Project Evaluation And Selection - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Jun 2016
Research & Ideas

Skills and Behaviors that Make Entrepreneurs Successful

understanding of the entrepreneurial leader. The program combines self-assessments of their skills and behaviors by entrepreneurs themselves with evaluations of them by peers, friends, View Details

Keywords: by HBS Working Knowledge

2010
Working Paper

Reversing the Queue: Performance, Legitimacy, and Minority Hiring

By: Andrew Hill and David A. Thomas

Studies of minority hiring have found that poor-performing firms or firms in highly competitive contexts are more likely to hire minority candidates. However, most work has examined hiring for entry and mid-level positions, not senior management. Management positions... View Details

Keywords: Diversity; Selection and Staffing; Leadership; Managerial Roles; Performance Effectiveness; Sports Industry; United States

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11 Sep 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018

case describes how Google designed and launched an internal matching market to assign individual workers with projects and managers. The case View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

09 Apr 2014
Working Paper Summaries

Visualizing and Measuring Software Portfolio Architectures: A Flexibility Analysis

Keywords: by Robert Lagerstrom, Carliss Y. Baldwin, Alan MacCormack & David Dreyfus; Video Game; Web Services

05 Oct 2016
HBS Seminar

Linus Dahlander, European School of Management and Technology (ESMT)

2015
Working Paper

A Normative Theory of Dynamic Capabilities: Connecting Strategy, Know-How, and Competition

By: Gary P. Pisano

The field of strategy has mounted an enormous effort to understand, define, predict, and measure how organizational capabilities shape competitive advantage. While the notion that capabilities influence strategy dates back to the work of Andrews (1971), attempts to... View Details

Keywords: Competitive Advantage; Organizations

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09 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization

write that during periods of intense activity, brief daily AAR meetings can help teams coordinate and improve the next day’s activities. AARs can be done on discrete projects like a pandemic-focused... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott

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Publications - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

value-based health care and how a motivated team can undertake a cost measurement project in their own institution. January 2020 Academic Medicine Value Based Health Care in Undergraduate Medical Education... View Details

03 Jul 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018

one emerging economy. Based on an exploratory field study of medical device development projects in India, we observe the frequent, iterative testing of prototypes in clinical settings and investigate the... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

09 Nov 2022
In Practice

COP27: What Can Business Leaders Do to Fight Climate Change Now?

The US government’s newly passed Inflation Reduction Act will direct $370 billion toward advancing renewal energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions—the country's largest investment in fighting climate change so far. As business and government leaders around the... View Details

Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Danielle Kost

01 Sep 2004
News

HBS Clubs and Associations

completed phase one of a three-part impact evaluation study and as a result, are making critical decisions around some sacred cows.” Such an impact is just what HBS alumni clubs hope for when they View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations

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Resources for Investment Management and Financial Analysis

Resources and instructional videos for company and industry financial analysis, stock pitching, Business Analysis & Valuation Using Financial Statements (BAV), Investment Management View Details

13 Jun 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13

deontologists. Study 3 exploits natural differences in religious saliency across days of the week to provide causal evidence that religion raises deontological tendencies on Sundays and selectively increases... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Mar 2022
Research & Ideas

Representation Matters: Building Case Studies That Empower Women Leaders

to a case are about more than the text itself. Lower student evaluations of a case may not neatly correlate with its quality or effectiveness. Cases whose protagonists join the classroom clearly resonate and... View Details

Keywords: by Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg

15 Dec 2024
News

Alumni and Faculty Books

better friend, a better leader, and a better judge of leaders. Mastering Project Management: A Guide for Leading By Victor Allen and Ron May (AMP 165, 2003) Independently... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

29 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

The History and Influence of Andy Grove

Grove's management and leadership? A: Grove's career has innumerable lessons for the business executives of today and tomorrow. But if I had to select one, it would be... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer

09 May 2016
Blog Post

What Is the Difference between RC and EC Year?

hectic. The fall semester is generously sprinkled with job search days (which mean no class on that day). Also, people select their schedules or do Independent Projects so that there’s a chance they don’t... View Details

28 May 2024
In Practice

Job Search Advice for a Tough Market: Think Broadly and Stay Flexible

expectations, things soon settled back down, and project volumes decreased. At the same time, adjacent industries like tech, venture capital and private equity also experienced... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

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Systems Integration - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

significantly reduce cost to selected low risk patients operated on in an ambulatory surgery facility and avoiding the academic medical center downtown. When the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center... View Details

18 Apr 2017
HBS Seminar

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