Performance Effectiveness - Publications - Faculty & Research

17 Sep 2007
Research & Ideas

Broadband: Remaking the Advertising Industry

online ad budget is spent on search advertising, which is more effective than banner advertising at driving traffic. The ability to place your ad on the screen exactly where someone is searching for information is profound. And with... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Advertising; Media & Broadcasting; Publishing

04 Nov 2002
What Do You Think?

What’s Best for the Corporate Brain?

Summing Up Those offering insights into ways to make the corporate brain function more effectively suggest that the corporate brain may be as complex as its biological counterpart. Respondents alternatively focused on learning, constant... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

08 Jan 2016
Research & Ideas

Is it Worth a Pay Cut to Work for a Great Manager (Like Bill Belichick)?

learn Kahn’s study on the effect of managerial quality on baseball team performance and Belichick’s example in practice offer valuable lessons that support the hype generated when coaches are hired. First,... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg & Abhijit Naik; Sports

15 Oct 2001
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Rethinking E-Leadership

you don't model the importance of sweating the details. Downturns expose the weaknesses in your internal systems, observes Chuang. Technical expertise—the ability to solve cash flow problems, interpret what customers are really saying, or set up View Details

Keywords: by Melissa Raffoni

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PJ Meyer

"level the playing field for local businesses" by working with student groups to set up internet alternatives for small businesses to perform everything from advertising to online ordering. Participation in a number of business... View Details

21 Sep 2011
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Gender and Competition: What Companies Need to Know

Incentives, Harvard Professors Kathleen L. McGinn and Iris Bohnet, along with HBS doctoral student Pinar Fletcher, examine how men and women respond when they cooperate or compete in pairs on math and verbal tasks. What they unearthed in their early research is that... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

01 Dec 2011
News

What HBS Learned from West Point

how-to skills and the self-knowledge needed to be an effective leader. In short, business schools have excelled at teaching about leadership from a fundamentally analytical perspective. But there are things that every leader should be... View Details

Keywords: military education; National Security and International Affairs; Government

14 Nov 2012
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New Agenda for Corporate Accountability Reporting

How do you measure corporate accountability? And can you do it credibly? Since the financial crisis of 2008-2009, for-profit corporations are facing greater demand to disclose more than revenues and expenses on annual financial reports. In response, some are pointing... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting; Energy; Utilities

15 Jul 2014
First Look

First Look: July 15

performance to provide quantitative insight into the link between a firm's business model choices and its profit consequences. The method is applied to Walmart by building a qualitative representation of its business model and mapping... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

24 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

The Surprising Link Between Language and Corporate Responsibility

liberal. To double check, the researchers ran the numbers excluding Scandinavia and found they still held up. “The idea that language affects a business strategy is pretty fundamental to our results” Furthermore, they performed a unique... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Leading Change and Organizational Renewal | HBS Online

What you earn . Overview Syllabus Enrollment Stories FAQs Enroll Now Key Concepts Explore the roadblocks to change and how to overcome them Analyze the root cause of your organization’s performance and opportunity gaps Develop strategies... View Details

03 Jun 2020
Research & Ideas

Who Guarantees Your Workplace Is Safe for Return?

As we start to think about returning to work, shopping, and recreation, there is much talk about transformed workplaces and innovative social distancing designs. But how will companies, workers, and customers have confidence that these new measures will actually be... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber and Joseph Allen; Real Estate

10 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 10

Publications August 2013 pub Cannibalization and Option Value Effects of Secondary Markets: Evidence from the U.S. Concert Industry By: Bennett, Victor Manuel, Robert Seamans, and Feng Zhu Abstract—We examine how reducing search... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Winning with Digital Platforms Online Course | HBS Online

. Overview Syllabus Enrollment Stories FAQs Enroll Now Key Concepts Define what platforms are and how they create and capture value Understand network effects and how to leverage them to achieve growth Discover how to launch, scale, and... View Details

08 Oct 2010
What Do You Think?

Will Transparency in CEO Compensation Have Unintended Consequences?

Kamal Gupta put it this way: "Investors care two hoots about it as long as the company is doing well and rewarding them well." There was concern that the legislation might actually have the opposite effect of what was intended.... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

13 Jan 2016
Research & Ideas

The Problem with Productivity of Multi-Ethnic Teams

conduct a similar experiment in which researchers intervene in the middle to offer space for teammates to have conversation and air differences in order to see if that could improve performance and mitigate some of the negative View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Dec 2009
News

Alumni Books

The Differentiated Workforce: Transforming Talent into Strategic Impact by Brian E. Becker, Mark A. Huselid, and Richard W. Beatty (MBA ’81) (Harvard Business Press) Many companies spend too much time and money on low performers while... View Details

18 Feb 2015
First Look

First Look: February 18

power. Publisher's link: http://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/amy-cuddy/presence/9780316256575/ February 2015 Prentice Hall Managerial Accounting: Making Decisions and Evaluating Performance By: Datar, Srikant M., and Madhav V. Rajan... View Details