Coming for Your Job?

experts perform their work. Yes, certain tasks can be completed correctly and completely by AI, but for those types of tasks we will see something like the Industrial Revolution, where people's jobs changed, and they were able to use new... View Details

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Strategy Execution Online Course | HBS Online

Monitoring Performance Create performance measurement systems that account for all dimensions of strategy execution while conserving scarce time and attention. Highlights The... View Details

18 Sep 2012
First Look

First Look: September 18

regulation. We study individuals' decisions to avoid monitoring or regulation and thus enhance their ability to engage in unethical conduct. We conduct a laboratory experiment in which participants engage in a competitive task and can... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Poor’s Manual: The Rise of Business Analysts - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

maintenance managers to freight and purchasing agents. Accounting operations were centralized through a company treasurer, and daily accounting figures were fed into weekly, monthly, and annual reports. The deepening granularity of data produced statistics that... View Details

08 Oct 2008
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: A Sense of Urgency

create the sense of urgency needed to perform better. An example. At a major European retailer, margins were shrinking year after year because fashionable boutiques were taking its top-of-the-line business, and discounters were taking... View Details

Keywords: by John P. Kotter

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Cluster Studies - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Clusters, Convergence, & Economic Performance by Mercedes Delgado, Michael E. Porter, Scott Stern This paper evaluates the role of regional cluster composition in the economic performance of industries,... View Details

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Running a Program/Submitting a Job - Research Computing Services

Monitoring Job Progress section for more information. Technical Note Once a specific configuration is selected for any of the programming or analysis packages, the wrapper script sends a command to the LSF scheduler to run this program as... View Details

06 Oct 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters

strategy will provide focus to information-gathering and a roadmap for decision-making. Even then, many decisions will have to be made with imperfect data. Flexibility is important. Revisit your conclusions and pivot as needed. Utilizing short-term KPIs (30-day, or so)... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Credential of Leadership, Impact, and Management in Business | HBS Online

Aligning Job Design to Strategy Energizing Employees to Execute Strategy Measuring and Monitoring Performance Identifying and Managing Risks Balancing Innovation and Control Featured Exercises Analyze your... View Details

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News - Research Computing Services

sessions, will be terminated . What work is being performed and why? We will apply security patches to all nodes in the cluster, to the MariaDB server, and to the Globus data transfer nodes. These changes ensure the safety and stability... View Details

21 Feb 2005
Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

practice; a commitment to use specialized knowledge for the public good, and a renunciation of the goal of profit maximization, in return for professional autonomy and monopoly power; a code of ethics, with provisions for monitoring... View Details

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice

30 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

The New Rules for Remote Work: Pandemic Edition

conflicts between employees’ personal and professional identities, decreasing their performance and commitment. “Employers should understand the fundamental shift in employees’ lives and recognize that they have to radically alter their... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

26 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

The Office of Strategy Management

overseeing all strategy-related activities—from formulation to execution. It is not intended to perform all of this work, but to facilitate the process so that strategy execution gets accomplished in an integrated fashion across the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Sustainable Investing Course | HBS Online

decisions Apply frameworks to measure and monitor sustainable investment opportunities Analyze cutting-edge implementation strategies Gain insights into the climate risk inherent in investment opportunities Discover how to integrate risks... View Details

07 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

What Drives Supply Chain Behavior?

supply chain problem space to include, among other things, the assignment of roles and decision rights among the coordinating partners, the selection of partners, the design of incentives, and the design of processes to monitor... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston

14 Nov 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017

trainees how to assemble an aircraft wing—and has cut the time it takes them to do that task by 35%. At GE, factory workers have achieved a similar gain in efficiency by using voice commands in AR experiences to perform complex wiring. AR... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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